First live patch seems on point. Kudos.

Can we get more detail for these two items? Single player balance changes: Ammo crates, armor, weapons, nomad, profiles, attacks and progression Multiplayer balance changes: Weapons, cover and enemies

@Nykara360 wrote: @admcmei86 wrote: On the romances: it works like in the first three games: you can tell that some romances are more worked on and seem to have more impact than others. In the first games it was basically Liara, you could tell that was the romance they wanted you to choose, and in this one it's Peebee, Cora and maybe Jaal. At least it's three instead of one. The others feel like secondary options just like in the original games. Liam should not be a "side" romance. At all. Kaidan got a great romance in Mass Effect, as did Garrus. Andromeda promosed plenty of "banging" and only what? Three characters got sex scenes in the entire game? In the original games they all got a sex scene. This just feels lazy and undone. Sara Ryder should have at least one decent human male option. Which should probably be Liam since he is the only one who counts towards the achievement. They give us the first decent dark male romance option who isn't a cheater like Jacob, and then slap us in the face with a terrible incomplete romance. The character overall is amazing, the romance is so poor that its barely a romance at all. All of the romances in the original, even the side romances had better sexy scenes and build up than this game has. I know they can do so much better. First of all BW should patch all the bugs that makes the game unplayable for a lot of pleople (thankfully I haven't run into one - yet). And what I would love to see is an improved Menu. It drives me nuts the way it is now. Click here, search there, menu, submenues - never had something so confusing in a BW game before. I even have to check the completed quests when I want to get rid of the quest marks and my "Click X to mark as read" not working anymore. Please consider an improve. After that - the romances. Well, sometimes I get the impression (and don't get me wrong, I love BW games) there is this thinking: Ok, let's make the straight male happy first. Give them a good romance and well, also enough f/f options because a lot of them love to see that, too. And this way the f/f faction is happy as well. Don't forget the m/m - oh wait, we did... but we'll correct that, promise! But wait, wasn't there another faction? Hmm, who could that be?....... Ah yes, the straight females... but hey, most of the time we don't hear that much complains so they seem to be happy with whatever we give them. A Kaidan that get's magically bi in ME 3, an adorable Thane who, well... dies (and has no "real" sex" scene ). A Jacob who is an - sorry - a... ole. A great Garrus - thankfully even without a real "sex" scene. But well, the girls seems to be happy with it, they seem to be happy even without some "nice straight sex" or a well made romance at all. Four options, two of them human but either not straight or a looser. Two aliens (and no, I have nothing against alien romance but well, one of it dies and/or is in the "no sexy scene" cathegory). And now in ME:A? Wow... just one, Jaal. And who would have guessed? Again a alien... And somehow I got the impression you have problems to show naked men with all the "necessary assets". Why so? It seems not to bother you when it comes to the girls. Please BW - don't pretent we do not exist. And we aren't a "negligible" faction that needs no attention. We want our piece of "cake", too. Even if there is just Liam - at least we want a adequate romance like for example the straight male Cora romance. Even if we have to wait two months for it. Thank you.

I am very disappointed that adding to the male romance options for Sara Ryder is also not on that list of things to come. Jaal's romance is decent, but not everyone is into aliens. Both of the human male romances for Sara are very lacking, one doesn't even count towards the achievement. Neither have a sex scene thats on scene. Liams was very, very lack luster for such an amazing character. If you don't choose to have 'sex' with him (the early off-screen sex that could potentially be a one night stand or more ) you don't even get a kiss scene with him until the very last scene of the romance, well after discussing getting serious. It's just so pooe that it's sad. First decent dark romance option that doesn't run away or cheat and he is handled so poorly. Overall us girl players don't get great luck with romance choices in the mass effect games at all compaired to male players. In ME1 - 3 theres Garrus and Kaidan only as long term becausw Jacob cheats and Thane dies. Now in Andromeda our only romance that even gets a sex scene is Jaal an alien. Please do not forget your female players bioware, we need love to.

@admcmei86 wrote: On the romances: it works like in the first three games: you can tell that some romances are more worked on and seem to have more impact than others. In the first games it was basically Liara, you could tell that was the romance they wanted you to choose, and in this one it's Peebee, Cora and maybe Jaal. At least it's three instead of one. The others feel like secondary options just like in the original games. Liam should not be a "side" romance. At all. Kaidan got a great romance in Mass Effect, as did Garrus. Andromeda promosed plenty of "banging" and only what? Three characters got sex scenes in the entire game? In the original games they all got a sex scene. This just feels lazy and undone. Sara Ryder should have at least one decent human male option. Which should probably be Liam since he is the only one who counts towards the achievement. They give us the first decent dark male romance option who isn't a cheater like Jacob, and then slap us in the face with a terrible incomplete romance. The character overall is amazing, the romance is so poor that its barely a romance at all. All of the romances in the original, even the side romances had better sexy scenes and build up than this game has. I know they can do so much better.

I was hoping for a bit more (e.g. lack of quick save, performance issues, 'hold to sprint' being a toggle you can't turn off), but I'm glad they're adding an option to skip galaxy map transitions at least. Edit: Looks like they are improving performance. More info here: https://www.masseffect.com/news/the-journey-ahead?sf53509845=1

Discussion Thread - Patch notes - Update April 6

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JoxerTM22
9 years ago
@BreezyStarfish17 wrote:

My question is though I saw nothing about the bugs that make it so you can't interact with objects to continue the story, like in Cora's loyalty mission where you can't scan the transponder. Any word on that?

Isn't that bug caused by FOV slider not being in default position or something like that? Sorry, I can't remember in which thread I saw a few days back something that changing FOV can break scanner, but if you did change it, please try with setting it back to default.
Smashing_Vigil
9 years ago
"Fixed bugs where music or VO wouldn’t play or was incorrect"

Does this also include a fix for the sound being completely shut off at some point during multiplayer??
Anonymous
9 years ago
This bug is the one where you snipe the enemies from a distance and they don't agro, so the second wave doesn't spawn.. effectively ending the progress that can be done for that quest line.
DoctorMcBatman
9 years ago
Great, how about the litany of quest bugs that bar many of us from completing important quests?
onemadvagabond
9 years ago
@DoctorMcBatman wrote:

Great, how about the litany of quest bugs that bar many of us from completing important quests?

I agree and will add to that. How about when you don't know about a certain quest and activate it on accident and it throws everything in the game off. They address a few good concerns, but this update is seriously weak considering they leave out some very major stuff that a lot of people are having problems with. How about only getting sound from just Ryder during a conversation? All the save bugs people are having etc. etc.
Kronn90
9 years ago
A big and a warm thank you ! Excellent job it seems for one week !

For the logic, timing and continuity for relationships and story arcs, huge hope that fixes texture bug with Cora and Peebee

Spoiler
In movie scene and conversation with your serious relationship before last mission

No news for the character creation ? Working on beards I hope ( they are hideous than the hair looks alright )

Chest trunk, better inventory , able to change your haircut, beard , and scars in the journey will come later ? Still I hope .

You've done a great game , yes maybe launch isn't easy but we are in a new galaxy , unknowned issues and mysteries are expected 😉
V4rdyn
9 years ago
Many thanks for the continuing support for the game 🙂 Looking forward to see what other adjustments / imporvements / additions the team is working on.
Anonymous
9 years ago
@Pain_Reliever_I wrote:

Any idea as to a particular timeframe this is to happen, I would love to be able to play again.

It say's the 6th it's supposed to drop!
Anonymous
9 years ago
Looks like there is no fix to the multiplayer random crash... I would assume a game breaking bug had priority over game balancing...
MEGAF1UX
9 years ago
"Improvements to male romance options for Scott Ryder" oh thank gawd! because THAT affects us all!

perhaps if they didnt feel OBLIGATED to put such nonsense in the game to begin with they could have put together a coherent plot in the first place!

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