I would advise you to at least wait until you stop seeing new "I play for 2 minutes and I get a DirectX related crash" "I press "start" on the main menu and my computer shuts down" posts appearing here on the Answer forum.
There seems to be a completely random and indiscriminate issue with the game which makes some people simply unable to play it, the closest to a response from EA/Bioware has been the "We'll announce something on April 4th" announcement, which if you're near $100 out of pocket and sitting on a game that doesn't work, isn't really a reassuring approach.
@0sias wrote:
I would advise you to at least wait until you stop seeing new "I play for 2 minutes and I get a DirectX related crash" "I press "start" on the main menu and my computer shuts down" posts appearing here on the Answer forum.
There seems to be a completely random and indiscriminate issue with the game which makes some people simply unable to play it, the closest to a response from EA/Bioware has been the "We'll announce something on April 4th" announcement, which if you're near $100 out of pocket and sitting on a game that doesn't work, isn't really a reassuring approach.
@0sias DirectX crashes are common in Frostbite 3 games and are usually the result of installing a driver on top of a previous driver instead of performing a clean install. Wipe your driver with DDU and then install the latest version again.
I appreciate your willingness to help, but I've attempted every workaround suggested on these forums short of "Try reinstalling your Operating System, it worked for me." and "It must be your graphics card, try an RMA with your manufacturer."
Doing a clean driver installation using DDU has worked for some people, but as with all the workarounds (Change Pagefile, underclock GPU, don't overclock CPU) it hasn't worked for everyone. I seem to be one of those unlucky people where unless someone at Bioware / EA / DICE / Nvidia can figure this out and fix it, I'm just going to be sitting on two games I can't play.
I couldn't care less about BF1 crashing out in this manner, I got my moneys worth out of that before this issue was introduced.
ME:A though? I've less than 10 hours out of it so far, being Australian it cost me $100 to buy. I haven't gotten my moneys worth out of this product and EA/Bioware have said and done nothing to eliminate my doubt that i ever will. I really hope that April 4th sees a patch or a patch announcement that will resolve the majority of these issues, and I really hope i can continue to enjoy what so far (even with the crashes) has been a fun game, but as things stand now I don't feel confident answering a "Should i buy this game" question with anything other than "No, wait for it to mature / get fixed."
I'm not saying don't buy the game eventually, and I'm not saying I expect a patch to fix it now (complex issues have complex solutions). I'm saying that if you're on the fence about purchasing the game, wait until they have fixed these issues which could potentially stop you from experiencing the product you have paid for.
There is a way to play through this problem.
Create a new character (was using a female now using a male) from Nexus (keep it basic no side missions) to Eos and just activate the vault and set up the base meeting
the Krogan on the way again no side missions. Next head to Havarl report in and then go free the frozen scientists at the Monolith report back to HQ and then go to a vid con on the Tempest with Evfra the resistance leader after that go to Voeld and only meet the PILOT no one else from there straight in to the mission to free the Moshae.
Once in with the Cardinal drop down to Casual level (not about brownie points now its about getting past this glitch) and walk the game through to getting on the shuttle which
should then just cut scene to the Tempest leaving and away to the med bay and the Moshae on a medical bed.
Many think its a glitch or a bug or whatever it could also just be a very complicated way to follow the plot line in that it has to be to the letter which you would not know without a script,
similar to the one from the IGN walk through. Never like this before in Mass Effect.
Pretty much just as most are saying here. It's all up to your personal preference. I personally am enjoying the game.
However, I do also recommend to wait until April 4 to see the announcement of Bioware's immediate plans for the game. Which in turn may help you decide whether to play now or later.
When I read the fixes planed:
http://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/Bugs-Known-issues-list-for-MEA/td-p/5942772
Performances: Pointless for me.
Squadmates : Well that sort of glitch can be tedious, I haven't see it yet but I bet it's because I didn't played further than first parts with only one companion.
UI: I don't care, I played old games with UI a lot more worse. It's not cool but it's ok as it is.
Missions/Levels :
--Game does not save often enough during main missions.--
=> THAT is a serious big issue for a RPG player. The polishing of exploration, and the addition of many little elements of depth in exploration, and the efforts to break linearity and add freedom, are making exploration a great aspect of the game. Alas the * checkpoint system can break all the fun, by making you repeat again a careful exploration you just did. Such no save system makes no sense for a RPG, it's just for some intense action games. I have serious doubts that increase number of checkpoints will really fully solve the problem related to checkpoint system and careful exploration, but it definitely worth wait because of that.
I know switch goal to a secondary goal allows manual save, but the long beginning doesn't allow it, and it seems seriously good so waste it is total shame. Also I suspect there's other cases where this trick cannot be used. And lower difficulty level to target the problem is an awful way to waste the game fun.
