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4 years ago

[ME3] [Bug Report] - Enemies stay down / won't get back up

Good evening,

During my playthrough of Mass Effect 3 on PC, I had this recurring problem. Sometimes, enemies knocked down, with some life left, would just stay on the ground. I play as a vanguard, and very often my enemies meet the ground in a very intimate fashion. But, usually they get back up and continue fighting. And in my case, they sometimes don't. They stay lying on the floor. Luckily they do not glitch and you can kill them properly. So, it is not game breaking in any way.

This happened dozens of times and it is easily noticeable. Therefore, I am sure it was not like this in the original ME3. Let me know if anyone else had this. I will try to figure out which attack causes this.

See ya

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  • Can confirm. This is happening to me all of the time on the Xbox version. Sometimes they do not get up even after I shoot them while they are prone.

  • Experienced this on PC as well with a lot of Singularity use. It's also been reported to happen in ME2 and ME3 with cryo ammo.

    Enemies that get knocked or fall to the ground can just end up prone, frozen in place. Sometimes they continuously run impact grunts (fights are comical when this happens as there's a guy grunting non-stop somewhere on the field that you have to find to end the encounter), and they no longer animate when this happens.

    If you find and shoot them, they finally get back up and continue fighting.

  • I just had this happen to a Cerberus Guardian during the Grissom academy mission. He somehow got knocked down, complete with his shield raised, and just proceeded to lay on the ground moaning. That shouldn't even be possible with this enemy type.

    PS: I'm playing on PC as an Adept on this playthrough by the way. 

  • A year after and this outrageous bug which basically prevent me from playing mass effect 3 legendary is still exist. I'm going for a refund. Never again I will purchase a Bioware game.

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    EA_Shepard
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    2 years ago

    Hey Everyone,

    As this post is a bit old, we are locking it down.

    If you are still running into this issue, please check out the following link

    Please provide the following in your post

    Platform:

    PSN ID/ Gamertag:

    When did the issue start?

    Which Mass Effect in the Legendary edition are you encountering the issue on?

    Which class do you play as? 

    Does this happen in a specific area or point in the story?

    We can share this information with the team to be aware of, however, we don't have any information on potential future patches or changes, especially considering that this is not a high-impact bug on gameplay.

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