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RhodrynCallahor's avatar
2 years ago

(PC) Mass Effect Andromeda Multiplayer Character Missing Skill Points.

Hello, maybe about a week ago I was going to respec my Turian Soldier, unfortunately, being so used to using the X key on my keyboard all over multiplayer for other things, this time around I accidentally pressed X and then Space quickly, rather than V followed by Space. So instead of using "Respec power points", I accidentally "Reset level" instead. Resulting in that I put my Turian Soldier back to level 1, which in and off it's self is not that bad of a thing since I would just have to level the character up again, which is fine.

The problem however is that when I went to add the starting skill points to the Turian Soldiers skills I noticed I did not have the same amount of skill upgrades that I normally do with a character that is "level 1, Rank XX, Veteran Bonus: Tier 10". Normally such a character (level 1, rank XX, Veteran Tier 10), has 25 points to use from the start, which you can use to max one power to rank 6, and a second power to 3 (assuming you add said skill points to one of the three powers that start with 1 in them already). But after using my points I had one power at 6, and then 1 remaining skill point, meaning I was missing 4 skill points.

I thought that was strange, so I used a "Respec power points" to see if it was just a bug and that I would get back those 4 missing skill points. But after the respec I could now see that I had 21 skill points, and not the 25 that I should have. At this point I wondered if this was maybe something to do with using "Reset level" on the character (which I had never used before), and thought that maybe if I leveled the character back up to level 20 I might get those 4 missing points back. So that is what I did, I leveled the character up to 20 over the next 2-3 days, but when all was said and done, My Turian Soldier (at level 20, rank XX, veteran bonus Tier 10), did not have a skill rank of 6/6/1/6/6, but rather 6/6/1/6/5 and with 2 skill points remaining, meaning I was still missing 4 skill points to raise the last skill to rank 6.

At this point I started to google around online to try and find information about this. But most replies to this problem/bug that I could find are all about 6+7 years old, and most of which said they thought that bug had been fixed with a "recent" update to the game. Also found that the bug may have had something to do with reseting a characters level that had unused skill points (which was not the case for me, I had used all points for the Turian Soldier before my accidental level reset). And then there seems to be a huge gap of little to no information for several years. I have found some very select few replies/messages/etc that are from the last 1-2 years (think one on this specific site), but none of them have had any replies to them that would lead to any answer to if there is a way to fix this currently, or had no replies at all what so ever. And also, just to be sure, I did verify the games files (I own the game on Steam), and it came back 100% ok.

After that, since the weekend was almost here, I decided to try and use those last 2 points to increase the rank 1 skill to rank 2, to have 0 remaining skill points, and deliberately used a "Reset Level" on my Turian Soldier again, to put them back down to level 1, and hope that the bug would go away due to this. But unfortunately after that level reset he still only had 21 skill points rather than 25, and after once again leveling him up to level 20 he was still missing 4 skill points to max him out to 66166, and when again using a normal "Respec power points" at this point he has a total of 78 skill points when he should have 82.

I again have been googling around today to see if I maybe missed something, missed a solution, but I have not seemed to be able to find one. So I have then spent time here on EA's page to try and find a solution, which I have not found any either. I have then looked to see if I could contact support about this somehow, but all the info I can find on how to do that will just send me through loops on the website to places where in the end only keeps pointing me back to this particular "Answer HQ" community forum to ask for help here.

The closest EA Help option for this problem "I need help restoring my progress in my game" has neither an option to Chat with someone, or send an email about it, and just points me to this place, the Answers HQ.

So... here I am asking about this bug. Asking if anyone knows any way to fix this, to get back the 4 missing skill points for my Turian Soldier? Or if anyone know how to actually get in contact with someone at EA in support that could maybe help with this.

I know this is just one multiplayer character with this missing skill point thing for me, where I can play a all other available characters who have all the skill points they are supposed to. But, the Turin Soldier is one of the characters I play the most, probably the second most, and it would be a shame and a bit annoying to have to stop playing said character in higher difficulty matches due to this, since this is the only multiplayer character which has both Fortify and Turbocharge at the same time, which is the reason I like to play this character.

I also added three images of my Turian Soldier:

Image nr 1: Is after I used "Reset level" deliberately the second time, to see if I could maybe get back the missing skill points that way, which did not work as you can see.

Image nr 2: Is after I had leveled the character up to level 20 again to see if that gave back the points, but again as you can see it did not.

Image nr 3: Is after I used a "Respec power points" after hitting 20 to see what would happen, and again even though he is level 20, and rank XX, he is still missing 4 skill points.

Based on everything I am seeing here with this, is that this bug seems to be connected to the rank of the character somehow, due to that the character is missing those 4 skill points even when they are at level 1 rank XX (having only 21 skill points instead of 25).

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  • From what I have been able to see through googling around previously when the bug originally happened to me, and double checking right now as well, this bug has been around since pretty much day one of the game launching back in 2017, so well befor the game was available on steam to buy (which happened in 2020). So I do not think Steam it's self, and playing it through Steam, is the problem here, it more seems to be something in the original coding of some section of the game that is causing this.

    But, as you said, there can still be problems that are caused by playing the game on another platform, this particular one just does not seem to be one of them.

    In any case, I do want to thank you for all the work you have been doing here with this. Especially since Andromeda is a game which probably no longer has a dedicated group of developers who constantly work on it like it had in the first X number of years. So it can't be easy to get the gears rolling on getting solutions and updates/bugfixes for a game which is at this stage in it's "life". So no matter if something happens from this or not, I do appreciate the work you are doing @EA_Shepard. 🙂

  • EA_Shepard's avatar
    EA_Shepard
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    2 years ago

    @RhodrynCallahorn So because it is through Steam and not the EA app, the data to manually resolve it is limited so Steam in itself is the problem from a solutions standpoint. As we don't control Steam, any workarounds the team said, for the moment, are the only steps anyone can take until they get that part figured out first. Even they said it isn't ideal but they have to be able to change any backend data connected through Steam like this as no data showed up with the EA app on the account. Honestly not sure if or when that will happen. It is on my list and I am watching for updates but as of this morning, they had not updated on this issue specifically.

  • II_Maciuk's avatar
    II_Maciuk
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    2 years ago

    @EA_ShepardStill non coclusive answer? It is right now 2024.07. and same problem occurred. Maybe game needs some fix with backend, bacause I have other problems with counting points ?

  • EA_Shepard's avatar
    EA_Shepard
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    2 years ago

    @II_Maciuk Hey, so i haven seen anything on this one for a while. I will follow up on it but just to let you know that at the moment, with DA on the horizon, most "non-critical" updates have been pushed to the back burner. Sadly that is out of our hands. I will update the ticket on it and see what I can find out. As of now, missing skill points isn't a critical issue as no one being able to get online at all would be more of a critical issue. I will let you know as soon I get word on it though.

  • II_Maciuk's avatar
    II_Maciuk
    New Novice
    2 years ago

    Anything new on the subject?

    I tried to get help on the Polish forum, but it seems to be dead. I don't have any information and it's starting to get confusing....

  • EA_Shepard's avatar
    EA_Shepard
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    2 years ago
    Hi @II_Maciuk, I literally just asked for an update on this one and a couple of others. When they update me, I will post it here. I have seen no real traffic on this one issue, so I have not yet seen one.


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