When is the next patch coming

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@NORFIE123456789 wrote:

OK Archi....so now we have your attention when is the next damn patch coming along?...its incredibly rude and ignorant of EA/Bioware to keep the loyal fans in the dark about this game when its so badly *...

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Pretty damn funny that the only "official" response is admonishment instead of addressing the discussion. 

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@hedop85 wrote:

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@EA_Archi wrote:

Hello everyone! 

Just a gentle reminder, to stay on topic of the discussion and to use appropriate language, since this is a general rule for Answers HQ.

Cheers,

Archi

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How about you go and bother someone else brother? If you can't contribute in a meaningful way, then don't pipe up. The only time someone here used inappropriate language was when I fought of a troll and since then everything has been civil and people have been nice to each other, which is why I used inappropriate language in the first place so nobody else had to and everyone gets to enjoy a civil discussion.

Secondly dude it's a forum and the thread has the topic of: When is the next patch coming? Of course it's gonna veer off topic because there is only so much you can speculate on in terms of the date. I started the thread and I don't see it as a problem. I welcome people who have something to contribute. I'm not writing the bible here and deciding later which gospel I should add.

Thirdly: Brother, you are a community manager. How about doing some community managing and communicating with us? How about telling us the ETA for the next patch, if there is even a patch planned at all, how about updating the known bugs list, how about responding to the bug threads with over 500xp? How 'bout dah? No offence mate but my feedback to you for you and your brotherhood is very bad at the moment since you don't seem to be doing anything really. Might not be your fault, might be your fault. Who knows? What's important is that most people in here have stated they would like much better communication from EA and Bioware and much mire frequent updates on the progress. Maybe take that to your superiors and then you guys can do something about it? Thanks brother.

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@DarkLordDashie wrote:

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@Neeki81 wrote:

I hope they would communicate way more and I don't mean ETA's or other promises. Just telling what they are doing and / or what they are planning. Waiting in dark is much worse than knowing and waiting

I stopped advancing in campaign after realising that the game is still buggy. Currently I am waiting for next patch as I'm hoping to get the best experience out of the game. I love it too much. Meanwhile, I've been busy with the multiplayer part but finding it being filled with more and more cheaters and hackers, even the multiplayer part can't keep me interested forever.

I do love the Mass Effect universe and have no regrets for paying the Andromeda and the trilogy before that. And I do understand, new engine and new team to make the game can cause difficulties ahead, but radio silence is something I don't like. And if things keep going this way, I might get the next Mass Effect game from sale instead.

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I mean I do agree, I wish there would be A LOT more communication. But they did outline what's to come with some immediate plans.

https://www.masseffect.com/news/the-journey-ahead

Which is better than nothing. This is definitely more said than certain other devs/publishers who remain completely silent on what they're doing for their respective games.

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 Well brother that's all well and good but that's sort of like a baker saying: over the next two months there will be bread for sale numerous times. When though? Tomorrow? Next week?

Same goes for what he says they will fix. Half of that stuff is utterly unimportant until quest bugs are fixed and people can play New Game plus and all quests work as intended etc. That's not mentioned here though. There is also a mention of several patches. Now that could be 2, could be 10. However... if 3 weeks later there is still nothing, not even an update on the progress, no patch, I seriously doubt we are talking several.

Listen brother, I don't require them to give us a date... but how about something better than "over the next two months" and how about something better than "We will fix these 3 things, which nobody cares about that much because they are cosmetic, and improve stability". Is it that hard to put a progress bar somewhere in this forum and fill it up bit by bit (that's just an idea). Is it that hard to come on here and on twitter each week once and post a status update? Is it that hard for the community managers to actually properly maintain the bug forum, regulary update the known issues list and give feedback when they have reported those bugs? The game is 3 weeks old brother and it feels like it's done for already... not good.

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Just because cosmetic doesn't bother you, doesn't mea  it doesn't bother others.

A quest bug - even one that requires me to go back five or ten mins to a previous save bothers me far less than my character spazzing everytime she tries to smile tbh.

How things LOOK to me, is a big part of feeling emersed in the game world I'm playing. Bad animations jar me right out of that immersion, constantly.  There are plenty of people bothered by aesthetics.

My order would be - actual game breaking bugs that stop players in their tracks and prevent them from continuing the story - First Priority.

Making things look better rather than jarring me out of immersion second priority.

Fixing bugged quests that you can't complete and at the same time fixing ordering of certain dialogue (so they don't mention people who have not yet appeared) - third priority.

Adding more to the characters that got shafted with story and romance - Fourth Priority.

Other random annoyances (like monster head smashes not bringing up death screen) a minor annoyance to be worked on and polished over time.

The first four items would go a lot futher in enhancing my enjoyment of the game than the last.

Now I would go as far as saying ignore pvp because the story is far more important in an ME game, but that'd just * people off and I know others enjoy pvp -

Which brings me to my point, everyone's priority on what should or shouldn't be fixed or added to is different so instead of trying to demand what you want done first to be done first, trust that the devs have an order based on what they receive the most complaints for. Also know there are different areas of game development. It may take an animator a week to fix an animation issue or two and add a few more things to the character creator while it takes a coder three weeks to sift through hundreds of lines of code to track down a single bug and fix it. Should they not push through what is done, as it is completed rather than waiting?