not sure wich subject this would come under, technicle, bug etc. something i feel thats spoiling the gamea little so far is that it suffers something mass effect 3 did. 1 and 2 showed currently equiped weapons during all cuttscenes. so far andromeda seems to switch between mulitple weapons during cutscense that i dont even have equiped. i went from revanent , to crouching holding m8 riffle, to using a pistol i dont have epuiped to golding revanant again to an smg i dont have equiped t all. Is there any chance this can be patched? because it kinda spoils the experience a little. this was something i loved about 1 and 2 and hated about 3 . spoils the experience, the imersion.

Seconding that reply: all the cutscenes with your character are rendered ad hoc, not pre-rendered. Otherwise how would it get the face right? And, more topically, how would it get the weapon right sometimes but not always? I guarantee you no one pre-programmed the Revenant as a cutscene weapon, but my Ryder uses one in combat and (sometimes, when the game gets it right) in cutscenes.What confuses me is how it's sometimes right but mostly not. If it's going to be wrong, shouldn't it be wrong all the time?

Uhm, no, because your character has the face you give them and sometimes the right weapon. They're "cut scenes" but they're generated in engine by the game. Pre-programmed, not pre-done.

Exactly. That's the question. If sometimes it does it right it means it's probably supposed to and there's only two explanations why it doesn't: all cut scenes have an individual hand-made pre-program that sometimes includes giving you the right weapon and sometimes not; cut scenes are pre-programmed to give you the right weapon but sometimes it doesn't work. I'm inclined towards the latter cause the first hypotesys seems crazy to me. And if I'm right they can fix it.

Sorry I didn't find this earlier! I think I searched by "Avenger" rather than "M8"...

One and two didn't have any variety in weapons and three still has this same issue today. It is annoying though. I agree.

wrong weapons showing during cutscenes.

14 Replies

virtus753
9 years ago
Sorry I didn't find this earlier! I think I searched by "Avenger" rather than "M8"...
mckrackin5324
9 years ago
One and two didn't have any variety in weapons and three still has this same issue today.

It is annoying though. I agree.
Geliver
9 years ago
For me it just switches all the guns (Ryder and squad mates) to M-8 Avengers. It's especially glaring on Jaal, who uses a kett weapon and Drack, who uses the Ruzad shotgun. It feels like the devs completely glossed over QA in order to release the game sooner.
Simpson3k
9 years ago
Yes, i hope this will be fixed. Spending kingdoms into keeping the sandstorm AR at the highest level and then in the coolest cutscenes my pathfinder wields the standard initiatve weapon sucks.
Anonymous
9 years ago
As already said, it happened in ME3, too. I don't know why, it feels more like a limit than a bug but then in some cutscenes you have the right weapons so I don't really understand what's happening.
Blakkwolfe
9 years ago
If only ME:A was the only game with this issue, I've seen plenty of games where your choice of weapon doesn't matter for cutscenes. ☹️
DeltaAgent26
9 years ago
The reason they all revert to the M8 Avenger, or a pistol (depending on how far you've gotten in the game)

is the fact that it IS A CUT SCENE.

It was a scene created prior to the launch of the game, where they could not possibly

take into consideration the multitude of variations, players would have for loadouts.

So the M8 Avenger is just a placeholder, or a fill in prop... for the cutscene.

Can you imagine how difficult it would be to actually

code a cutscene to allow for the whole variety of weapons,

weapon mods, and whatnot?

the cutscene is a short movie clip. it's not necessarily an

interactive portion of the game.....
Anonymous
9 years ago
Uhm, no, because your character has the face you give them and sometimes the right weapon. They're "cut scenes" but they're generated in engine by the game. Pre-programmed, not pre-done.
virtus753
9 years ago
Seconding that reply: all the cutscenes with your character are rendered ad hoc, not pre-rendered. Otherwise how would it get the face right? And, more topically, how would it get the weapon right sometimes but not always? I guarantee you no one pre-programmed the Revenant as a cutscene weapon, but my Ryder uses one in combat and (sometimes, when the game gets it right) in cutscenes.

What confuses me is how it's sometimes right but mostly not. If it's going to be wrong, shouldn't it be wrong all the time?
Anonymous
9 years ago
Exactly. That's the question. If sometimes it does it right it means it's probably supposed to and there's only two explanations why it doesn't: all cut scenes have an individual hand-made pre-program that sometimes includes giving you the right weapon and sometimes not; cut scenes are pre-programmed to give you the right weapon but sometimes it doesn't work. I'm inclined towards the latter cause the first hypotesys seems crazy to me. And if I'm right they can fix it.