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Aphrodite posted:The Krogan Gladiator is a team player. He doesn't take the glory for himself. Thanks it should have been pretty clear that was the case, hard to think about teams helping pubbing on the xbone
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Best bug from last night was joining into a game that was on one of the later waves. The group was stuck fighting a kett ascendant who's little orbiting thing had somehow gone missing, yet he still had his shield and could fire off all of his usual attacks. It was the only enemy left of the wave and everyone was just kinda  while shooting at it off and on for about five minutes.After enough random people kept leaving and joining, the ascendant magically spawned his orbiting thing again and we were able to kill him. 
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HAmbONE posted:I am Xbox One and catching up on this thread I haven't noticed anyone else mentioning it: I've had this happen once, I think it relates to how quickly I pressed "ready". I've delayed it by a second or two every time after and never had the issue. Not scientific in the least but give it a shot.
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Siets posted:Best bug from last night was joining into a game that was on one of the later waves. The group was stuck fighting a kett ascendant who's little orbiting thing had somehow gone missing, yet he still had his shield and could fire off all of his usual attacks. It was the only enemy left of the wave and everyone was just kinda I've had this happen but he never got the orb back. You think with a grand total of 10 enemy types they'd not have one with a massive bug but GG Bioware maybe don't drive off all your employees and hire fanboys and girls in their stead.
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Mar 28, 2017 17:24
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The blame for what happened to bioware almost certainly lies at EA's feet more than bioware. EA has a nasty history of chewing up its developers and franchises and spitting them out once there's nothing left from which to make a cheap buck. Doesn't mean the product itself isn't really frustrating in many ways though, and even knowing that many of the people with previous experience working on mass effect aren't there anymore, it's hard not to expect better after 5 years.
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Mar 28, 2017 18:19
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Punched my way to a Gold extraction using a Tier 8 Human Vanguard, and I really hope they balance guns because right now I forget I even have one half the time.
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Digirat posted:The blame for what happened to bioware almost certainly lies at EA's feet more than bioware. EA has a nasty history of chewing up its developers and franchises and spitting them out once there's nothing left from which to make a cheap buck. Did EA personally hire the bad writing team of ME3, who partially continued to be the bad writing team of ME:A, reinforced by the bad writer of Halo 4? I'm skeptical, but I guess they likely signed off on whichever bad management made the poor decisions and hiring internal to Bioware.
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Digirat posted:The blame for what happened to bioware almost certainly lies at EA's feet more than bioware. EA has a nasty history of chewing up its developers and franchises and spitting them out once there's nothing left from which to make a cheap buck. Bioware is EA at this point, I don't understand everyone who white knights devs vis a vis the publisher. From the consumer perspective there is no distinction my friend.
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Mar 28, 2017 18:24
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I have never seen an AAA release where I get kicked from a MP sesh into the home screen. Let alone regularly.
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Mar 28, 2017 18:26
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A Buff Gay Dude posted:I have never seen an AAA release where I get kicked from a MP sesh into the home screen. My SP save always freezes after getting through a certain cutscene so now I can only play MP.
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Mar 28, 2017 18:29
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Digirat posted:It makes a difference, just not nearly enough of one (I haven't checked the numbers above bronze, but I know the exp you get on bronze is the sum of all the points the team got, and silver just multiplies this value by something in the ballpark of 1.5). It starts taking 2 silver games to get a single level on a character before you even hit the level it recommends for silver, and again for gold. When silver is around twice as hard as bronze, it really should be giving you 2x the bronze exp, and gold 3x or more. The current values would be more reasonable if you were still leveling up 1/6 of the available characters at a time, but it's one at a time now, and you will also be short between 3 and 15 skill points at level 20 if you haven't unlocked the same character literally 10 times yet. Yeah, the fact that you have to level every character individually makes the XP gains hurt even more. I think what their intention is is to keep people playing Bronze/Silver and retain players longer because it takes so much longer to get to "the endgame content". I'm pretty sure that I was playing exclusively Gold matches starting like 2 weeks after the game came out, with all level 20 characters, and just playing to watch numbers on guns go up. This time they seem to want you to actually enjoy going up to level 20 which... doesn't really work that well when you're playing a horde mode and not an actual game.
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Syzygy Stardust posted:Did EA personally hire the bad writing team of ME3, who partially continued to be the bad writing team of ME:A, reinforced by the bad writer of Halo 4? I'm skeptical, but I guess they likely signed off on whichever bad management made the poor decisions and hiring internal to Bioware. I'm referring mainly to the level of competency/quality that's visible in the multiplayer as it stands (much lower than hoped). I haven't played more than the very beginning of the singleplayer so I don't know what the situation was there with the writers or whatever. Although what I played did not really grip me the way ME2 did which is why I haven't bothered with any more of it--I can definitely see what people are on about with the facial animations, voice direction, and the quality of the player's dialogue choices, especially after playing witcher 3. But after this long and after mass effect 3 already blazed the trail for them, the multiplayer should have been a sure thing. And sometimes it really works and it's awesome. Other times poo poo happens like last night where the game refused to let me switch to the missile launcher because I was trapped in a reload animation, so I could not stop the fiend who teleported into a sync kill animation on my teammate. When I finally was allowed to use it, I hit the loving thing dead on, a direct hit aimed for center of mass, with a cobra rocket. No effect. Game completely loving ignored it.
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also if it wasn't clear, I was referring to EA's practices pushing developers with experience out of the company due to stress and dissatisfaction, not that EA specifically is responsible for hiring at bioware. There's a really excellent post floating around about how the short and ridiculously crunchy dev time EA forced for dragon age 2 made many bioware employees quit, and is emblematic of an environment that can't retain core talent because the publisher's demands mean many people don't want to work there for long.
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Mar 28, 2017 18:51
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A Buff Gay Dude posted:I have never seen an AAA release where I get kicked from a MP sesh into the home screen. Let me tell you about a game called For Honor....
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Mar 28, 2017 18:53
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Or any battlefield game, or anything on PSN/XBLive, or anything on Ubisoft's distribution platform, or steam on a tuesday evening or or or Bioware and this game has a shitload of problems, but sometimes gamers just go looking for dumb poo poo to latch on to one party.
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Mar 28, 2017 18:56
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Digirat posted:I'm referring mainly to the level of competency/quality that's visible in the multiplayer as it stands (much lower than hoped). I haven't played more than the very beginning of the singleplayer so I don't know what the situation was there with the writers or whatever. Although what I played did not really grip me the way ME2 did which is why I haven't bothered with any more of it--I can definitely see what people are on about with the facial animations, voice direction, and the quality of the player's dialogue choices, especially after playing witcher 3. The fact that ME3's shining achievement was a really fun and unexpectedly good horde mode, and that Andromeda could not improve on that in any way in 5 years of development with more game modes, customization or anything really with somehow even less online stability, is just another huge disappointment.
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A Buff Gay Dude posted:I have never seen an AAA release where I get kicked from a MP sesh into the home screen. Let me talk to you about Battlefield 4. 
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Mar 28, 2017 18:58
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Kaysette posted:My SP save always freezes after getting through a certain cutscene so now I can only play MP. Try loading it before the game can connect to EA (or unplug your cable/disable wifi). That worked for me on a stuck loading screen.
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Mar 28, 2017 19:02
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I think this game has hard crashed out of app on Xbox One for me more times since release than ME3 ever did in 500 odd hours. I'm also definitely feeling the bad guns and bad XP. The bad guns don't bother me as much, because most of the guns were really bad in ME3 too, but the bad leveling and character classification system is really annoying and a terrible change from 3.
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Mar 28, 2017 19:04
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Vidmaster posted:From the discussion a few pages back on whether teams can have multiple negative traits, the answer is yes. I have a team with 3 negatives and 2 positives that I've been sending to fail all my gold missions. The app is great though, by using it regularly I have 3 teams and both equipment options from the store, and about 80 SP boxes saved up. It's a very nice feature! I have a team with six negative traits. They still succeed at golds at level 19, around 25%
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Tsyni posted:I have a team with six negative traits. They still succeed at golds at level 19, around 25%  That's amazing. The exact (opaque) nature of the positive/negative modifiers seems to matter a lot. My one team with a negative modifier is -10 for Cowardly, which I'm guessing only matters on missions with the Scary modifier. It almost always has a higher level of success than my team with just as many positive bonuses (and Night Vision Goggles equipment) but no negative modifier, so I'm guessing the nature of the bonuses (general vs. specific) is what really matters. He's got Elite (+5), Heroic (+10), Nighttime Operator (+10), Tough (+5), and Lucky (+5), I'm guessing that only the Nighttime Operator isn't a general bonus, and that gives him a bigger advantage on night missions than my other team with +5 from Night Vision Goggles when the relevant mission modifier comes up. And/or maybe Heroic offsets Cowardly. Wish I knew! Incidentally, if you're playing for the long haul I would buy extra teams and send them at some low percentage missions, Silver after they have a few levels, Gold when they are mid level. They'll level up faster (especially when they unexpectedly succeed), and you'll build up more positive traits if you get lucky. I bought a third team to slowly level so as to avoid negative traits, and it only has one positive trait (at level 16), versus my other two that had 4-5 by this point. But I may have been abnormally lucky in avoiding negative traits.
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StarbloodKiss posted:Just thought I'd mention this, but I tried to figure out why ME:A MP keeps crashing and apparently the symbols used for debugging aren't included with Microsoft's symbol store. To find your Andromeda dumplogs, they're located under: C:\%Username%\Documents\BioWare\Mass Effect Andromeda\Temp Well, I don't know about all that mess, but I can say this: I was having crash issues somewhat regularly (every 10 games?), and was also noticing that when in menus, -occasionally- if someone started playing the game or stopped or sent me a message, the screen would go black for a few seconds, then come back up, inform me that Dickbrain201 was now playing The Sims 28, and my hatred for Origin grew. So, since I was sick of that bullshit, and was wondering if it might be causing the crashes during matches, I turned off all of the notifications (left the overlay on). Haven't had a crash since, have played easily more than 40 games without trouble. I also had an issue with the Firebase Zero map. I usually host for my buddies, and suddenly whenever that map would load, it wouldn't. It'd take forever to get up to about 80% loaded, and then sit there. I just assumed it was a bug, pulled up task manager, killed the game and restarted it a few times before I drew the correlation with that map. Ran a repair, it downloaded close to 1GB, repaired something, problem solved. So, if the notification fix doesn't do anything for ya, try a repair maybe.
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Number Ten Cocks posted:
You can see exactly what the traits do on your list of teams, where you would buy equipment for them. Most of them are specific, for example Bloodthirsty only applies to missions with Enemies Everywhere (I love that that's a mission trait). There's a button to bring up a team's list of traits on that screen. The button doesn't work if they're on a mission though so wait for them to get back
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I know anyone reading this thread may have already bought the game, but for what it's worth it seems like the most stable version is the PS4 one, so grab that if you can. Personally I've had 2 crashes out of... a lot of hours. Can anyone confirm that the game saves your credits/XP after every round, or at least after Objective waves? I have definitely come back after a crash and had more credits than before.
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Digirat posted:You can see exactly what the traits do on your list of teams, where you would buy equipment for them. Most of them are specific, for example Bloodthirsty only applies to missions with Enemies Everywhere (I love that that's a mission trait). There's a button to bring up a team's list of traits on that screen. The button doesn't work if they're on a mission though so wait for them to get back In app? Because I don't see anything like that in iOS.  Neither the equipment button nor "manage" lets you view what the traits (or the equipment!) are specialized for.
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precision posted:I know anyone reading this thread may have already bought the game, but for what it's worth it seems like the most stable version is the PS4 one, so grab that if you can. Personally I've had 2 crashes out of... a lot of hours. I've had better luck than most with crashes and disconnects, only seen a few so far here on PC, and my system doesn't even meet the game's listed requirements. But I did crash two times last night, one of them being 50 seconds from extraction on gold, and it did not give me any exp or money. But it had still eaten my boosters. Based on my experience, I'd guess that the game only talks to the server to save your exp and money when a mission ends through winning or losing, rather than after every wave (this is sort of understandable since the servers getting requests after every single wave of every single game would probably be a huge amount of unnecessary traffic). What is less understandable is why the game eats your boosters at the start of a round instead of at the same time it gives you your exp and money. As it stands, crashing 50 seconds from extraction means you get nothing and your boosters are gone. Number Ten Cocks posted:In app? Because I don't see anything like that in iOS. It's in the game, I don't know of a way to see it in the app. On the flipside, I have seen that you can change your character's name in the app, but can't find where to do that in the game.
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precision posted:I know anyone reading this thread may have already bought the game, but for what it's worth it seems like the most stable version is the PS4 one, so grab that if you can. Personally I've had 2 crashes out of... a lot of hours. My roommate crashed on extraction last night (not even during the wave...during the cutscene) and got nothing so 
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Last night I joined a game and it didn't load the map, just showed me a "mission accomplished" message and I got all the exp and money. Thanks for crashing, please do it again.
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My APEX team is named "Papa" and I have no idea why, but it is kinda funny.
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precision posted:My APEX team is named "Papa" and I have no idea why, but it is kinda funny. NATO phonetic alphabet for "P." They're all named that way.
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precision posted:My APEX team is named "Papa" and I have no idea why, but it is kinda funny. Same. Mine was a unit of asari commandos too, so I was extra confused at first when I saw it. Really though, the fault is mine since the asari are very obviously post-gender per the game's lore and definitely not beautiful blue space barbies. 
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Headbutt FiendButt (repeat until dead) http://i.imgur.com/awlDEii.gifv
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BLAST OFF http://i.imgur.com/uKTWjAf.gifv PUNCH HEADS http://i.imgur.com/Uxdk47Z.gifv
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Seedge posted:Has anyone got any bonus stats levelled up to see how effective they are? They're 1% a level. Unsure if there's a cap.
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Cap is 20% if I recall correctly. Going to take a while, as the mount to XP needed per rank goes up each level.
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By the time anyone gets those bonus stats up to a level where it matters they'll have rolled out Platinum I'm halfway thinking they might add a new faction very soon since the assets are there anyway: beasts. Launch it with the new Krogan Big Game Hunter class 
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precision posted:By the time anyone gets those bonus stats up to a level where it matters they'll have rolled out Platinum If they do this exactly, it gives them an excellent excuse to bring back the Kishock Harpoon or maybe even the Javelin
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