All Bugs Solved ?

[White Lion]

I've read many negative reviews about this game, especially related to bugs or glitches. I've heard that the developers have abandon it. Is it true?

Did they fix the bugs now or did they really abandon this game for good?

[jing]

Most of the bugs and glitches that are commonly discussed about MEA when it was first released have largely been fixed. There's still the occasional bug coming up, but nothing that's really buggy.

Most of the old bugs were more graphical and animation related issues than actual game breaking bugs.

As for if this game is abandoned? Yes. After around September or October of 2017 roughly, the development team that created and updated MEA was disbanded by EA. We were left only one producer who stuck around as long as possible and tried the best they could to get some MEA MP updates out so the MP side wouldn't die due to lack of future developer content too early. (MP weapon updates primarily)

But again, the MP portion is still active, and you are unlikely to run into any serious issues on the SP side. If you do, most likely it'll be game breaking (unable to launch MEA at all) and in that case (if you can't fix it to get it to launch), just get a refund as soon as possible.

[White Lion]

Originally posted by jing:

Most of the bugs and glitches that are commonly discussed about MEA when it was first released have largely been fixed. There's still the occasional bug coming up, but nothing that's really buggy.

Most of the old bugs were more graphical and animation related issues than actual game breaking bugs.

As for if this game is abandoned? Yes. After around September or October of 2017 roughly, the development team that created and updated MEA was disbanded by EA. We were left only one producer who stuck around as long as possible and tried the best they could to get some MEA MP updates out so the MP side wouldn't die due to lack of future developer content too early. (MP weapon updates primarily)

But again, the MP portion is still active, and you are unlikely to run into any serious issues on the SP side. If you do, most likely it'll be game breaking (unable to launch MEA at all) and in that case (if you can't fix it to get it to launch), just get a refund as soon as possible.

Thanks for the clarification. ME1, ME2, ME3 were very awesome. I loved it so much, I didn't want it to end. When EA annouced MEA, I was so enthusiastic about it. But when I read many graphical and animation bugs, I was incredibly disappointed on how EA ruin one of their best game of the decade just like that. It's one of their business catastrophe ever.

[Nar!]

TLDR; It has some visual bugs (most are harmless but some may ruin your mission progress, resulting in starting from an earlier save state).


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I played ME:Andromeda today for a little over 3 hours (23hrs so far, in total) and this is what I can tell you. Yes, it has bugs. Quite a few in fact. The most prominent one I experienced, was the mouse cursor stuck on almost every other cut scene. That's a benign bug though. There's also the occasional long loading shaders issue... Also benign.

However, today I experienced two nasty bugs that really spoiled the progress for me.
I was on a mission to override the security line by the Kett on a snowy planet. I finished the mission after two pretty fun gun fights and over 2 hours of grinding and farming. What happened afterwards though, really upset me.

There was a short in game cut-scene/dialogue after defeating the mini boss, with one of the aliens we helped out and out of nowhere, I was getting hit by something off camera. It was a freaking turret. I could not get out of the dialogue exchange with NPC, smashing my space button and all of a sudden I blinked right at the start of the map with my Nomad in front of me.

Lo and behold... it broke my progress for that mission. Meaning, it's marked in my journal as active and incomplete. I can't even redo it if I wanted to, because technically, I've already destroyed every security console. There's nothing more to do there. Everything is gone.
So... two and half hours of grinding through that map and engaging in that mission, for nothing. Like that really pissed me off and pulled me right out of the game's amazing looking atmosphere.

It didn't end there either. As dejected as I was about what happened, I moved onto the next mission and I stumbled onto a group of friendlies, posing as civilians. They were a rebel alliance fighting against the Kett. Well, after a hard battle against the Kett, I got caught off guard and they nailed me. Upon restarting that mission... Guess what? No more Kett....
They won't pop up anymore. So, the mission is now hereby active and will be left behind incomplete. I tried driving back and forth to the base and nada. So i saved my progress and shut the crappy development off.

I mean this is the type of sh-t you might have to face in this game. Oh and when I left that rebel establishment, I found the three rebel fighters, lumped into one graphical mess (like 3 heads and a body with extra limbs) further out in the snow. I actually took a screen shot of it.

The game is gorgeous and sublime, man. The music is just mesmerizing and the action (once you get acclimated with the clunky combat controls) is pretty fun. But bugs like this one I described, really turned me off and for that, i could never recommend this game without a discretion.

It's tremendously sad that it has 0 development support.
On the bright side... I am going to grab the remastered 1,2 and 3 in March. :)

[FWS-bASH]

The worst bug I ran into during my playthrough was the dialogue bug near the beginning of the game. There is a cut scene where no one is talking even though they should be, people are phasing through the floor, then the game just freezes. Turns out the fix for it is to download another language pack from origin and the switch back to english. That fixed the problem for me on that one. Everything else, no issues with missions through my playthrough, the game is graphically glorious when it comes to environments, the characters could definitely used more work.

[Battlekruse]

There is various technical issues and still terrible animations, sadly enough.

[✞ Nosnikrap ✞]

55 hours in and so far most of what disappoints me is the really terrible acting and script writing, I can get over most things if I am hooked by an intriguing story but I am find it hard to actually care about playing it and do so because my friend loved it and watches me play it (streaming to my TV) - the graphics are cool and the fighting I guess is ok but there is little to no AI here and honestly your companions are more irritating than helpful.....finally I am literally sick of driving - the first few hours were cool but now I just shake my head when I have to travel from point A to point B and then back to point A again.

Not a good game at all IMO - yet I have 55 hours...go figure....

Oh and the bugs are kinda of ok - but please do yourself a favour and get the mod which disables the annoying AI voice before you get to Voeld or you will wanna punch your monitor.....

[hurepoix]

I have about 140 hours ; I experienced few bugs. It was anecdotic and begnin. Mea is not as epic as the trilogy, but it is not a bad game.

Originally posted by Death Star:

When EA annouced MEA, I was so enthusiastic about it. But when I read many graphical and animation bugs, I was incredibly disappointed on how EA ruin one of their best game of the decade just like that. It's one of their business catastrophe ever.

ME3 ruined the game, not Mea. MEA biggest difficulty was to try to save what it can be after devs decided to burn the house at me3.

[Gerbilnutz]

So far nothing that would be game breaking, just annoying in and of itself, like having to leave a planet to swap out an assault rifle, even though part of the mission is to build something... what's the point of building it if it can't be used until the next deployment?

[Mistfox]

I did encounter some game breaking ones, namely the "Enemy stuck in wall" when you had to kill everyone. Solved by taking Marksman and a sniper rifle to see through the walls and Shockwave power to just blast them to death through it.

I had more hair tearing moments when you have absolutely no idea what the game wants you to do, like the end mission when you had an invincible architect until you stood on the relay for a long time, so without knowing how to proceed, I kept testing for damage. Wasted half an hour shooting the legs, head, gun, waiting till he was charging to fire etc. He couldn't kill me, I couldn't kill him so spent that half hour probing until I had to look it up on youtube before I realized you had to stand at the relay for a while before the game continued. There was no hacking marker at the relay at the start and they did ask you to kill all the Remnant so I kept trying to do that.

[SnowDaddy]

I regularly encounter freezes that cannot be really explained by anything despite trying updated drivers and everything. It happens most often if I travel with the shuttle inside the Nexus between maps. It needs a task manager kill and then a full restart of the game to recover.

Also sometimes NPCs that I talk to don't even face me or run off somewhere.

[Battlekruse]

At least there is Fast Travel node around the map, so if you get stuck in some rocks or fall down in a hole or something. Then you at least escape it by travel to the Forward Station.

[WreckWren]

The system I'm running it on can be prone to weirdness (2600k@5.6GHz) and it's actually been running great for me. Playing it totally maxed in 4k30 on a 1070.
The facial animations are hilarious though, and the faces in general are really bad - but that's not a bug at this point, it's just a bit of bad design lol
You get used to it for the most part.

[DrMadFellow]

I've been playing for like 48 hours and the only bug I encountered that wasn't extremely minor was some mission allowed me to do it over and over and over.... so I just ignored it since it was already marked completed in my log.

[rod.rodrod]

MEA is a great game no doubt,however, bugs are not all fixed.
I installed and been playing for 2 mths.
At 1st, my monitor would refresh itself, during playtime,
every 2 min or so.
screen would go black,then return to the game, periodically.
Then i did some delving, turn up refresh rate on monitor, in settings,
etc..

it was working fine till i noticed a distinct sound from hard drive.
3 days later, MEA fried my drive.
I wasn't able to return to my desktop, always stuck
on boot menu, for simple reason,it couldn't find my drive.
My pc is customized for games.
All the latest tech. spent over $4000.
I've been playing games on pc for nearly 2 decades, this is the 1st
time a game has ruined my drive.
luckily, i had my older drive, which had
win 10..
but ,i will never dl from steam,or websites ever again.
Either i have the disc or buy a Xbox console or something.
I can't afford another $4000, esp being on disability.

Now,if i can find a way to contact steam support, see if they'll
replace my hard drive.

[hurepoix]

Originally posted by rod.rodrod:

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MEA fried my drive.

...

Now,if i can find a way to contact steam support, see if they'll
replace my hard drive.

I lets me between smile and sigh.