Ever since I bought mass effect 3 around a month or so ago. I've been having a lot of issues with the game. These issues are found only at multiplayer for the time being, haven't even touched the singleplayer till I replay my character throught the prequels.
Let me start this long list by a little question.
- Why oh why does the game have so many pausings? Let's say I want to go from windows to a multiplayer game with my friends. First up the game loads, then it pauses to connect to Ea online, then it pauses to check the dlc, then it loads for a moment. getting into character screen followed by a communication pause and yet another loading screen. I have a pretty beast of a computer if I may say so, loading times aren't long but it is starting to bother me. Is this due to the limitations of consoles these days?
Now the bugs, these things chew throught the enjoyment quite fast. They are not that serious but they do come in a bunch.
- Connection problems.
Oh brother, where do I even start? Well I've been having issues ranging from outright disconnections to synchronizing problems within the game itself. These mean that my friend was laughing at my toon on the other side of the map while it seemed to be in cover and running at the same time looking like a midget with overgrown limps and an attitude problem. While I, in my screen atleast, was shooting at a Geth prime wondering why it's shields don't take any damage and it seems to shoot me past every piece of cover there is.
Outside the game, communication with Origin and EA servers is like trusting a stone drunk bum with no education at all to build you a space shuttle, it never ever works and when it does, god it fails quickly. These errors manifest themselves also in the form of "You cannot join your friend's game because you do not have the same version." Or "Couldn't authenticate Resurgence dlc" etc etc. The store? Yeah it works about 20% of the time.
- And the bugs? Well aside from the allready mentioned bunch I've been having issues related to the menu screens in particular character leveling and equipment managing. The decision you've made are not apparently good enought for the game since you have to rebuild the talent trees up from scratch and choose the equipment again. Now I know these decisions don't save when the game launches while you're doing them atleast the equipment won't.
- Shields taking no damage thing is -very-
frequent, in fact you can replicate it in many maps by taking cover and
shooting at opponents in low angles an exelent map for this kind of
testing is the Firebase something. You know the elevated white tunnel
thing in the middle where everyone huddles up all the time? Try shooting from inside it at something outside. In a low downward angle, the bullets seem to hit the enemy (the shield indicator flashes) but no damage comes out.
Oh and yea, they do happen inside the game aswell. For example the proximity mine pistol doohickey, seems to have issues when shooting at a point between an enemy's boot and the floor when snotball just vanishes. Works with walls too.
sidenote: The heck is up with the weapons? Some rip everything apart without you even pulling a trigger, others in the same class don't work on a single weak enemy without taping the trigger down and going for a coffee. When you come back the thing just might be dead. And even that doesn't work due to the accuracy of these particular weapons. Were the sights invented by a Batarian with every eye pointing in different direction?
Heavy melee sometimes bugs when taking fire and exitting cover, causing all of your melee attacks be the sort of "Exit standing cover, weak slap with the barrel" type things which make your krogan look like a wuss, and be utterly useless in melee.
Oh and before I finnish my ragerants for today I'd like to wonder a moment about the space bar thing. Did the consoles run out of buttons while I wasn't looking, why is everything in the same one? Trying to revive your squad mate, at a tight spot, using cover instead of ladder or a objective. At best it is like a lottery with two options. "Do or Die." Unfortunately it always seems to be the latter one.
/ragerant
Bloodboil,
Signing off.
Ps. Game repaired and reinstalled throught Origin, network seems to be fine with every other game there is (Including, tribes ascend, mw2, battlefield 3, World of warcraft, league of legends, you get the idea.)
Modifié par Bboil, 16 avril 2012 - 06:22 .
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