Amazing. I had assumed they had used mo cap due their extensive use of it in other areas and because the animations are really quite excellent. I was almost prepared to give Bioware some slack because Polish mo cap is far less expensive than american/canadian.They can look "too real" sometimes like a real face slapped onto a low-poly character.
Did Witcher 3 use mocap? I don't think so.
They did use Motion Capture. However, CD Projekt came up with a way to make the majority of it by "algorithm" and other tweaking tools so they didn't need to motion capture every dialogue scene (an article about it). And also a separate article for the 7,000 more animations they made for DLC over a year.
The “algorithm” or “generator” as we call it, was used only as a solid base for further development of the scene. It was a shortcut, a tool, but never a goal. More of a production-related thing. It created a rough first pass through a scene, which was always tweaked and adjusted by hand - in all 1463 dialogues. In many, the algorithm wasn't used at all, as they demanded custom approach from the very beginning.
Every cinematic dialogue was approached with the same care, attention and goal - to create the most compelling and emotional scene for given quest and story. Only this way, the characters could ring true and players would want to invest in them, to understand them, to help or condemn them. When they act like humans, not voiceover-delivery machines. Achieving this is a deliberate, careful process.
Bioware backed by EA's loads of cash was unable to achieve a "deliberate careful process" like CD Projekt. Interesting indeed.
I hate this. Every game is a "potential".There was potential.
I just wanna ask everyone who made this game two questions: Have you seen a human?
The funny part is that they shut down their forums where they could delete/lock threads. Now we can troll them to no end and as long as we don't violate twitter rules, all they can do it block us.God, I am having a blast laughing at this game and trolling the devs on Twitter over what a POS they made. This game really is the gift that keeps on giving.
Trial, indeed.
3 day one patches
It's at least 2.3 GB.
Here’s what’s included with Mass Effect Andromeda update 1.01, 1.02, and 1.03 on PS4:
Version 1.01Version 1.02
- Improvements to Strike Teams UI screens
- Additional multiplayer tutorials implemented
- Balance: guns, loot drops, reward packs, objectives scoring
- Improved appearance of character portraits
- Adds new artwork for MP characters, armor, challenges in menu and codex entries
- Improvements to many cinematics, conversations, and other character interactions
- Improvements to quest tracking and waypoints
- Improved quest rewards
- Fixes various collision issues and a few rare audio issues
- Performance improvements
Version 1.03
- Quest balancing
- Various bug fixes and stability improvements
Read more at Mass Effect Andromeda Update 1.03, PS4 Pre-Load Live
- Various bug fixes and stability improvements
What some random person did in Reddit:
Five fucking years.
What some random person did in Reddit:
Five fucking years.
What some random person did in Reddit:
Five fucking years.
hello darkness my old friend
what do you mean by facegen? Algorithm-generated facial animations?Is there a game with facegen in this console generation that doesn't look bad? I wonder if peoples expectations from shit like Uncharted 4 and RE7 have made it so facegen-compatible heads can't hang in there at the edge of acceptability anymore like they could on Xbox360 shit.
Games where the player is able to make the character's face/head possibly body in a creator, where I assume the facial animations and stuff have to be made more generic than some guy at Naughty Dog poring over Uncharted Man's face for days to get his sneer right.
Her neck is crooked.Black Desert Online exists.
Bioware is just incompetent.
Her neck is crooked.Black Desert Online exists.
Bioware is just incompetent.
2/10
...still would.
Our memes have become so powerful they have forced Ben Kuchera and Polygon to tell the truth and Meme them
Mass Effect: Andromeda’s character animations continue to be mocked online
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This is not the good kind of pre-release buzz
http://archive.is/RZVij
This is the main page if you dare look where he actually shows the memes
http://www.polygon.com/2017/3/16/14944840/mass-effect-andromeda-animations-final