Where are all the Mass Effect fans?
Mass Effect is one of, if not my single favourite franchise. I played Andromeda at launch and was definitely lucky as I only encountered one game breaking bug (could not complete a side mission as crashed the entire time) but I thoroughly enjoyed the game and was disappointed to hear planned DLC/sequels were cancelled. When I first got my Series X in November, it was one of the first games I played and I still enjoyed it then. I played the original trilogy via the recent remaster (all classics) and loved every second of each of them. I always found Mass Effect 3 to be my least favourite but enjoyed the hell out of it this time around (probably cos it aged the best) though the trilogy did dampen my enjoyment of Andromeda for me. I'm now on my third Andromeda playthrough and because the originals are so fresh in my mind, I'm nit-picking a lot of minor but none the less obvious faults. Overall Andromeda is good but that's the issue, it's just good. For those long time fans, what are your thoughts on Andromeda?
Where are all the Mass Effect fans?
Mass Effect is one of, if not my single favourite franchise. I played Andromeda at launch and was definitely lucky as I only encountered one game breaking bug (could not complete a side mission as crashed the entire time) but I thoroughly enjoyed the game and was disappointed to hear planned DLC/sequels were cancelled. When I first got my Series X in November, it was one of the first games I played and I still enjoyed it then. I played the original trilogy via the recent remaster (all classics) and loved every second of each of them. I always found Mass Effect 3 to be my least favourite but enjoyed the hell out of it this time around (probably cos it aged the best) though the trilogy did dampen my enjoyment of Andromeda for me. I'm now on my third Andromeda playthrough and because the originals are so fresh in my mind, I'm nit-picking a lot of minor but none the less obvious faults. Overall Andromeda is good but that's the issue, it's just good. For those long time fans, what are your thoughts on Andromeda?
Where are all the Mass Effect fans?
Mass Effect is one of, if not my single favourite franchise. I played Andromeda at launch and was definitely lucky as I only encountered one game breaking bug (could not complete a side mission as crashed the entire time) but I thoroughly enjoyed the game and was disappointed to hear planned DLC/sequels were cancelled. When I first got my Series X in November, it was one of the first games I played and I still enjoyed it then. I played the original trilogy via the recent remaster (all classics) and loved every second of each of them. I always found Mass Effect 3 to be my least favourite but enjoyed the hell out of it this time around (probably cos it aged the best) though the trilogy did dampen my enjoyment of Andromeda for me. I'm now on my third Andromeda playthrough and because the originals are so fresh in my mind, I'm nit-picking a lot of minor but none the less obvious faults. Overall Andromeda is good but that's the issue, it's just good. For those long time fans, what are your thoughts on Andromeda?
E-sports on the border of breakthrough?
Yesterday I did watch for the first time an e-sports competition. Due to the lack of real sports activity, the sports pay channel I have did broadcast 2 F1 e-sports competitions. First they did broadcast a F1 exhibition race, between real F1 e-sports drivers. Don't be fooled, some of these drivers do earn more in one year than we will earn in 10+ years. After that the main event was served. A virtual GP of China, driven in F1 2019 from ea sports. The line up was a mix of real F1 racers, real racers from other or lower competitions and some more known people, like Real goalie Courtois and Ciro Immobile. With nothing else on the TV I did see the complete GP, which had 28 laps (50% of a real race). And there were some great things and some things which could be improved. Some images did gave you the idea that you were watching a real F1 race. Others clearly indicated that it was a sim. But hey have you ever seen an interview with a f1 driver live during a GP? Well in the e-sports variant this is possible, which gives it an extra dimension. The minor things were some unclear time penalties during the qualification, which makes it hard to understand. When in a real qualification a time penalty would have been given, lots of footage would have been available. Also during the race some drivers did get one of more 3 seconds time penalties after multiple warning and not respecting the track limits. But also here no prove available. Which also was a set back, it that when you are going the lap a car, you can just drive through it?? I can understand the idea behind it, but this will never happen in real life! I know that the setting can be altered so that damage would 100% of the real damage and would mean a DNF, while in this situation only a netwerk or computer problem would result in a DNF. But I did enjoy this 1.5 hour broadcast. It was better than nothing and can't wait until thet will broadcast a FIFA tournament or so! Cheers, Peter
E-sports on the border of breakthrough?
Yesterday I did watch for the first time an e-sports competition. Due to the lack of real sports activity, the sports pay channel I have did broadcast 2 F1 e-sports competitions. First they did broadcast a F1 exhibition race, between real F1 e-sports drivers. Don't be fooled, some of these drivers do earn more in one year than we will earn in 10+ years. After that the main event was served. A virtual GP of China, driven in F1 2019 from ea sports. The line up was a mix of real F1 racers, real racers from other or lower competitions and some more known people, like Real goalie Courtois and Ciro Immobile. With nothing else on the TV I did see the complete GP, which had 28 laps (50% of a real race). And there were some great things and some things which could be improved. Some images did gave you the idea that you were watching a real F1 race. Others clearly indicated that it was a sim. But hey have you ever seen an interview with a f1 driver live during a GP? Well in the e-sports variant this is possible, which gives it an extra dimension. The minor things were some unclear time penalties during the qualification, which makes it hard to understand. When in a real qualification a time penalty would have been given, lots of footage would have been available. Also during the race some drivers did get one of more 3 seconds time penalties after multiple warning and not respecting the track limits. But also here no prove available. Which also was a set back, it that when you are going the lap a car, you can just drive through it?? I can understand the idea behind it, but this will never happen in real life! I know that the setting can be altered so that damage would 100% of the real damage and would mean a DNF, while in this situation only a netwerk or computer problem would result in a DNF. But I did enjoy this 1.5 hour broadcast. It was better than nothing and can't wait until thet will broadcast a FIFA tournament or so! Cheers, Peter
E-sports on the border of breakthrough?
Yesterday I did watch for the first time an e-sports competition. Due to the lack of real sports activity, the sports pay channel I have did broadcast 2 F1 e-sports competitions. First they did broadcast a F1 exhibition race, between real F1 e-sports drivers. Don't be fooled, some of these drivers do earn more in one year than we will earn in 10+ years. After that the main event was served. A virtual GP of China, driven in F1 2019 from ea sports. The line up was a mix of real F1 racers, real racers from other or lower competitions and some more known people, like Real goalie Courtois and Ciro Immobile. With nothing else on the TV I did see the complete GP, which had 28 laps (50% of a real race). And there were some great things and some things which could be improved. Some images did gave you the idea that you were watching a real F1 race. Others clearly indicated that it was a sim. But hey have you ever seen an interview with a f1 driver live during a GP? Well in the e-sports variant this is possible, which gives it an extra dimension. The minor things were some unclear time penalties during the qualification, which makes it hard to understand. When in a real qualification a time penalty would have been given, lots of footage would have been available. Also during the race some drivers did get one of more 3 seconds time penalties after multiple warning and not respecting the track limits. But also here no prove available. Which also was a set back, it that when you are going the lap a car, you can just drive through it?? I can understand the idea behind it, but this will never happen in real life! I know that the setting can be altered so that damage would 100% of the real damage and would mean a DNF, while in this situation only a netwerk or computer problem would result in a DNF. But I did enjoy this 1.5 hour broadcast. It was better than nothing and can't wait until thet will broadcast a FIFA tournament or so! Cheers, Peter