Massive Mass Effect 3 Patch Coming Soon

[Sniper Team 4]

Are they going to fix the 'fix' introduced to the Mordin paragon death cutscene?

Spoiler

The one where they removed his half hummed salarian scientist line and replaced it with utterly trite bullshit?

Yeah, I'm not sure what the deal is with that. On my 360 version, I got him doing the first thing. I thought it was a good way for him to go out. Then, when I played my PS3 version, I got him saying that horrible cliche line and went, "Well, that's different." I don't think it's a patch, because I just finished another run on my 360, fully-updated and everything with the game, and he still did the first thing. This, of course, utterly confuses me because both play-throughs of my Shepards are exactly the same on both consoles. The only thing different is that the PS3 version doesn't have a Mass Effect save loaded into ME2 which was then loaded into ME3. So...the only thing that's making him say something different has to do with some random line of code all the way back in Mass Effect?

Anyway, I was excited when I saw this. Then I saw that it's only technical stuff. And my interest collapsed. I liked the little hint that it's setting stuff up for the future, but...maybe they're setting up to cave and make an ending where you 'win' and get your happy ending? That would be something worth my time.

 

[008Zulu_v1legacy]

"It will be our largest patch, and has been in dev. for months. It also sets us up for future... things "

Ummm, what? What "things" would these be?

Fixing the endings might be a bit too much to hope for.

 

[Kungfu_Teddybear]

This is good. Me and my friend have just recently started playing the multiplayer a lot.

 

[Diana Kingston-Gabai]

Ummm, what? What "things" would these be?

At a guess, the Omega DLC they announced a few weeks back...

 

[NinjaDeathSlap]

Are they going to fix the 'fix' introduced to the Mordin paragon death cutscene?

Spoiler

The one where they removed his half hummed salarian scientist line and replaced it with utterly trite bullshit?

Are you sure you didn't just watch a different version of the cut-scene based on you relationship with Mordin that play through? I know one time for me He didn't hum because I'd never had the original conversations with him where he sings back in ME2, but all the times when I have he does the humming in his ME3 death scene.

 

[Diana Kingston-Gabai]

Are they going to fix the 'fix' introduced to the Mordin paragon death cutscene?

Spoiler

The one where they removed his half hummed salarian scientist line and replaced it with utterly trite bullshit?

Yeah, I'm not sure what the deal is with that.

It's quite simple, actually: you have to trigger the Gilbert & Sullivan dialogue in ME2 for him to sing in ME3. Otherwise he uses the same lines given to his replacement.

 

[Ed130 The Vanguard]

Does it remove The Starchild?

Does it remove Origin?

Does it Remove EA?

Unfortunately some things cannot be fixed with a Patch Bioware. But at least you are still working on the game instead of ignoring it.

 

[lancar]

Patch with lots of fixes, eh? Can't really say I care much. As several have already asked: There's still people playing this?

I played through it ages ago back when it was new, finished it and never played it again. Maybe it was the ending that caused that. Felt so empty after seeing it, the mere thought of picking the game up again makes me feel sick. Extended cut DLC be damned, the damage has been done and you never get a chance to re-do a first impression, BW.

Maybe in a couple of years when all the DLC for it has been released I'll give it a go again, but not likely.

 

[teh_Canape]

"- Players can no longer grab Geth Pyros over cover"

 

[Risingblade]

"- Players can no longer grab Geth Pyros over cover"

And this is why bert is glad he stopped playing ME3's MP

 

[Layzor]

Blah blah blah, EA sucks, Blah Blah Blah this game is old and I don't care.

 

[Frostbite3789]

Has EA heard about this?!

Developers spending time fixing games?


Do they even allow that at EA?

I'm surprised there isn't a price tag, it sounds like more effort has gone into this than most of the DLC EA shoves out the door.

Apparently you don't play any EA games actually do you and just like to spout hyperbole because it's fun.

 

[Frostbite3789]

Who really gives a damn?
I know only ONE person who still plays ME3.

I honestly wonder if Bioware even cares.

Wait...that makes the exact opposite of sense.

"We're fixing a bunch of technical issues in the game!" "U DONT EVEN CARE!"

 

[AbstractStream]

Oh, that's nice I guess. Wait a minute...

"- Players can no longer grab Geth Pyros over cover"

This. Exactly this.

 

[Souplex]

"Krogan Vanguard Rage now works properly."
"Fixed the Vanguard bounce bug."
Thank goodness!
Time to wreck shit up!

 

[Xanex]

If it doesn't patch the starchild out of the game, i'm not interested.

 

[RJ 17]

Nothing in there about fixing the Slayer falling out of the map/above the map/all over the place due to it's teleport-dodge...

 

[Animyr]

Aaaaahhhhhh Choooooopatchtheendingooooo!

I mean, great news.

 

[crazyrabbits]

As long as it fixes the weapons in cut scenes problem, there is a perfectly powerful black widow on my back and poof magic avenger or magic predator when I forked out 12 million credits buying the paladin and upgrading it I want to see it in action dammit.

That was in both 2 and 3. They're not going to fix it, because it would take too much work - it's the same as asking why Shepard doesn't get unique cutscenes where s/he uses their class-specific abilities to resolve a situation or save themselves. They won't do it.

The majority of these fixes are multiplayer-based, with a few SP fixes put in just for lipservice. The major stuff (black-screen crashes when booting up the game, the save game file transfer errors) was fixed by the fans months ago. They still haven't fixed the bizarre "broken-neck" animations, nor have they fixed the missing LotSB-specific Liara romance lines, Leviathan bug that removes a couple lines of dialog from the ending, FemShep's missing line on Priority: Earth or the wacky "Low-EMS" Extended-Destroy ending where the nameplate floats in midair if almost all of your squadmates are dead, either.

Too little, too late.

CAPTCHA: make haste!

 

[bl4ckh4wk64]

Damn, there's still so much hate towards ME3, Bioware, and EA. I'm not saying that it's all unfounded, but at some point enough is fucking enough. They did their best trying to appease all the children complaining about the ending, and people are still bitching about it! It really is time to let go and let bygones be bygones. I don't play it as much as I used to, but that's because I have other games at the moment. I'm not still complaining that the original ending was sub-par, which I never really thought to begin with. The simple fact that they made a patch like this shows that Bioware still cares about their fanbase and they want to keep improving their products. Frankly, I've been looking for a reason to go back to ME3, and showing some friends this patch might be good enough to get our whole group together again.