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@neocalypso: I don't remember where Brad stopped, but I think it's more or less the same point.

@sackmanjones: You get stopped at a certain point in the story on the second planet, but you can faff around on the planet for the full 10 hours if you want to, not that I would recommend that, unless you want to turn ME:A into Dragon Age Inquisition before it's even out :)

Clarification

Overall Conclusion: Okay Mass Effect 3 spin-off, bad if you are looking for a 2017 game.

Overall Visuals: ME3 with some upgrades, the upgrades attempted on Human faces were a mistake.

Character Visuals: Aliens seem fine, but the Humans look anywhere between terrible to fine.

Terrain/Environs: Environments look pretty good, and the new alien designs are interesting. Especially the not so ancient Ancient structures.

Gameplay: ME3 with some minor changes, Ammo mods are not back(as I had assumed from the stream I had seen)

they are the MP consumables brought into SP. Jetpack is fun to use.

Framerate/Settings: 45-60 FPS High(Autodetect)

Problems: Depth of Field issues resulting in conversation backgrounds looking like garbage even when relatively close to you.

And faces sometimes being out of focus instead of the background.

Animations being janky or not playing in conversations. Sometimes resulting in T-poses.Weird postures and walking animations,

could be a result of the new movement system, animations look more natural on uneven surfaces.

**EDIT**

The UI is terrible in the same way as the other Mass Effect Games, same goes for the Character Creator.

**2EDIT2**

Echoing voices in conversations(Talking to Nyx in her room)

**3EDIT3**

Forgot to mention the 'travel time' between objects in the system and cluster view. It's already getting REALLY annoying.

PC Specs

Good Luck with VICE Gaming.

May you have fair winds and following seas.

Also VICE is only a URL away, not like you're dropping of the planet.

And don't be a stranger.

Biggest assholes I've met in the DZ so far are the people who don't check their goddamn fire and accidentally go rogue because of it.

There are also some people who clearly try to make you go rogue by getting in your line of fire.

Really excited about this.

AS for Hearthstone, it was silly and clearly a test. But ultimately required for most major mods.

Unfortunate that the Vault Dweller is a voiced character, but Bethesda always royally fuck up something.

Hopefully the rest of the game is a masterpiece.

Well everything, but the crafting and base building in particular.

Settler RTS, Wasteland Settler and Tundra Defense never got completed. Atleast this base building system will be complete and moddable by other modders.

My thoughts are with his family and friends, hopefully he recovers.

Damn, we should have anticipated MooEar being infectious...

Congrats Brad and Cate :D