I'm back from PAX (and waiting for EA Helpdesk to call me to do the same thing alhazred did, heh) so I thought I'd write up my meager experience
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RE: PAX East round-up_citanulMarch 15 2017, 00:47:29 UTC
Whoo! Glad to hear you had a fun experience with the MP! Which kit did you try out? I honestly can't wait to get into it. I think I'll use the 10 hours for exploring the MP, and then focus more on the campaign after launch. Hope to see you online, maybe we can try a match together! :)
Oh, also did you go the Andromeda panel that was livestreamed? I didn't get a chance to watch it and was wondering if there was anything of interest mentioned?
Re: PAX East round-uptersaMarch 15 2017, 15:26:05 UTC
Which kit did you try out?
I can't remember what it was called now lol. The available kits changed every day; what I remember about my kit was its powers (Pull, Throw, and Lance) and a comment on the description that it may be or is an ultra-rare one. Sigh. :)
I honestly can't wait to get into it. I think I'll use the 10 hours for exploring the MP, and then focus more on the campaign after launch.
Same! So if/when I manage to get the game pre-downloaded, I'll look for you (although by the time I get it dl'ed, you may have used up your 10 hours lol).
Oh, also did you go the Andromeda panel that was livestreamed?I did! Nothing earthshaking was mentioned (not like a few years ago when Mike Laidlaw used PAX East as an opportunity to announce Cullen as a romance option for DAI haha). The one possible tidbit of note was discovering Cathleen Rootsaert, who was one of the writers in ME3 (responsible for Kaidan), is now a Lead Writer for MEA. Between her, Jo Berry, Ann Lemay, and Courtney Woods, we had some good female representation
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RE: Re: PAX East round-up_citanulMarch 15 2017, 16:32:20 UTC
Pull, Throw and Lance sounds like the Human Kineticist. The pics I saw indeed had it labelled as an ultra-rare. What was Lance like? It looks awesome in the little video clips.
Is it weird that I'm kind of looking forward to building up my manifest from scratch? It'll be so awesome to start fresh with new weapons and level 1 kits. I wonder if the new N7HQ will launch with the trial or on Tuesday.
(although by the time I get it dl'ed, you may have used up your 10 hours lol) Nah, life has been pretty crazy for me since January! I'm going to start downloading it tonight, but I really doubt I'll be able to play it until Thursday evening... And maybe then only for 1 hour... I'm hoping to get a longer stretch in Friday night or Saturday, so I may see you around then!
Between her, Jo Berry, Ann Lemay, and Courtney Woods, we had some good female representation within the writing team.
Re: PAX East round-uptersaMarch 15 2017, 16:47:07 UTC
Yes! That was it. I knew there was an 'ist' in the name, but I couldn't remember the first part. :)
I didn't really notice Lance looking any different than other biotic attacks, but that may have been the heat of battle blurring my perceptions lol.
Yes, it is weird. ;)
Downloading it tonight? Ack! I should double check my Origin, there was some weirdness yesterday after I cancelled my original pre-order where my game library was showing both my original pre-order and my re-order, and even the re-order was saying I couldn't download it until Friday.
Plus, I have the world's shittiest network, so I'm not even sure if I'll be done dl'ing by Friday. :P
RE: Re: PAX East round-up_citanulMarch 15 2017, 18:40:05 UTC
The trial version was a separate thing I added to my game library. There are two Andromeda's sitting there currently, my preorder which says: "Windows pre-load date: March 17, 2017 1:00 PM EDT Windows release date: March 21, 2017 12:00 AM EDT"
and the trial, which it says: "Enjoy up to 10 hours of trial time Windows pre-load date: March 15, 2017 5:30 PM EDT Windows release date: March 15, 2017 5:30 PM EDT"
Even the EA Community Manager saw the issue. He's "been assured" it should go live at the appropriate time, which may or may not be in 11 minutes for me, so I guess I'll see! :P
Re: PAX East round-uptersaMarch 16 2017, 01:37:10 UTC
It says playable at 42%, which is something I hadn't even considered!
I wonder if they're using some flavor of bit raider...SWTOR uses it for newly default downloads, and allows for a similar 'play as it downloads' experience. (It's also a POS, so I hope it's not the same. XD)
Mine is downloading as well! And for anyone who doubts when I talk about my shitty internet:
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Oh, also did you go the Andromeda panel that was livestreamed? I didn't get a chance to watch it and was wondering if there was anything of interest mentioned?
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I can't remember what it was called now lol. The available kits changed every day; what I remember about my kit was its powers (Pull, Throw, and Lance) and a comment on the description that it may be or is an ultra-rare one. Sigh. :)
I honestly can't wait to get into it. I think I'll use the 10 hours for exploring the MP, and then focus more on the campaign after launch.
Same! So if/when I manage to get the game pre-downloaded, I'll look for you (although by the time I get it dl'ed, you may have used up your 10 hours lol).
Oh, also did you go the Andromeda panel that was livestreamed?I did! Nothing earthshaking was mentioned (not like a few years ago when Mike Laidlaw used PAX East as an opportunity to announce Cullen as a romance option for DAI haha). The one possible tidbit of note was discovering Cathleen Rootsaert, who was one of the writers in ME3 (responsible for Kaidan), is now a Lead Writer for MEA. Between her, Jo Berry, Ann Lemay, and Courtney Woods, we had some good female representation ( ... )
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Is it weird that I'm kind of looking forward to building up my manifest from scratch? It'll be so awesome to start fresh with new weapons and level 1 kits. I wonder if the new N7HQ will launch with the trial or on Tuesday.
(although by the time I get it dl'ed, you may have used up your 10 hours lol)
Nah, life has been pretty crazy for me since January! I'm going to start downloading it tonight, but I really doubt I'll be able to play it until Thursday evening... And maybe then only for 1 hour... I'm hoping to get a longer stretch in Friday night or Saturday, so I may see you around then!
Between her, Jo Berry, Ann Lemay, and Courtney Woods, we had some good female representation within the writing team.
That's awesome! Fingers crossed here as well!
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I didn't really notice Lance looking any different than other biotic attacks, but that may have been the heat of battle blurring my perceptions lol.
Yes, it is weird. ;)
Downloading it tonight? Ack! I should double check my Origin, there was some weirdness yesterday after I cancelled my original pre-order where my game library was showing both my original pre-order and my re-order, and even the re-order was saying I couldn't download it until Friday.
Plus, I have the world's shittiest network, so I'm not even sure if I'll be done dl'ing by Friday. :P
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"Windows pre-load date: March 17, 2017 1:00 PM EDT
Windows release date: March 21, 2017 12:00 AM EDT"
and the trial, which it says:
"Enjoy up to 10 hours of trial time
Windows pre-load date: March 15, 2017 5:30 PM EDT
Windows release date: March 15, 2017 5:30 PM EDT"
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(ETA): Oh, wait, I googled and found an EA Help post about it. Checking now (fingers crossed X )
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http://answers.ea.com/t5/Technical-Issues/Andromeda-Free-Trial-Missing/td-p/5917832#
Even the EA Community Manager saw the issue. He's "been assured" it should go live at the appropriate time, which may or may not be in 11 minutes for me, so I guess I'll see! :P
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It's 44GB, for those curious.
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I wonder if they're using some flavor of bit raider...SWTOR uses it for newly default downloads, and allows for a similar 'play as it downloads' experience. (It's also a POS, so I hope it's not the same. XD)
Mine is downloading as well! And for anyone who doubts when I talk about my shitty internet:
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