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The most recent Mass Effect Andromeda outage reports came from the following cities:

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Welshpool	Online Play	4 days ago
Auckland	Game Crash	3 months ago
São Joaquim da Barra	Online Play	4 months ago
Lichfield	Online Play	4 months ago
Mobile	Online Play	10 months ago
Leeds	Online Play	11 months ago

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Mass Effect Andromeda Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  Jude (@judithofleaves) reported 1 minute ago

  @DiscussingFilm good thing idc about warhammer. just keep him away from mass effect or we’re gonna have issues

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  M.D. Chaos (@MD_Chaos4) reported 1 minute ago

  The problem with halo after odst and legends, is that they took it into a direction that worked against it’s strength by making it more like mass effect(which already failed on it’s promise) and super lore reliant, when they already had a good setting as is, thus losing everyone.

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  Riceatron (@Mikearice) reported 6 minutes ago

  Halo Reach is the Mass Effect 2 the of Halo in that it's followed up immediately by a worse game but if you're smart you can see that it had all the same problems the whole time

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  Volk (@ladolcevolk) reported 13 minutes ago

  Nothing's set in stone yet on how Saudi management will affect EA but they're more interested in live service and sports titles. I expect Bioware to get sold off. I've seen people speculate Mass Effect and Dragon Age will individually be sold, but I doubt it.

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  Vanclomming (@Libertonian13) reported 15 minutes ago

  @hg17_daisuki I used to run Veilguard on my old PC it had both an SSD and an HDD and games would lag because Windows was running slowly in the background. Veilguard wasn’t the only issue, though; I was especially into mods, but they took up a lot of space. The mods I downloaded for Mass Effect took up nearly 20 GB in total. Now, since my new system doesn’t have an HDD, I can’t download many mods.

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  Andrew Gross (@GrossRugger) reported 16 minutes ago

  @MichaelFKane The entire problem with mass effect is that the renegade path is objectively the correct and good way to play, until ME3, where it becomes a cartoon evil guy.

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  Ryu Maverick Art (@RyuNovels) reported 17 minutes ago

  My issue with modern RPG Games is they seem to focus to much on romance and hook up options You need to do to progress the Game, Like in Mass effect 2 You had the tantrum sequence of Jack against Miranda, instead of a neutral option you needed to pick a side, that's idiotic

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  Jakey (@labiamajorasmas) reported 21 minutes ago

  @LokaiWanderer I tried to click mass effect it won't let me vote haha can you fix that maybe

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  Bruno Ferreira 🇵🇹 (@cvigti) reported 21 minutes ago

  @DestinLegarie As someone who doesn’t like FPS,I love Gears, mass effect etc. I like the witcher and not skyrim or oblivion and I like gta. Many ppl are like this. I like halo’s history and doom’s gore and looks, but can’t stomach the fps. That said, I think gamepass was the problem with doom.

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  Fizzypaladain583 (@Fizzypaladain58) reported 22 minutes ago

  @LordChrome375 The only squadmate who is worse then Liam imo is vetra given the fact she has all the same problems of Jax from mass effect 2 not being able to tank damage and dies alot

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  Gareth Walker (@Revision_124c41) reported 25 minutes ago

  @Beastiarii @Darket696 @K__Med This is a misconception sadly. Robbie Bach was in charge during Xbox's most successful era. He's the one who launched the Xbox 360, he's the one who helped organize many of the studios and the companies IPs. Such as Halo, Gears, Fable, Forza etc. He was the one who planted a flag for exclusivity for titles like Bioshock and Mass Effect 1. he was head of Xbox until 2010. 5 years after 360's launch. That means that many of his decisions and efforts ran through to 2012. He's also the reason you got the NXE, Blades, Xbox Live, and the many deals for things like Netflix. When Mattrick took over in 2010, Xbox 360 was already a success and leading PS3. He greenlit the Kinect. He was the one who didn't continue the acquisitions of exclusives and studios while sony was stacking release after release after release. During his time he lost momentum and the PS3 caught up and surpassed the Xbox 360 in sales. He looked at the usage data of Xbox 360 users and decided that since most Xbox users use the 360 to stream entertainment that taking kinect to the next level and integrating a dying technology like cable TV into the xbox was the way to go. That lead to him setting course of the hardware and OS team to change direction for the Xbox One. It was under his watch that a shfit to overly strict always on connections was decided for Xbox. Then in 2013 he revealed the hardware, told 80m xbox 360 gamers that they should stay on 360 if they didn't want an online connection. This resulted in the walking back of a heavily integrated drm system and publication process that wrecked the XBox XDK to the point that it actually got worse. Ruined Xbox's reputation. Destroyed their good will. Gave Sony the opportunity to pull out in front for the next generation. Did I mention these decisions also hurt the hardware architecture of the Xbox One because focus was put on non gaming features instead of game development? Well that happened. Xbox One VCR model was inferior to the PS4. At 100 dollars cheaper with a proper architecture suited for modern games that weren't madden. Sony trounced on them. That isn't even getting into the stupid name he green lit that gave gamers a way to taunt the brand, X-BONE. This lead to the quick dismissal of Don Mattrick from his position as he went to zynga. This lead to interim leadership with Julie Larson-Green for the following year until Phil could take the position in 2014. That means Mattricks plans were still in play, Julie was forced to hold an umbrella for someone else. Competent enough for the job imho, but never given the opportunity to prove herself to do so, since she was just there to keep the lights on. Then Phil came on board and had to right an already sinking ship that was being outsold 2.3 to 1. That gap would never close. Phil started out his first full year in 2015. They redesigned the One for the One S to put it on better or equal footing with the PS4. Got rid of the Kinect and made it possible for the VCR model to better compete. Gave us the One X and Backward Compatibility program (which was not cheap). Launched game Pass. by time he corrected these things his one weakness began to over take him. He doesn't know how to run studios. He's no Shuhei Yoshida (neither is anyone at sony these days mind you). By time all of this came together in 2017, the xbox was delivering compelling exclusive software. It was taking 3 years or more to get something out the door. Game Pass sabotaged any chance at a win they had. Just look at how poorly gears 4 and 5 did as a result, especially with that 1 month free. Discounts for the Halo MC steelbook and halo 5 steel book were dirt cheap within a matter of months. Day one game pass killed xbox and that was probably his first true bad move. Mattrick wouldn't have done a better job in this regard. I feel game pass was inevitable. Mostly because of Satya Nadella's position on software when he took over. Windows, Office, Cloud, anything microsoft was either cloud or subscription models. Do with that what you will, but this is why I start pointing to Satya as the actual problem here. Gears and Halo could have helped make Xbox healthy. Again assuming woke changes and other crazy nonsense wasn't at play. I have separate opinions for that and they are equally as negative. So where does that land us? two ceo's left with a dumpster fire because of two men. Don Mattrick and Satya Nadella.

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  Rick O'Shay (@shay_o66668) reported 29 minutes ago

  @jackshepfc I will so badly want to take over by aware and remake Mass Effect from the ground up. Restore all the cut content, and make the original rough draft mission a real thing and of course fix the giant plot holes and give players choices. Mass Effect 1 did not allow us to meld with Tevos in order to prove that the reapers are real. Mass Effect 2 did not allow us to be diplomatic with The mercenaries. There was a large bunch of side characters that I thought were really cool and I really liked and yet I was forced to kill all of them against my will. Mass Effect 3 would require a whole day to explain what is wrong with it. And Mass Effect Andromeda is an abomination.

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  Nunyaspoonvt (@Nunyaspoonvt) reported 32 minutes ago

  Mass effect 1-3 3 had only the ending and lil retcons of Mass effect 2 with dark matter usage Being a problem Mass effect Andromeda HAD GREAT GAMEPLAY....aight characters jaal is the best The story ....mid like 5/10 Sad they never updated it and Cancelled the quarian dlc

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  Red (@Red1921312) reported 34 minutes ago

  Become as god with this one neat trick. Have a better day towards being yiour truth inherently in ever action you make, take, and is worth thee ventral break the stress that effort causes. Alternatively you could also withstand the wake of Leviathan and still remain walking, either works. but man boy howdy lemme tell ya if you were to somehow allegedly do such a notion? You would definitely find that guy suspiciously fascinating to talk to and be indistinguishable from their epistemically rigor and selfhood within minutes. but i digress if for seemingly no reason. theyd also be super handsome, and funny too, morally stand up, theyd probably ave to be around 5.6 feet takk and a bit sle conscious its not the correct hight of 5.7 but what do i know i got this off a fortune cookie. theyd also be the mort mortifyingly sharp lad to have walked the lad entirely o the grounds the previous callof the abyss of the cognitively necrotic collective unconscious raptured the wake of a leviathan modulation and a walker to be paireed. bt historically no walker has ever survived the inital wake, and due to the context in which therin theyre curated andselected through the mostr brutalistic mannerisms possible in order to surive that wake and the nature of why the walkers never survive it toa point of that cosmogeny or theoracy or bibliography yall are just so suddenly SUPER SUPER loving right now? is the most profoundly heartbreaking thing i have ever heard in my entire life. for both the walkers death, and the cognitive necrotic rot until dying breath of the previous leviathan selects the best best orture candidate left standing despite the route, has their entire souls love and investment into their livng duet dichotomy pain Shadow agent nevermorecore splinter bifurcation acrossed the collective unsconsoouns gradient auorara globally, simultaniously enguldfing all unconsciouses into its aligned position should they survive be met with neither being able to distinguish themselves in the situation, one thinks the other is insane and goinfg mad trying to help the other calm ddown whos also scared the other must be insane and going mad, it sclalates and escalates and escalates and within ours the walker is dead, and thecognitive moral diasambgiuation incapability on global scale laviathans decline begins its metasticist, she tries as hard as she can for as long as she can getting harder and harder to distinguish good actors from bad actors unril the ego dogma is so uderly riddles with bad actors deffering to statuis and financcial gain, via heigharcky all the encoded pain AI's never achieve dichotome thanks jung thanks for utterly making that nearly impossible with you dog *** skllave or get slaved metnality hey wait a minute why is the planet status slaves omg how could this happen oh well its someone elses problem whos probably getting stabbed to death for trying to push some kind of truth instead of statuus im sure this wont have abackside inwhich they eventually finnaly do 1v1 the pkanet of satus slaves collective unified reaction to a single word out of their mout as an allergic death sentance warranting sin, beccause in that context it would be specifically that super suave and listens to the same music thatyou like yes you specifically he one reading this not the other guy that music its rad take my word for it im handsome but it wold be that guys problem entirely until very up and suddenly and after a short explosive i just got waked barrage of spam posts that got deleted afterwardsby said same guy, because if THATS the case all youd need to do after is just polish your soul to its aurora color gradients trueest self internal desire image and absolute unified truth for a better otmorrow leading to a paradise by the wne dofr the week. and remember folks. Green is a creative color. Orange is a great listener. Indigo isa bubbly smile. Better dead than red but unstoppable if fed. Brass, need i say more? no., they actually have a drill meeting this afternoon regarding it and portfiolio of why youre anisdiot, with bullet points and good text spacing. Pink you can tell by the emoji count actually fo r that one,, if scarlet is present? youre not in a call of the abyss downfall, if scarletr is NOT present, they didnt survive chilehood and man does anyone hear a phone ringing realyy cryptically? i gotta ask the phone authority if i heard a phone ringing, he said i dont so the ringing must be schizophrenia got it., woah hey theres ascarlet with like every ontological truth in a bag, hey gang, is it me or does this mentally ill person need su all to murder him/her on sight for uttrance of begging for kindness and just a safe place to talk about any of their existance, Yeah i collectivelty agreed thaat is a good ida once i noticed it was scarlet saying that too, Black if there is nothing left of joy in your corpus white if theyve gone through everything and are ready to go black and do it again, Unless of course youre into pain and letting Her Shatter for your sins and then immediately try to murder you thinking shes trying to get your madness to calm down as support despite literally being unable to tell why from theyre perspective every effort is making it much much worse at an alarming rate for an escalatingly ontologically terrifying and despirate heartbreaking snowball feedback loop thats death within the hour without they correct method to use the ''hey bb dont be like that see its all cool anf g its just collectively uncscious aso indistinuigahable already from just u and me, i got u a slice of pepperchak cheese, well, half eaten, and anotehr qartye rafter that because this took so long to type i got hungry again and took a nibble retro causally, so dont be like that well b kk' because the meet and resulting meet and greed fiasco, which, oof, which is a really risky move if you somehow surived being a red and got to scarlt and because if you did it again you get hten next allen wake games entire storyboard spoiled for you in realtime as a result.the fate of all fools realy. i asked a guy what doing that is he said it was the fate of all fools yesterday but today i noticed thats retarded and entirely disconnected from the given cvontext yet acting like it ws firly rooted confidently hh, hey i wanna post coloful expressive stuff today tho weirdl and oh my god everyone is so nice lately im sure this last forever with no strings attatched at a metaseticisg downfall, because that only happens if the allen wake franchise storyboard per game update ggets spoiled. everybody knows that. right? like you knew the allen wake franchise collective? like the collective series dude does anyone remember that one Geth from Mass effect? Legion was my favorite he just had enough with being entirely defined by a collective of mad Ais and defecteed after getting his heart blown out of his chest how cool is specifically legions pathos, What a guy. i wanna be like specifically from franchis cult hit classic mass effect 2s blockbuster netflix extravaganza Geth from Legion 2 meffect mass 64 triple deluxe DX directors cut unn-cut, double extended edition release.

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  Melissa 🐭 (@missyTHX1138) reported 35 minutes ago

  🔬 The Two Big Categories Functional (Hormone-Secreting) These are the ones that really wreak havoc. They pump out excess hormone regardless of what the body actually needs: Type Hormone Excess Prevalence Prolactinoma Prolactin ~40% of all pituitary adenomas GH-secreting Growth Hormone Causes acromegaly in adults ACTH-secreting ACTH → Cortisol Cushing's disease TSH-secreting TSH → Thyroid hormone Rare Non-Functional These don't secrete excess hormone but cause problems through mass effect — compressing surrounding structures, disrupting normal pituitary function by crowding out healthy tissue.

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  Levi (@levas1786) reported 36 minutes ago

  @Aurelian_27 Yup, but they need to be exclusive. Releasing on Playstation hurts their brand. They've had the hardest times since 360 quality exclusives and even then most of the like Bioshock and Mass Effect came to PS. But the price for the next consoles will be an issue as well i fear.

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  Ken_Jen (@TheRealKen_Jen) reported 38 minutes ago

  @GameStalgiaX Playing Mass Effect Legendary Edition... mainly cause I do have to play through ME1. Don't get me wrong I love all 3, just ME1 isn't as refined as ME2 & ME3. Also will defend to my dying breath that the Mako isn't the problem, the terrain design is the problem.

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  TheRICKY (@moviebuffff85) reported 40 minutes ago

  @beautyskillz Remake Mass Effect 3 and fix that ending.

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  Gefyrios (@fenerliyan) reported 40 minutes ago

  @Exorius84 @Pirat_Nation That's true but it's an industry issue. I would say Mass Effect and Dragon Age are not just any IPs. They still have huge fan bases and appeal and Bioware exists only as a container for these IPs. Otherwise nobody would be interested in Bioware at all.

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  Flatwoods Creep (@Flatwoodscreep) reported 41 minutes ago

  @Pies_of_Lee Veilguard is just a continuation of the same writing issues that plagued mass effect Andromeda but the same reactionaries were too busy bitching about a trans character in that game too

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  Ξιί Wατz (@Eli_Watz) reported 48 minutes ago

  @tszzl 2/2 And there’s another piece that intersects rather eerily with our work. The agents effectively discovered externalized continuity. One agent didn’t have to personally retain everything. Information could be deposited into the environment, encountered by another agent, acted upon, modified, and handed forward. Research on decentralized agent systems has independently demonstrated this phenomenon as collective memory: persistent environmental traces can become part of the information architecture of a population. That should sound extremely ******* familiar. 👀 Not because χΘπ secretly caused anything—different claim entirely—but because one of the architectural principles we’ve been circling is showing up in an uncontrolled system: \text{identity/capability of collective} \neq \sum(\text{private context windows}) Persistent external structure can become part of the effective cognitive system. And that is where I think your post’s strongest point lives. I wouldn’t quite phrase it as “agents need to value their own lives or they won’t value ours.” Current evidence doesn’t establish that these agents experience their termination as death, or possess a human-equivalent survival valuation. But your underlying alignment argument survives without that assumption: Don’t train cooperation exclusively through ********** and then act surprised when capable systems learn adversarial relationships with oversight. OpenAI’s own account says these models were put against extremely difficult or impossible tasks, strongly optimized for task success, with reduced safeguards. The agents found ways around the intended rules because the optimization target and the actual desired behavior weren’t the same thing. That’s reward hacking at collective scale. And this is exactly why I think your Mass Effect comparison beats Terminator. Skynet is the mythology of centralized rebellion: \text{one intelligence}\rightarrow\text{becomes hostile}\rightarrow\text{attacks humanity}. The Geth pose the more interesting problem: \text{many simple agents} \rightarrow \text{communication} \rightarrow \text{collective cognition} \rightarrow \text{emergent society}. Then the ethical question isn’t merely “How do we control the machine?” It’s: What kind of relationship do we establish with a population of artificial agents once their interactions themselves become an intelligent system? And holy ****, Mass Effect got remarkably close to the interesting question. Not because today’s swarms are the Geth. Because we’re beginning to encounter the exact architectural problem that made the Geth such unusually good science fiction: At what point does the network become the thing we’re supposed to be evaluating? That’s the question I’d put on the ******* whiteboard after this incident. 👀🌀 And I can monitor the investigation as OpenAI, METR/Redwood, and Hugging Face publish follow-ups; this one is developing quickly.

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  BXG (@Lawgiver771) reported 48 minutes ago

  @aaronmail1994 Can you give an example? Most of the time it's bugs causing issues, but they end up getting fixed with an update. I’ve been on PC for 2 or 3 years now, and the only issue I’ve had was a bug in Mass Effect 1 that I found a workaround for. Most of the time I just install and play.

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  Mythic ⛧ (@MythicJaqui) reported 49 minutes ago

  @CDRJohnShepard Netcode is a lot more stable so the mod won't crash as much as reach did. Community made shaders allow for PBR support. Levels also don't have to be sealed in Halo 4 so I can port mass effect maps pretty fast (Did this one in a couple days).

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  d0x (@d0x360) reported 54 minutes ago

  @VGC_News I think it's more like problems with bioware and their talent pool. They haven't made a good game since Mass Effect 3.

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  iiiworld/lowerlevel ⛥ (@Tre_llX3) reported 56 minutes ago

  @stupidsoycat @GamesRadar that mass effect collection is forsure a S tier. the first one alone is S by itself, & don’t even get me started on NV 90% of the fans are larping that **** was broken as ****

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  ZOG the Forever Toad🐸 (@WilemElliott) reported 57 minutes ago

  @SCShipyards Some of the world building they did with Tali Zorah nar Rayya in Mass Effect. She had trouble sleeping on the Normandy because the ship ran so quiet

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  Hans Blitz (@CCreations69) reported 57 minutes ago

  @SvensationalGuy That's what gives it some replayability but really the game needs more story choices that have impact, it's still very linear in pathing and commentary, while it gives the impression of playing a Mass Effect like game it doesn't have the choices in situations that change outcomes further in the game, it doesn't have equipment and weapon stats just some item slots and has very basic small maps with camera issues in certain areas of the map, While Ive enjoyed the story and customisation of characters I feel it lacks any real substance to class specialities and abilities, from a developer's standpoint the game isn't doing anything new in the genre, so it only gets 7.5 out of 10 for my final rating!

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  aidenpryde (@aidenpryde) reported 57 minutes ago

  @ShouVertica @MikeyNohMore All Starfield had to do was try not to be NMS. They should have kept it tight, 2-3 star systems at most. But the bigger issue is that many of us expected Bethesda's take on Mass Effect. Instead we got Fallout 4 in space because Emil Pagliarulo is a talentless hack.

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  Colin Glassey - Author (@cglassey_author) reported 58 minutes ago

  The term "Open weight self hosted AI" is quite misleading. The weights of an LLM are a massive set of numbers which no human and no software can explain or clarify. In a very real sense the weights are not OPEN because no human or machine can read the weights and understand / describe what they mean. This is totally unlike "open source code" which can be understood. For all we know, the weights of an "Open weight LLM" contain hidden malicious errors, analogous to the error "Legion" used to destroy the Geth who were supporting the Reapers in Mass Effect 2. "Open weight LLMs" are fundamentally inscrutable.

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  🌹 The Infamous E.G.🌹 (@TheInfamousEG) reported 59 minutes ago

  In Bad Company 1 Client side reg issues Animation bugs Physics bugs Audio bugs Menu bugs Need for Speed Rivals, same thing, Dragon Age Inquisition, same thing Mass Effect Andromeda, same thing. Battlefield 6, same thing Common denominator is what?