Mass Effect Andromeda status: server issues and outage reports

Problems in the last 24 hours

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Most Reported Problems

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• Game Crash (100%)

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Mass Effect Andromeda Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  Chronos (@N0VACIA) reported 21 seconds ago

  @Xvault2 Mass Effect combat was serviceable, I enjoyed it as much as I did Fable's. It worked, I had no problem with it. You're not getting my point here lmfao. Mass Effect, Fable and other similar games don't have standout combat. They have ton more gameplay elements at play.

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  Colin Glassey - Author (@cglassey_author) reported 3 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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  Nazzy (@Nazglue) reported 5 minutes ago

  @TheHiddenOneAC Mabey its because I've played yakuza and mass effect, but is it that much of an issue seeing reused animations?

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  aidenpryde (@aidenpryde) reported 6 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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  💀 Ali💀 (@GenocidalFetus) reported 11 minutes ago

  @TwoGhostPixels No one changed Dragon Age or Mass Effect, dumbass. Stop making problems up in your head to get mad at.

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  Timothy D. Nutt (@timothydnutt) reported 15 minutes ago

  @EA @EAHelpOfficial_ I still have not received a response or resolution regarding either issue documented in this case. Mass Effect: Andromeda will not connect to EA’s online services on my account. This prevents me from accessing the game’s online and multiplayer functionality. I have already attempted the available troubleshooting steps, but the problem remains unresolved. Second, I purchased Mass Effect: Andromeda multiplayer DLC packs specifically for online multiplayer content that I cannot access because the game will not connect to EA’s services. I am therefore requesting a refund for those online DLC purchases. The purchased content is unusable through no fault of my own. This case has already been pending without an adequate response. Please escalate it to a support representative who can examine my EA account, game entitlements, and purchase history and provide an actual resolution. Thank you.

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  Mythic ⛧ (@MythicJaqui) reported 15 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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  Psychagogos (@RedGnosis) reported 17 minutes ago

  @gielmont This game conflicts me because many parts of it are very well done, but then other parts are just repetitive fetch quests. Mass Effect Andromeda was made using the same engine near the same time, I think, and suffers many of the same problems.

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  lex is playing bg3! (@afrochantter) reported 18 minutes ago

  th funniest thing about EA is that they don't like money, apparently. for all their want and need of a live service game, they never considered that a mass effect live service based on me3's multiplayer would sell tons?

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  🍉Spectre Raccoon🦝| Kaidan Alenko’s no.1 Fan | (@Racc00n_Guy_) reported 20 minutes ago

  So far my problem with the game is that somehow I still don't feel like I am playing a mass effect game, it just has a totally different feel to it that I find it hard to get used to 😭

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  Kuuen Enjuro (@KuEnjiro) reported 20 minutes ago

  @pinkkomimi My problem is more I try to play it like Mass Effect and then remember I can't use skills and I have no party members to cover me LOL. I'm getting better at it though thanks to the world quests.

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  Emergency Medical Fella (@thatmedfella) reported 21 minutes ago

  Sorry babe, can’t talk. I’m doing the infinite xp mining laser glitch in Mass Effect

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  bongle (@Bongl0id) reported 23 minutes ago

  @wesleytypes @DawnwalkerGame @RebelWolvesDevs Do you even comprehend how annoying it is to write a whole trilogy like this, or the numerous problems it caused mass effect? You know why they introduced a new solider in 3? Because all the previous ones could be dead. The dumbest people ruin those games.

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  Plat0x.eth (Σ🧠Ξ) (@at0x_eth) reported 25 minutes ago

  @kennyistyping idk there's like a mass effect issue also lens had somewhat the right idea of being just a backend but when you are so open ended curation gets hard and even moreso when you have adversarial usage. i think it takes something really paradigmic to get you off of that.

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  Kendra Bratton 🌸🧚‍♀️ Fairy VTuber (@Voxs_Faegirl) reported 27 minutes ago

  ✧༺♥༻∞MASS EFFECT 2 ENDED∞༺♥༻✧ 🌸I had a great time playing Mass effect 2 again but I REALLY hope YT fixes it bitrate issue before I get back. Thank you to @JyuChano3o for the raid!! Today we raided on YT @ShibiCottonbum & on Twitch we raided @Zak_Shadows! Please support!!

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  Vanclomming (@Libertonian13) reported 27 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 thing causing the lag, and I was especially into modding, but it took up a lot of space. The Mass Effect mods I downloaded took up nearly 20 GB in total. Now that my new system doesn’t have an HDD, I can’t download many mods. Those were the good old days I really loved modding back then.

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  Oscar Vera (@OscarVera22) reported 30 minutes ago

  @donutzski Like for real... When mass effect Andromeda was broken it llooked better than this

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  Archer Defense Daily News (@ArcherNightfall) reported 33 minutes ago

  Exactly why there shouldn't have been any ceasfire The problem is masseffect We need to figure new bomb area yield. 1. You figure out how to do an real orbital drop system like COBRA's Zeus 2. You figure out how to do insanely large bombs that have actually closer/fractional to nuclear type power. This is actually an insane physics problem. Eventually AI robots entering into conflict zones will alleviate this problem. But for right now this, sucks. And by the way this was a huge issue in Afghanistan and why they were able to hang in there so long. I've said it before our munitions are too precise. This is what drags out wars. Something is missing from this fight.

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  Wakkander (@Wakkander) reported 36 minutes ago

  The problem I have with most animal x human races is also that they also seem incredibly lazy to me. I'd rather take the Hanar, Rachni or Elcor from Mass Effect over most of those. Also all Catfolk variants are just asking for it. I have permanently banned them from my table because of it.

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  Jude (@judithofleaves) reported 36 minutes ago

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

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  🌹 The Infamous E.G.🌹 (@TheInfamousEG) reported 39 minutes ago

  This doesn't answer my question only proves it Its not brand new as in ground up like 2019 was, its same skeleton Literally ALL frostbite games BC1, BC2, BF3, Need for Speed Rivals, Mass Effect Andromeda, Dragon Age Inquisition, Medal of Honor WF, etc Same problems

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  Volk (@ladolcevolk) reported 42 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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  a;sdkfjasdlfj;d (@asdkfjasdlfjd) reported 47 minutes ago

  Nothing a little Mass Effect at midnight and 12 beers can't fix

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  Ξιί Wατz (@Eli_Watz) reported 47 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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  Faólan!! (In The Deep Roads) (@Cring3png) reported 51 minutes ago

  I want to play mass effect but I don't want to do my insanity run today and I want to play dao but I don't want my PC to crash 5 billion times, life is so hard

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  Jay (@M15T4J4Y) reported 54 minutes ago

  @WeezSays @LonoSG Not true for all of them. Steam’s own offline-mode FAQ even says games that use an external launcher often won’t start. You lose multiplayer, sure. But a lot of single-player titles still won’t launch if EA App, Ubisoft Connect, Rockstar, or CDPR’s REDlauncher can’t phone home. I’ve had that exact problem with Mass Effect Legendary Edition (EA) and Witcher 3 after the next-gen launcher got added. “Steam games play offline” is true for some Steam games. It’s not a blanket rule when the publisher bolted a second storefront onto the install.

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  ThaBeefGames (@ThaBeefGames) reported 55 minutes ago

  @JosephMorris21 @uncle_deluge Mass Effect 2 is an entire game of plodding along and the whole story is frankly better if you skip straight to 3 and pretend Shepard met Miranda offscreen at some ****** service the saucy harlot.

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  🌹 The Infamous E.G.🌹 (@TheInfamousEG) reported 55 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?

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  Hank Rearden (@HankRearden_37) reported 56 minutes ago

  @Pirat_Nation Once again modders will fix what the devs try to wreck with these games. Just like when the modders brought back the Miranda buttshot in Mass effect legendary edition. Although that game was far less ****** with than Halo appears to be.

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  Mortal Keegster - Hatality (@ThatTallGuy02) reported 58 minutes ago

  @MoralityCode @IGN Mass Effect 1 is an actual RPG with an actual plot. Mass Effect 2 is a third person shooter where the plot is to solve everyone's daddy issues