Naughty Dog dev explains what might've happened with Mass Effect Andromeda’s face animations

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RenCutypoison said:

JEMC said:

So they didn't realize the amount of work it would need and where caught with thei pants down. Gotcha!

Now it's only a matter of can it be fixed with patches?

Obviously not. The facial animation, for as much as I know (not much, I'm no animator) should have been a team's work for a big part of the devlopment cycle. It's not a buggy algorithm you can quick fix trough spaghetti coding, it's a long and tedious job. That would require a big investment for a single visual job. Even Nintendo level remasters don't redo facial animations years later (i.e. FFX HD is one hell of a remaster, every model including monsters were remade instead of just the textures, so the old facial animations look off on the new character models).

Well, that's a shame :-/.

Without those troubles, more people would focus on the game itself, and not on the graphical flaws.