Mass Effect Andromeda's animations are getting compared to Pingu, robots and gorillas [Updated]

[UPDATED: People are fiš§ønding more weird animations andš” glitches which I've added at the bottom.]
澳擲幸čæ5å¼å„å·ē åå²ę„询:Mass Effect Andromeda's animation is under scrutiny again as players get an early go on the game via EA Access. It's... generating some mixed results, with players capturing videos of patchy, uncanny-valley, facial movements and some extremely interesting walking animations. (Although 澳擲幸čæ5å¼å„å·ē åå²ę„询:Mass Effect Andromeda reactions overall seem positive).
Animation was one of the things criticised early on when the game was revealed, so much so that Bioware's general manager Aaryn Flynn responded, citing a 'pešÆrformance bug' the team were going to improve.
Sara Ryder is awesome. Strong, funny, and adventurous. Sorry there's a facial performance bug that lets her down here. We'll improve it //t.š²co/esUaI4aFTJ
Have they succeeded? Judge for yourself.
has been rounding up the best (worst) examples, and faces have been getting a lot of flack for their 'interesting' emotional range. (There's a few mild spoilers in a couple ofš videos if you've been avoiding everything, but nothing that hasn't been revealed officially.)
Hahaha, this is getting better and better. Hobby SFM animators would be shāØamed for that quality. pic.twitter.com/1qAah27TJO
This video also shows off some of thš»e acting and dialogue which is also getting shredded, fairly or not, by fans. Listen out for thź¦e un-ironic uttering of 'my face is tired'.
And š °š it's not just Sara Ryder getting singled out, Scott is having .
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As well as the lack of emotion, the way the faces are moving is being questioned, leading to šŗcompare the cast to Pingu for reasons aboutā to become clear...
The Pingu comparisons don't stop there either: walking is also somewhat creatively tackled in Andromeda, as pointed ošut by .
In fact the walking generally is getting picked out as much as the facial animationš„. Here's :
And another (from the same post):
However, as far as Mass Effect Andromeda walks go, this ošbviously glitched animation is the one to bš¼eat:
Since publishing thią·“s story more examples have turned up:
oh my god š¦dude mass effect andromeda is the gift tš¦©hat keeps on giving pic.twitter.com/any8OqRKlJ
Something tells me stuff like this is not what BioWare and EA were hoping people would be focusing on aās Mass Effect nears release. pic.twitter.com/sQkEMmI2iu
There's there's this weiļ·ŗrd face and hair combo, simply with the sentence: "Oh god what is going on with my Ryder..."
Then there's :
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Then we've got sperse mern .
raises some quešstions about how revival actually works. With electricity by the looks of things.
Find out everything we know about 澳擲幸čæ5å¼å„å·ē åå²ę„询:Mass Effect Andromeda here, and tune back next week for our full review, when we'll be in a ąµ²better position to tell you if the wonky animation is just an amusing aside, or symptomatic of the wider experience.

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