Those who illegally play Mass Effect: Andromeda will be left with wooden faces. The new patch causes headaches for piracy fans.
Over the past week, BioWare has released the long-awaited Patch 1.05 for Mass Effect: Andromeda, which, alongside numerous bug fixes and quality of life improvements, also removed a particularly large point of criticism: The eyes have received a new shader.
What sounds like a small change has significantly enhanced the dialogues and cutscenes, as many of the former “pancake faces” now look more lively and eyes are illuminated correctly. The days of having eyes that glowed “from within,” giving characters a ghostly passivity, are over.
However, there is a group of players who cannot be happy about these changes: pirates. This does not refer to the enemies found in the game, but rather to all who play Mass Effect: Andromeda using a crack and have not purchased the game.
Apparently, the update has also brought the Denuvo copy protection up to date, which poses new problems for crackers. It took nearly 2 weeks to crack ME:A in the first place.
The official patch notes do not mention these changes, but this step is understandable, as they probably do not want to give any hints to the cheaters. The same copy protection is also used in games like Nier: Automata and Dead Rising 4 – and has surprisingly held up for nearly 2 weeks.
Those who acquire the game illegally must therefore continue to live with lifeless faces. So here’s a simple tip: just buy the game.
Perhaps piracy fans will one day be as tired as the faces they are trying to eliminate.
We already showed how the faces of Mass Effect: Andromeda have improved in this post.
