Mass Effect is one glitched up game.

[Yarkaz]

Hey-o Escapist. I found mass Effect (360) on sale for $10 yesterday, and simply couldn't resist.

I like the game enough, but really... It's glitchy. I just found a really bad one and I was wondering if any of you had dealt with it. I'm on the first mission on Feros (you know, base is being attacked by geth, you navigate a series of corridors and stairways while fighting) and I've just hit the point where you leave the tunnels and emerge into an arena-ish place where geth pour in for a while for you to kill. There's pretty much one piece of cover for me to use in the first part of the battle, but whenever I use it I freeze. The game still goes on and I can still shoot, but my movement is completely disabled. even when all the geth are dead I am forced to load up my last save and try again. I can't finish the fight without that piece of cover, so yeah... This happen to anyone else?

 

[open trap]

Through my 6 or so playthroughs i have never encountered anything other than a frame rate problem. I think it may have froze once when i was playing for hours on end.

 

[UltimateZ]

I've actually had that glitch before. It happened differently for me though, I got knocked down by a psionic blast, but Shepherd just wouldn't give up. His body had turned into some sort of sluggy, spiral-y, "I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream" kind of shape. I was hoping that the glitch would fix itself if my teammates won the battle for me, but they just stood around, firing at nothing, like always.

 

[Yarkaz]

@Furburt: I have the 360 version.

 

[10BIT]

Mass Effect's the only game I can remember glitching in bad enough to require me to load from a previous save. Once I got stuck in the elevator. Took me over 5 minutes before I decided that I probably won't be reaching my destination any time soon.

Edit: This is PC version, fully upgraded.

 

[Thyunda]

I don't remember it ever glitching up for me, and my 360's pretty bad for glitching. By that, I mean games have a tendency to break in it. My copy of Oblivion is dead, my Halo 3: ODST no longer works properly, and my Fable II is fucked completely.

I can only blame the Xbox, yet Mass Effect still works perfectly, I just don't play it anymore because it got dull.

 

[AngloDoom]

Only glitch I had on the 360 was blasting myself into a wall, then insta-dying due to wall over-exposure. That happened once and 'sides that it all went smoothly. I think you might have gotten a bad game.

 

[Mr Wednesday]

Can't say I ecountered a single glitch on the 360.

 

[JoGribbs]

I had a couple of glitches. My partners kept getting stuck in walls all throughout my first playthrough. But then again, even when it's working as intended, it's a bit iffy. Frame rate drops, clipping, odd animations, texture pop in, and numerous other technical thingamajigs.

As far as your freezing thing, it sounds like a disc-specific thing, since I've never experienced it or heard about it before. Sorry.

 

[Worgen]

main glitches I can think of are a few crashes

 

[TsunamiWombat]

Try reloading from an early point, all I can suggest. If that doesn't work...you may have to restart, which is a FUCKING PAIN BECAUSE OF HOW SLOW THE GAMES BEGINNING IS ASJFKDHSFH okay.

I'm sorry. I have some things to work out.

Also hook your Xbox up to an internet connection and patch it - yes console games get patches now - if possible.

 

[Editos]

Only glitch I ever had was one of the enemies I was meant to kill getting stuck inside a crate, rendering him invincible.

Apart from that the only issue I ever had was a few frame rate drops.

 

[Jadak]

Mass Effect is one of my favourite games now, but it originally took me over a year to actually finish it, solely due to glitches and game crashes. Couple those with the rather undependable autosaves, I quit out of frustration many times.

 

[SithLibrarian]

I'm playing it on the 360 and am frustrated with how the game will, after a cutscene, start me off in battle by having my Shepherd face the opposite direction.

 

[008Zulu_v1legacy]

Fighting Benezia I got slung through the walls and flew fast away from any recognizable geometry that made up the game world.