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Anthem adding a social hub (16 players)
- Thread starter Strakt
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I was just thinking about making a thread for this info. Really cool to see Bioware being this reactive to their potential audience as this couldn't have been easy to implement this close to the launch of the game and with several large betas about to go on.
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I'm expecting Big Daddy and Krogan color schemes and armor combinations to pop up soon after launch. I've already seen a pretty cool looking Eva Unit-01 color scheme.
Bungie? Lol But yeah pretty cool to add when it sounds like it was not planned for launch.
These two interceptors look almost identical if you don't look at colours... I seriously hope gear elements will also change the actual shape of Javelins a little bit at least.
Considering they told us it was a PvE game since the beginning PvP should have never been a missed expectation.
I hope PVP stays far away unless they implement an "arena" type of PVP where everyone has standardized weapons/armor for JUST PVP.
The worst thing they can do is to try to mix the weapons/armor in the main game to the PVP game causing balance issues which will either ruin the PVE or PVP portions of the game eventually.
I don't for a second believe that this is a direct result of fans asking for it post closed alpha, so " we listened to you" just seems like an opportunity to get some goodwill by showing that they give fans what they wanted even if it was already in development long before fans asked for it.
Things like these don't get added in merely a month, there's the art, content creation as well as networking implementations to think of that has to have been in place since like atleast summer-autumn last year. The game world (in mission) has 4 players at max in the map, so a social hub supporting 16 players would have only been possible if it was thought of from way before rather than just 2 months before launch.
Things like these don't get added in merely a month, there's the art, content creation as well as networking implementations to think of that has to have been in place since like atleast summer-autumn last year. The game world (in mission) has 4 players at max in the map, so a social hub supporting 16 players would have only been possible if it was thought of from way before rather than just 2 months before launch.
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This is awesome news. The lack of a social hub was one of the strangest things about this game to me.
Pretty cool that the developers of a multiplayer focused rpg did not consider spontaneous player interaction to be a needed feature until asked by fans. Gives me a lot of faith in this game, yup.
People interested in the game have been poking them about a social hub since they said it wouldn't have one back at E3.
You do realize that adding a PvP mode would be a nightmare. Check out Destiny for a live action car wreck.
It isn't necessarily mulitplayer focused when everything can be done solo.
Jesus I swear some people are grasping at straws to find things to complain about in Anthem threads.
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Yet tons of people play still Destiny PVP because its fun. Is it balanced? Nope. But its fun and optional for the most part.
http://blog.bioware.com/2019/01/22/one-month-to-go/
It seems to be a continuation of what they laid out in their newsletter recently.
And tons of people play stuff like Borderlands without PvP. Not every game needs it and Anthem was designed from the beginning with nothing but PvE in mind.
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You're right.. not every game needs it.. but Anthem better be delivering in the PVE department then. Guess we'll find out next month!
Get cross play (and cross save) next and I'll play this game till the servers are shut down.
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While cool, it's unnecessary. I really can't believe this is something people wanted Bioware to use resources on. Here's hoping PVP is ignored completely.
