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Anthem Prelaunch Discussion Thread (Origin Premier/EA Access: Feb 15th) - Time To Fly FreelancEra
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I think this chart was updated too... let me check:
Yeah the creator updated it to add more time zones :) Super useful for people not sure when the Demo begins.
This is really good to hear.
The spin was my go to melee, but it still wasn't great to hit things in the air. I just want to be able to use the guns/have the guns matter as little as possible since that is the most unfun part of the game for me. Am hoping that with later skills and good loadout synergy that can be more possible but even then there wasn't too much really fun in the Interceptor's toolkit when I went in thinking it was going to be the most fun. The charge had potental but it has too long of a startup. Have hopes for storm now I guess even if I would rather a super fast melee thing.
So what you're saying is you want the Krogan Warlord to make his glorious return. So do I. I miss that lil guy.
Open beta is for everyone. Download the demo from the store and enjoy on 1st of February
So what you're saying is you want the Krogan Warlord to make his glorious return. So do I. I miss that lil guy.
I was thinking Assault Marine's with chainswords and the like but you do you Lizard-bro!!
Looking forward to everything tho. One of the people in my crew has decided to main INterceptor as well and it has me contemplating getting that Ranger leveled way up as well. So many decisions for this game... and i still haven't even played the storm!~ that'll be this weekend.
I'm thinking once game is launched Edmonton will go onto another game altogether. They have Dragon Age 4, they may even try to get Mass Effect off the ground again.
the fucking memories...So what you're saying is you want the Krogan Warlord to make his glorious return. So do I. I miss that lil guy.
The lobbies remain active and you can pick up some randoms in a minute or two. (c.7 years post-launch)
Took my Kroguard out for a spin only last week.
Those who played the VIP Demo will know all about the 95% loading bug, well on Reddit someone asked if it was going to be fixed for the Open demo, this was the dev response:
"So it's not my team that is working on this specific issue, but I'm part of the slack channel coordination for the demo - I'm not 100% certain if it will get fixed, but I can tell you that tons of people have been working overtime to get this resolved and it looks hopeful. Deploying fixes with a one week turnaround across multiple platforms without introducing MORE stability issues is hard.
We may not be getting frustrated trying to play the game, but watching our fans get frustrated sucks, especially after working so hard on the game for years and wanting everyone to experience it.
Here's to hoping, and thanks for your continued patience and support.
Stronger together!"
"So it's not my team that is working on this specific issue, but I'm part of the slack channel coordination for the demo - I'm not 100% certain if it will get fixed, but I can tell you that tons of people have been working overtime to get this resolved and it looks hopeful. Deploying fixes with a one week turnaround across multiple platforms without introducing MORE stability issues is hard.
We may not be getting frustrated trying to play the game, but watching our fans get frustrated sucks, especially after working so hard on the game for years and wanting everyone to experience it.
Here's to hoping, and thanks for your continued patience and support.
Stronger together!"
Oh boy, can't wait to find out what vinyl we're going to get this time!
For real though, hopefully they'll manage to fix it. It's been damaging enough as is, I hope their work pays off and they can redeem themselves a little with the open demo. I won't be able to participate much either way unfortunately.
I would just cancel the open demo of it is not resolved, would probably cost more potential sales trying to play a broken demo
I had a feeling this would be the case. I don't doubt that they're working as hard as they can to fix it, but I have a feeling that it won't be fixed or at least not 100%.
I hope it is, especially since it's open to everyone and that alone will turn a lot of people off immediately. All the problems with the demo are such a downer. I know it's an older build and everything but they should really be putting their best foot forward to get people to play the full release and constant crashes, rubber banding and load glitches is not it.
I'm in for the full game but if any of these things are happening when it does come out is really gonna put a damper on things especially with division 2 and new destiny season both launching close to Anthem. Just too many choices in the same space for people to hang around or even give a chance altogether. Which is a shame because when this game is clicking it's really fun!
Yes. You need a PS+ Subscription or an Xbox Live Gold Subscription to play Anthem, including the demo.
I agree, but they better fix the crashes, we had at least 3 trying to do the stronghold last week end and with the last one we lost all progression.
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Browsing the subreddit and the general consensus is it probably won't be fixed for the open demo but will *hopefully* be fixed for the final release lmfao
Is this based off what devs are saying over there? I feel like they'd be better served cancelling the open demo than letting everyone experience that infinite loading glitch.
I feel like the outcome would be catastrophic and it blows my mind that it might still be there and they're pushing forward with it.
Edit: just seen the dev comment on the last page, woof. I would really hate for the game to tank on something that isn't in the final build.
Right?
Obviously people who preordered or have Origin premiere subs are gonna play regardless but could you imagine being on the fence about a game and then you play what is being marketed as a DEMO and not a BETA and you literally can't load a mission? Would you buy that game? I wouldn't.
If I were them, I'd postpone the open demo a week if they can't fix it by Friday. If they thought last weekend's reaction to the demo was a shitshow, just wait for the reaction from the masses. They will be torn apart.
Yep.
Or they should have just been calling this a beta / server stress test or something.
Issues like this are completely acceptable in a beta. But calling it a demo implies a certain level of polish, because you're putting it forward as a representation of what the final product is with the goal of convincing more people to buy the game.
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Yeah, with the amount of people rooting for this game to fail spectacularly, there will be no shortage of folks ready to pounce all over this.
You can't release a 'beta' three weeks before launch. But yeah, calling it a server stress test might've been a better move.
Disasters are EA's specialty.
Just the potential for another rough weekend on the demo with bugs and performance issues. And it sounding like the loading bug may not get fixed by the weekend.
My experience was pretty good as well but I played on PC. The game crashed to the desktop once and I got booted back to the log in screen a couple times when entering free roam but that was it.
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If it doesn't load, quit the game and relaunch, it'll throw you right into the mission/mode you chose
This is bad.....I didn't realise the was a release game thing, this is bad level bad.
Seriously...an open beta that basically hits users with a massive tech issue is going to be beyond disastrous for the game. That NEEDS to be fixed before the public at large can play this.
What was crazy was that towards the end of the demo button prompts on my controller stopped working at the title screen. So I'd hit the infinite load glitch, close the game, restart, hit the title screen, hit X to rejoin and .... nothing. Even hitting Triangle to pull up the settings wouldn't work. Couldn't find a consistent behavior to that either. Sometimes if I sat there and kept hitting X for 30 seconds it would eventually start. Sometimes I could restart the game again and it would work immediately. Sometimes it wouldn't. It was frustrating the hell out of me and the fact that I kept trying to get back in is a testament to the good time I was having when I could get in.
BW at the minimum need to fix 2 things for the open demo.
- The obvious 95% loading bug.
- Overall platform optimization but at the very least they need to have the consoles run more than mid 20's fps.
Ah yeah.. I was just reading that they still aren't sure it will be fixed in time for this weekend. Unbelievable...
Damn that really sucks. Did that experience dampen your hype at all?
I gotta call Bullshit on this. Everyone should have experienced the infinite loading loop. It was a standard bug for everyone with the vip demo.
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