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Anthem Prelaunch Discussion Thread (Origin Premier/EA Access: Feb 15th) - Time To Fly FreelancEra
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I mean I started the game after they announced the storm. Sigh.
The storm went away and then those big ass dudes began to spawn.
Just curious, so was this Titan bigger than ones you fought in the missions?
I think the game is so much fun, but I just didn't like the experience so far... It's like, disconnecting all the time, booted-up to the main screen, players disconnecting from the game when they die...
There are just so many little QOL things that are not there in the demo, makes it a weird version to demo at all...
Oh well, I'll see how the game pans out when it's released!
There are just so many little QOL things that are not there in the demo, makes it a weird version to demo at all...
Oh well, I'll see how the game pans out when it's released!
Yeah. I did a record that when I found it. I'll post the video once it uploads to xboxdvr
I'm really confused about their choice of playing the game.
You're essentially in a solo hub, to pick a mission or free play....
You pick a mission but you cannot go off the beaten path or else it teleports you, it also ends the session and takes you back to the solo hub at the end of the mission instead of keeping you in the world.
You cannot do a mission in freeplay because you need to pre-select it either...
So where most games have this open world and allow you to just go to a mission and find cool shit along the way should you decide "hold up people, whats that over there?!"...you're stuck doing one or the other.
It's really fucking jarring, I can't stand the game constantly teleporting you to others or limiting your play area.
Me and 2 friends wanted to play alone and not with some random fucking it up for us but of course, "wah wah wah you can't do X in private mode" where there person has clearly run it 20 times already and keeps running off ahead while we want to take it all in for the first time.
It's like NOBODY in the dev team played their own game and though this is such a shitty system that interferes with players.
I'm so disappointed, I still wanted to play but now I can't even bribe my friends by paying for a month of origin for them to play with me.
We would literally play anything just to play together and they won't touch this.
So now I need to solo or do it with randoms :(
You're essentially in a solo hub, to pick a mission or free play....
You pick a mission but you cannot go off the beaten path or else it teleports you, it also ends the session and takes you back to the solo hub at the end of the mission instead of keeping you in the world.
You cannot do a mission in freeplay because you need to pre-select it either...
So where most games have this open world and allow you to just go to a mission and find cool shit along the way should you decide "hold up people, whats that over there?!"...you're stuck doing one or the other.
It's really fucking jarring, I can't stand the game constantly teleporting you to others or limiting your play area.
Me and 2 friends wanted to play alone and not with some random fucking it up for us but of course, "wah wah wah you can't do X in private mode" where there person has clearly run it 20 times already and keeps running off ahead while we want to take it all in for the first time.
It's like NOBODY in the dev team played their own game and though this is such a shitty system that interferes with players.
I'm so disappointed, I still wanted to play but now I can't even bribe my friends by paying for a month of origin for them to play with me.
We would literally play anything just to play together and they won't touch this.
So now I need to solo or do it with randoms :(
They should do like Overwatch and put a big icon flashing when it's ready. Just a small yellow bar filling is easy to miss.
Could it be simply a limitation of the demo, rather than the actual game, i.e., they did it on purpose just for the demo?
I think the limitations on the free play area are demo driven.
So I decided to try out some free place, even though I expected it to be a waste of time. But nope, not at all. In fact i encountered new kinds of enemies I didn't see in the story missions or stronghold.
Plus BioWare put some chests in some caves that you'll only find by exploring. This is the BioWare I know. I really hope they do this often for the full game. Just randomly place chests in different areas, because that makes exploration worth it.
Plus BioWare put some chests in some caves that you'll only find by exploring. This is the BioWare I know. I really hope they do this often for the full game. Just randomly place chests in different areas, because that makes exploration worth it.
I agree. I just booted it up this morning for the first time, and I didn't even know that bar was my ultimate ability until I pressed a button. Kind of a weird design choice.
No one is sure. Some are saying this is merely the lead up to the main event, but we have no way of knowing one or another right now.
How on earth is this releasing in 2 weeks? Gave the demo another chance and it was almost impossible to go more than 5 seconds without rubber-banding. One moment I'm jetting serenely towards an objective, the next I've reset a couple of seconds and I've crashed into a rock face. And that's just the flying, enemies disappear in front of you as the game struggles desperately to sync players together. Ugh. Matchmaking errors, infinite loading bugs and getting stuck on scenery were the least of my problems.
The few uninterrupted moments of gameplay were good enough to keep me persisting however. I really enjoy the flight controls actually, and there's pleasant weightiness to the landing. I like the variety of abilities, though it seems they dominate encounters a little too much. Your standard weapons on their own have little chance against the tougher enemies. Results in a strategy of hiding behind rocks rather than engaging the enemy between cooldowns.
I'm less keen on all the load screens and mission teleporting that goes on. It's a truncated and often confusing experience, not helped by the change of perspective between hub and expedition. A few times I've not even understood what's triggered a load screen, game peppers the HUD with mission markers but sometimes a load screen triggers before you even get there.
Game looks very nice and combat has potential, but seems far from ready for release. Was a brave move putting this out as a demo, but one I think will lose EA more players than it gains.
The few uninterrupted moments of gameplay were good enough to keep me persisting however. I really enjoy the flight controls actually, and there's pleasant weightiness to the landing. I like the variety of abilities, though it seems they dominate encounters a little too much. Your standard weapons on their own have little chance against the tougher enemies. Results in a strategy of hiding behind rocks rather than engaging the enemy between cooldowns.
I'm less keen on all the load screens and mission teleporting that goes on. It's a truncated and often confusing experience, not helped by the change of perspective between hub and expedition. A few times I've not even understood what's triggered a load screen, game peppers the HUD with mission markers but sometimes a load screen triggers before you even get there.
Game looks very nice and combat has potential, but seems far from ready for release. Was a brave move putting this out as a demo, but one I think will lose EA more players than it gains.
Just when I see the Titans suddenly my expedition ended if a random person leaves the game world does it also remove us wtf?
Tried to played this yesterday.
Menus were really bad. The shooting was okay. Flying was fun but the overheat sucks.
Mid mission the game blocked (could move the camera everything was frozen).
Probably will wait to see if Division 2 is good or will still chip away at Destiny when I feel like a loot shooter.
Or maybe I need another comfort food game.
Menus were really bad. The shooting was okay. Flying was fun but the overheat sucks.
Mid mission the game blocked (could move the camera everything was frozen).
Probably will wait to see if Division 2 is good or will still chip away at Destiny when I feel like a loot shooter.
Or maybe I need another comfort food game.
Had no issues hopping on and playing quickly on PSN
Really like the Movement, gameplay and shooting felt fine. About on par with the division I would say
Abilities are fun and recharge fast. I like it so far
Really like the Movement, gameplay and shooting felt fine. About on par with the division I would say
Abilities are fun and recharge fast. I like it so far
The storm is above the freeroam area now. So we're in the middle of it. This could be the surprise or merely the beginning. We'll find out as the night progresses I guess.
Ooohhh I saw this in one of BioWare videos iirc or it was a content creator
You might have 1 or 2 things not quite right here. You can do story missions in private, with as many in your team as you want up to 4. You have to play free play and do strongholds with 3 others. If you're a 3, there will be 1 random. It's not a big deal.
You'll only get loading screens when you enter into the deeper locations off the main map in free play, but randoms cannot pull you through to them, not even if you're doing a World Event that goes down one, as you can back out of one of those whenever you like. You'll get loading screens when you try to enter areas that are off limits for the demo, but you can avoid that by checking the greyed out area of the map and by simply turning around before the countdown ends.
"where there person has clearly run it 20 times already and keeps running off ahead" - that's not free play, that's some sort of story you chose from the menu or the stronghold. Strongholds are repeatable content, people are going to get good and know what to do really quickly. the game is based around rinsing these. You can't play these private.
The menu is a bit crap, and it does that annoying nag when you want to start a story in private, and that's easy to cancel out of and end up making public without even reading it. BTW, entering these events and wandering off because something caught your eye in a public game is damn annoying for the people stood waiting at a gate that won't open until you & your pal finally get their backsides to the trigger point ;-) so it works both ways.
EDIT: brain fart
There are random chests dotted around the world. There are hidden spots in at least 10 named locations iirc. Like an underwater cave by a waterfall that always has 2 things inside (chests, pickups, etc.). There's a trophy for each area that includes finding hidden areas, as well as sub-districts and landmarks. (the kind of stuff that can keep me playing happily for quite a time, loved finding the ghosts in Destiny).
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The Cataclysm lore in the Library seems to be describing what we saw.
The what? (I kid, but I've never watched a Super Bowl in my life). I mean they're starting the event now/it already has begun so I guess they're doing that so people can try it before the SB; for those who are going to watch it.
So many of the cosmetic stuff to make your Javelin dope as fuck costs coin. I have no issue with that if you at least get them now and then. Once i had about 150 coins, spent them on my Javelin and now I don't find them at all anymore. Maybe just the demo. Hopefully won't mean insane hours of grinding in the full game though.
Even small things like the emotes cost coin.
Even small things like the emotes cost coin.
I recorded a bunch of footage of it on my PC. I threw up the end of the big Titan boss fight as a clip on my Twitter too (the compression on Twitter sucks though).
Hard. Always hard. I haven't played on anything else this weekend, I tried Normal in the VIP Demo but it was a steamroll.
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