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Anthem Prelaunch Discussion Thread (Origin Premier/EA Access: Feb 15th) - Time To Fly FreelancEra
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I think dynamic and unpredictable stuff happening is kind of the point.
They won't be handing out tickets... ;-)
I wanted to check this event out, but client just keeps constantly freezing and CTDg on my i5 6600K and 980Ti.
I just can't be bothered to constantly restart this thing and slog through multiple loading screens and freeroam joining attempts to play next 5 minutes before next freeze.
Technical fucking mess.
I just can't be bothered to constantly restart this thing and slog through multiple loading screens and freeroam joining attempts to play next 5 minutes before next freeze.
Technical fucking mess.
You were likely getting coin from doing some of the challenges. If you look through the codex, you'll see some reward 5 and 10 coin. I think last week it was a lot more, as I said, I still have over 1,500 from then.
Daily, weekly & monthlies all give coin iirc. I think I got masterwork shards, too, for weekly... got them somewhere, 99+ in inventory.
The area of the open world on the demo hasn't changed. There are just new events are harder enemies spawning in the open world section we have in the demo.
Thanks for the upload. It also illustrates the storm advantage, at no point were you at any risk from taking damage from the fire waves.
There were a lot of coin things.. but not 1500 worth. I think your coin total might be from the level of pre-order you made.
I tried a few hours of the demo and I'm pessimistic about the game. Too much loadings, all the time ( when you enter a mission, when you stray too far from the group, when you enter a dungeon...), the mouse and keyboard control are janky especially during the fly segments and traversing the hub city is a complete drag.
On the positive side, even with the downgrade, its still a beautiful game.
On the positive side, even with the downgrade, its still a beautiful game.
Sounds like this is step one of the cataclysm, with the rest to come in the full game.
Seems like the titans and the storm in the sky is all we've got for the demo.
Seems like the titans and the storm in the sky is all we've got for the demo.
I can't wait for this to come it in mid February. Definitely going to have the storm javelin as my main. Some may hate the game or wish it was better but I find it fantastic and fun to play.
Some pics I taken. Not bad for a laptop w/ a 6GB 1060 video card w/ an external monitor w/ a resolution of 2560x1440. honestly, surprised I can run it w/ high settings.
Some pics I taken. Not bad for a laptop w/ a 6GB 1060 video card w/ an external monitor w/ a resolution of 2560x1440. honestly, surprised I can run it w/ high settings.
It might have been wise to have the free play boundary message say "leaving demo area" rather than "mission area".
If I sign up for Origin premiere to early access the game on the 15th, then cancel it at the end of the month, I could then buy the game if I want and put the code into Origin and it would still have my account/progress carried over, right?
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Ah.. well in that case it's a definite no buy
That rain looks like ... I don't know ... electricity?
Following dragon age inquisition I'm not sure BioWare knows how to make games an
Umpire. They seem to have doubled down on the weakest aspects of their games.
When people get used to the combo mechanic its gonna be great.
what i'm going to do is sign up for a trial of origin access, which is 99 cents (in NA) until tomorrow for 1 month. That gets you 10 hours of Anthem on Feb 15th.
If I like those 10 hours, and I'm pretty sure I won't but I'll give it a fair chance, then I can sign up for origin premiere at the end of my 10 hours and jump straight into Anthem for a month (with legion of dawn bonuses) and play my heart out. I just don't see any way I play more than 2-3 weeks though, I play solo so I assume i'll hit a pretty hard cap on what content I can do in random matchmake groups and have nothing else to do. But yeah, if I really like the game after that I could either just buy it or keep premiere running.
In many ways the beta was a really bad execution by Bioware, by dropping you into the middle of the game with no context it feels like it turns off more than helps get you excited about the game. Doesn't help all the bugs and issues and meh gunplay. I'm hoping the story, lore, world, etc is a lot better if you start from the beginning but I have serious doubts.
Sounds like the Cataclysm stuff they are doing in freeplay right now are like destiny public events. Be interesting to see if they "learn" the same stuff bungie had to over the years, like while it sounds cool on paper to make them random and not trackable, in reality you end up having to so people can funnel together to get them done, otherwise 90% of them end up with 0-1 people and not do-able.
Just tried it:
- I have no idea what I was doing. Is there a tutorial section that explains the controls and how to fly?
- where can I choose my Javelin? I just headed for the quest markers and got a certain Javelin without a choice
Other than that, the game has a bad performance on Xbox One X.
- I have no idea what I was doing. Is there a tutorial section that explains the controls and how to fly?
- where can I choose my Javelin? I just headed for the quest markers and got a certain Javelin without a choice
Other than that, the game has a bad performance on Xbox One X.
This is some shit.
We were fighting a ancient ash Titan in freeplay (are they in freeplay normally speaking?) and we had his health down to more than half. And then he was just gone, just like that.
We were fighting a ancient ash Titan in freeplay (are they in freeplay normally speaking?) and we had his health down to more than half. And then he was just gone, just like that.
What really concerns me is the developers have mentioned nothing about improved performance on X or Pro for the final release. Am I missing something or have they?
I like the idea that they will have events that take over the world and get people to work together. Sure it was only a storm and a big ass Ash Titan but they can treat it more like Fortnite with its events changing per season etc or the Tides of War in BFV where the progressively launch stuff from small events and then, over time, expand the cataclysm.
Not specific. They said performance improvement for all platforms and they said as with other games that most optimization happens just before release.
I think you misunderstood what I meant about limitations.
This has nothing to do with limitations of an area in the demo, it has to do with the limitations specifically in a mission, if someone goes too far ahead you in checkpoints you get teleported. If you stray just a few meters in the wrong direction, teleported.
From my experience, I really only got teleported if teammates were in a no respawn zone
This is odd....
I just got a notification after quitting freeplay that a new item had been unlocked. A new Javelin. But I have all of them already.
I just got a notification after quitting freeplay that a new item had been unlocked. A new Javelin. But I have all of them already.
Worst part is that it does a whole loading screen just to teleport you.
Actually they mentioned on Reddit that this is exactly what they're doing in the full game. You can only hold an echo for 60 seconds and they might tune it further depending.
That's good news. 60 seconds sounds like more than enough time to sweep through, collect 3, and deposit them. Hope they're applying this to the devices you have to lug back to the center platform in the stronghold too.
It's a bug, you will get this a lot.
Also showing level 0 sometimes etc.
So...will anything happen with the storm?
That stuff at the end of the very first Anthem reveal, the weather and all that. That is still going to be in the full game, right? That looked damn epic.
I'm not sure, there have been far too many times that I or the other 2 people I played with are being forably teleported with a warning by being not very far from the furthest person. There's even official gameplay of someone getting teleport warnings by mearly being a stones throw away from the lead character at a check point.
Also, I'm not sure being a pedant about if it's a mission or stronghold or whatever has any weight about me hating having to play with a random in my group of friends. The argument I'm making is the entire thing is shit to begin with when the game already supports scaling and private mode. Why close that off for certain activities? It seems to abitrary a decision and impacts nobody if they allowed it.
Lastly, works both ways? I'm not sure it should be like that, the 3 of us wanted to do an activity in private like we had just previously done in a mission, the game won't let us. Fine. We want to play at our own pace for the first run and not at the uncontrolled behest of someone random.
I've never seen this forced "follow the leader" in a game before.
Edit: I had this problem last week as well playing solo in free roam. https://www.resetera.com/threads/an...-fly-freelancera.95459/page-110#post-17300714
All I did was see a camp of enemies, wanted to nope out but it would'nt let me.
It wanted me to finish, I wanted to try find that other person out in the world.
Can't defend that. Imagine playing destiny 2, seeing as public event pop up but it's just you; you try to leave but it won't let you.
It keeps teleporting you back over and over until you've finished it, but it wont expire, it resets every time you die or leave.
Luckily they understand player freedom and let you ride on by to something people are actually doing.
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Some of the conversations in Fort Tarsis are pretty funny. I encouraged the bartender to hold a package for a beautiful woman in hopes of getting him some action. Turns out some dude with a knife came for the package and the bartender killed him. Apparently he just left the body and came in for work because I had the option to encourage him to hide the body and get rid of the package. We'll see what happens next...
Enough demo play for me. I like the gameplay and know that the demo build is almost 2 month old, but it is issue after issue. God damm Ancient titan disapering mid fight, engage a turret and going in for the kill and the turret disapears right in front of me. End of the round screen keep buggin out and no XP earned.
Bioware if you are reading this, i can not preorder something like this, you have earn my purchase by showing me functioning game feb 22.
Bioware if you are reading this, i can not preorder something like this, you have earn my purchase by showing me functioning game feb 22.
So have about 8 hours in the demo and for the most part it has been a great experience on my PC. I had one instance where I spawned without a head and health/shield bar and another where we couldn't finish the shape puzzle because the prompt to change the symbols was not there. Other than a couple instances of lagging enemies the servers been great as well.
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