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Anthem Prelaunch Discussion Thread (Origin Premier/EA Access: Feb 15th) - Time To Fly FreelancEra
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Ahh that's better. Thanks for that.Imgbb or imgur. They're both good
Do it like this
Don't mention it. If on mobile use imgbb because Imgur will take you to the app and it gets complicated to get a link
I think a big disconnect I am having comes from the missing flavor when it comes to enemies.
They are quiet right? I can't remember them saying or reacting to getting shot at all...
I remember the sound of certain DOOM enemies, Warcraft, Halo etc. It helps make wading through creeps less sterile.
Or they DO make sounds and it just did not reach me.
They are quiet right? I can't remember them saying or reacting to getting shot at all...
I remember the sound of certain DOOM enemies, Warcraft, Halo etc. It helps make wading through creeps less sterile.
Or they DO make sounds and it just did not reach me.
15 dollars to play Anthem a week early isn't value indeed, Sony was right.
I wouldn't believe it if someone told me this was 6 years in the making, they could have looked at other games and compared
Man, that's weird to watch after the demo. Curious if anything like that storm will be in the full game.
Also, that video shows the player obtaining identified loot off the ground and immediately equipping it. What happened?
Yeah, the feedback is really bad - especially switching from REmake 2 to Anthem. But in this regard the enemies in Destiny and Division also give you much more feedback.
And of course all the games you can play with EA access which you might not have played yet like with Battlefield V for me. Oh and having all of the extra content for all the games in it as well.
You basically summarized my thoughts. Especially about those pretty dangerous things like an ability to loose it all because of the loot distribution after you complete expedition, oh, and infinite loading screens.
troubled development? 5-6 years for this end result seems somewhat strange if i am honest, there has to be more to the story why they completely changed the way loot works and stuff...
and yeah, that original reveal is like a different game as the game we played in the demo, from looks over ambiance/immersion to combat, the VIP demo was like 20% of the reveal quality. this game got watchdogged hard...
it is like the No Mans Sky reveal and the endresult if i am honest
Couldn't get to play it.
I was only able to get into a mission once - kept getting stuck at the 95% infinite loading screen.
And the one time I got in I had no clue what to do.
Maybe they'll fix that for the regular demo.
I was only able to get into a mission once - kept getting stuck at the 95% infinite loading screen.
And the one time I got in I had no clue what to do.
Maybe they'll fix that for the regular demo.
Not at all! It took me quite some time to figure that out as well!
From my personal experience you don't lose anything if you crash out during a mission. I tried the stronghold four times and crashed out every time. After playing Freeplay for 10 minutes and quitting out all the loot from those Stronghold runs showed up in the post-mission screen.
Performance wise :
PS4 Pro>PS4>X1X>X1
Anyway, frame drops are all over the screen in each version.
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Would love it if they added a 1080 or 1440 option for 1x and get much closer to 60. Seems like Pro at 1080 does a good job.
It's one of my biggest issues with the game aswell. The feedback is just not there. Seems like the enemies are just standing in place waiting to get killed. But then they tank your health in a couple of seconds and you wonder with what lol
My game crashed a few times (PS4 Pro) in the middle of the missions, I reconnected to existing expeditions aaaand it didn't connect me to them, just dropped me into the new sessions with me alone. No EXP, no loot. I tried free-roaming and ending expedition to no avail. My blue items were left forever.
Yeah that is how it felt... some work to do there. No reason to not have perfect lock on X1X and Pro.
If they make significant sounds, it's impossible to pick out of the mix. A lot of the times that players went down during the demo were because they were flanked and had no idea until two mobs just opened up on them shredding em before they noticed. Usually there's some kind of audio feedback that helps with that but none here.
I know the developers said the demo is an old build but can they at least come out and say these issues aren't in the full game? The way they talked about the infinite loading makes me believe they didn't even find it as an issue until now.
It's weird, sometimes they give you the items back and sometimes they don't, another bugged thing probably.
This stands out to me as a surprising issue - it should be much more exciting to find cool loot in a looter game imo!
Personally I'm glad people don't know what they got until they get back and they can't change their load out mid mission.
Few things annoyed me in destiny than people stopping to fuck around in their goddamn inventory every 5 minutes because they gotta drop they wanted to equip. Save it for after the mission dudes. This is a timed strike!
Few things annoyed me in destiny than people stopping to fuck around in their goddamn inventory every 5 minutes because they gotta drop they wanted to equip. Save it for after the mission dudes. This is a timed strike!
Yep, I got booted out from infinite loading screen twice from the Stronghold before it was finished and thought I'd lost everything, but then when I re-ran the stronghold a third time and completed it, I had a ton of loot in there that definitely wasn't from just that run.
Really loved the Colossus after I found a really cool build. A combination of the electrocuting ability and the flamethrower dealt massive area of effect damage. It got to the point where I rarely used my actual guns to kill the enemies because I'm just priming and detonating combos myself. So good.
In that blog post they said that they had encountered it before and fixed it, or so they thought. It resurfaced now at massive scale, but better now than on 15th. They can still get it fixed and avoid far larger PR shitshow.
I played through the demo with the Ranger and Storm. I even went through the Fortification on hard twice just to see how it went. My overall impression was negative and here is some focused feedback if the devs are reading:
Menus: The menus are incredibly clunky. I feel like you could have most of the launch mission options on one screen instead of the different tabs. The forge is a mess and needs some easier options when it comes to color and texture picking. The weapon menu is the worst of the bunch with its diagonal listing of items and no sorting of rarity/weapon/class type to be seen.
Gunplay: The guns all seem very lackluster. I tried out the different weapons and I don't think I found anything that really felt punchy other than a sniper rifle that had to charge an explosive shot. In short, using the guns felt boring.
Flight: The flying looks cool but I always feel like I am going 10mph even when full throttle. The Storm's ability to hover is great and it only makes me wish some of the other classes could hover a little longer. As soon as you are on the ground the gameplay becomes incredibly standard so being able to fly and shoot/use abilities makes the whole experience better.
Classes: The storm is the only class that I found fun to play overall but even that was only with specific skills equipped. As soon as you were not playing with Ice/Electric combo powers even the Storm was boring. As I mentioned before, not being able to hover very long with the Ranger made it feel like I was playing an older standard TPS like Lost Planet.
Tarsis: I'm sure it was a bug but even though I disabled motion blur and chromatic aberration I was still getting these effects visually in the fort. The forced slow walk in the fort is annoying making you feel like a ghost haunting the halls. The few people you can talk to in the demo seem pointless as the conversations don't do anything to world build. I know they were not selling the story in the demo but this is Bioware and interesting characters should be a focus.
Graphics: Overall, the graphics are nice. The world looks lush and wild with nice colors and lighting. The details on the Javelins really pop. The enemies however have a very basic look to them. Their design when you look at the development art is great but when you see them on screen, it does not look the same. Almost like they kill most of the detail that makes them interesting.
AI: The AI just seems to either charge you or sit back and snipe depending on the enemy. I never felt like I had to worry about being flanked or surprised in any way. The turrets are effectively annoying but it is so easy to just sit and snipe them with your abilites. I never felt like I was pushed out of cover by other enemies although I did have to fall back a couple times on hard while using the storm.
I have EA access so I will probably play the 10 hour trial to see if there are improvements but if I don't see major changes I might give this one a pass and pick up some of the single player games coming out next month until the Division 2 hits in March.
Menus: The menus are incredibly clunky. I feel like you could have most of the launch mission options on one screen instead of the different tabs. The forge is a mess and needs some easier options when it comes to color and texture picking. The weapon menu is the worst of the bunch with its diagonal listing of items and no sorting of rarity/weapon/class type to be seen.
Gunplay: The guns all seem very lackluster. I tried out the different weapons and I don't think I found anything that really felt punchy other than a sniper rifle that had to charge an explosive shot. In short, using the guns felt boring.
Flight: The flying looks cool but I always feel like I am going 10mph even when full throttle. The Storm's ability to hover is great and it only makes me wish some of the other classes could hover a little longer. As soon as you are on the ground the gameplay becomes incredibly standard so being able to fly and shoot/use abilities makes the whole experience better.
Classes: The storm is the only class that I found fun to play overall but even that was only with specific skills equipped. As soon as you were not playing with Ice/Electric combo powers even the Storm was boring. As I mentioned before, not being able to hover very long with the Ranger made it feel like I was playing an older standard TPS like Lost Planet.
Tarsis: I'm sure it was a bug but even though I disabled motion blur and chromatic aberration I was still getting these effects visually in the fort. The forced slow walk in the fort is annoying making you feel like a ghost haunting the halls. The few people you can talk to in the demo seem pointless as the conversations don't do anything to world build. I know they were not selling the story in the demo but this is Bioware and interesting characters should be a focus.
Graphics: Overall, the graphics are nice. The world looks lush and wild with nice colors and lighting. The details on the Javelins really pop. The enemies however have a very basic look to them. Their design when you look at the development art is great but when you see them on screen, it does not look the same. Almost like they kill most of the detail that makes them interesting.
AI: The AI just seems to either charge you or sit back and snipe depending on the enemy. I never felt like I had to worry about being flanked or surprised in any way. The turrets are effectively annoying but it is so easy to just sit and snipe them with your abilites. I never felt like I was pushed out of cover by other enemies although I did have to fall back a couple times on hard while using the storm.
I have EA access so I will probably play the 10 hour trial to see if there are improvements but if I don't see major changes I might give this one a pass and pick up some of the single player games coming out next month until the Division 2 hits in March.
Ya, its better they see issues now, but if it wasn't fixed in another build, I doubt the fix will be ready by the 15th.
They will and are throwing a lot hours and men at it, they have to. If they don't get it snuffed out from main branch via day 1 patch on 15th and 95% loading screens happens like it does in this demo build... scale will be massive and it will be disaster for BW.
No, framerate was better, loading times where less, etc.
Here are my 1440p/4K videos at max settings, one from each class:
Also posted a 4K screenshot gallery on my website: http://www.pcmrace.com/2019/01/26/n...o-vip-de-anthem-en-4k-con-detalles-al-maximo/
Also posted a 4K screenshot gallery on my website: http://www.pcmrace.com/2019/01/26/n...o-vip-de-anthem-en-4k-con-detalles-al-maximo/
So annoying! Also my issue is finding stuff and using it right away, only to find it sucks and I waste time/die. Diablo had this issue slightly, since you swap out skills and weapons backwards and forwards when stuff sucks.
I posted earlier in the thread but other than the infinite loading bug this really scratched my mass effect multiplayer itch. I barely played but certainly ran into some enemies who were almost re skins. The blue thing in an orb is just a blue banshee with less screaming haha
"Hey, there's a countdown on this puzzle/boss!"
"Yeah, yeah, wait I gotta check my inventory to see the goodies I got, hehe."
*Party dies 2 minutes later*
It doesn't feel like a worthwhile tradeoff. You can't do it in free roam, either. The only place you can change gear is at a forge. Which means any time you want to change gear, it means a return to town, and then a return to the field, perhaps only to discover that your new setup isn't that appealing after all. Diablo got this right. You can't change gear in a timed rift. You can do it nearly anywhere else, though.
yea shotguns feel okay, but they don't sound like shotguns. they sound soft and unsatisfying. No power or weight; it's just a noise.
Also, sniper rifles are weird because they have this strange float to them. You pull the trigger and the scope sort of floats up a little bit, then back down. Just a very unnatural sort of action for a weapon recoiling in the hand of a human (or human in a suit). There's no snap, no crispiness. Compare to any other sniper rifle in any other game. It's just a very odd feeling thing.
Other weapons have potential and some even feel pretty good, but all of them are betrayed by awful soundFX that are a combination of too soft and too unrealistic, lacking in both presence and power. The result is a bunch of weapons that sound like toys, pea shooters and lawn mowers. The weapons in the E3 demo sound like proper weapons. Go watch that trailer again. The difference is immediately noticeable.
I don't know what happened with the sound here but I'm not happy about it at all and I hope the final release has sound that seems more appropriate for the weapons they are attached to. Every other relevant looter-shooter/shooter does the soundFX better and its important as most of our time playing this game will be spent firing these weapons.
Didn't know the phrase "pc master race" was still used these days.
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