I can understand locking story missions behind level requirements but that is excessively dumb. Like, why?
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Anthem |OT| GaaS Effect
- Thread starter iFirez
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Jesus.
This coupled with the performance issues motivated me to contact EA to request a refund for my Origin Access Premier. I just joined last night so they went ahead and granted it.
Maybe I'll sub again in the fall when there's another paid EA game I want to play. Back to Apex Legends for now.
I was slowly leaning towards getting it next week and then saw this and this was pretty much exactly what I feared the quest design would turn into...maybe I am out after all.
Skimmed through the thread for impressions, this is what I got so far :
- Story is great, or at least better than Destiny/Division.
- Character customization only limited to voice and choosing preset face.
- Some bugs from demo still persist.
- Performance is improved.
- You can respawn by yourself now.
- Guns still sounds like Demo.
- Main story progression locked behind fetch quest.
- Story is great, or at least better than Destiny/Division.
- Character customization only limited to voice and choosing preset face.
- Some bugs from demo still persist.
- Performance is improved.
- You can respawn by yourself now.
- Guns still sounds like Demo.
- Main story progression locked behind fetch quest.
Been playing for a couple of hours trip report:
NEGATIVES:
-The story, characters, and writing are all about par for the course for modern Bioware (they suck)
-I hate having to run around the fort, and really wish there was some kind of fast travel system.
-I don't really care about any of the chats, but some of them give rep so I feel obliged to go for them.
POSITIVES:
-The game-feel is exquisite to me. Now that M+KB flying is fixed, there's nothing quite like combat in this game.
-Game feels very stable for a day 1 launch.
I'm excited to keep playing. I think there's the framework for a really excellent game in here.
It's just as bad. It's for people who read 1000 page fantasy novels.
NEGATIVES:
-The story, characters, and writing are all about par for the course for modern Bioware (they suck)
-I hate having to run around the fort, and really wish there was some kind of fast travel system.
-I don't really care about any of the chats, but some of them give rep so I feel obliged to go for them.
POSITIVES:
-The game-feel is exquisite to me. Now that M+KB flying is fixed, there's nothing quite like combat in this game.
-Game feels very stable for a day 1 launch.
I'm excited to keep playing. I think there's the framework for a really excellent game in here.
It's just as bad. It's for people who read 1000 page fantasy novels.
Loot is a core part. That's why abilities also drop as loot, and have power levels just like guns (something very few if any similar games do). Everything I've gotten from following/playing the game is 100% that the game is abilities first, guns second. Sorry you didn't get that impression.
Yeah, when I got there I decided I didn't need to play all day after all. Really enjoyed it up to this point.
Good lord...what were they thinking. I play a lot of loot shooters and I don't mind grinding for the most part, but that just seems poorly designed. Way too much just to advance the story.
I'm having a good time overall! Definitely could use a few tune-ups though:
-"Start" menu in-game is really bad. Very unresponsive.The UI animations should be very snappy, not feel like trudging through a swamp.
-I didn't have time to look, can we remap controller buttons on PC? The weapon swap being same as reload and not a dedicated button is actually really breaking my pacing. The swap never happens how I want it, so it requires me to break my attention and stop what I'm doing.
-"Start" menu in-game is really bad. Very unresponsive.The UI animations should be very snappy, not feel like trudging through a swamp.
-I didn't have time to look, can we remap controller buttons on PC? The weapon swap being same as reload and not a dedicated button is actually really breaking my pacing. The swap never happens how I want it, so it requires me to break my attention and stop what I'm doing.
I have low standard as I like Mass Effect 3, Dragon Age Inquisition and Dragon Age 2 story so I'm not too fussed about it >.<
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Holy shit at that fetch auest requirement list... I hope they address it in the launch..
Probably because people see the Bioware name and assume there's a creator like their past 10 games. I don't think it's necessary in this game though.
I absolutely would not blame anyone for stopping the second they hit that grind. It is poorly communicated and extremely hard to track or tell what your current status is at any given time. Yes, it is doable, but man it's like a brick wall for anyone who is casually enjoying the game and isn't interested in doing some insane grind at that point.
I'm seeing similar people pissed across Reddit, Twitter, and Discord as more and more people hit this area. It has to be one of the more baffling design decisions I have ever seen in a video game. It completely kills any momentum in the game's story, and it really hinders enjoyment of the game.
I think the grind, tracking or not, would be awful. But given there's no decent ways to track it makes it even worse. It really is absolutely unacceptable for AAA game in 2019.
This was my issue with the demo but being a demo I had hoped the flow was fixed in the final version when you can play with every feature unlocked. It felt like the game needed more time to just figure things out.
I find it to be a weak excuse. It's s shooter, guns could and should feel good to use.
Why are YOU getting so salty? Just chill out, I am being completely calm and stating my opinion. That's all. No need to get condescending.
"Lol at you telling me what I should or shouldn't assume." -- Now now, no need to be so conceited. It's called having a discussion/debate.
I'm glad you've played every BioWare game, as have I. All the way back to the mid 90s BEFORE KOTOR. I have also experienced a few select BioWare titles that did not have an in depth character creation. Not every title they develop must follow some strict guidelines in their development process, that's how developers become stagnant and tired. Look at how Ubisoft has handled Far Cry/Assassin's Creed. Even they finally broke the mold to try new things.
I'm sorry this game is missing character creation, but that's just how it is. It's pretty obvious in a game that is strictly defined by Javelin customization (which was shown long ago), as well as the primary upgrade path you follow.. that you wouldn't be seeing your character much at all. They have stated this. How would that make sense anyways, if most of the time your conversation is done via first person?
Here is one of the MANY SOURCES stating this information. I would assume as a dedicated BioWare fan, you are fully aware of this - despite your response.
Source: https://comicbook.com/gaming/2018/12/11/bioware-anthem-character-customization-options/
I'll let you find the livestream yourself when they were doing Q&A's and reveals for the last few months constantly. This was also apparent in the demos as well. As well as the multiple tweets, different replies available via Reddit - etc.
I think you're making a big stink out of this, and getting angry purely out of being conditioned. I'm sorry, but I'd prefer to let devs try something new and express their ideas elsewhere. They've clearly done a great job with the Javelin customization.. so it wasn't wasted efforts. It's not like they completely omit any sort of customization.
You do you though. If you're just going to continue to reply like a child, please refrain from doing so at all. If you would like to have a debate without getting hot headed and passive aggressive, feel free.
EDIT: As for the wording of the menu, I'm sorry they did not choose proper wording for the selection. At most, I would agree it should be switched to "Character appearance".
Ok just finished the video impressions. Here are some additional comments from the GB crew.
-Animations feel fake and are akin to a stage performance.
-Mission design is bleh and feels repetitive.
-They really hated the writing and feel it's bad for a Bioware game.
-Worried about enemy design variations.
-Want more challenging encounters.
Less than what we would like to. Being busy with projects, and running multiplayer games across continents during development requires quite a bit of planning and organisation, especially when not all systems might be in.
That feels like an intentional way of stalling a player's progress because of a lack of content. They're worried people will blow through the missions so how do you slow them down? By giving them a bunch of tasks to do that eat up chunks of time and are hard to track.
I actually said this during the demo. I wasn't that impresseed with any of the weapons or the sounds of them and thought shit they should have just went full on with powers in this game. That was the most exciting part of the combat. Should have went L1/R1/R2/L2 for different powers that you could mix and match plus a super. Just throw the guns in the garbage.
After messing with the Trial for 2 hours it's definitely better than unplayable, but it's some of the worst mouse controls I've experienced in a while. Shooting and flying are manageable, but swimming just has the camera spazzing out all over the place as the reticle seems more like its just taking my suggestions instead of my direct input.
Does it carry on tracking if you quit the game? Or is it expecting you to do all that in one single free play session?
Well they didn't want anyone getting through the whole story with the 10 hour trial, did they? lol
Surprised they didn't limit the main missions you could do like they did with the andromeda trial.
Ugh, I keep crashing and now there's a new problem where I can't rejoin my own friends game because it's private.
1; It's not, it's free roam public and 2; even if it was I was part of the damned team.
Also no news about why servers are coming down, for how long.....
1; It's not, it's free roam public and 2; even if it was I was part of the damned team.
Also no news about why servers are coming down, for how long.....
Surely this was intentional so players with 10 hour early access couldn't finish the campaign today.
Kappa
Without context, that sounds horrible. But for me, it would depend how long that took. If it was total like 2 hours, I think that's fine. Basically just forces you to check out the freeplay section of the game. Not the design I would have gone with, though.