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Anthem |OT| GaaS Effect
- Thread starter iFirez
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You get unlimited early access if you have Origin Premier on PC.
I mean, it's basically following Diablo's model. Kill stuff, find the door, get loot, kill stuff, find the door, get the loot.
I'm certainly fine with that gameplay loop at endgame. I guess I wasn't expecting anything more complicated than that, tbh.
Seems to be UI and UX stuff is planned for the 22nd. They showed some off in stream.
In the past, I perceived him as fair and balanced. But Anthem seems to rub him the wrong way. He was on the forefront of the $20 skin outrage. But when the real prices were revealed, he chose to misrepresent them as "around $10" for some reason.
Sure enough, his comments were full of "$10 is too much!" entries. The difference to $8.50 isn't huge, but why the imprecision? To keep up the good rage?
You don't hit max light in Destiny at the end of the story either? Why is that a bad thing for anthem?
Honestly, my friends and I are absolutely loving it, but it does seem that mileage varies.
Across the board I think we're around lvl 23, so we've been playing a lot so far hah.
Yes, they are. Dragon Quest XI can fully load in three and a half seconds, The Witcher 3 can load in less than five seconds and this takes up to two and a half minutes sometimes on Freeplay. Usually Freeplay takes close to a minute. The only thing that was really improved was loading into the Forge.
yup it's hilarious for the lvl 3 but i guess the game auto levels or something
Loading times are alright for me, but I hate how sloooooooow your movement inside the city is.
Thinking about holding off on playing anymore and just waiting until the Day 1 patch. I'm tired of having to re-do my settings each time I log in, and I kinda want to play through the early missions again solo. The game's default audio makes it hard to hear dialog, so I missed a lot early on until I adjusted things. Also, playing story missions the first time through with random people sucks. WHY IS EVERYONE IN SUCH A F'NG RUSH. I'm trying to take in dialog and the game is prompting my to hurry and catch up before it teleports me because one guy is playing this like WarFrame and speeding running through.
Plus, I don't like the character face I picked anyhow. So yeah, I'm probably starting over on Friday and setting my lobby to private for everything except the forced public freeplay missions.
The added "sprint" speed is a joke. I don't understand how they could playtest the sprint speed and think, "yeah, this is exactly what the community was asking for. ship it guys.".
Plus, I don't like the character face I picked anyhow. So yeah, I'm probably starting over on Friday and setting my lobby to private for everything except the forced public freeplay missions.
The added "sprint" speed is a joke. I don't understand how they could playtest the sprint speed and think, "yeah, this is exactly what the community was asking for. ship it guys.".
Is the game good to buy on the 22? Like, a must have or it is better to wait for more cotent to drop later on?
You'd still need to catch up first if more content drops, so yeah, it's a good buy.
Again, the problem is that, unlike Destiny (well, I only played Destiny 2, to be honest, so I don't know how it was in 1), this game forces you to do the grind in the middle of the story, which makes you replay a lot of the stuff you already did, which highlights the loading screens problem, the boring mission design, the out of bounds thing, the audio/matchmaking/etc bugs, and all of that wraped in a package that says "You have done everything the game has to offer, do it again!".
Like I say, the Diablo/Destiny/Division style of gameplay loop is not the problem, the problem is that in my opinion the game is rushed and void of diversity. Which is a complete shame.
This is, of course, only my opinion, if you're enjoying the game, hey, I'm glad! I'm sure the day one patch will make it even better.
The running speed inside the fort get's added on the 22nd.
It wasn't added yet. Oddly enough, I thought there was a "walk faster" sprint in the demo, but it seems to be missing here.
Glad I decided to go with Origin Premier instead of Basic. Already put in 16 hours.
Just press L3.
it's probably the Frostbite engine, having problems with an open world game
There is no logical argument for not having match making in destiny raids or any other game for that matter. Allow people to party up who want to and allow others to use match-making, best of both worlds.
Nope.
Even on PS4 Pro, Gamble was very proud to indicate that they cut near half of the frames for more "smooth" : https://twitter.com/GambleMike/status/1096448948351291393
I've made a thread on reddit to warn other "Ps4 Pro + 1080p screen" players, but of course it has been insta-downvote to hell :)
Even Digital Foundry says it was better : https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-2019-anthem-demo-performance-analysis
"but if your choice is between 20-30fps at 1800p, or 35-50fps to 1080p, it's a no-brainer - the game just works better at a higher frame-rate "
"The PS4 Pro's full HD output makes reading the most intense firefights a lot easier: you get more visual feedback and lower latency. "
So instead of adding an option, a performance mode, they just cut off the extra frames and lock the fps at 30. No more problem guys !
Oh my fucking god, launched into a mission that already started, had to get into a loading screen again and no audio bug. fuck.
No, one of many many suggestions after the demo.
This issue was nothing new, people had been complaining about it since the demo. I am just shocked that BW never thought of stuff like this and such as the issue in demo build when a player hang on to an echo but refuse to deposit it, it will halt progression (which it was eventually fix in the launch build). It ALMOST feel like no one in the dev team ever play an online game before and have no clue how people behave in an online game. Any mission progression stopper behavior by players SHOULD be already flush out and have counter measures in place way before the the launch, especially how much emphasis BW has been hamming on about how this game is social and co-op.
Thanks for the info.
It looks like they launched the game with part 1/6 of the story content so-to-speak and plan on releasing more story content over the course of the year?
I wonder why they could provide a little more story content at launch, especially considering the Dev time on this game...
Yeah, mine were. I feel bad for those that had to start from scratch. I'd say I spent 30 minutes total on tombs.
Yeah, I'll probably still try it. I really liked the demos despite all the issues. Was just hoping that they'd fixed more of the problems.
Do you have a vinyl on? or maybe it's locked, not sure about the other javelins. I don't think so though.
I don't think so, but that's a good call. I'll check it when I log back in.
Skill up has 2 moods. Hype master or outrage champion. I don't know what algorithm luck has catapulted him to the top of everyone's YouTube recommendations but I can't stand his videos. Same goes for AGC, people suddenly hold them up as the bastion of correct opinions.
Is it just me or is the real issue here EA's insistence in every bloody game they make using Frostbite? It seems that engine just causes enormous issues whenever a dev team tries to make something that isn't an FPS.
So, how much content the game have, if you do all the side missions and story missions, strongholds a bit of free play?
Now, I know this is a coop game and you are supposed to replay the missions several times. But, for argument sake, to have an idea of how much is there, how many hours is if you play everything just once?
Now, I know this is a coop game and you are supposed to replay the missions several times. But, for argument sake, to have an idea of how much is there, how many hours is if you play everything just once?
All complaints Destiny has had thrown at it one time or another boring mission design having to redo stuff you already have done loading the tower etc etc.
I don't personally find grind at the beginning middle or end an issue as long as I'm personally having fun is what I'm saying.
I've read in this thread that grind isn't even that bad I'm not up to it myself so I don't know.
It sucks about the bugs though but hopefully that ends better in updates much like a few more QOL stuff it needs.
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I believe that's the Anthem vynil. You need to deattach it from vynil customization section.
Frostbite is absolutely a wrong choice for a game like Anthem, that is for sure. but even with a fitting engine there are so many baffling gameplay and design decisions that i don´t know if the end result would been much better.
In terms of loading, Bioware's frostbite games have been too long, tho I don't have a SSD, Inquisition, Andromeda and now this suffer from loading and streaming issues. I hope that maybe after this Bioware can make their own engine like back in the old days or use another's but yeh, it's EA so I doubt... though Respawn can use others?
I couldn't recommend this to someone yet. I'd give it at least a couple of months to see what patches and improvements they make. It'll be cheaper then too.
Yep. The fact games like this and Dragon Age Inquisition could even be in shipping condition is a miracle to be honest. Blood Sweat and Pixels had a lengthy section on the development of the latter that really showed how much they had to stretch Frostbite to have it even apply with basic RPG concepts.