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Anthem |OT| GaaS Effect
- Thread starter iFirez
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So the grind mission part with the tombs? Really not that bad. I ignored them and went on doing story missions and a stronghold and a bit of free roam and I've got most of it done already and it didn't feel grindy at all. It definitely looks daunting but it doesn't seem that bad. And yeah all mine started at 0.
This is good to hear.
The minute to minute is what I care about most in this game... along with the loot hunt. I really hope I find it compelling, as Detiny and Waframe really don't do it for me atm.
The design of the quest was mind-numbing, and was rightly criticized, but the extend of the "grind" was massively overblown.
Maybe players should only have to pay a percentage of full price until a certain amount of fixes are done etc? I'm kidding but of course games are judged as they are at launch.
Should change the tomb quest to do a side missions for each of the 3 factions and maybe 1 strong hold run for the last one. Prob take longer then the normal grind for them but at least easier to follow.
And for me it worked as intended, and I was pretty much done in an hour. Had fun wandering the world showing my friends where each of the tombs are.
It will sell well. Players might start dropping off quick, though, if they don't support it fast enough.
My experience too.
people said the same thing as other games like Wildlands, and even the upcoming Division 2 but it had a higher PC preorders than the first game
many love looter shooter games
Based on what, though? Momentum is really taking a hit and it has only been early access for a couple of days. Demos were pretty weak. Reviews might be tepid. Heavy marketing doesn't guarantee sales by any means.
After Crackdown 3, I can't trust all reviews.
When does this trigger? I am level 8 thus far.
Finished at level 24, almost 25. Massive grind post game and only 3 stronghold ? Well 2 since one of them is the final mission... wow. Beyond let down.
I just told you all I've experienced are Destiny raids. I don't think those would suffer if matchmaking was optional particularly if they just say "hey, you should coordinate and here's how."
You're being needlessly obtuse regarding this, tbh.
I can wait to learn the story behind the development of this game, hopefully some journalist gets on it
Datto doesn't like it much either, he won't be straight up saying that on stream cause his chat is extremely sensitive to any negative comment about games.
How strong the core game is, what most people I've met have said outside of internet forums, how these things usually go, etc...
It is absolutely perplexing that BW is treating Day 1 as Feb. 22 and not Feb. 15. That is, unless it's being treated as a pseudo-beta, and in that case, I think it's pretty shitty.
I wrapped the story. It was OK, but it became a bit laborious in the last few missions. Mission design is unexceptional and uninspired.
jschreier any idea what the hell happened?!
Are there any cosmetic sets purchasable for Storm and Interceptor in the forge or is the limited amount of stuff in the cash shop all there is for purchase?
Modz chest farming at the highest difficulty and he got a legendary from the chest. Those early D3 days feeling.
https://www.twitch.tv/datmodz
Edit: Clip - https://clips.twitch.tv/SmoothBlindingMallardPipeHype
https://www.twitch.tv/datmodz
Edit: Clip - https://clips.twitch.tv/SmoothBlindingMallardPipeHype
I disagree. there's enough here for me for day one, for a few weeks maybe a month or so. The problems for me are features lacking, mostly.
You review the box on the shelf, not the potential for the future.
Depends. I'll be done tonight, but I want to mess around with endgame for some time.
Running into a bunch of bugs, like losing audio during free play , assets not loading in correctly, getting stuck in geometry. Performance is all over the place, with frequent dips during combat (i5 7th Gen/GTX 1080) despite lowering resolution scale.
Besides these hiccups, the over all package seems really technically unpolished from the frequent and lengthy load times, clunky menus, unhelpful UI, rubber banding, bizarre match making, pop-in, etc.
There is a fun innovative mech combat game buried under all these issues but I'm just having a hard time finding it.
I never suggested otherwise, if you actually read my posts (including the one you literally just quoted) you'd see my reasoning and know that.
Oh god no I'm having flash backs of the hours me and my friends spent breaking jars in the Skeleton Kings castle on D3.
I'll be honest, it's one of the main reasons I'm still willing to keep the plunge. It tells me they're committed to improvements. I like the core gameplay loop as is so improvements around that are okay for me
I dunno, I guess we'll see. IMO, Titanfall 2 was incredibly good and it bombed due to other factors. Right now the negative friction is really starting to pile up for Anthem.
Not to bring on more negativity but I finally caved and cancelled my preorder tonight. There's just too much writing on the wall with all the impressions I've been seeing. I'm still hopeful they can salvage it though, sooner or later.
I'm sorry, that sounds pretty horrible. And if anyone's experiencing this I wouldn't blame them at all for having a negative opinion of the game.
Indeed. Didn't want that to come across as brusque or anything, mostly just using the quote to point out where we were in the conversation.
TF2 wasn't a loot shooter.
Destiny 1 had a very similar feeling at launch, same issues, same complaints, and it sold very well.
Ah, then fair enough, and I fully agree with you.
in its current state the game doesn't deserve higher scores, that's for sure.
with early access you pay less money for the game. here you have to pay MORE ie $15 for a month of premier
Game will sold well (below EA expectation but hopefully well enough that EA doesn't kill the game or Bioware). Forsaken is already 5.5 months old and The Division 2 isn't out until March, I expect many co-op looter-shooter players to flock to Anthem (maybe not an apt comparison but when MHWorld came, most Destiny channel I followed plays MHWorld including Datto and Byf lol). Player number will drop off quickly however.
Months later, the game will have it's Taken King/Forsaken/Division 1.8 moment and people will praise it and say how it should have been Anthem on launch.
This is pretty much the rule these games follow, for better or worse.
One day a dev will pull an Apex Legends and release a GasS loot shooter (minus the surprise ofc) in a really high quality state and surprise us all.
I've not been following the Division 2, does it look like it could do this at all?
Yes but it had much more marketing behind it (I know both budget amounts), and was the first of its kind in a new genre. I also think the main beef for D2 was a lack of content, whereas Anthem seems to have more systemic issues. Agree to disagree - like I said, eventually we'll know how it turned out.
The Day 1 patch is changing game design, mission design, and load screen frequency?
There are plenty of bugs to be fixed but to think the patch will address substantive issues is a bit amiss, IMO.
Man, these youtubers/streamers and their forced reactions are so annoying.
Well on the plus side perhaps it means we get an A team mass effect game.
Forcing bioware to use frostbite has been a disaster.
Any chance they're adding a waypoint to the map? I don't know why they think you'd want to try everything manually in freeplay.
Not for me. I've got plenty of these kinds of games to keep me busy until this game gets more content and bug fixes etc. Just picked up Forsaken for Destiny 2, Titanfall 2 and Battlefield V on PSN really cheap. This will probably be really cheap six months to a year from now.
It's not more, you're paying less. Your subscription to the service provides other benefits. If you JUST got premier for a week of Early Access to Anthem then that's on you.
Apparently, BioWare themselves wanted to use Frostbite more than anything else. EA didn't force them to use it.
Looks like it, playing Division 1 right now (still levelling) and just like Ubi Single Player games, the game is really well made.
Too bad I'm not a fan the cover-based combat or the setting :(
I am getting a lot of flashbacks with andromeda here. ultimately I liked andromeda though it wasnt a patch on the prior mass effects, combat in particular was awesome since you get to combine classes which wasnt possible in prior trilogy. but early access had the face is tired meme and it was mocked and laughed at before it even launched
similarly it seems that some impressions of the game itself are positive for those willing to put up with these flaws (eg loading time) and I get the impression I will like the core gameplay, but like the andromeda situation, the game will get mocked and laughed at by the masses and end up hurting it greatly at launch. and to be honest after reading the insane amount of loading steps just to change a gun, they have themselves to blame for not waiting until such things were smoothed out (by themselves I dont necessarily blame bioware, ea calls the shots)
similarly it seems that some impressions of the game itself are positive for those willing to put up with these flaws (eg loading time) and I get the impression I will like the core gameplay, but like the andromeda situation, the game will get mocked and laughed at by the masses and end up hurting it greatly at launch. and to be honest after reading the insane amount of loading steps just to change a gun, they have themselves to blame for not waiting until such things were smoothed out (by themselves I dont necessarily blame bioware, ea calls the shots)