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Anthem |OT| GaaS Effect
- Thread starter iFirez
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Cooldown comes back ridiculously fast. You do use weapon. There's 3 weapons type per family (Scout, Grenade Launcher etc). Don't bother with Assault Rifle they literally tickle the ennemeis to death.
It's not rare to ult 2-4 times in a single encounter. And pro tip, using your ultimate is an instant heal and you're invincible while using it.
At this point might as well change the OT title to Anthem |OT| Wait for the Day 1 Patch
I am seeing some familiar early launch issues that Anthem shares with other loot shooters etc. For better or worse I am kind of conditioned to accept these issues and just enjoy the time played co-op with friends. However, the inscription description insanity, the lack of a stat sheet and the fact some of the most crucial stat affecting inscriptions are glitched makes me more concerned than repetitive missions or grinding. I will make lemonade with lemons when I can play a game with friends, but if we can't even tell if we are dealing with lemons or potatoes, that is a huge concern. This day 1 patch is going to have to do, "an entire day of Genesis" levels of work to right this ship before the reviews tear it to shreds. All that said, can't wait to play Friday. I had fun with my friends during the demos.
I just got an item that said "+45% shield". It must only be raising my base, naked shield from level 1 by 45%, not my current total.
You can repeat this all you want, but your abilities have cooldowns, and some of the weapons do a massive amount of damage to weak points. If "the point" was to only ever use guns as a backup, there wouldn't be so many different versions of them.
In German we have this saying:
"Schuster, bleib bei deinem Leisten."
It means that you should stick with what you know how to do. I would advise the same to BioWare. This game is nowhere where it needs to be. I don't even think it would have been serious competition for Destiny 1 or Division 1. Which is incredibly disappointing, because the genre of the looter shooter needs more competition, because there is a lot of potential there. This isn't it though.
"Schuster, bleib bei deinem Leisten."
It means that you should stick with what you know how to do. I would advise the same to BioWare. This game is nowhere where it needs to be. I don't even think it would have been serious competition for Destiny 1 or Division 1. Which is incredibly disappointing, because the genre of the looter shooter needs more competition, because there is a lot of potential there. This isn't it though.
It's not raising your shields by any amount. I'm pretty certain shield inscription is bugged lol.
I think this is the same as cooldown bug, it isn't working at all
Yes. I have the icon and counter on my XMB for a day or two now.
I hope they can get these issues ironed out quickly because I really enjoyed the flying and combat, but everything else was just not what I expected. The loading screens and bugs didn't exactly help either.
It looks like they used variable names rather than pointers to the actual variables.
Act 1 Echoes of Reality starts in March. It won't be over in March. There are three updates within the act, and IMO we'll be lucky if each of those is monthly. Those three acts are year one content for me, but they won't be everything that changes in the world as there will be seasonal (holiday) updates etc. and there will also be lots of fixes and QoL adjustments.
I think it's more that people are looking for a looter shooter that's Not Destiny™. They're going to be disappointed when they load up Anthem only to discover that BioWare has repeated many of the same flaws that plagued vanilla Destiny 1 and vanilla Destiny 2.
I've lost count of how many times I saw this happen back during the height of World of Warcraft's popularity. People kept clamoring for the next game that was Not WoW™. A new MMO would be announced, people would hype themselves up over it, the game would get a massive influx of new players, the new players would discover the game was rough or had many of the same problems as WoW so they'd leave after a month or three and go back to playing what was more familiar.
The biggest thing damning Anthem is that we've gone through this process three times before over the last 4.5 years. Destiny, Division, Destiny 2. It's like BioWare learned nothing from those examples so here we are in 2019 with a game that has identical issues. A game that, like the others, wants us to wait in the hopes that a massive game changing 2.0 patch (a la Taken King or Forsaken) comes along. I can only speak for myself when I say I'm tired of that process and I'm sure I'm not alone. I gave Bungie and Massive multiple free passes, BioWare... not so much. They had ample opportunity to see what was going on in the genre around them and adjust... and yet here's Mars Chest Farming 2.0.
Hot cuppa coffee! This legendary stacks additively with a regular Heavy Shield component for 600% increased shield charge damage. Hitting for 9k!
You can really feel the difference once you get a masterwork/legendary component in GM1. My survivability is getting closer to hard levels now.
You can really feel the difference once you get a masterwork/legendary component in GM1. My survivability is getting closer to hard levels now.
Hot cuppa coffee! This legendary stacks additively with a regular Heavy Shield component for 600% increased shield charge damage.
You can really feel the difference once you get a masterwork/legendary component in GM1. My survivability is getting closer to hard levels now.
holy shit that is sweet
unlikely but we'll see
Did you drop it in a freeplay chest? :P
Not known and looking in doubt :( Dev tweeted they "smoothed out the framerate" than have it bobbling up and around 30 - sounds like they capped it. Plenty of people replied begging not to do this for pro, but no reply.
didn't the devs said they will lock the fps to 30 for consoles?
I don't know. All I know is that in the beta PS4 Pro to 1080p it worked above 40 fps
Question for people already further in the game. Are there a lot of new customisation options available? Or does al head,legs, etc look the same?
Using this logic, something like HZD wouldn't exist.
There's a lot to like here, including the core gameplay that most people seem to be positive about. It's been hampered by poor design decisions, a lot of which aren't going to be easy to improve let alone fix outright, but to suggest that it's a complete waste of time and that they shouldn't have made the effort is ridiculous.
All signs point to it now being locked at 30, unfortunately. Hopefully they can get some options in sooner rather than later, but as long as it's a solid 30 I'll be OK.
Unfortunately EA isn't interested in the type of software that BioWare used to make. They have to do as they are told.
Any idea how big the game is? I'll be able to download it just few hours before launch.
There's a lot of colors and textures but very few cosmetic armor pieces. There's a preorder set and then I think you can purchase a set from the shop?
The devs responded on reddit that they have some sort of surprise system coming out either this week or next that has to do with armor sets.
It dropped off of a common scar soldier while doing a legendary contract, but thank you for your concern :p.
I like the freeplay chests though, gives you some progress while searching for world events. I wish the events were advertised on the map though. Contracts should also be accessible through freeplay, and should pop up randomly while flying around. I wish "x" is kind of the subtitle of Anthem :|
Either that, or make sure that you have at least 5 people on it who play the game incessantly. :p
Sorry if this has been covered to death, but what's the final word about the bugginess (or not) of the tomb challenge progress?
I've seen some people say the game is supposed to be tracking your progress on those challenges retroactively from the start of the campaign, so they had some of them already completed when they unlocked that quest step, and that it's a bug if all of your challenges start from zero (like mine did).
Others have said there's no retroactive progress and everyone starts from scratch. Is there a verdict on which is right?
I've seen some people say the game is supposed to be tracking your progress on those challenges retroactively from the start of the campaign, so they had some of them already completed when they unlocked that quest step, and that it's a bug if all of your challenges start from zero (like mine did).
Others have said there's no retroactive progress and everyone starts from scratch. Is there a verdict on which is right?
This is true early on, but with masterwork and above weapons, the guns can do really great damage especially if you focus on it.
I'm one of the guys who had most of the progress completed when I found them. I finished them by doing side missions.
The problem is, there's no visual difference on weapons, only the stats.
Has Bioware specifically addressed this somewhere I can look at? I've seen other people say it'll be patched too, but haven't found an official source from them.
Personally i think reviewers should wait for after the day1 patch. At the moment at the current state i would rate it 6.5/10 with the potential to give it a better score with the patch that hopefully fixes a lot of the technical problems i encountered like freezing loading screens, tons of disconnects, server problems after doing mission which i had to replay up to three times, rubberbanding (just once very badly), errors through cutscenes etc etc. BUT the flying is really fun
Yeah this is an interesting question. I've pretty much got my review finished to a point I'm happy with (been playing a lot since Friday) but I don't wanna be accused of just rushing out work for clicks on Opencritic. I'm honestly waiting a few days to see what the bigger outlets do. I feel like if EA put the game out there it's basically fair game, this isn't Early Access, but at the same time I'm curious to see what might change come Friday (though I'm doubting much tbh).
I'm debating on picking this up or not, I'm really enjoying the game so far through EA access. I usually hope in and do 2 missions or so a night then hop off. The overarching story is pretty cool so far but the missions feel mundane and none of the actual missions have had any deep impact on the story so far and I'm probably 3 hours into it if not more, got my storm to a level 7.
With that being said, the way I'm playing it in short burst I'm not sure if its doable during the long run. I dont care much for raids and such, I just want to see the story through its completion and get cool looking loot on the journey.
Might re-up my gamefly membership to rent this if I'm still feeling the itch after the 10 hours runs out.
With that being said, the way I'm playing it in short burst I'm not sure if its doable during the long run. I dont care much for raids and such, I just want to see the story through its completion and get cool looking loot on the journey.
Might re-up my gamefly membership to rent this if I'm still feeling the itch after the 10 hours runs out.
Imo everyone is supposed to start from scratch once you obtain that quest. People who claim to have things retroactively complete didn't realize they had the quest unlocked in the first place. I've seen zero evidence that anything carried over for anyone once the quest unlocks. I've also read it'll be patched but I haven't seen any evidence of the devs saying this either. If someone could link that'd be nice. I think there's a whole lot of misinformation going around with it. Further more...... The quest is seriously not as bad as people are blowing it up to be. You're supposed to get the quest, and keep playing the game naturally obtaining the things needed for it. The only people who it's truly upsetting are those trying to rush through the game as fast as possible.
Another thing hope they can change, free roam needs more then 4 people max, can they triple that? I mean the world is huge.
That's inaccurate. Act 1 "starts in March". The first update could come March 30 for all we know, and the three updates for Act 1 could span weeks or months.
I think the Frostbite engine has enough problems dealing with 4 people in an open world game like this one, just imagine a dozen