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Anthem |OT2| Scars are NOT people too
Also, I highly recommend mixing in the side quests with the main story. IMHO The NPCs are one of the strongest parts of the game and you get a great feel for the world from interacting with them. The main quest does not always feel extremely urgent, so it works well. Also do all of the conversations because most of them are great. There is even some fairly significant plot in the emails.
Also, I highly recommend mixing in the side quests with the main story. IMHO The NPCs are one of the strongest parts of the game and you get a great feel for the world from interacting with them. The main quest does not always feel extremely urgent, so it works well. Also do all of the conversations because most of them are great. There is even some fairly significant plot in the emails.
Even comparing it to Destiny 2, I've much preferred Anthem's story so far.
The question was specifically in reference to Destiny 1, but Anthem so far - and that could change, but I'm 7-8 hours in - has had a better story than the other looter shooters I've played by a large margin.
I wouldn't say bad it's just destiny is the best shooter on consoles, feels more like a call of duty. It's fine just guys heads don't pop and such, but they hit hard and easy to tell what you hit so it's fine. Ability just feel so good and refresh so fast the guns are what u you when your other stuff is cooling down. Why shoot 1 guy when u can freeze them then hit them with lighting that spreads the freeze to everyone near them?
That's kind of what I was wondering. If the gun play and loop was okish enough to be worth it while they try to fix the game and add content like how I found destiny 1 was.
Well that sounds horrible. :(
Well that doesn't sound bad. Destiny had great gun play it was so satisfying. If anthem plays more like CoD I can be fine with that. Specially like you said with all the abilities on top of that.
I disagree heavily. Anthems guns feel amazing to me. It might just be because I am a Colossus but the auto cannon is like firing a chainsaw that sprays bullets
Well you are competing with other players for loot chests in freeplay, so its not a completely free ride.
"I don't have time to explain why I don't have time to explain." Something something light, something something fight the darkness, uhhh "they come from the moooon!" That's about the best I can do.
Also wow.. the loading times with my SSD feel like what they should be on a normal HDD.
I'm up to seven hard crashes and that's not even including the progression trigger bugs. I've counted all Strongholds and two regular missions to have issues with that so far. This is just madness.
Guns are defently secondary but I've been using the Anvil (scout rifle like) and a Machine Pistol (full auto side arm ish) for when thing get close. As a storm I'm usally hovering above the battle field and the Anvil hits hard with a nice thud when u get hit weak points. I hear snipers are really good for weak point dmg but just like destiny I suck at using them.
I'd totally recomend trying the EA access thing if just want to try it out. You can get a good feel for it for $5. If that's an option.
I just started using quickplay two hours ago to try and get to level 30 and have had three missions that I joined have broken progression. Runes not spawning, enemies infinitely spawning, door locked.
Yeah colossus only guns are on a diffrent level. Didn't unlock it yet but in the demo, wow. My brother is using the colossus and he is loving it.
Actually, I just reached that point in the story and have the quest now. Seems like it's a low level story quest, as I'm still level 14. So the farm is basically useless for the mission host, as they don't have access to epic/masterwork loot yet at this point.
And it makes me wonder, why would anyone who have the quest offer it to others who are already at endgame? What'd they gain from that? Because as far as I'm aware, you can't progress the story without finishing this particular quest. Without progressing the story, grinding to endgame will be a huge chore.
Yeah, I think I'm going to save the last 6-7 hours I have on my trial till the day one update releases and more of my friends start to play. Playing solo so far just isn't clicking with me.
I saw a streamer play colossus and it looked like a blast. Wish I had started with one honestly.
Maybe today is worse for some reason but the game is just not working on almost any of these missions.
Borlands 2 seems like a perfect example of a loot shooter with a good narrative. I played through and enjoyed that game several times in no small part due to the lore and story. So it can work in that style of game.
It's a cooperative, hub-based loot shooter with a hub and (small) loading times. So in my mind Destiny and Anthem are structured very similarly to it. Wonder why I don't see the comparison more often.
Not having played Anthem, though, I can't really comment on the other issues you've mentioned. I am leaning toward waiting awhile before picking it up, maybe on the cheap.
Yeah. This is like a weird new meta game in and of itself lmao.
Unless you have a group of 4 friends running this scheme, it's pretty tricky to complete these chest runs. Unless you have the means to do so, it isn't as broken as I thought it was prior to trying it myself.
I had to map out my own little route and find different chests that aren't being spread about in online communities to compete.
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Is there any place to view what the weekly coin payout was? Although even with a bunch of friends at tier 8 it looked like it was going to be very meager. I hope they adjust that because if you can come up with less than 2K coins from 20 hours of gameplay it will be a pretty pointless feature.
I would say Borderlands 2 is the one looter shooter with what will probably be a better, more enjoyable narrative than Anthem.
My brother told me today he did the strong hold with 2 other colossus, and an interceptor. When they got to the bug part all 3 ran around with shields up just mowing them down. Think that's the next javelin I'm unlocking.
It's funny, you're totally right and I did think about Borderlands, but for some reason I don't think of that game as being all that similar to Destiny and Anthem for some reason. I think part of it might be the more overt MMO elements of the latter games. It might also be that I played all three Borderlands games solo, without any co-op partners at all, and felt they were complete single-player experiences.
Think I'm going to give the $5 a try since most people saying the gunplay is pretty good. Plus I want to use the colossus and the auto gun firing like a chainsaw spraying bullets sold me on giving the trial a try hehe.
Thanks everyone for your opinions on the gameplay.
I actually think the end game gearing is fun. I have a masterwork venom spray on my interceptor. It gives me 700% super charge per enemy hit with it. If the group is big enough i can go from 0-100 super.
It adds layers to the play style of your choice. Plus the fact that skills are equips mean they can make new legendary skills.
Other little things I love about the game.
When you are fighting a titan and you kill it before it suicides, you get better loot drops.
I've been pleasantly surprised with the amount of worldquest variety. Sure it's still go here and kill this/deliver this. The location changes up a lot and you can get different variations. For example, I've run into the dominion in one area doing experiments on skorpions. Eventually though I saw a quest there where they were doing experiments on a titan. Depending on if you succeeded in the first step of the mission determined what would happen. If you fail a titan/luminary spawns. Which can net you better loot if you kill it quick enough.
I also love the luminary and titan fights. They seem like a slog initially. Once you start coordinating with your team and hitting weak points, it melts.
I really don't think the claim of no end game is completely correct. There are a ton of end game quests that further flesh the lore out. You can unlock new blueprints to be able to craft masterwork gear. Crafting essentially lets you target specific pieces without having to rely on rng. Open world content is compelling enough if you enjoy the core gameplay loop.
Strong holds are kind of a waste of game content IMO. I would have rather them put the development time into fleshing out the open world content.
I think Anthem is a good selling point for a Premier Access sub. 15 dollars for all the content in the game right now is a incredibly good deal, even with all the technical issues. I still think the game is worth 60 dollars on launch. The story is engaging enough to make you want to engage with the systems. There are a lot of sidequests attached to likeable characters.
It really is up to Bioware to deliver on supporting the game post release.
It adds layers to the play style of your choice. Plus the fact that skills are equips mean they can make new legendary skills.
Other little things I love about the game.
When you are fighting a titan and you kill it before it suicides, you get better loot drops.
I've been pleasantly surprised with the amount of worldquest variety. Sure it's still go here and kill this/deliver this. The location changes up a lot and you can get different variations. For example, I've run into the dominion in one area doing experiments on skorpions. Eventually though I saw a quest there where they were doing experiments on a titan. Depending on if you succeeded in the first step of the mission determined what would happen. If you fail a titan/luminary spawns. Which can net you better loot if you kill it quick enough.
I also love the luminary and titan fights. They seem like a slog initially. Once you start coordinating with your team and hitting weak points, it melts.
I really don't think the claim of no end game is completely correct. There are a ton of end game quests that further flesh the lore out. You can unlock new blueprints to be able to craft masterwork gear. Crafting essentially lets you target specific pieces without having to rely on rng. Open world content is compelling enough if you enjoy the core gameplay loop.
Strong holds are kind of a waste of game content IMO. I would have rather them put the development time into fleshing out the open world content.
I think Anthem is a good selling point for a Premier Access sub. 15 dollars for all the content in the game right now is a incredibly good deal, even with all the technical issues. I still think the game is worth 60 dollars on launch. The story is engaging enough to make you want to engage with the systems. There are a lot of sidequests attached to likeable characters.
It really is up to Bioware to deliver on supporting the game post release.
Me playing Colossus with AutoCannon build:
Colossus is so damn fun.
-Meet the Heavy, 2007
Colossus is so damn fun.
Has anyone else ran into issues where you lose loot after a DC? I was really hoping that was fixed but it hit me last night during freeplay.
I took out my lower level Ranger in easy freeplay to clear out temple stuff hoping to grab some epic gear for him at the same time. I ran around for close to 2 hrs doing chests and such before getting DCed. I had collected at least 5-6 epic items during that point.
I joined back on my session and finished up a few more temple requirements and exited expedition. I picked up one epic right at the end, and unfortunately there was only that one on the mission complete screen.
I was hoping they were just put in my inventory but I checked and there was nothing.
Still kind of baffling its a loot game without a proper real time inventory.
I took out my lower level Ranger in easy freeplay to clear out temple stuff hoping to grab some epic gear for him at the same time. I ran around for close to 2 hrs doing chests and such before getting DCed. I had collected at least 5-6 epic items during that point.
I joined back on my session and finished up a few more temple requirements and exited expedition. I picked up one epic right at the end, and unfortunately there was only that one on the mission complete screen.
I was hoping they were just put in my inventory but I checked and there was nothing.
Still kind of baffling its a loot game without a proper real time inventory.
Agree lol. I was unsure after the demo, but it's def my favorite so far
So im Level 23 (with sidequest activity) and apparently already at the last Story Mission? Expected it to be way longer. Sad to hear its already ending, story-wise.
Yeah, it's not that long, but long enough for a game like this. Moreover, the story doesn't stop there, they'll add more story in 'Acts' later, which will change the world one way or another. Think of Guild Wars 2 living story.
I just watched a vid by mtashed where he showed the masterworks he got from a 12hr gaming session. Some bugs with gear abilities not proccing right or actually proccing a different gear skill instead. But some of the weapons+skills had very nice abilities such as weapons inflicting primers after a few hits etc.
Michael Gamble just posted this on Twitter:
So if I'm understanding this correctly, the requirements for the tomb start being tracked earlier?
Also:
which ties into...
EDIT: Beaten on that last Tweet lol. But yeah still like that they seem to be monitoring the web and addressing issues
So if I'm understanding this correctly, the requirements for the tomb start being tracked earlier?
Also:
which ties into...
EDIT: Beaten on that last Tweet lol. But yeah still like that they seem to be monitoring the web and addressing issues
Yeah, from my understanding, they've been applying hotfixes live while people are still playing. No need to put down the server at all.
No need to pull the game down when half the player base or more is probably in a loading screen anyway
So frustrated right now...3/4hr into tyrant mine on hard...struggling room by room. My internet goes down for like 5 mins max. Lose the group which is understandable but also lose all the drops I had accumulated till the disconnect? What game does this?
This week will be interesting as folks are gonna be in the office full time. Can't wait to see whats addressed.
Posted this other tweet of Michael's over on the review thread because of some of the comments I read on there:
Hot damn I'm sure as we speak they are doing all they can to address the smaller fires reported by people over the Early Access. Not sure what can be done on the short term to address the other issues but still. At least the team seems very active online and is working on fixing the game.
Hot damn I'm sure as we speak they are doing all they can to address the smaller fires reported by people over the Early Access. Not sure what can be done on the short term to address the other issues but still. At least the team seems very active online and is working on fixing the game.