Finished the Main Campaign yesterday at level 25.
I liked that the after credit scene teased a new faction.
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Anthem |OT| GaaS Effect
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Yes, it does feel more like chapter 1 of a book than an actual end of a book. Interested to see what happens going forward.
I enjoyed the characters and side content quite a bit and the main campaigned laid a decent base for them to build off of.
Agreed. Some interesting stuff going on as you play that I hope they flesh out as time goes on.
I'm not sure if others just straight plowed through the main missions, but I've been playing on and off since launch (mostly due to being busy), playing an hour or two here and there, several hours over the weekends and I'm level 17 now and still not finished with the campaign. Probably have about 20 hours in the game so far.
Pretty sure I'm getting close to the "end" but perhaps with my playstyle, it has felt decently lengthy. I've been doing all side missions and contracts in between critical story missions, talking to every NPC, reading Cortex entries, doing a bit of freeplay, Tyrant Mine, etc. Just taking my time really. Even if it ends within the next hour or two, I feel like I've gotten a good amount of story so far personally.
I really want to try out the other 3 Javelins, but no one I play with wants to take over Colossus duty, and the game would damn near be impossible to get through with out one. The only attack I'm really afraid of is the Titan's chest beam. I spend most my time with my shield out reviving everyone.
In PC is the same, so you're not alone.
They must improves the loot, the reward is disgusting with white, greens and blue on GM1
The chest beam is really heavily telegraphed and unlike some of the other attacks seems to respect cover properly. Now when I see that coming I just dive behind cover even as a colossus because it can melt through the shield pretty quickly.
Yeah its the only thing I have to hide from, every thing else I pull my shield out for. I like too that if I'm on fire I can pull my shield out and then the damage stops ticking off my health and then ticks of the shield instead.
I am enjoying it and the class seems to hold its own. I am only playing on gm1 as gm2 requires a team really and I am playing solo. It also helps the I have the Divine Vengeance 4 burst rifle with a blast damage stack as this thing wrecks stuff.
Even with a heavy drop, it's still #1. I still wish we had some solid digital numbers.
I really wish you could use the terrain to hide from the Ass Titan (Yeah, Ass) attacks. Probably one of the worst designed bosses in a game I've played in a long time. Even if you hit a dodge perfectly half the time you still take damage from those stupid fucking orbs.
As a Storm, one wrong move and I'm dead for the next hour as I try to get revived and dodge the waves, balls and monsters.
Oh yeah and I guess I'm supposed to find time to shoot it?
As a Storm, one wrong move and I'm dead for the next hour as I try to get revived and dodge the waves, balls and monsters.
Oh yeah and I guess I'm supposed to find time to shoot it?
Do you know how much the drop was? All I could find was a chart without numbers.
Someone in the thread about the charts said about 70% but I don't know if that ws made up or based upon real numbers.
Jesus 70% drop would mean the UK market is super dead this week. That would be like 12k copies for Anthem or something.
Exactly the same experience as me. Been playing the game very passively but I think folks who have issues are probably in deeper than you and I are. I have a feeling we too will eventually reach end game and that's when our opinions might change. For better or worse though, due to the way I've been playing the game, I've been having a blast and my money has been justified thus far.
Fucking right in the middle of Tyrant's mine, connection problem. Restarted itself twice.
Edit: when I finally managed to rejoin the session, the fucking sound cut out, smh...
Edit: when I finally managed to rejoin the session, the fucking sound cut out, smh...
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I'm not sure if it's network issues or what, but the game just never feels solid to me. I have a great connection and all other games play like a dream, but Anthem always plays like it's a half-step out of sync.
There's no obvious rubber banding or jumping about, but it's always weird little things, like someone I was previously shooting a second ago just inexplicably dying even though I'd moved on to a higher priority target, or it always being unclear if I'd actually scooped up loot or other pickups. The game just seems off, which is a pity as I otherwise actually quite like it.
There's no obvious rubber banding or jumping about, but it's always weird little things, like someone I was previously shooting a second ago just inexplicably dying even though I'd moved on to a higher priority target, or it always being unclear if I'd actually scooped up loot or other pickups. The game just seems off, which is a pity as I otherwise actually quite like it.
Who is downplaying anything? If people are saying they've have a relative smooth ride, that's just as valid a comment on experience as yours, no matter how many hours they put in.
Lag and rubber banding every session though on ps4 pro, that's not something I've seen reported too often at all. Personally I've only seen it a few times in the demo, maybe once in the release game (probably not, more likely confusing with the PC version I player the demo for 10 hours and saw it a bit there on my spud). I've clocked waaaay over 100 hours so far.
Same here. I stopped playing Division 2 after an hour or two it was so busted, but I've had Anthem bugs/fuckups I can count on one hand after playing all through early access.
I had so much rubberbanding it was insane, till somebody gave me the tip to clear the mac adress on xbox one X. After that it ran butter smooth. I can't remember if the same option is available for ps4 pro. But then again i never had these issues on my ps4.
Ive mostly been doing the same thing, but I've only ran tyrant mine twice, and very little free play. I'm lvl 20 almost 21 and I still haven't finished the story. I still haven't done the Mathius manifold mission yet (not sure where that is in the story). I play a few hours a day so yeah it's been a pretty full experience just with the story so far which has now just been over a week.
I'm finding I want to finish up so I can start collecting some master works lol.
Erm... because I've finished playing the game and want to play something else? Like I do with every other non-digital game I own.
The playstation is showing the dashboard and there is no disc/disk activity at the time, so it should be safe to eject. The game was at the mission select or forge screen, doing nothing.
It's not like I'm hitting eject mid-game during a save or loading screen or while it's trying to perform the game-boot disc check - though frankly that shouldn't hard-crash the playstation either.
Ugh, this makes my skin crawl. Why don't you exit out of the game before ejecting the disc? If not by using the proper in-game menu option, at least by going to the dashboard and using the PS4 menu option?
I'm probably a simiar play style to you. I've put 15 hours in the game and am only level 11 and only just unlocked strongholds. Really loving the game and enjoying taking my time, it's just that the cutscenes are so good I wish there was more of a campaign.
Hopefully the storyline will continue and we'll get decent sized chunks of it as time goes on.
Is anyone actually crafting level 36 items, to try and roll useful bonus stats, or just using the ones they have, in hope of getting mw items? I'm possibly considering it but not sure if it's a waste of resources...
I ran my first GM1 difficulty stuff last night. Did the legendary contract first, thst was pretty rough. I was around 411 power and my Storm was getting one shotted left and right. The two randoms with us went down a lot too (one was really bad). My buddy was a bit higher level and mostly carried us with a lot of revives and getting the objectives at the downed strider done.
Then we did the Tyrant mine, I was at 430 something then as I got some good drops (had +60 luck on gear) from the contract. That went smoother. Still got one shotted a few times on the first two sections, but fine thereafter. The boss is piss easy as Storm since you can just hover and not be in range of many attacks.
I'm at 440 something now, but need to see if I like the build as it's my first electric-focused one as I got two masterwork electric attacks (neither is a primer or detonator) and some electric boosting components. There are so many shielded enemies who get their shields back up fast that I'm hoping those electric attacks will help deal with. I've been mostly rocking ice storm and burning orb so I have no sense of how I'll like those electric attacks though. Also got a machine pistol as my first legendary.
In any case, I'm liking the endgame so far as masterworks are dropping at a nice rate for us so far. It's definitely thin on content as as all we have currently is the daily legendary contract from Yarrow, the strongholds, free roam and the regular contract from Yarrow. And that checklist Legionnaire quest of course. But I'm still loving the combat enough that I want to keep playing. I need to work on getting my other Javelin leveled up as they're all low to mid 300s. I'll probably focus on colossus first as I'd like to have a tank for stuff like that legendary contract where my glass cannon Storm gets one or two shotted so easily.
Then we did the Tyrant mine, I was at 430 something then as I got some good drops (had +60 luck on gear) from the contract. That went smoother. Still got one shotted a few times on the first two sections, but fine thereafter. The boss is piss easy as Storm since you can just hover and not be in range of many attacks.
I'm at 440 something now, but need to see if I like the build as it's my first electric-focused one as I got two masterwork electric attacks (neither is a primer or detonator) and some electric boosting components. There are so many shielded enemies who get their shields back up fast that I'm hoping those electric attacks will help deal with. I've been mostly rocking ice storm and burning orb so I have no sense of how I'll like those electric attacks though. Also got a machine pistol as my first legendary.
In any case, I'm liking the endgame so far as masterworks are dropping at a nice rate for us so far. It's definitely thin on content as as all we have currently is the daily legendary contract from Yarrow, the strongholds, free roam and the regular contract from Yarrow. And that checklist Legionnaire quest of course. But I'm still loving the combat enough that I want to keep playing. I need to work on getting my other Javelin leveled up as they're all low to mid 300s. I'll probably focus on colossus first as I'd like to have a tank for stuff like that legendary contract where my glass cannon Storm gets one or two shotted so easily.
So three legendary contracts: one Yarrow, one Brin, and is the third Matthias (no pun intended lol) ?
I got a full set of masterwork in no time, so I never bothered to craft epic items. The only exception being the support slot, which I did re-roll a few times to get something semi-decent.
I was supposed to have started my Colossus by now, but can't stop playing my Interceptor. People that thought it would suffer at gm1 were wrong.
Mostly from strongholds?
It happened to me for the first time this weekend it scared the shit out of me I thought my console was completely broken. It seems to be a pretty common problem if you check this thread and the Reddit thread. I was talking to my friend, who is an attorney, about how broken this game was, he told me not to be surprised if someone files a class action again Bioware and EA.
Almost entirely, yeah. Besides the daily legendary variant, contracts are only worth it for faction gain or testing a new build.
Was this during the closed beta? I played the open beta for like 6 hours yesterday and the only bug I had was a spot where my character model wouldn't load in the menus.
Although I have only had a few problem with Anthem in like 20 hours also so maybe I'm just getting really lucky?
I did get a few through legendary contracts, and one through a mw1 normal contract, but they weren't stuff that I use.
One thing I have started getting, is alot of gear for other javelins. Didn't get many before, and they are mostly epic drops.
Burn them. Those resources aren't worth anything soon other than crafting per-mission buff items and you'll always have way more than you'll ever need.
I had nearly 250 MW embers and ripped through half of them to get a decent floaty pistol roll, that was a few days ago, I've probably got just as many again now. You drown in these things soon enough.
You character has luck 100 if you don't have a single luck buff roll on any item, not zero.
I crafted a +Harvest set (or rather, filled in gaps for parts that didn't have +Harvest already) so that I can just casually fly around in GM1 freeplay and harvest 4 embers at a time from nodes.
I'm having to do freeplay to farm for epics, because I keep running out. When will I start drowning lol ?!?
Yep, that's something I was thinking of too.
As I understand it, everyone starts with +100 luck actually.
Didn't the dev say that everyone has a base luck stat of 100? Look like someone else already mentioned it.
or if you are like me you only get them from Yarrow and Matthias. My game is somehow bugged where I don't get ANY contracts from Brin regular or legendary. I have tried the Launch Bay trick and still nothing...
Rng slimed upon me, got a MW auto cannon with the 100 dmg/ammo thing and it's a good roll as well. Now just to get something with a good roll to fill the other slot becuase I will never swap guns lol.
Yeah, I'm not getting any legendary from Matthias, which is why I asked.