Anthem |OT| GaaS Effect

Descendant · Mar 5, 2019

Man I've had a rough day with Anthem. Its shut down my PS4, and kept bugging my quick play missions all day, to where you literally can't progress the current mission you are on. I think I'm finally going to take a break from it and wait for the new update to hopefully come this week.

Weird all of these crazy bugs are effecting me at the endgame portion of this game.

Ralemont · Mar 5, 2019

deadfolk said:
Strange - I get no prompt. Maybe it just means there's no contracts. I haven't had anything from Mathias for ages and thought maybe I needed the contract board instead. I think I might be bugged.

Check your journal or quest checklist or whatever - some folks reported contracts having been accepted and in the log but not showing up on the map, so they never did them to get the next. Try tracking it from your log and it should show on the map.

JediTimeBoy · Mar 5, 2019

Katana_Strikes said:
Do certain feats stack? Like say I have 3 components that have Ultimate +25% speed would those stack or would it only work once and cancel the other ones out?

Generally speaking, it should stack unless it says otherwise (based on mmorpg exp).

Re Matthias: one of his missions showed up in my list as an agent mission, rather than contract. Do you have any agent missions in your list?

deadfolk · Mar 5, 2019

Ralemont said:
Check your journal or quest checklist or whatever - some folks reported contracts having been accepted and in the log but not showing up on the map, so they never did them to get the next. Try tracking it from your log and it should show on the map.

Turns out my very next story mission was a trigger for Matthias!

JMY86 · Mar 5, 2019

Ralemont said:
Check your journal or quest checklist or whatever - some folks reported contracts having been accepted and in the log but not showing up on the map, so they never did them to get the next. Try tracking it from your log and it should show on the map.

This happened to me with Sentinel Brin. I thought her contracts were somehow bugged because I had not gotten any contracts (legendary or otherwise) from her in ages. I did find a contract in my log then tracked it and it showed up way in the corner of the damn map. I finished the contract and everything is fine now.

Seneset · Mar 5, 2019

Raide said:
Probably all going in the Stronghold Vanity boxes.

Those are going to be vinyls not armor.

Karish · Mar 5, 2019

Anyone out there basically playing solo? I don't mean with MP turned off, but basically only playing with strangers? That would be my lot if I gave this a go.

Zastava · Mar 5, 2019

Seneset said:
Those are going to be vinyls not armor.

I've seen this said a few times but haven't seen where this is from, you got a source?

SRTtoZ · Mar 5, 2019

My first Masterwork. I know it's nothing special but it still feels good.

SRTtoZ · Mar 5, 2019

Karish said:
Anyone out there basically playing solo? I don't mean with MP turned off, but basically only playing with strangers? That would be my lot if I gave this a go.

Yea you can play any way you want. I play with my friend, I play solo, I do world events solo, I play with randoms etc. It works great any way you want.

Jamiaro · Mar 5, 2019

SRTtoZ said:
My first Masterwork. I know it's nothing special but it still feels good.

I actually have the same gun, but as a power 47 Legendary. Pretty damn good, I tell ya. Got lucky with the inscriptios as well.

The Riot Inside · Mar 5, 2019

Karish said:
Anyone out there basically playing solo? I don't mean with MP turned off, but basically only playing with strangers? That would be my lot if I gave this a go.

I am. It's fine for the most part but I haven't gotten to the end yet. Just don't expect to get a chance to explore around during missions. I always take the opportunity to look for chests or the wall runes but end up getting warped ahead because they just blitz to the next waypoint.

SRTtoZ · Mar 5, 2019

Jamiaro said:
I actually have the same gun, but as a power 47 Legendary. Pretty damn good, I tell ya. Got lucky with the inscriptios as well.

I'm only level 26 so it's way better than the 27 Cloudburst I was using so I'm happy! Of course I hoped it was an Endless Siege but damn after reading up I hear this gun is pretty good.

Deleted member 27471 · Mar 5, 2019

deafmedal said:
Proof that support ends after Act 1. Never trust Curlyhair Casey and his way more than 3 endings >:(

I'm confused how does that mean they won't support it?

astro said:
After what he pulled with "no ABC", I can't ever take this guy's word.

The Todd Howard of BioWare. Don't believe his lies.

Razgriz417 · Mar 5, 2019

got a question about armor and shields components. Does the game just take your highest armor or shield across all components to determine your Armor and Shields? Or are all the totals added together?

deadfolk · Mar 5, 2019

Cool little foreshadowing I noticed.

When you approach Matthias before handing him the manifold, he says "Hello, hello, hello"

JediTimeBoy · Mar 5, 2019

Karish said:
Anyone out there basically playing solo? I don't mean with MP turned off, but basically only playing with strangers? That would be my lot if I gave this a go.

Yep, only playing with strangers.

Aurizen · Mar 5, 2019

Is there a way to farm a lot of money in this game? I feel the amount gain from missions are kinda low. Maybe I'm doing something wrong.

JediTimeBoy · Mar 5, 2019

Aurizen said:
Is there a way to farm a lot of money in this game? I feel the amount gain from missions are kinda low. Maybe I'm doing something wrong.

No way that I know of (unless you count challenge awards etc). Anyway I had around over 100,000, and spent around 50,000 a few days ago, and since then I'm around 77,000. Unless you're going to buy every piece of armor that there's available right now, I wouldn't worry too much.

edgefusion · Mar 5, 2019

Aurizen said:
Is there a way to farm a lot of money in this game? I feel the amount gain from missions are kinda low. Maybe I'm doing something wrong.

Challenges, daily/weekly challenges and the weekly Alliance bonus are your routes to more coins. It's tough to make a lot because they want to encourage you to spend real money.

Deleted member 47843 · Mar 5, 2019

Karish said:
Anyone out there basically playing solo? I don't mean with MP turned off, but basically only playing with strangers? That would be my lot if I gave this a go.

It's either been me and my buddy plus two randos or myself with three randos. I've had a blast. Until you get to strongholds on the higher difficulties there's not much of anything that necessitates much coordination at all. Plus, the higher difficulties are locked behind hitting level 30 so most randos you get at that level know what they're doing. Nothing in this currently is anything like Destiny raids that require communication for even people who know what they're doing to get through it as a team.

shinobi602 · Mar 5, 2019

So now that I've finished the campaign at level 18, what's the best way to level up and get to 30?

Deleted member 47843 · Mar 5, 2019

shinobi602 said:
So now that I've finished the campaign at level 18, what's the best way to level up and get to 30?

Keep doing all the side quests (agent and contracts) on hard. That gives more XP than anything. Quickplay if you run out of those as that let's you replay missions--downside is so many missions are broken so you end up back filling into broken missions that people left as they can't be completed.

I hit 30 well before running out of side missions, though I played on hard from the start and had done some twice to replay with my buddy (or vice versa) along the way.

Bessy67 · Mar 5, 2019

shinobi602 said:
So now that I've finished the campaign at level 18, what's the best way to level up and get to 30?

Finish off all the side quests for Brin, Matthias and Yarrow so you get access to contracts. Then run contracts and strongholds

shinobi602 · Mar 5, 2019

mooshie78 said:
Keep doing all the side quests (agent and contracts) on hard. That gives more XP than anything. Quickplay if you run out of those as that let's you replay missions--downside is so many missions are broken so you end up back filling into broken missions that people left as they can't be completed.

I hit 30 well before running out of side missions, though I played on hard from the start and had done some twice to replay with my buddy (or vice versa) along the way.

Bessy67 said:
Finish off all the side quests for Brin, Matthias and Yarrow so you get access to contracts. Then run contracts and strongholds

Sounds good!

So I'm guessing forget anything less than Hard from here on out then.

JediTimeBoy · Mar 5, 2019

shinobi602 said:
Sounds good!

So I'm guessing forget anything less than Hard from here on out then.

Yep. Unfortunately gm levels are only unlocked once you hit 30.

JMY86 · Mar 5, 2019

Torlain · Mar 5, 2019

Beaten lol

Dojima · Mar 5, 2019

Hopefully not breaking the game more

Deleted member 47843 · Mar 5, 2019

shinobi602 said:
Sounds good!

So I'm guessing forget anything less than Hard from here on out then.

Yep. Hard's not really hard in this game anyway. Like I said, we played on hard from the start and didn't struggle much with anything in storyh missions or sidequests other than some titan fights. The stronghold was tough on hard when we tried to early though.

So yep, just blow through things on hard to hit 30, and then jump up to Grandmaster 1 once you're in the 400-425 power range (if you want to do decent damage and not get carried--you'll still be pretty squishy and die fast until you get several masterwork components to buff you up more).

Raide · Mar 5, 2019

shinobi602 said:
Sounds good!

So I'm guessing forget anything less than Hard from here on out then.

Actually, you may as well play normal till 25ish and the MW pool opens up, then start the harder difficulties.

Aurizen · Mar 5, 2019

Dojima said:
Hopefully not breaking the game more

They have to talk about the bugs in the game... It breaks the system.

Dojima · Mar 5, 2019

Aurizen said:
They have to talk about the bugs in the game... It breaks the system.

Yeah hopefully they'll address the most annoying ones. They're very important! Minor things I don't care about they can fix later

Deleted member 47843 · Mar 5, 2019

Raide said:
Actually, you may as well play normal till 25ish and the MW pool opens up, then start the harder difficulties.

You get more XP on hard to help get to 25 sooner though. And it's really not much harder aside from a few annoying things like Titan fights.

Bonefish · Mar 5, 2019

im guessing Legendary missions will just be dailies of the story missions with additional rewards.

Raide · Mar 5, 2019

mooshie78 said:
You get more XP on hard to help get to 25 sooner though. And it's really not much harder aside from a few annoying things like Titan fights.

It was probably a lack of good gear at low level that made me swap to normal. I should jump back up now. Nearly 25 now anyway.

deafmedal · Mar 5, 2019

CG Amor said:
I'm confused how does that mean they won't support it?

You answered yourself on the next line!

CG Amor said:
The Todd Howard of BioWare. Don't believe his lies.

edgefusion · Mar 5, 2019

Finished a quickplay session only to get stuck on the 10 second countdown at the end, I quit Anthem from the PS menu which resulted in it crashing so hard it switched off my PS4. Took a few tries to get it to turn back on.

Edit: But looking at it positively, it still counted toward my Challenge of Valour target :)

Sanctuary · Mar 5, 2019

CG Amor said:
I'm confused how does that mean they won't support it?

I'm not necessarily seeing that, but what else was Casey going to tweet; "No, sorry, we know we're floundering here, and our EA overlords are pretty pissed. They want us focusing most of our team on Dragon Age 4 (Gotta figure out more games as a service aspects to implement first though!)"? He gave typical "Don't worry, everything is fine" PR speak as the oxygen masks are falling that could mean literally anything.

Raide said:
Actually, you may as well play normal till 25ish and the MW pool opens up, then start the harder difficulties.

Only do that if you're soloing. I did that for the first nineteen or so levels, and JFC was it so much faster going to Hard and grouping up. I would say jump to Hard no later than level sixteen at most.

Raide · Mar 5, 2019

Must admit, last few sessions I have had have been issue free. No weird kicking out of matches, no load issues and freeroam actually had a good amount of content in it.

Deleted member 47843 · Mar 5, 2019

Raide said:
It was probably a lack of good gear at low level that made me swap to normal. I should jump back up now. Nearly 25 now anyway.

Luck with randos being useful matters a lot too. The times my buddy and I struggled were often with bad randos who sucked, or were just not reviving people and so on. Definitely tougher totally solo too as at least my buddy and I could chat and help each either even if the randos were bad. I'd have played more on normal if just playing solo or with three randoms for sure.

disco_potato · Mar 5, 2019

ChrisJSY said:
He's said the same thing on 5 separate days, right now I'm just like, I'll get it when I get it I guess.
Attempt number 6 maybe!

Last time he said it, we got our coins the next day.

panda-zebra said:
I

Luck gives more drops and better quality drops

According to devs, luck "upgrades" drops. There's not increased quantity, just increased quality.

panda-zebra · Mar 5, 2019

disco_potato said:
According to devs, luck "upgrades" drops. There's not increased quantity, just increased quality.

BrenonHolmes on reddit said it affects both drop rate and rarity:

Some basic details about luck and how it currently works:

It's threshold based

The last threshold is once you get over 190

It affects drop rate and rarity

For drop rates, the modifier is added into a formula for computing the drop chance (there are a whole mess of factors that can further modify the value based on enemy type, etc).

For rarity, the modifier is also added into a formula... but the final computed modifier (based on difficulty, luck and the difficulty of the thing that was killed) is only applied to the highest rarity of thing that you can get for your level (and masterwork/legendary if it's available at your level).

Hopefully that helps! 😊

Dimple · Mar 5, 2019

The Champion of Tarsis quest is complete and utter fucking garbage, that is all.

SRTtoZ · Mar 5, 2019

shinobi602 said:
So now that I've finished the campaign at level 18, what's the best way to level up and get to 30?

I didn't even finish the campaign or side missions yet and I'm level 25. What I do is all the side missions when they're available, quickplay once in a while, and roam around freeplay soloing world events for the loot.

JMY86 said:

Ranger buffs?

gutterboy44 · Mar 5, 2019

They really need to increase all drops, especially on big baddies like ancient ash titans. Get rid of all the trash rarities and throw in some other shit in addition to loot. Like crafting mats, armor, paint jobs etc. These big fights that take a while even on hard are so god damn anti climatic when two tiny blue diamond pop out after battling some 3 story titan for 5 minutes. Never in the history of any loot based game has stingy loot been fun or a good decision. It is such a very very basic concept in a loot based game.

SRTtoZ · Mar 5, 2019

Gypsie said:
Okay so I have played as storm the entire time and got it fully masterworked up (excluding support obvs) but I started using the Colossus for the last couple of hours - it's pretty damn fun I have to say. I seem to get BIGGER combos with this dude which surprises me.

Was very simple to gear it up too - bare in mind for anyone else who has played 1 class exclusively I didn't have many of the materials to craft the gear for this class, I never noticed there was a class specific element before.

Yea I went from Storm to Colossus at level 18 and never looked back. The Colossus can take so much damage and dish it out as well so it's a great Javelin for solo shit. The only thing that sucks is 1 on 1 with a boss. That takes some time but I imagine most classes do.

Deleted member 27471 · Mar 5, 2019

deafmedal said:
You answered yourself on the next line!

I figured lol.

Sanctuary said:
I'm not necessarily seeing that, but what else was Casey going to tweet; "No, sorry, we know we're floundering here, and our EA overlords are pretty pissed. They want us focusing most of our team on Dragon Age 4 (Gotta figure out more games as a service aspects to implement first though!)"? He gave typical "Don't worry, everything is fine" PR speak as the oxygen masks are falling that could mean literally anything.

True, would suck to see EA step in after all the promises BioWare has been saying on fixing the game and adding to it.

JediTimeBoy · Mar 5, 2019

SRTtoZ said:
The only thing that sucks is 1 on 1 with a boss. That takes some time but I imagine most classes do.

Can't remember the gw weapon off the top of my head, but it hitting elites (and I'm assuming bosses) with a 5 hit streak, makes them 5% more susceptible to elemental damage, and can stack four times (or five, can't remember). That plus your Force Lightning + flamerhrower = quick job on elites. Used it plenty on the Scar Enforcers with physical shields. Kills them quick.

SRTtoZ · Mar 5, 2019

JediTimeBoy said:
Can't remember the gw weapon off the top of my head, but it hitting elites (and I'm assuming bosses) with a 5 hit streak, makes them 5% more susceptible to elemental damage, and can stack four times (or five, can't remember). That plus your Force Lightning + flamerhrower = quick job on elites. Used it plenty on the Scar Enforcers with physical shields. Kills them quick.

Yea I use the flamethrower + lightning coil combo. Also I just got the Fist of Stral MW that absolutely shreds at 10 stacks. I don't know what the drop rates are supposed to be because I'm pretty new to end game but I've been getting a MW about every 3 world events. Not bad.

Edit: Just got another Fist and then the MW legendary Grenade Launcher Insult and Injury.

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