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Anthem |OT| GaaS Effect
- Thread starter iFirez
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Strongholds aren't good for grinding to level 30. Story missions and sidequests are easier and give more XP. So finish all your agent quests and sidequests on hard, replay then with friends who haven't done them yet as squad leader, do quick play if the patch has it working. Save grinding strongholds and freellay dungeons for after level 30 as that's for getting more loot drops, not getting XP fast.
After the 1.03 patch landed, loot has been terrible for me (only the 'guaranteed' MW seems to be dropping, chests are always full of blue/purple junk).
So YMMV.
I believe they are adding universal MW components soon.
There are already some epic universal components that have better inscriptions than MW components.
It kinda sounds like you aren't ready to do that Stronghold on hard, if it is giving you that much trouble? Did you already beat the game, at level 20? I don't think I ran it on Hard until I was like 25 or something, but I honestly can't remember. It was definitely tough, as a colossus, even. But it gave me 5 MW.
Also sounds like you were playing before the patch. The new revive mechanics are much more forgiving.
Monitor Stronghold is trivial now on GM1, was really hard/time consuming the only other time I ran it.
Gunslinger's Mark shows the correct 60% boost now, but Amulet of Winter says "Increases ice damage by % and ice effect by %". Same for Mark of Ruin for fire but Tome of Precision is fine for Electric.
Reporting back that my lost loot from last night has now appeared in the game after the patch. And low and behold it was a Lengendary universal component that now sits in my vault. Them pushing the hotfix prior to the actual patch seemed to be the problem since the items weren't technically in the game yet.
I expect you're just having bad luck. Loot seems way more common for almost everyone.
I'm getting a new kind of crash on PC since the patch, on top of previous crashes that are still happening. It just inexplicably keeps getting worse.
To be frank, I haven't really had many issues since launch. Quickplay issues that plagued everyone, few disconnects, and a hand full of hard shut down. Just about anything bad that happened I mentioned here in passing.
After patch, only ran Freeplay for about 30 minutes. Did about 7 world events(the ones that bugged out we're Scar ones requiring clearing ads after killing main guy), faugth some Titan's(much quicker with status effects and lesser damage mitigation). Got 2 or 3 masterworks in the process.
Ads still despawn for no reason, no loot screen after missions.
I'm having a good time though, as I've been for a while.
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Are you running universal or javelin specific components? The game relies on you raising shield numbers as you progress. As long as you fill those component slots as the unlock, you should not be getting one shot.
Going from 20 to 30 in quickplay is pretty quick and now you get more MWs.
There you go, check yor vault and the offending items will have magically reappeared. Everyone reporting the same on reddit - the missing items were not previously in the game until the patch as the server-side stuff went up before the patch became available. So I guess you got 3 Legendary universal components... lol.
Ooh fuck gm2 is haaaaaard, lol!
Took almost an hour to do ToS, and think I started about quarter of the way in.
Got 35 items, including for mw.
Btw, not sure if it was there before, but you can respawn inside strongholds, from the map.
ToS on gm1 took 15 minutes from start to end lol. 26 drops including one mw.
Don't think it's worth me doing gm2 over gm1, in terms of loot.
Took almost an hour to do ToS, and think I started about quarter of the way in.
Got 35 items, including for mw.
Btw, not sure if it was there before, but you can respawn inside strongholds, from the map.
ToS on gm1 took 15 minutes from start to end lol. 26 drops including one mw.
Don't think it's worth me doing gm2 over gm1, in terms of loot.
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I cant believe they reverted the loot drops to shit again after all the positive feedback on reddit last night.
And loot is back to being junk. Did we have another 11hr loot window situation?
Oh, quickplay is still poopoo.
Oh, quickplay is still poopoo.
Any Colossus mains find it too hard to try out other Javelins? It's just way too fun to shield charge through mobs and use those nukes and I need my tanky armor.
I think what happened was a hotfix for loot went up early that was being too generous and then the patch which came out a few hours ago re-adjusted it to how it should be.
Right here. I don't know why either since the Interceptor should be right up my alley. Stomping around is too much fun I guess.
Can y'all please qualify "junk"? Are you getting greens and whites? Purples? MW with bad rolls?
Is quickplay just completely fucked? Just tried to load in to 3 different ones and each time no marker to show where to go. 2/3 times there's an objective in the top right but no signs of what to do or go.
Ah, right. I'd assumed the strongholds were the route to 30. Not playing with anyone other than randoms so seems like quickplay is the recommended activity for grinding to 30? I've read numerous posts about missions frequently being broken in it, is that still the case?
I finished the story at level 18 so I've been doing the 'holds on hard for the past couple of levels assuming that was kind of the progression. If you weren't on it until 25 would make sense, it's been pretty frustrating playing and the revive mechanic has long been my largest issue with the game. Sure you can appreciate, when you're being one shot out the sky and spending more time staring at the revive screen than playing the game it's just demoralising when all you wanted was to put an hour in before work and get some bits done.
You mention the revive mechanic is now better? Mind letting me know what's changed as, as mentioned, it's genuinely been the element that's made me put down the game each time.
I'm running all the shield and armour ones it'll let me and I have. Believe I have a blue and a green for shield but only green for armour. One-shot might be inaccurate when literal, it's that those hovering shield Scars with the machine guns knock me faster than I can react or move so the effect is the same. As soon as I know I'm being hit I'm down and out. Which when Storm leads to staying in the ground, peeking from behind a wall every time your skill cools down for a fair length until one of them is dead. Just killed any sense of power (and thus fun) I was having.
That all said seems I'd make the incorrect assumption on doing Strongholds are the story - the way it presents them after the story made me think the game was recommending you do them to progress to 30. I'll happily jump into quickplay knowing it's less stressful and faster lol. Thank you.
New bug on ps4 - selecting javelins, moving up & down the loadouts with dpad, doesn't seem to have any debounce and it just fires all the way down and up and makes noises like you pressed it a dozen times. It is possible to then make it move once, but then it can also move loads again.
What's up with Tarsis where it shows you a yellow conversation marker on the map and radar but as soon as you get close enough it just disappears until you move away again. This mostly happens with Matti and underground where the hourglasses are. Very annoying.
Purples and blues. Greens and whites are no longer a thing once you hit 30.
was getting 3-5 mw in strongholds each time and now only purples
Regarding this loot freakout, lemme get this straight:
-Some people on reddit are reporting that, starting late last night/early this morning, they started getting a lot of loot
-1.03 patch drops, people say they're getting a lot more masterworks (5-10 per Stronghold)\
-1.5 hours later, drops like that "stop"
Does that sound right? I'm about to hop on and find out myself.
-Some people on reddit are reporting that, starting late last night/early this morning, they started getting a lot of loot
-1.03 patch drops, people say they're getting a lot more masterworks (5-10 per Stronghold)\
-1.5 hours later, drops like that "stop"
Does that sound right? I'm about to hop on and find out myself.
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Holy shit this goes a long way to fixing my largest issue when playing.
Thank you for the heads up.
It doesn't matter now. I used to be an ardent defender of this game and some of its issues. The loot issue has become untenable. I've play almost 20 hours with only a single masterwork drop that isnt guaranteed from a legendary contract or stronghold boss. I've spend hours and hours in freeplay completely unrewarding.
When loot drops are the only way to progress your character, and they are anemic, it has become a waste of time. It would be different, if there were static drops to farm from each stronghold or dungeon; but there isnt.
Reverting, for the second time, a more acceptable drop rate is just them being ignorant of what their players not only want, but need.
The featured store even has the same colossus armor that's been up 3 times now, and it's the only armor set available.
This game lives and dies by respecting players time, like all looter games, and this might be the most egregious offender of this tenet yet.
Try refreshing the My Games & Apps list. Hover over the icon, press menu button and refresh, see if kicks in.
I use to but then I found out I miss having a dodge to much. So been maining Ranger lately hoping they will do some changes to it.
Purely anecdotal, but I ran one Legendary contract, the tyrant mines on GM2, and the final boss stronghold heart of whatever on GM1. Not seeing any increase of MW drops , legendaries ect. that people were claiming were dropping like candy last night.
I think they reverted the drops back to where they were a few days ago. It's funny, each time they've changed the game and drastically increased drop rates I just happen to not be playing during that time. Oh well.
I think they reverted the drops back to where they were a few days ago. It's funny, each time they've changed the game and drastically increased drop rates I just happen to not be playing during that time. Oh well.
Any tips on how to play Colossus effectively on a team? Like, what do I offer to help keep my team alive in harder encounters?
Post-patch none of the 3 bugged conversations in my Fort Tarsis have been fixed, which is one thing I was particularly looking forward to.
Taunt. Generally, try to draw as much aggro as possible.