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Anthem Prelaunch Discussion Thread (Origin Premier/EA Access: Feb 15th) - Time To Fly FreelancEra

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Sanctuary

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Kyoufu said:
Anthem plays like an evolved Mass Effect to me, combat wise.
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Pretty much. The whole primer/detonator system is based off of Dragon Age and Mass Effect anyway.

panda-zebra said:
^ lol, that's just PC players fighting their mouse
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Yes. It wasn't too terrible in open spaces, but trying to do sharp turns all the time in more enclosed areas wasn't happening. Underwater was even worse and I had just drag the mouse as slow as possible, orient the camera and then try to keep it centered. I had a controller plugged in as well, so I used that sometimes too for the water, but the gunplay on PC with a controller was awful. Not sure how it might differ on the consoles though.
 
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panda-zebra said:
Same weapons, unique stats and nicknames and iirc different skins.

As a BW employee pointed out on here recently, Destiny being FPS has you looking right at that weapon all the time, whereas Anthem being 3rd person you're looking at your javelin. So you can see how it's more important in Destiny to have fancy weapon designs when in Anthem you'd barely notice it. So I think it's sensible for them to be leaning on cosmetics for the javelin's look, people are going to want to customise that beyond colourways after a while, and hopefully that works out and we see new content for years to come off the back of it.
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Thanks for the clarification. Im not a fan of their response, and hopefully there's enough community feedback for them to want to add unique looking weapons along with crazy stats. The Javelin Customization is beyond what I expected, but they don't have to be mutually exclusive when we can have both unique Javelins and Weapons. Hell even adding transmog to the weapons would be better than nothing, especially with all these diablo comparisons.
 
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0ptimusPayne said:
Thanks for the clarification. Im not a fan of their response, and hopefully there's enough community feedback for them to want to add unique looking weapons along with crazy stats. The Javelin Customization is beyond what I expected, but they don't have to be mutually exclusive when we can have both unique Javelins and Weapons. Hell even adding transmog to the weapons would be better than nothing, especially with all these diablo comparisons.
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Yeah, I think most everyone will agree, and maybe that's at least something to expand on in future, maybe offer those kinds of weapons as reward for some ongoing little side story missions/quests, like Destiny did, maybe something to grind out the full potential of a seemingly-ordinary drop.
 
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I'd personally be down for cosmetic customization for guns as well - there's no PVP, so it doesn't really matter if anyone "knows" what gun you're using at a glance, as long as you're doing your job;
 
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iFirez said:
Yeah if you've added it to your Origin Library and you click on it now, it says the Preload is at 6:00pm UTC on the 13th and Game Available at 10:30pm UTC on the 14th. So we get it a little bit earlier too.
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Excellent! I just assumed early access would go live the same time as the demos did. I took the 15th and 18th off from work so this gives me even more time to play...
 
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Masterwork weapon

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deafmedal

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Kyoufu said:
It's a different weapon. Not every Masterwork weapon has its own unique bonus unfortunately. :(
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Hmmm. Would be kinda cool if they all had at least the chance to roll a unique bonus. Why would we craft the wraps that don't?!
I mean, it does look to have soon sort of bonus, just not gold like the other.

I fucking hate you pc'ers, super jelly, i need to can haz :(
 
Kyoufu

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deafmedal said:
Hmmm. Would be kinda cool if they all had at least the chance to roll a unique bonus. Why would we craft the wraps that don't?!
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If I remember correctly the Masterwork weapons without unique bonuses have higher base damage or something along those lines.

Not sure if that's still the case, or if I just made it up.
 
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So why does the second have inscriptions but the first doesn't? Do those get added somehow or are they random/instanced?
 
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How does crafting work if you have a masterwork blueprint but the power level is way below your current power? I know you can't reroll stats but can you improve items to bring them to your current level? Is crafting tied to your overall power level? Or do blueprints churn out a specific item level no matter what.
 
Kyoufu

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jtb said:
How does crafting work if you have a masterwork blueprint but the power level is way below your current power? I know you can't reroll stats but can you improve items to bring them to your current level? Is crafting tied to your overall power level? Or do blueprints churn out a specific item level no matter what.
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Masterworks are all gained at pilot level 30, and all have the same power rating so right now the only things with more power rating are Legendary tier weapons/gear.
 
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Kyoufu said:
The first one is a blueprint so it hasn't been crafted yet to gain any inscriptions.
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Ok, so it is in the process of rolling hence the bright circle where the power level will be, correct? In that case it looks to have a unique bonus, once the gun is rolled the text *should* be in gold I would think...
 
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deafmedal said:
Ok, so it is in the process of rolling hence the bright circle where the power level will be, correct? In that case it looks to have a unique bonus, once the gun is rolled the text *should* be in gold I would think...
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No because the unique gold bonus wouldn't be randomly generated, it'd be the same. That gun just doesn't have a unique perk. Here's another example of a weapon without unique perks, this time in the loot screen:

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I think you guys are kind of talking past each other just a bit.

Cycle of Pain DOES have a unique perk. It is not in Gold in the picture because it's the blueprint. There's no need for it to be in gold yet. That's the same reason why it doesn't have inscriptions. It's the blueprint, not the actual gun.
 
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Jest said:
I think you guys are kind of talking past each other just a bit.

Cycle of Pain DOES have a unique perk. It is not in Gold in the picture because it's the blueprint. There's no need for it to be in gold yet. That's the same reason why it doesn't have inscriptions. It's the blueprint, not the actual gun.
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So what about Savage then?
 

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Kyoufu said:
So what about Savage then?
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I couldn't say really. I've never seen that weapon or picture before so I have idea what build iteration it could be from. Maybe it doesn't have a unique perk. Maybe it wasn't yet implemented when that picture was made. Maybe it's just a basic gun type that we didn't see in the demo, rather than a Named gun.

But you can see in Cycle of Pain's description that it has a unique perk that suits the gun. "Marksman's Swiftness: Weak point hits temporarily increase weapon rate of fire. Stacks multiple times." The perk is even written in the same format as Renewed Courage's perk. It's just not Gold.
 

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in the same way Apex Legends makes me want to play TitanFall. So many ppl mentioned Anthem feeling a little like Mass Effect.....so i downloaded Andromeda last nite. I haven't gotten far enough to compare combat. But Anthem def feels like a better version of Andromeda traversal. Feels a lil janky in Andromeda. But i think u can level that up...so maybe its supposed to feel like that at first?

Man Andromeda is kinda choppy and not everything is pretty. But the facial textures are pretty good sometimes. In the Anthem demo the ppl looked so flat
 

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Are there any interviews or anything that explains why Bioware chose to call the player characters "freelancers" when so far all the in game cut scenes and marketing material describes them as pretty much the polar opposite of what that word suggests.
 
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homulilly said:
Are there any interviews or anything that explains why Bioware chose to call the player characters "freelancers" when so far all the in game cut scenes and marketing material describes them as pretty much the polar opposite of what that word suggests.
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That's a real good point lol. Although if I had to guess I imagine they're using it in the sense of, the player character isn't a part of any of the factions and doesn't have an official "job" so to speak. They're "free" to do what they want (yet obviously they can really only do two things: upgrade they're stuff, or help out Fort Tarsis).
 
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homulilly said:
Are there any interviews or anything that explains why Bioware chose to call the player characters "freelancers" when so far all the in game cut scenes and marketing material describes them as pretty much the polar opposite of what that word suggests.
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Aren't they freelancers, though? They do jobs for multiple different factions and aren't a part of any of them. That's basically the definition of a freelancer.
 

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Bricktop said:
Aren't they freelancers, though? They do jobs for multiple different factions and aren't a part of any of them. That's basically the definition of a freelancer.
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Yeah it kind of makes sense from a gameplay perspective with faction rep and stuff but the launch trailer and the lore cutscenes we've seen so far treat "Freelancers" as this noble group of chosen warriors who defend civilization with their life which is the polar opposite of an independent mercenary.
 
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