Getting the ME3 multiplayer vibes with iron man abilities...and that looks great to me with the amount of time I sunk into ME3 multiplayer.
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This Is Anthem - Gameplay Series, Part 1: Story, Progression, and Customization
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Also "defensive bubble"Never seen these enemies called "outlaws" before iirc.
Looking forward to this and even more after watching the video on the first page. Anyone use cdkeys.com to preorder?
Yup this is my problem as well. Visually appealing? Absolutely. But the gameplay just doesn't seem to back it up. Every video seems like a cluster fuck of particle effects and enemies getting destroyed. Doesn't seem like there's any challenge.
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Check the vid from IGN from yesterday. :)
We also see alot of easy to normal gameplay where it also goes to Hard and then 3 grandmasters after that.
Yeah, I massively missed playing games with dedicated Tanks/Healer/DPS I'll take a tank with an actual Taunt with gusto :)
I love the fact they all have their team skills and I hope that means I can build a support style character. Once we find out the inscription list.
Is this like Destiny where you pick one Javelin for the entire game or do you have all of them that you can switch between depending on need. I see you can have loadouts for one Javelin, but I don't understand if you will have all the javelins?
Graphically it looks good and I dig the style but do the facial animations of the NPCs look "off" to anyone else? They aren't Andromeda levels of bad but they are kinda like Horizon: Zero Dawn.
All 4 and you can access them from the main base or your mobile base. You can also have multiple loadouts for the same Javelin too.
As I understand from previous threads one can unlock all Javelins in any order as you level,
[edit] as per devstream 17/01, Javelins unlock level 2, 8, 16, 26
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Awesome. Two more questions I don't know if can be answered:
Do javelins level up together or do you have to level them separately?
Related, do we know if loot drops for all javelins no matter what we're piloting? I'm wondering if I'm flying a Colossus I could get only Ranger loot, etc.
Just thinking about how long term gameplay will play out...
We really are Iron Man now
this is why i am so excited. They could literally add air battles in the future, or even space who knows.......the storyline could progress pretty much anyway they want. Which means more environment variations and enemies. Maybe invading ships to the planet and we all blast into the sky to raid a giant space ship......god i love everything bioware is doing here.
You level them seperately. Loot favors the Javelin you currently pilot but you can get the other class stuff and either salvage it, it save for your other Javelins.
All this sounds good. I am interested but will be waiting to see how long it is at launch. These details bode well for a longer game IMO. D1 and 2 are too short.
I was just going to say what Raide replied. Though I recall certain loot will be usable across Javelins, specific guns for example can be used by all or some of the Javelins, Hand-cannons, all but Colossus & Assault rifles all suits as examples, so one could assume that it could be the case for drops for other Javelin systems.
Honestly, all I need is confirmation that everything they showed in that personalization livestream is available for free in the game without having to fork over cash or grind absurd hours just to look good. As soon as that happens, I'm in.
They said they will all be accessible through playing or buying them. Really depends on how the rarity works etc.
Damn looks so damn hot
Love these series videos. Sold on this and Days Gone now
#TeamInterceptor
Love these series videos. Sold on this and Days Gone now
#TeamInterceptor
I think this video just sold me on the game. It looked really good. I do hope there is more variety in locations that what they have shown so far. I also wish there will be areas that you are just on foot, perhaps a cave where it deactivates your flight controls and you have to be on foot. But yeah, this looks really good. Have they mentioned Pro/X resolutions/framerate etc?
I really hope I can fast fly/dash with the interceptor, kill my jets, pop my super while falling and hit the grown blades out ... I thought the super paused you where you were for a while but watching iron man flyby rocket pod hugs groups of people makes me hopefull i can stay more mobile while activating dem knives.
More and more hyped as it gets closer. This video is great. bring on the next!
More and more hyped as it gets closer. This video is great. bring on the next!
I keep seeing posts like these. Let me remind you what the competition in loot shooters looks like.
Here's a high-level Forsaken strike from Destiny 2 (Broodhold) which you'd expect to be full of great AI and powerful enemies. What you will see are lots of enemies standing out in the open, mostly standing around, and maybe doing a little dodge as they get mowed down. Melee enemies charge directly at you. And what's particularly laughable about it is that a lot of these enemies are all completely recycled from early gameplay.
https://youtu.be/yBbg_JGbf3A?t=156
Borderlands 2's AI is not much better. Now, I may have randomly picked some extraordinarily bad footage for this, but this should not be in a much lauded game:
https://youtu.be/aE9s_HaxGhY
This is a high-level incursion (Stolen Signal) from The Division, labelled by this player as "best incursion BY FAR!". You'll see more of the same: lots of brain-dead enemies and real bullet sponges:
https://youtu.be/NwOWAnTXgKw
Warframe is probably the closest to Anthem in terms of scope, and what does that look like? Here's some random footage that I pulled published a week ago about the open area "Fortuna". The player is able to mostly stay out in the open as enemies just charge directly at him:
https://youtu.be/rihaEAr2rcU?t=323
Now, go back and watch this Anthem footage and tell me that it looks significantly worse than those.
I don't disagree with the point you're trying to make, but I actually found the AI in the The Division to be pretty good. Enemies constantly run for cover (except for heavies) and are always trying to flank you. It happens so much, that it's honestly more annoying than anything else, because (in my opinion) they act like actual humans would.
Nobody is saying it looks worse than those. Personally I wanted something new, better than other games. If it's not better, then why would I play it? Because it's pretty?
This was a really good video, and I hope they have one in this series that talks about the endgame. I'd like to know what they have in the works even if they're not ready to show everything. Otherwise, people will drop this after hitting the level cap or playing through the content once like they did with the first Division.
thats a difficult metric to live by
never gonna play another "game type" because its worse than botw, god of war, gta, (or any top rated game)
I feel like they needed to have this kind of content out already, that was definitely the most straightforward and informative video yet.
Perhaps you aren't, but a lot of other people have said in other threads that it looks like a Destiny/Warframe clone with brain dead, boring enemies (which heavily implies that it's worse than Destiny/Warframe). A lot of us actually think that Anthem IS better than those games based on the footage shown. In my opinion, the flying and huge variety of abilities and actually different classes compared to these other games are vast improvements on the genre.
Even if it's not that much better in terms of gameplay than other games, people don't always just buy games for huge refinements on gameplay: they often want sequels that merely bring new content, contexts, and stories for the exact same gameplay. For example, consider a lot of Nintendo games in the Mario and Legend of Zelda series. A lot of their mechanics, items, and enemies are completely copied from previous games. A lot of them play almost exactly the same way as previous games. A game doesn't have to be better in a gameplay sense to be incredibly desired.
I don't think anyone is gonna claim Borderlands 2 had good AI, but at least it had crazy abilities/guns and funny writing to make up for the fairly repetitive aspects of it.
Personally, I prefer the approach they're going for which is enemy variety rather than "smart AI". Having a bunch of different enemies with simple yet unique behaviors with different types of status modifiers layered on top is the best approach for these kinds of games. As a whole they create a game that can stay fresh from moment to moment depending on what you're fighting much like Diablo or other isometric ARPGs.
Thankfully, the bigger enemies seem to be appropriately more complex. It looks like a huge improvement over Destiny and the Division to me.
I mean it looks pretty spectacular, but the lack of genuine SP focus means I am very unlikely to purchase the game. A pity.
You can play the game solo but if you wanted a ME style game, Anthem is not for you. Anthem has a story and lore and all manner of other things going for it but from day one it was obvious it was a looter shooter.
It still looks worse to me simply because in all those videos you posted you are moving A LOT more than you are in Anthem. Almost every time you want to hit an enemy in Anthem you are moving/hovering slowing. Even the coolass storm is just hovering slowly while throwing down stuff that just looks cool to see, which is my issue with this game it doesn't feel as cool to play as much as it looks cool. That to me is not as engaging as having to constantly move and shoot, doesn't matter if it's just melee enemies running at me it keeps me on my toes and engaged. Even the flying in Anthem is so slow that your actual horizontal movement is not that much faster than your sprint speed (I have indeed played the game a bit so speaking from experience of what I've played when I talk about this particular thing related to flying). About the only thing in Anthem I've seen you lets you hit and move relatively fast is the Interceptor Melee strike and those two gifs that the OP posted in the 5th post in the first page.
Infact even Andromeda the game Anthem borrows its shooting from looks a lot more engaging to me due to biotics. But that's just my opinion and ya know it varies from person to person. I just thought I'd state why exactly I find the gameplay meh from what I've seen and played. I'm looking forward to be surprised still since I'll play the game via Origin Premier.
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Game looks so fantastic visually, it really is a spectacle. I'm also glad to see how different the Javelins are looking in play style.
It seems that actual tanking and MMO-style class based group tactics will be a thing.
It seems that actual tanking and MMO-style class based group tactics will be a thing.
Moving and shooting is bad in Anthem, but good in other games? Can't even make sense of this. Anthem is way more mobile than Destiny, Division, or Borderlands. You can bombard enemies while flying around like a jet.