And there's no better rewards either, just higher drop chance. It's all broken.
And there's no better rewards either, just higher drop chance. It's all broken.
I just found an AMAZINGLY fun glitch / feature / bug / high level gamer skillz that lets you thrust fly while shooting whatever gun you want as the Colossus. With the Lightning Coil equipped, go full speed fly around and trigger the ability , while its active, you can shoot whatever you want. I'm flying high speed through groups of enemies with my flame thrower on full blast and the lightning going off Comboing everything in sight. I hope they never patch this out lmao.
Indeed it is. That's what Gamble said at E3. It's obviously not true.
LOL. When you rush to post something without any context.
Even better, when you look at the breakdown of Act 1, it breaks down into 3 updates, but only the 3rd/last update of Act 1 has the same highlighting as the bottom border, which is where the new stronghold & other content is. So there is a chance we won't get any of that until the end of Act 1 itself, which would put it in may/june territory.
Its kind of amazing realizing that, technical issues aside, the fundamental issues with how endgame loot & its tables have been established just leads someone to realize fixing this, and getting it to a state where completing difficult objectives is as rewarding as mass farming easier stuff, is going to take awhile. And honestly, just judging by how deep the current loot table is, they are going to need to produce a lot more loot to do it.
Deep, fundamental issues with an endgame loot grind have typically not presented themselves for a couple of weeks to a month. Here, players got to the flaws in 3 days and its technically not been launched on consoles yet. BW is going to be eaten alive.
I wonder how much of this game's ongoing dev budget is dependent on store MTX? This game might just need a sequel to get it to where it needs to be.
Deep, fundamental issues with an endgame loot grind have typically not presented themselves for a couple of weeks to a month. Here, players got to the flaws in 3 days and its technically not been launched on consoles yet. BW is going to be eaten alive.
I wonder how much of this game's ongoing dev budget is dependent on store MTX? This game might just need a sequel to get it to where it needs to be.
This is indeed much more efficient than chest farm, but it's a bit of a hassle and not for everyone. You literally need a friend who still have a certain mission unfinished.
At the current state of MTX store, I doubt people would want to spend a lot of money on the game. Looks like they're still developing the MTX items as we speak.
You can join someone who has it, he can leave and then you complete the group with another friend. Gladd just did that lol
LF1 with mission checkpoint lol
So you just ask a random to leave his own mission? I wonder if many would agree to that.
Not a lot of people, but it's an example of how you can get it. People are offering and making groups on his chat now lol
Heres the worse part - this exploit was discovered before 2/3rds of the platforms have had the game made available to them, meaning there are going to be plenty of new players who new the exploit and save this mission for it. Right now on PC, its fortunate that most players at endgame have done everything, even though its still not impossible to take advantage of this. But with a fresh batch of players? Yeahh... this weekend is gonna be fun.
Whatever you see on the ground is yours. Only you see it.
Matchmaking tries to match you with people close to your level but it depends on what you're trying to do. It doesn't matter too much as everything scales down to your level. In quickplay for example, you can be a level 12 and match with just about any other leveled player. BTW, don't use quickplay til you finish the story.
so the other players in my group all get different loot?...there's no repeating weapons, gear etc?...like when you open up one of those treasure chests after completing part of a mission/Stronghold...everyone gets different loot?...where does the best loot come from?...GrandMaster levels, Legendary contracts?
Oh nothing. Gamble said at E3 during the Anthem press event that the game was supposed to be a seamless open-world. Anyone who's played the game knows that's not the case. My news item is just the one posted on Reddit for the quote. No biggie.
Yup, loot is instanced. You're not taking anyone's nor are others taking your stuff.
Hard difficulty is capped at 6 different masterworks. Everything drops from everywhere when you play at GM1 or above. Some activities have higher chances at better loot.
Oh right, think there was a thread about that the other day too.
so there's no real point in playing GM2 or higher then if the same loot drops at GM1
Damnit Scar stronghold on GM1 is permanently broken, can't do it, tried solo, tried with my friends.
Ah well guess I'm not playing the only new stronghold since one is from the demo and the other is the last mission again :(
Higher chance though.
Ah well guess I'm not playing the only new stronghold since one is from the demo and the other is the last mission again :(
Higher chance though.
Theoretically, it should drop more often on GM3. But no, if you want to stick to GM1 you still have a chance to get everything.
Last few missions I've run have been crap so far. Those puzzle ones are such a headache when you cant communicate with your team. I had to do that rotating symbol all by myself because the rest of my team couldnt figure it out.
I also made it to what I believe is the final boss, but I couldnt complete it because I ran out of ammo, nothing was spawning ammo, and none of my skills besides my ult damaged it. So I had to leave and start it all over again.
Also having audio cut out halfway thru nearly every story mission and getting locked out of a cutscene for a mission I never did before wasn't exactly great. But at this point I've given up on the lore and skip through dialogue now.
I also made it to what I believe is the final boss, but I couldnt complete it because I ran out of ammo, nothing was spawning ammo, and none of my skills besides my ult damaged it. So I had to leave and start it all over again.
Also having audio cut out halfway thru nearly every story mission and getting locked out of a cutscene for a mission I never did before wasn't exactly great. But at this point I've given up on the lore and skip through dialogue now.
do the cosmetic upgrades for your javelin also work the same way as weapon drops?...meaning I need to grind it out at higher difficulties etc to get the better gear?
Yeah, this is one area that Destiny has it beaten, unequivocally. I have seem some of the MW weapons with really cool stats, but the designs really are lacking.
Cosmetics, for the most part, do not drop. You earn them through challenges/feats or through the store. Though I do remember reading that some cosmetics might be tied to GM+ difficulties.
problem solved! (for PC anyway)
get faster loads times and solve performance issues by installing on an SSD
We played Anthem for review and had it installed on an SSD...we're happy to report that the long loading time issues are non-existent if you whack it on an SSD instead of a normal hard drive on PC...it doesn't just help with loading times, either...lots of other critics and players have noticed a bunch of environmental pop-in...again, this doesn't happen if you stick the game on an SSD...
https://www.vg247.com/2019/02/18/anthem-faster-loads-times/
get faster loads times and solve performance issues by installing on an SSD
We played Anthem for review and had it installed on an SSD...we're happy to report that the long loading time issues are non-existent if you whack it on an SSD instead of a normal hard drive on PC...it doesn't just help with loading times, either...lots of other critics and players have noticed a bunch of environmental pop-in...again, this doesn't happen if you stick the game on an SSD...
https://www.vg247.com/2019/02/18/anthem-faster-loads-times/
I was under the impression that load times were an issue for SSD users as well? I'm confused.
Yea I'm running into the same issue. This is insane.
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I'm on a 960 evo m2 drive and while not as extreme as for most people, the loading can still be very long. The weird thing is how inconsistent loads are. Sometimes it's quick, other times 3 times as long to load the same content. Some of my longest loads have been catch up timer loads.
I also experience occasional pop in and missing geometry if going between many zones in a tight border quickly. I have a theory this is in laggier games with a poor host connection where I also suffer from enemies not appearing while I'm getting shot at. Usually when having traversed to catch up to my team.
Quickplay missions. You get a bonus for helping out and often get lucky and join missions in progress.
They said they have an announcement coming for this but currently armour doesn't drop.
It is, just not as bad.
"...loading time issues are non-existent..." for SSD users is a huge hyperbole.
Too many games could be slapped with this label lately.
It needs to stop.
Have you updated your drivers? I had a similar issue for MEA and it was cus I was missing a driver.
EA gave Bioware too much rope to hang themselves during development.
They needed to crack down on bioware years ago, and gave them concrete milestones and deadlines.
Bioware was twiddling their thumbs for six years and this is the state of launch. Smh.
They needed to crack down on bioware years ago, and gave them concrete milestones and deadlines.
Bioware was twiddling their thumbs for six years and this is the state of launch. Smh.
I'll share my little little power leveling trick with you guys that helped me go from 25 to 30 in just a few hours. Quick Play. Not only will it throw you into missions near their end, but you'll get bonus XP from back filling. Buyer beware ...... you'll also get thrown into missions where people have abandoned them midway for good reason. They might be glitched, doors locked, events not triggered ect. So you might get a string of bad luck entering quick play missions that are broken as fuck. Despite all this trash, it's the quickest way to level I've found.
Twiddling their thumbs trying to fit a square peg (open world game) into a round hole (frostbite engine). This is a mess of EA's own making, Bioware are just going to be the ones to suffer the consequences.
Just beat the last mission.
That was it? No new map, or something?
How long have they been working on this game?
That was it? No new map, or something?
How long have they been working on this game?
Just imagine, up until Feb 1st of 2018, it was scheduled to come out last October.
What state was the game in even back then I wonder.