The game was broken. Literally every time I tried to play I got the infinite loading screen, but every time I restarted I was able to play.
Bioware - Word About Anthem Open Demo
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Dumb question: If I left the PC demo installed, Will Origin push an update, or is it essentially a whole new client?
I feel like the loading screen that took you out of the game right when you were to kill the boss at the end of the stronghold was the most egregious shit I saw last time, hopefully that's been fixed this time.
I hope we get better performance from the 1X this time. I played both PS4 Pro and 1X and was surprised that Pro was noticebly better in terms of performance. I had intended to get this game on the 1X when it launches so hopefully we see better performance this time.
It's really starting to feel like damage control at this point.
Dont think we see alot of difference. We did get a small update today but i doubt it had any performance stuff and was more about the bugs.
I think the Fallout 76 devs are praying the Anthem release is a total fuckup so they can get some peace and quiet lol
Game screams issue to me. It needs more time.
If your developers are literally stressing their ass off to fix the issues and get the demo ready, it needs more time.
Seriously, delay it.
If your developers are literally stressing their ass off to fix the issues and get the demo ready, it needs more time.
Seriously, delay it.
I wonder if I was the only one with that bug but for whatever reason the last day of the demo I couldn't quit any expedition. Super annoying as I had to alt+f4 to quit the game and then maybe run into the infinite loading bug when relaunching the game. I really hope it'll go smoother this weekend.
This is also a way older version of the game, and most of these issues appear to be related to the demo only.
The fact you only get one chance to make a first impression and if the full game build runs flawless (highly doubt it) but let's say for the sake of argument it does then releasing such a buggy mess of a "demo" is not doing EA any favors.
The skepticism towards EA in general after the last couple of years with fuckup after fuckup has plenty of people concerned with this game.
They need to get this game right
Wonder if anyone knows the answer to this one: If I redeem the open demo key on PC, can I redeem another key for PS4?
Inversely, if Anthem is functional at release, against the rest of the game, they'll still be ahead of Fallout 76 by far....
Did some people here play the demo or they just talking after what they read on the internet?
They game is not a buggy mess. Far from it and i also played the Fallout beta. And its not even close.
Sure the game had some server issues mostly and indeed the loading bug. But overall the game and when you were in the game it was pretty good.
They game is not a buggy mess. Far from it and i also played the Fallout beta. And its not even close.
Sure the game had some server issues mostly and indeed the loading bug. But overall the game and when you were in the game it was pretty good.
I'm definitely giving the game another chance in the open demo, but if I don't get to play I'm not gonna play in release either.
I don't know about that, even restarting my computer didn't fix that. Got the single player hub easy (only once it didn't work either), but never to the mission itself.
Yeah I've heard some positive comments from friends who played it. So I wouldn't mind jumping along with them. The flying seems way fun.
Rubberbanding, guns feel awkward, texture issues, performance issues, fell through the world a couple of times etc etc there is plenty to fix here so let's not even go there.
Basicly frostbite engine problems many of these issues are still not fixed in Battlefield which uses the same engine.
Sorry they feel terrible and needs some adjustment once again that can be fixed but feel free to ignore all the other points I made.
Wich other ones? The rubberbanding i said about the server issues. Performance isnt a bug. And texture streaming issues i hadnt heard off before.
Infinite loading was just the tip of the iceberg for me as far as aspects of this game that irked me. The mid-mission loading screens are laughably bad and shouldn't exist in a 2019 western AAA game.
They did not fix it for the VIP demo, though everyone seemed to run into it at random frequencies. I was playing on PC with my roomie and we ran into the infinite load 3 or 4 times each during about 6 hours of play. Every time we alt+f4'd, ended Origin then rebooted the game and were able to get back in, it was annoying but never a huge deal for us. The infinite load never occurred multiple times in a row though.
One silly issue I had with the game, from the little I got to play around in the hub area. The footsteps of the character, it was this fast stomping. As if the character's legs were really short or something. It's definitely just a nitpick, but it still bothered me. Can be heard here in example https://youtu.be/pCDwvhMZTVM?t=185 It's just doesn't sound like natural footsteps. Not something to skip the game for, yet distracting.
Why not in Western specifically? Why is it acceptable elsewhere?
performance is a bug when a rig with 1070\8600k\16 gb ddr4 3200 can't hit rock solid 60 frames at 1080p even with many details scaled down.
the last game with similar performance on my pc was quantum break windows store version...
the graphic is not good enough for this bad performance.
and i've no problem with other demanding games so is not my pc...
Definitely did not fix it for me. Tried multiple times, definitely a disastrous demo last weekend, the gameplay wasn't worth all the work I had to put in to get the thing to even launch a gamemode.
still not a good impressions, don't you think? i don't care if you call it bug or lack of optimisation, the point i make is the same and it's pretty clear.
re2 remake demo was running at 4k30 frames full details on my pc like the final game, that was a very good impression.
(sorry for my english)
As annoying as the infinite loading screen was dropping out of the game client and then loading up and selecting to Rejoin My existing Expedition had an almost perfect fix rate for me.
As long as i can work around that issue it doesn't bother me too much. I would love to not see it all of course but at least it's not keeping completely out of the game for the most part.
As long as i can work around that issue it doesn't bother me too much. I would love to not see it all of course but at least it's not keeping completely out of the game for the most part.
Who is talking about impression?
The stuff was about the demo being a buggy mess like Fallout.
I won't say Japanese developers can't make polished open world experiences because there's MGSV and BOTW, but there a lots of high profile Japanese developers who have put similar fatal technical flaws in their games.
for me bad performance are kinda of a mess in a shooter game...
but yeah, fallout76 was something special, i give you that.
A lot of these fixes are already in the final build of the game. They are having to fix them for the demo because the demo is based off an older build.
I'm sure some of the networking issues they are fixing will end being pushed into the final build, but just because the demo is missing 6+ weeks of QA and polish doesn't mean the final build still requires fixing (considering it had 6+ weeks of QA and polish).
Their communication is fantastic, kodus in that regard. That said, i really need some more time to try the demo and make a descision, hardly had time to play the VIP demo due to the infinite loading screen bug, crashss and other ridicilous stuff
Yeah... seeing these was pretty shocking to me, I went in fully expecting a seamless open world. It isn't at all. That first one where you fly into a cave and then suddenly taken into a loading screen (without knowing where you are or where your friends are) was just awful. I would be fine with loading doors to new areas (like Borderlands 2) but they are randomly placed and have no warning. Feels like the scope was dramatically lowered during development and the seamless open world had to be cut back considerably, and now we're left with this.
Because those are instanced areas where they have story telling, and also in free play they're basically mini-dungeons. You should explore one sometime.
If you look at the map you'll see an icon that looks like a cave or something like it, that indicates an instance. Out of that is completely open world, so yes it IS SEAMLESS.
Elder Scrolls Online does this as well, I guess people didn't have a problem with it?!