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Anthem: Massive Day 1 Patch Detailed; before Feb 22 launch (LIVE on PC, 7GB)
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Reminds me a bit of reviews for Lost Odyssey that had outdated review copies with REALLY long load times. The retail release of the game still had lots of load times, but nowhere nears as frequent or long as the review copies. The review scores didn't change, however, even though the copies reviewed weren't the copies players bought.
That seems like a misunderstanding of how those loot games work compared to Anthem. You aren't getting frequent drops that you're quickly turning around and using. Gear in those games are something you're progressing towards more deliberately, not switching out on the fly as new things that may or may not be better quickly come along.
It is absolutely a boneheaded decision when it doesn't work in tandem with how the loot in the game is setup, which is exactly what BioWare has done.
They need to rethink how they do shit. If the game is out there, it is obviously fair game for review AS IS. Like, people are done with the game. They aren't going to go back and replay it a second time.
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Warframe has the same loadout design.
"every shooter" lmao
Well, at least I won't have to fix my settings every time I play anymore (once the patch gets here) :-/ Although the notes do only say "should no longer reset"...I'd be interested in how that got missed and why there doesn't seem to be a certainty behind the fix.
You don't see what items you drop in anthem. You only pick up glowy prisms that let you see their rarity by colour but you don't know what they are.
It is absolutely in tandem with the loadout design
That still doesn't bring it closer to Monster Hunter or Warframe when it comes to the pace of gear.
Have you played Warframe?
Not true, at least in Warframe. You're constantly adjusting your mods because those drop, are farmed, etc. Frames, yeah, those take time.
MH:W, in the end game, does rely heavily on min/maxing specific load outs but I still at least switched load outs between most rounds because there isn't really a "best" load out.
I havent played the Anthem end game so I don't know how much time is spent in load outs between rounds, how often your dismantling vs keeping gear, etc. I am sure there will be a point where you spend less time tweaking and relying more on load outs that you've tuned.
You know you fucked up when you have to send notes like that. This whole launch is a bigger shit show than the game itself.
My Warframe experience was different, since I typically knew exactly what mods I was aiming for in any given weapon (and a lot of them were typically the same from weapon to weapon, until you start introducing things like Rivens).
You could be right that it evens out at end-game, at which point if they can just reduce the loading it will be less of a big deal. But right now I think the loading is so severe that any system in place that doesn't account for it counts as boneheaded.
I can't believe people are trying to defend this game by name dropping Warframe and even....Monster Hunter?
I just imagined how shitty it would be if you couldn't equip loot drops right away in the division lol
Anthem doesn't know what kind of game it wants to be and that's the problem
I just imagined how shitty it would be if you couldn't equip loot drops right away in the division lol
Anthem doesn't know what kind of game it wants to be and that's the problem
He's not wrong. Anthem is fundamentally bad. Like, there's a huge list of technical issues that can be addressed as evidenced by this patch alone, but that doesn't fix the underlying game. It's barren and incredibly bland at it's best. The thing you do in the first hour is the thing you're still doing at the end of the game. The loot is horrifically uninteresting, and the way the drops work is terrible. The combat is incredibly boring; enemy AI is wholly uninteresting and the shooting feels bad. Combos aren't explained by the game at all, and even when you do get around to figuring out how that system works it doesn't matter. There's no incentive to use it really, and using it isn't fun.
Anthem is super barebones. And as these patch notes detail, kind of broken in a lot of ways!
It should be the n°1 priority.
Wow wtf.... thats just bad design period
This stream is an absolute disaster. Not a single goddam clear answer.
"Will there be text chat?"
"You see the problem with that question yadda yadda yadda something about accessibility yadda yadda oh dont worry you can see a red arrow in your compass so you can see enemies behind you."
"Will there be text chat?"
"You see the problem with that question yadda yadda yadda something about accessibility yadda yadda oh dont worry you can see a red arrow in your compass so you can see enemies behind you."
YOU GET THE FULL GAME - thats what they advertised NOT early access launch
I am so keen to actually use my shield while rezzing as Colossus now. I can be the tank everyone wants me to be and that I am destined to be.
I really hope this gets EA to stop with their bullshit 10 day early access stuff, it is killing the hype for their games but also killing now review scores and user reception. It killed battlefield 5 and now its gonna kill Anthem, its incredible how stupid EA leadership is for not recognizing this.
Anthem is not an early access game, it's a game that you got to play early. Might be confusing to some but it makes total sense to me, early access means a game that is not feature complete to be releases yet, the game that you're buying on the 22nd and the one that I paid for on the 15th are the same.
Except the list of QOL improvements and bug fixes and full access on the two biggest platforms...... yeah fully released.....
Didn't know that, I thought I needed to wait until friday. Please tell me how to play the game now, since it's out - I have a PS4. Thank you.
I don't even know why they are so wishy-washy about answering the text-chat issue, since they HAD been saying in multiple occasions there won't be text-chat. They kept using CVAA as a defense, but still so indecisive in their answers.
The patch will go live in a couple of hours, by that logic my premier Anthem access will suddenly turn it to the "full release"?
No, the release on the two major platforms and for PC users that actually bought the game will make it the full release. The vast majority have no way of actually getting to the game yet. Those who pre-ordered it don't have access yet. It's not launched.
There exist platforms that aren't PS4 and games can release on them.
Are you guys serious here? You do realize the only way to really play the game early is on PC right? The EA Access is a 10 hour trial, it's not the entire game.
This is still a day 1 patch. Playing the game early is a perk people can choose to use, or they can choose not to.
This is still a day 1 patch. Playing the game early is a perk people can choose to use, or they can choose not to.
So games that were later launched on other platforms like Nier automata were never fully released?
B7a it's some kind of handshake issue from what I've read in the forums it defaults to dolby vision (which tv supports) but you get only sound there's no picture
Why would people on a PR tour ever flatly admit to a weakness in their product? The real mystery is that they admitted to it in the first place, rather than just saying "We'll see, maybe in the future."
I have an Xbox and have the game preordered. Please tell me how I can play right now without subbing to a service I don't want.
The people who bought the game on PC can't even play it yet? This game was advertised as full release simultaneously for PC, PS4 and X-box. Only those who bough Origin Premier can play it early and they called it early access. How can you consider that launched when it's only available to such a small amount of users who bought a service, not even the game?