Based on some of the complaints on various forums and Datto's video, BioWare might have been better off making agame without guns. Your abilities are one of the highlights of the game and the driving force behind combat as well.
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Based on some of the complaints on various forums and Datto's video, BioWare might have been better off making agame without guns. Your abilities are one of the highlights of the game and the driving force behind combat as well.
Unbelievable. They're rubbing the bugs and glitches in our faces!
TBH, I think the gunplay is fantastic. It just sounds like the gulf between them and abilities need to be bridged or lessened in some way. For me, I never ever felt my weapons were so useless that I might as well wait for my abilities, but I only got to play the EA Access demo and none of the end game.
Why would literally any game dev or publisher admit that? No quicker way to kill the game
Same here. I only played for 10 hours over the long weekend. I think the gunplay is above TD but a few steps below Destiny. It is just that the abilities are so much more fun to use. That said, I still think it has the best gameplay of any BioWare game to date.
You think you have QA?........ LOL........QA is usually the first department to get chopped
In addition to that, their masterwork properties change the way you use them drastically (On top of that, you can add triple gun sigils to increase the damage by 90%)
For example, the blastback heavy pistol does triple damage when hovering. If you combine that with different javelins:
- The Storm can boost its weakpoint damage while hovering with the gunslinger's mark component, and is the king of hovering
- The Ranger can boost its hovertime significanlty with 2 components, and has abilities boost its gun damage by 210% easily (Venom Darts + Muster Point + epic component)
- The interceptor can use both target beacon and a class specific component to boost its damage by 210% as well (acid bomb + target beacon + epic component)
Or we can even take the beloved devastator sniper rifle: Again, the ranger and interceptor can double their gun damage easily, but on top of that the ranger has components that boost blast damage by 50% (and bast damage boost comes on inscriptions as well).
I agree that the guns aren't the focus on the gameplay, but each javelin definitely has ways were they get ridiculously powerful when you interweave gun damage with abilities. All the example I gave above were with epic components, save for the gunslinger storm, so that is just the tip of the iceberg.
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Good point about it being f2p.
Except D1 and D2 get to the point where the only thing you can do for high end gear is specific content. Otherwise you get worse power level gear. Anthem makes all content still valid for gearing. Even with all the technical issues the game may have now, the real killer to these sorts of games is content. Anthem has way more content then destiny 1 or 2 at launch.
Anthem has a better build variety because there are more unique skills. The way affixes work in anthem provides for a better min maxing game then division at launch.
Again people complain about the bugs, but the real thing that decides the fate of these games is the amount of content which Anthem has a good amount of release content.
Played a bit more. A thing that really bothers me is how little immersion there is in this game. Like, the world just feels so static. There's nothing really interesting to see or do outside the combat, there's no reason to explore. The environments never react to my character. It just lacks that tactile feel where everything has weight and feels grounded. It just feels so "hollow".
English is not my primary language so I'm struggling to convey my thoughts, but hopefully I'm getting the point across.
English is not my primary language so I'm struggling to convey my thoughts, but hopefully I'm getting the point across.
Quoting for visibility. Everyone has questions so let's be civil and ask them. I've put my 2 cents in already.
Titan location, anyone?
I keep checking the tree area that people list, but they're never there.
There's also one if you head right immediately from the main entrance, and hug all the way to the right for a bit before turning left after an alcove with small waterfalls under it... it's only spawned once out of a dozen tries.
And this is my luck so far...
I've tried exploring, too, but the one I eventually found disappeared while I was fighting it...
I keep checking the tree area that people list, but they're never there.
There's also one if you head right immediately from the main entrance, and hug all the way to the right for a bit before turning left after an alcove with small waterfalls under it... it's only spawned once out of a dozen tries.
And this is my luck so far...
I've tried exploring, too, but the one I eventually found disappeared while I was fighting it...
Just do the Dax and Matthias missions you should get 3 by the end of them.
Not at all. Just wanted to make sure. There should be two quests that you can choose from to prep. One is the Matthias quest from the demo and the other is for the NPC Sentinel. However, if you do both questlines not only does it reduce the cost, but they should both have Titans in the mission quest lines that will drop the Corium you need.
As is always the case lol, I remember back during those Division and Destiny streams aha.
They probably will weed out the trolls and pick up legitimate questions. So again I figure what best time to do it than now
Thanks for further clarification, I thought it would probably guide me via the other missions... but I sometimes get hyper focused on grinding a specific thing.
Glad I can kick back and enjoy it and let it happen.
Except D1 and D2 get to the point where the only thing you can do for high end gear is specific content. Otherwise you get worse power level gear. Anthem makes all content still valid for gearing.[/quote]
White, green, and blue materials only craft white, green or blue items. Those materials drop in GM difficulty where white/green/blue items are utterly useless. So no, not "all content" is valid for gearing. You can see it in Datto's video and several other streams. People running GM content only to get materials and loot that is significantly inferior to what they already have.
Now you're just lying. Vanilla Destiny 1 had more strikes than Anthem has Strongholds. There was more to replay and do with bounties, heroic strikes, heroic story missions, and PVP in vanilla Destiny than Anthem offers at launch. Vault of Glass was known to be coming before the game launched and only wasn't there at launch for final polish and to allow people to gear up to get there; The only thing we know about what's coming for Anthem is more Strongholds and the vague Cataclysms. Destiny also launched with more weapons in the overall loot pool, multiple armor types and sets. And Destiny was a cross platform game with cross platform limitations.
If you like Anthem, that's great! But don't resort to making stuff up to try to bamboozle others.
White, green, and blue materials only craft white, green or blue items. Those materials drop in GM difficulty where white/green/blue items are utterly useless. So no, not "all content" is valid for gearing. You can see it in Datto's video and several other streams. People running GM content only to get materials and loot that is significantly inferior to what they already have.
Now you're just lying. Vanilla Destiny 1 had more strikes than Anthem has Strongholds. There was more to replay and do with bounties, heroic strikes, heroic story missions, and PVP in vanilla Destiny than Anthem offers at launch. Vault of Glass was known to be coming before the game launched and only wasn't there at launch for final polish and to allow people to gear up to get there; The only thing we know about what's coming for Anthem is more Strongholds and the vague Cataclysms. Destiny also launched with more weapons in the overall loot pool, multiple armor types and sets. And Destiny was a cross platform game with cross platform limitations.
If you like Anthem, that's great! But don't resort to making stuff up to try to bamboozle others.
Happy to see Belular reaching beyond WoW. He has the passion and professionalism to be one of the more respected video game youtubers out there if he weren't restricted to a single niche.
Having only played 10 hours (that I mostly enjoyed), I'd cautiously agree with you. I say cautiously, because I haven't seen an actual breakdown of how many different missions, strongholds, etc. you can run in Anthem. Is that spelled out anywhere?
Vanilla destiny 1, once you got to a specific light level content was barren. Since the only way you could finish getting to the highest light level is the raid and nightfall. So no, I'm just telling the truth that anthem has more relevant content. Maybe I should have used the word relevant.
As far as Destiny having more weapons, sure it did. Anthem has gear slots for everything though, so it make sense there are less weapons in Anthem then Destiny.
Thanks for just saying i'm lying though. Even though I played all these games at launch...
Content is content. That said, you are right in suggesting that D1 had a harsher endgame that relied too much on RNG. Hence the loot cave. D1 did however have PvP.
You think running old content through various difficulty levels is more "relevant" than a raid and a nightfall? Really?
Content is not content in MMOs like this. The extra strike doesn't matter if you have no reason to run that strike past a certain point. It just splits the player base in a bad way. Then whenever the DLC/expansion comes out, it invalidates the previous high end content. The way Anthem is structuring the progression, any piece of content in the game could give you an upgrade. Unlike it vanilla destiny where this wasn't true.
Nightfall is exactly old content at a higher difficulty.
Also, I think his point was that you could only run those once per week. So after you complete both, that character was SoL until reset in terms of growth
I think I read people disputing the idea that the flaws with Anthem are EA's fault, that it was all on BioWare. is that the case? Are there any articles that show word from BioWare to back that up?
I don't want to have to hunt through the thread, if anyone has an ifnroemd opinion on this please share!
I don't want to have to hunt through the thread, if anyone has an ifnroemd opinion on this please share!
You would rather just be able to get relevant pieces of gear from one raid past a certain point and there is no reason to do any other content? I'd much rather have content stay relevant so I don't feel bored then wait till reset to run the same raid/nightfall again...
Is there a consensus on this?
i did a quick google and found this thread, but as you can see it only has two posts...
Thanks, this is all really helpful.
I remember when loadouts/builds finally really clicked for me in Warframe. Understanding how to use mods, building loadouts for specific enemies, meticulously planning the best build for certain situations. It seems like Anthem has the building blocks in place for a system as equally interesting and deep.
So nothing conclusive, but a few hints and some speculation?
Just want to be clear when people bring this topic up.
So it seems reviews are dropping in, it is sitting at 64 Opencritic with 11 reviews:
https://opencritic.com/game/7084/anthem
https://opencritic.com/game/7084/anthem
So it seems reviews are dropping in, it is sitting at 64 Opencritic with 11 reviews:
https://opencritic.com/game/7084/anthem
Only 4 are scored though, which is something to bear in mind.
After all of these impressions, I've decided to cancel my pre-order and wait for Bioware to fix and expand the game. As paying consumers, it's not our job to test and improve a half-baked product. It's a shame given that the moment-to-moment game play is actually really good when the game works. We'll see how Anthem is in 6 months. Now, my attention turns to The Division 2 for my loot shooter fix.
How does content stay relevant if you're just repeating the same stuff on different difficulties? Nightfalls have modifiers and Raids have mechanics and gameplay design well outside of the "same old content" found in Destiny.
No, I don't think the 10 hour trial is limited to pre-release. You should be able to continue your trial even after release of the day one patch.
Also I just realized that Sevs dialogue about the Stronghold changes if you checked in with him about it. If not he kind of tears into you for skipping the briefing, if you do he mentions some near lore about Corvus methods
Thanks for posting this. I have a Samsung TV that has Freesync and noticed this as well. When I played the game in the living room on our Sony I did not see the tearing. I decided to go through my receiver on the Samsung bypassing the ability to use Freesync and most if not all the tearing was gone.
True, but many of them aren't doom laden. Quite a few state "keep an eye on this", which doesnt' really reflect in a traditional review "one and done" score of 6/10 which is "don't bother" for many people.
If they were all scored, right now, the game would still be sitting below 70 most likely.