that shit mountain of issues is not gonna be magically fixed by 22nd with one patch, not with the current bioware, nu-uh, no effin' way
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Anthem |OT| GaaS Effect
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that shit mountain of issues is not gonna be magically fixed by 22nd with one patch, not with the current bioware, nu-uh, no effin' way
It's the way that it isn't designed for open world games that caused the most trouble. You can tell the way it streams the assets and sometimes even hangs in the middle of an area to load the next part not to mention frequent load screens is because that was the infrastructure that worked in Battlefield and they've struggled to work around that to RPG-ify it.
Load into mission, took so long everyone else has moved on. Load to catch up but it took so long, they finished the first objective and moved on. Load to catch up.
This game will die if they dont fix the damn load times
This game will die if they dont fix the damn load times
Nice. I mean, It's not a Panzer Dragoon Saga-level disaster I suppose, and the game could certainly use some sprucing up, but yeah.
More on topic: How flexible is Frostbite? I don't know a ton about it other than it can produce very pretty games (like Anthem,) but I know nothing about it beyond that.
How much wiggle room does Bioware have to address issues with the game?
what? I ENJOYED the demo, i was just hoping it'd be more. They deliberately opted to change thing from the demo as far as loot drops and progression for the sake of extending the life of the title.
This has nothing to do with having over 30 years of experience, were you playing Mario Bros on the NES and telling others 'don't believe the demo will improve it, trust me!" lmao. This was just pure optimism from someone who has played Bioware titles for a long time. It's the same optimism that got me with Bungie and Destiny, since I have been playing Bungie for so long.
If they had kept progression and loot drops similar to the demo I wouldn't even care that much.
To each there own, I though having u play competitive pvp at low lvl in destiny 2 was harsh. I didnt play any of the free play in the demo so was fun for me just to have the freedom and fly around/explore.
Huh? Every Studio at EA is mandated to use Frostbite for the AAA franchises. The only reason Respawn doesn't is they basically say F U to EA about that, and get away with it because...Apex Legends :). Aaryn didn't choose it, he was toeing the company line.
well, Mario Bros was a competent product that spoke for itself and there were no demos back in the days
It's not their choice. EA need it for Origin Premier and EA Access.
Don't know why they have it like this, but loot drops more frequently and in much better quality in the end game. Masterworks drop pretty frequently and many people have multiple legendaries already. That being said, the game is extremely buggy and while it is nice for the devs to acknowledge that they were already aware of most of them and the patch on the 22nd should help with these problems, it is clear that they were rushed to release. When just a week is supposed to make such a big difference you know things aren't going right. I still have hope that this will be a solid game that continues to grow in the future, but I'm really afraid EA will pull the plug prematurely.
Just started Freelancer Down - looks like I'm def gonna finish the game today :x I budgeted like 3 weeks of time to finish it lol
3 weeks? Were you expecting The Witcher 3 or something? :P
Encountered my first serious bug, friend got it too. We did the first stronghold on hard and beat it. Got loot but not credit in the cortex. He did it later on normal, same thing.
IDK, I like the core gameplay loop of mission—>forge—>base or loading bay. The enemies and missions are about what I expected and the stronghold was challenging and fun on hard, I can see myself replaying it a lot to help folks get through it or just for fun. Bums me out others aren't enjoying it as much judging by the thread. This game is going to be my go to multiplayer game for a while.
IDK, I like the core gameplay loop of mission—>forge—>base or loading bay. The enemies and missions are about what I expected and the stronghold was challenging and fun on hard, I can see myself replaying it a lot to help folks get through it or just for fun. Bums me out others aren't enjoying it as much judging by the thread. This game is going to be my go to multiplayer game for a while.
I'd like to make a thread one day about this, but I wonder if their early release tier schedule is actively hurting their sales numbers.
Just from using myself as an example, I'd buy this day 1 a few years ago.
But now with this week long time that people have been playing it, I've been reading more and more impressions, and it's been souring me on it.
Now I'm at the point where I might just get origin basic just to play it for 10 hours then peace out.
I've suspected the same, but he told Kotaku when they specifically asked him, and he said "I made that choice" and this is even after he had left.
That being said, this former BioWare guy I talked to said he thinks "they did him dirty". I dunno if he meant to say that "they" are EA or BioWare management but he says he thinks they made him take the blame for Andromeda.
You can get it only through the shop, with ingame currency or real money. There are no cosmetic drops in the game.
Considering most people beat destiny in a day or 2 think younway over estimated.
It seems pretty clear to me that the open world being divided into smaller instances is due to Frostbite not handling well an open world. That's not something that can be just fixed with a patch. They may reduce the loading times, but loading screens being everywhere will probably be a problem that will plague the game through its lifespan.
Man Frostbite 3 really, really blows for the type of games Bioware makes. I really hope DICE/EA are working on Frostbite 4 right now and that they're designing it with open worlds in mind.
Man Frostbite 3 really, really blows for the type of games Bioware makes. I really hope DICE/EA are working on Frostbite 4 right now and that they're designing it with open worlds in mind.
I mean, it's no secret that Frostbyte is mandated across all properties, they've talked about it in earnings calls as part of their corporate strategy I thought?
FB engine is good but it has a lot of shortcomings that needs to be adressed next gen. For example the LOD system is atrocious in frostbite games
Not having read all of this, is this game pretty much turning out to be another Destiny? Not a lot to do, repetitive and shallow, some fun with friends?
I think, and don't quote me on this, they've said that some future content will have cosmetic rewards. But yeah for the most part that's MTX only.
Yea I think I'm done. Got to level 30/ilvl 400+, a couple of masterwork weapons, and switched over to Grandmaster and it's still rather lackluster. The mission design is awful and I just don't care enough to chase the loot because for the most part it's completely meh. Maybe I'll come back in a few months when there's more to do because just artificially increasing the difficulty doesn't do it for me and the loot isn't good enough to keep me interested. The shitty loading screens don't help either.
At least I only paid $15 for it through Origin Premier or I'd be kicking myself in the ass right now. If you're on the fence about this and don't have access to Origin Premier then I'd say spend your money elsewhere.
At least I only paid $15 for it through Origin Premier or I'd be kicking myself in the ass right now. If you're on the fence about this and don't have access to Origin Premier then I'd say spend your money elsewhere.
Destiny's problems were strictly content related and content can always come to a game eventually and make it good like Forsaken did. Anthem's problems go way beyond just content. Anthem needs the Realm Reborn treatment.
I would say it's a bit more solo friendly then destiny just because everything has match making but yeah it's a destiny.
Game breaking bug, can't progress past a story mission 3 attempts same thing. I enter the princess zhim cutscene, when I come out my javelin has no weapons or gear, I can fly around but no abilities then it kicks me to tarsis and the game crashes. Guess I hope for the 22nd.
No way, destiny 1 was way better than this...can't match bungie's gunplay
That PC Gamer review in progress pretty much encapsulates my view of the game. Gorgeous with fun gameplay bogged down by a lackluster story, uninteresting characters, poor AI, and boring mission designed. It seems like Destiny 1 all over again. And I am not in the mood to wait 2 additional years for Bioware to get it right with the eventual expansions.
Bioware is RIP as far as I'm concerned.
Bioware is RIP as far as I'm concerned.
I don't remember him every saying that, but I wouldn't believe him. The decision for Frostbite to be the De Facto EA engine comes straight from the top, they literally mention it as a core pillar of EA's business strategy in their annual reports.
Well, the more realistic reason is because they weren't bought by EA until after many of their games were in development on their internal engines.
Man, I'm having fun but the load times and the frequency of them is making me think I should wait until the Day One patch to see if they improve. I regularly load into a mission after everyone has moved on, and immediately start with a warning that I need to catch up, which I don't because I'm playing as a Colossus. Then I get hit with another loading screen to be warped to my teammates. The amount of loading versus actually playing that I do in a mission is at best 50/50.
No because they will have to dumb the content down so matchmade groups can conceivably finish them. Look at what happed to wow raids in the matchmade version. Every fight became a roflstomp tank and spank.
True but I'll eat my hat if you see any Respawn gamed on Frostbitr in the future 😬
something tells me they can't just "fix" the load times. it's inherent to how the game is designed. I don't recall other Frostbite games having these types of load time issues
This game is a mess, on PC atleast. It just took me around 20 minutes to get from the main menu to actually playing the game. Then once I did finally start playing, I died from a bunch of enemies that hadny popped in yet. Yea I dicked around for maybe 5 minutes in the Forge, but still, these load times are insane. Then once it does finally load, you still have to wait for enemies and objects to fully pop in.