Did you mean the legendary contracts?
You get it by finishing the questline for each factions.
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Did you mean the legendary contracts?
You get it by finishing the questline for each factions.
Jesus, that original post.
No other company, has gone through something like Andromeda under the partnership of a company like EA and still managed to have a fanbase that said, 'you know what? it's fine, mistakes happen, go ahead and take 6 years to create an amazing game and we'll stay here waiting for you'.
Yes everyone was very forgiving of Andromeda and it has never been brought up since.
Another topic that has been mentioned plenty above, but you know why this needs its own section, you in your current state do not deserve the community that is carrying you on its shoulders.
Jesus
Right now this subreddit and the fanbase in general suffers from lack of knowledge about a game they paid money for .
No other consumer base in the world demands as much attention as fucking capital G Gamers.
I don't want to talk about EA's malpractices through the years thanks to EA not even being secretive with their sinister actions, the hatred towards them is very well justified,
holding hands with a company like that, putting their name upfront and claiming you're bringing change, doesn't have a very hopeful image in people's eyes, the community still doesn't know how much of your production was handled and or scrapped by EA
It's a fucking business relationship not a hostage situation.
you have fans that are going through stats and statistics, graphs and experiments and giving you detailed information of what's wrong with your game and how you can fix it
And we all know that all that feedback is totally useful and could be implemented with no muss, no fuss.
That's only some of the drivel I could have picked out. If I had to politely respond to this kind of hyped up Gamer nonsense everyday I'd never stay in that industry.
This is being hailed as constructive feedback. This. The bar for constructive feedback is so fucking low, its no wonder it devolves into outright harassment at a moments notice.
Well, that's something...
https://www.reddit.com/r/AnthemTheG...ts_going/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app
https://www.reddit.com/r/AnthemTheG...ts_going/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app
lol, it's insane and scary some of that shit in the anthem sub.
Gm1, running scar temple yesterday 3 times. twice I got only the ability at the end and the 3rd got 4 mw, 3 abilities and 1 component
Maybe I should reduce my luck, I'm sitting at 93 I think
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That Anthem subreddit is pretty funny. Before release and during the first week or so they voted down negative posts and comments, and it was generally a sea of positivity surfacing, even during release.
Now a few weeks post release and it's turning 180, they've realised the lack of content etc and it's eating itself alive.
It's only going to get much worse, as BioWare communicated a 90 day plan on launch day full of new content - but the chance of it being delivered is small, given the sheer number of major issues with the game.
I feel really sorry for the devs in the trenches as it must feel horrible. It's going to take them a long time to fix all the issues, by which time the community will be a toxic radioactive wasteland with few left. Imagine going to work and thinking 'this is what we do now'.
I am playing Ranger more now because I want more Ranger gear and I seem to be getting plenty of MW items for other classes. Latest drop was the pistol that has damage boost while hovering, seems like a good storm gun. I did get Yvenia but I don't use many rifles like that but it's a good shield stripper. Does it add the status effect as well or not?
Does anybody know what's happening with the patch to fix level 1 weapons being more powerful than Masterwork and Legendary items? They had announced it for March 12th patch, but that didn't arrive (on Xbox at least).
This game is hella fun, but my god fetch quest and glitched loading screens are ruining it for me :(
You could pair that with the universal component that greatly increases the amount of time it takes for thrusters to overheat (or try and find some gear with thruster inscriptions)... but I found that I could get by with a reasonable amount of hovering when I was playing my ranger.
I guess I need to find that stuff first haha.
Correct me if I am wrong, but the damage boost is not just the gun right? I can hover to kick it in and swap weapons? Does it effect damage from other sources?
They released that patch early, that was the one released on Friday. I haven't checked but I think that fix is in it.
Hmm, I'll have to check the perk descriptions when I'm home. I haven't done any testing though.
I agree. Though I do think it's useful for devs to be getting feedback on what players want and aren't liking. But at this point that message has been sent. I've got better things to do with my time than go online and keep complaining about the same bugs, the same limited loot with to infrequent drop rates, the general lack of end game content etc. I'm still playing some as it's fun to play with a buddy, but I'm playing less, not going on the sub-Reddit and mostly just check this thread every now and again to see if anything's new (like the long Reddit post from the community manager posted here last night) and see if I can help anyone out who's asking questions etc.
I'm sure the game will be like Destiny 1 and 2 and be in a better place in a few months, and hope they can at least improve the loot drops in the meantime and give us some reasons to play more until then. Even if it doesn't, I've played a lot and got my $60 worth already in anycase, so it's not like I'm disgruntled. The main quest and sidequests/contracts alone were worth it for me.
Well the big difference is GM2 and GM3 don't offer exclusive, top-tier loot like the Raids and hard mode Raids in Destiny do. They just offer a chance for a higher number of drops from the same limited loot pool as GM1. There'd be less complaining if there was exclusive loot with decent drop rates from the harder modes. As is, GM2 doesn't make a lot of sense unless you're already 700+ and/or playing with 2 or 3 friends who are good and leveled appropriately as it ends up taking longer (way longer with bad/underleveled randoms) and you can often get more drops in the same amount of time.
I also don't really find GM2 much fun as it's just even more bullet spongey, even more shielded enemies with shields that pop up instantly etc. It's doable with friends who know what they're doing and are leveled and geared appropriately and in ways that sync well with each other. Just a frustrating slog with 3 randos--as you noted it's a lot of quitting out of missions with people who are terrible, under leveled for GM2 or both to find people who can get through them at a decent clip.
I really just need some legendary components to drop for my Storm as it's still too squishy for me to have much fun above GM1 currently. I've only had one legendary drop (Vassa's whatever machine pistol that I really like) and have been stuck at 662 power for week or so. My buddies up over 700 on his ranger and we do GM2 some together and generally get through it pretty quick as long as at least one of the two randos is semi-competent.
All that said, it's also worth noting that I'm just not big on hard end game content in the first place. Over 300 hours across the two Destiny games and I raided 3 times and did a handful of nightfalls. I more just like chasing loot in the easier to solo end game stuff and usually move on until a new content drop/level cap increase and then come back and play the new content and chase the new loot for a bit. So I'm just close to that point of putting the game down for a while with Anthem.
If you don't already know, the little icons next to the perks will tell you whether things like damage boosts apply just to that weapon/power (a gear icon) or everything on your javelin (the little javelin icon).
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Run strongholds and especially Legendary Contracts on GM2. They will have enemies that drop weapons. I believe chests and final bosses/contract rewards only drop components and abilities. It's the enemy drops that are usually weapons for me and enemies drop MWs and Legendaries far more often in GM2.
You will need to rework your build to be effective in GM2. It IS a completely different mode. you need to min and max the shit out of your build to get the most damage, most shields and have weapons that do dps to the boss. your GM1 luck build just wont do. I was running around with 100+ luck and got fewer loot. once i learned to stop caring and focused on increasing cooldowns, dps and shields, GM2 became a lot more manageable. Plus, by now a lot of interceptors and collosus have made some incredibly OP builds, they just go and melee everyone in a few hits. you can just provide them support while they do all the work.
P.S thanks to everyone that told me to go with a Volumonous cloud build. really helped, but the legendary heavy pistol i got yesterday with double damage just shreds bosses. I got it to drop with +200% physical damage too which means i was doing 40k damage to the spider's crit spot by the end of the round when she starts taking more damage. and this is on an elemental storm build too.
O I play colossus and yeah I can make myself quite tanky, using Arekkz tank build. Also lucked out that my Voltaic dome is legendary with 38 luck as well as a support ability with 30. I've been helping my brother gear up (he's still missing the correct MW abilities ) so we've been sticking with GM1 but yeah I'll take a look at some GM2 maybe swap out one of my components for an epic to get another 50% combo dmg
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Care to share your build? I am in love with my Colossus...
I want to enjoy your game, EA. But when I join a squad with two other people, and it's a roll of the dice that we all make it into the legendary contract, it makes it really difficult.
Staring at that long-ass loading screen only to see NoobCakes777 instead of my intended squadmate is really disheartening.
Staring at that long-ass loading screen only to see NoobCakes777 instead of my intended squadmate is really disheartening.
Gave this another chance after taking a break. Did 4 Tyrant Mine strongholds and a few legendary contracts, got no mw/leg drops other than the guaranteed ones. This was on my Colossus that I was gearing up too so anything new has a high chance to be an upgrade. Didn't take long to remember why I took a break in the first place.
Anyway my premier sub is running out so will drop this and come back if/when they fix the many issues I have with this game. And I genuinely do hope they stick with this, for all it's faults I still played for quite long :D
Anyway my premier sub is running out so will drop this and come back if/when they fix the many issues I have with this game. And I genuinely do hope they stick with this, for all it's faults I still played for quite long :D
sure this is the one I'm using, it has lots of ways to heal yourself, from your R1 attack to melee kills (melee is my main detonator) to if you get it, the balm grenade launcher (don't really like it). Still can't get myself that minigun tho :/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZYE2iOP_8w
Agreed. There is definitely a loot problem in the game and they definitely need GM2 and GM3 exclusive loot.
I dont think you need to be 700 for GM2 or need any legendary components. it's all about min maxing. your storm basically needs shields and you can get +70% max shields from two weapons.
I dont know. I agree with you in that it IS tanky and not fun especially when paired with randoms who dont know what they are doing but i felt like i was having fun yesterday after i rebuilt my storm and spent a lot of time agonizing over every single inscription. i used to only care about luck and gear damage % and that really hurt my DPS, cooldowns and survivablity.
one good thing about so many dupes (and i literally got three black ice dupes in one game yesterday) is that the inscriptions are always different. so when i went back to try and min max, i found a lot of really cool inscriptions like 100% charges that give me double uses for my abilities, cooldowns and shields. im actually still rocking an Epic component because i feel it gives me more options than the legendary armor perk that just gives me more shields and armor. I actually have fun in GM2 now.
And I am like you, i still havent played the latest Destiny raid. i never beat the forsaken raid because no LFG group could successfuly do the Riven cheese and i mostly just stuck with nightfalls and strikes. I think the loot here is fantastic because of the random rolls. i still roll my eyes when i get a dup MW but at least there is a small chance it could work with a different build.
anyway, you can try and play some of the other classes. you should have enough MW universal components and weapons to go straight into GM1.
Yeah, that's probably what I'll do. Try some more GM2 when my buddy is on, and otherwise start playing more Colossus and Interceptor (probably not Ranger as my buddy mains that) as I should at least be powered up enough to do GM1 free roam and legendary contracts with randos to get some class-specific MW gear.
I'll need to mess around with Storm builds too. I've been rocking the Winter's Wrath and Ten Thousand Suns which is great for crowd control, but not for dealing with all the shields on GM2 so I'm at the mercy of their being a random well geared do take those down for that build to be useful on higher difficulties.
People are allowed to be angry and use unsavoury language. Crossing the line into death threats or hoping for Bioware's dissolution is too far, but honestly? Anything up to that line is justifiable. "Fuck this game." "This game shows the dev's incompetence." "I want a fucking refund." I wouldn't chastise anyone saying any of those things.
While I'd agree people should be allowed to voice their displeasure as rudely as they like, expecting the developers and community managers to actually respond and converse with you after saying these things is beyond stupid IMO.
Toxic suggests a line has been crossed, but as far as I'm concerned none of that is something I'm interested in hearing directed at the people responsible for making a game. I don't care what the game is, or who it's made by. It's why I don't browse Reddit (in general). This thread has had plenty of complaints but for the most part they've been constructive or at least somewhat polite, but I'll dip out at the point that comments such as that become the norm.
I thought GM2 and GM3 didn't have better loot drops?, the enemies are just super bullet sponges and it just takes too much time to do those in GM2, specially if your team of randoms suck.
Same. The one thing that keeps me on this site is that the OTs for games are generally mostly positive, even for very divisive games with a lot of major flaws like Anthem.
This site is good about having separate threads pop up for things like the level 1 weapon glitch or the loot issues etc. so that OTs stay more level headed and are mostly people discussing a game they still mostly enjoy playing.
That changes and I'd bail as the news/hype threads are pretty ridiculous at times here and review threads, sales threads and what not are toxic cesspools most of the time. The rest of the threads are mostly polls and fanboy-ish crap that doesn't interest me. The OTs and occasional other fun thread are the reason I stick around and I hope they stay high quality and don't devolve into crap like the Anthem sub-Reddit where it's just repeated negativity and toxicity.
It can be, and many are, valid points for sure. But it's not healthy to immerse yourself in such negativity. If I feel negatively about a game (or movie or whatever), I say my piece and move on. Silly to waste more time and energy on something that's causing you negative emotions IMO. Life is short, say your piece and move on to something you enjoy that makes you happy.
Not better drops in terms of better loot with better perks etc. But the drop rates are higher. You're 100% right that time wise it's not usually worth it playing with randoms as you could clear the GM1 version 2 or 3 times before a bad team of randos gets through. GM2 can be worth it with two or three friends who are decent and geared/leveled appropriately though.
Yep, you'll get the community manager to stick around because they pretty much have to be strong and put up with crap like that, but none of the devs are going to go out of their way to be confronted with that kind of pointless anger, "fuck this game", "dev incompetence" and comments of this ilk are toxic af and serve no purpose other than highlighting a lack of decency and respect from those uttering them.
Some stuff is outright offensive, but then there's fun stuff like this:
So ashamed to see two Storms, not only on foot, but scampering around on the ramp /o\
Yeah, it's not worth it to me, I have little time to play and would have to start tinkering too much with my build to be at least decent in GM2.
Technically the loot pool might be the same, but like i said, the enemies drop more MWs in GM2 than they do in GM1. In GM1, the main source of my loot drops are the chests. Enemies were rarely drop loot. And again, i dont have any numbers, but my chests and end game masterwork drops are usually abilities and components so i'd rather play GM2 strongholds and legendary contracts to get drops from enemies which are mostly weapons and legendaries.
I mean how many GM1 strongholds have dropped 7 masterworks for you? its happened to me twice now. i had two legendary drops in GM2 yesterday after a week of slaving away in GM1 with just one legendary drop.
Mostly the same. I'll do some GM2 when playing with my buddy was we usually do ok together as long as both the randos aren't awful. Too frustrating with three randos though as I have terrible luck getting matched with decent ones. That said, GM1 is pretty easy and getting boring with my Storm. As above I'll probably start trying to gear up my Colossus and Interceptor when my buddy isn't on to add some variety.
I agree with you, devs have no obligation to walk into a toxic wasteland. I said that in my original post. But the toxicity is there for a reason.
The constructive comments here are cause the angry people have stopped posting. Look at the middle of the thread and you'll see more toxic posts here.
I don't blame you for not going to reddit, but... Era is a pretty toxic place. If you were thinking this forum was a bastion of reason, well, you're wrong.
LOL!!!!
This triggers me to no end. Just stay in the damn circle.
The internet as a whole is toxic and negative for sure, and Era is no different. As above, the saving grace of this forum for me is that the game OTs are pretty good.
Yeah, there's anger and toxicity in OT threads for flawed/divisive games like this for sure. But as you note, here that tends to die down as the angry people stop playing and stop posting in the OT.
This place is also pretty good for allowing new threads when there's some new controversy about a game (like that level 1 weapon glitch and some other things with this game). That keeps most of that negativity out of the game OT which is nice.
You can't hover here because of the electricity strikes, you are in almost constant overheating, just like the Colossus in the video...
Only if you play it wrong. So of course you can, I do it all the time.
I play Storm and I can't hover for long in that circle. How is "wrong" ? I keep getting struck, but there I'm almost never hit by spiders so I don't care about boosted shield.
Shoot the electric orbs that spawn around the circle and you can hover all you want
You can hover in the circle if you have someone shooting the electrical anomalies as they form.
Ok, I never tried that, but it's funnier to use abilities against the spiders than shooting there, as a Storm, and like I said I'm almost never hit there, so hovering is not necessary to survive.
The best survivability set up you can have is probably with 1 or 2 universal components. One with 70-80% max shields and one with 70-80% max armor. That would put you above what javelin specific mods would. I got one with 70% shields and 40% ult damage that I always use on my interceptor.
EDIT: sorry didn't reload, see it was already posted above.
If one person deals with the electric orbs, the other three can easily deal with the skorpions, but it rarely plays out that way with randos.
What happens often is there'll be 2 people (not shaming but it's often colossus and interceptor players) that will rush off and ignore the "freelancer, stay on the platform" cries and go causing melee madness down or at the bottom of the ramp. Fun for them but not for anyone else. That'll leave 2 up top, and one of those is quite often massively under-levelled and leeching along for the guaranteed MW drop. So that leaves me stood in the centre shooting the orbs trying to make sure leechy doesn't fry, and also dealing with the skorpions that the melee maestros kindly missed.
In an organised group, everyone stays up top, one or two get the orbs, 2 or 3 hold the choke point, and it's all fine and dandy. And sometimes nothing even spawns so you all just throw flares at each other and wait for the green bar to fill.
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Someone ran HoR on GM1 20 times. First ten with no luck, and then with 91% luck to see how many legendaries drop. He got two drops at 91% and 0 at 0% over the course of ten games.
2 out of 10 runs is pretty bad imo. I had much better luck in GM2.
2 out of 10 runs is pretty bad imo. I had much better luck in GM2.
Tried Heart of Rage stronghold last night for the first time and it's fairly smooth sailing until you encounter the two furies. Jesus Christ getting past them even with a strong team felt tough as nails...
"Toxic" has taken on so many meanings. It's become a "catch-all" term to describe anything you disagree with or find even remotely offensive/insensitive.