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Anthem Prelaunch Discussion Thread (Origin Premier/EA Access: Feb 15th) - Time To Fly FreelancEra
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Anthem [OT] Reach the Apex of your Legend
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Anthem [OT] Don't let The Division of War Frame your Destiny
I've mentioned this in the thread before I think:
Anthem |OT| Guns don't kill people, abilities do
Thanks for the suggestions of all the OT titles everyone. Slight thread derailment with that, so let's jump back on the tracks and get back to all things Anthem. I may collect all my favourite ones into a poll and let people vote; don't hold me to that but that's the current plan, thanks again all.
Me right now...
All in my emotions...
Sony you ain't shit...If we had EA Access I could play a little earlier.....I still love you though.
EA I stood behind you after the MTX debacle and I defended when others wouldn't please give me another demo or maybe release it early. Please...please...EA you said you will see me through this...
I cannot wait.
All in my emotions...
Sony you ain't shit...If we had EA Access I could play a little earlier.....I still love you though.
EA I stood behind you after the MTX debacle and I defended when others wouldn't please give me another demo or maybe release it early. Please...please...EA you said you will see me through this...
I cannot wait.
I played other EA games on PS4 early without EA Access. They're not doing it for reasons with Anthem of all games.
I read that as "Guns don't kill people, Grabbits do" to begin with.
Just to help get this thread back on track:
This was posted/talked about a few pages back but I just wanted to bring it up again for anyone who's story mad like me. I may be somewhat known for my charts/graphics for Anthem but things like damage types and properties have never been my focus with games - I love their stories, the worlds, the characters, so I'm excited to not only experience what BioWare has to tell us through missions but also the Cortex with its descriptions and lore entries to breath more life into Anthem, the past, our enemies - all of it. I hope we get some more great info on the Scar race because they are fascinating to me; here's what we know so far:
"Created by chaos," the Scars are a relentless invasive force, not native to the world that humanity calls home. They arrived on the world via Shaper technology, with whom they have a mysterious connection
A colonial swarm of insects that mimics the dominant life-form in an area, Scars first appeared from a Cataclysm in 413 L.V. At the time, Freelancers defeated a large, vicious creature none of them recognized. Later, unknown to Freelancers, the Scars regrouped and changed their mimicry to appear human. Scars then hijacked striders, cobbled together technology from scrap, and searched for Shaper relics. Inventive scavengers, they left nothing behind. As Arcanist researcher Hanni Blythe stated, "Empathy towards Scars is foolhardy, for their primary concern isn't domination or survival, but mindless, thoughtless consumption. They're a scourge, a plague upon this world."
Scar can deploy via red portals hovering above the ground, appearing in flashes of light. While not technically alien, they aren't human either, and can't even be considered to be humanoid (in actual fact, they're insectoid). However, they did try to emulate humans in taking the form they did. They appear to converse in a guttural language.
The Scars are currently in conflict with the Freelancers, as they are trying to retrieve Shaper technology (an action the Freelancers are opposed to).
A colonial swarm of insects that mimics the dominant life-form in an area, Scars first appeared from a Cataclysm in 413 L.V. At the time, Freelancers defeated a large, vicious creature none of them recognized. Later, unknown to Freelancers, the Scars regrouped and changed their mimicry to appear human. Scars then hijacked striders, cobbled together technology from scrap, and searched for Shaper relics. Inventive scavengers, they left nothing behind. As Arcanist researcher Hanni Blythe stated, "Empathy towards Scars is foolhardy, for their primary concern isn't domination or survival, but mindless, thoughtless consumption. They're a scourge, a plague upon this world."
Scar can deploy via red portals hovering above the ground, appearing in flashes of light. While not technically alien, they aren't human either, and can't even be considered to be humanoid (in actual fact, they're insectoid). However, they did try to emulate humans in taking the form they did. They appear to converse in a guttural language.
The Scars are currently in conflict with the Freelancers, as they are trying to retrieve Shaper technology (an action the Freelancers are opposed to).
Thursday night then, will be having a cheeky kip early on to get through a good few of my 10 hours.We're closing in on the early access launch:
Yep here's a clearer look:Early Access launch?
Countdown to Early Access:
Countdown to Worldwide Launch:
Same issue here on PS4. Gonna go black out on ERA and Discord.
There's some new stuff right at the start that touches on reacting to how people are playing the game - they mention exploits, so if people are heavily farming activities and breaking the game in some way they can seemingly do stuff pretty rapidly to counter it. Probably more confident in this than they were when they mentioned GM2 & GM3 being locked out, fearing what harm that might do to player retention if they got trivialised... the fact that they're back in is reassuring that they're confident in this.
Rest of the video won't load for me right now, my connection is being hammered.
EDIT: He's basically reading from this article/interview: https://m.windowscentral.com/anthem-bioware-past-present-and-future-interview? be he does go on to talk about endgame content, variety, replayability, etc.
One thing I've been thinking about recently is all these people who say they are interested in the game but are going to give it some time before jumping in. I can understand their reservations, we all have to make this decision ourselves. But damn... what about FOMO? I mean, the cataclysm is going to come and it is going to go, and it might leave a scar on the world. But when it's gone, of course they can bring it back, or some of it or whatever, but not being there at the time... I wouldn't wanna risk that personally.
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Thanks a lot mate I enjoyed the read. Personally I bought the LoD editions and got it preloaded already. Jumping in the same demo twice to play the same content yet I wasn't even bored was the verdict for me really. Played the VIP demo then the Open demo and I was enjoying both a lot. This game is spot on for me. My cup of tea! The looter shooter that always wanted. PvE no PvP and needs lots of team work.
I played the demo weekends and am interested in the game, but I think what will determine when I buy it is how things look at launch and when various fixes get implemented. (I say this knowing that the second weekend was more stable and featured a number of fixes, which I see as promising.) I know BioWare has repeatedly said that the full game features thousands of fixes that weren't in the demo, which is great, and I've seen them put out summaries of the major things that were fixed. However, I do still have three related questions that I'm hoping someone in this thread might know:
1. Is there is a detailed list of what has been fixed between the demo and the main game besides the high-level, biggest points BioWare published? (I'm guessing not.)
2. Will there be a Day 1 patch, and if so, do we know what's in it?
3. Do we know what the QOL updates will be for Act I of the post-launch updates?
1. Is there is a detailed list of what has been fixed between the demo and the main game besides the high-level, biggest points BioWare published? (I'm guessing not.)
2. Will there be a Day 1 patch, and if so, do we know what's in it?
3. Do we know what the QOL updates will be for Act I of the post-launch updates?
2 has been answered. There's a patch for early access launch and another on full launch day. 1 is just whatever they've addressed specifically. Maybe they'll do a huge patch notes release like DICE did. 3 hasn't really been detailed at all I don't think.
I think they said they weren't going to do release notes for the day 1 patches on the grounds that patches that come out at the same time as the game don't really count because the bug fix list will be meaningless to people who haven't played the game. With the early access meaning loads of people will have been playing for a week I don't know if this reasoning exactly holds up, but it's probably that and a combination of not wanting to have a mammoth list of fixes being the first thing that people see on release.
Personally, I want a Medic style Javelin. I always play a Support role in many of the games I like but I don't think that is a full option here in Anthem. I remember seeing some bits and bobs that talked about Helling the team with shields and you also have the defensive bubbles and walls but nothing Medic style so far.
This has probably been covered but...
Lancers is the name of the people who choose to hop into the Javelins to protect Fort Tarsis. We're called Freelancers because we take contracts from agents around Fort Tarsis and do them. We don't work for anyone (not even Fort Tarsis, they have the Sentinels for that) but we are willing to protect if need be.
So most of the time Freelancers will just do contracts for nearly anyone willing to pay and you will see thing throughout the game (such as Legendary Contracts, a core end-game activity; or even the Stronghold from the demo which was a contract) but when a bigger threat arises and threatens Fort Tarsis you can bet the Freelancers will be there to face it (much like what you see in most of the trailers and whatnot).
Hope this answered your question.
Bioware just cannot make any character anymore that isn't a member of "Special Group". Your character will probably go from "Rookie Freelancer" to "The best Freelancer Who Has Ever Lived" in about two missions. Probably after his/her mentor dies in an overdramatic cutscene 15 minutes after he's introduced.
On a more serious note, Freelancers are one of the 3 factions that split from the Legion of Dawn, the other 2 being the Sentinels and the other the Dominion. They are really not mercenaries, but more a "STALKER" vibe of the only people who go out of the walls. They are really something like Knights. I guess Bioware wanted the cool aesthetic of "Free willed mercenary" we see a lot on sci-fi stories, but without any moral subtleties of being an actual mercenary.
Isnt Legion of Dawn = Freelancers, Sentinels and Dominion? So, 3, unless the Legion is still around in the world (Wasnt the split 500 years before?)
Their choice. I'd like to be on the train at the start.
Oh yeah, you are right, there are the Corvus guys, but they seem to be something that came up after. I was talking about the factions that were created after the Legion dissolved.
I hope there is a really good lore involving the Arcanists, Ciphers and stuff, that is the only thing that is truly great from what I know of the Lore so far.
From what I read online so far, the main baddie will be a "Director" or something of the Dominion, but not the whole Dominion. It will be something like we are facing Vader on the main campaign, while the Emperor will keep pulling the strings.
You know this! Being bored never came into it, it was the exact opposite. And that was with just a fraction of the game. Like Ryan said in that video, it didn't get stale when you could try each time with different javelins, gear combinations and tactics. I suppose that won't last forever, but I feel there's plenty there for launch if the game ticks the right boxes for you. Just playing the one stronghold I got a real variety of play between friends, randos and weirdly especially jumping in quickplay not knowing what to expect and coming across situations like three rangers that went down super quick from the turrets and snipers early on, picked them all up and dragged them all through to the end with my floaty girl, or appearing outside the door at the boss and waiting until the 2 inside finished their game, lol.
Story looks solid from the 6 GhostRobo videos I've watched. Get through that and reach 30 and go hunting for masterworks and legendaries. Play with the difficulty settings to maximise that when ready. 3 strongholds and 1 more to come soon, contracts and legendary contracts and then free play with world events, unlocking map areas, discovering the hidden locations, all the little lore things to collect - that's plenty to go at. Then we see what the cataclysm brings.
This is worth a watch, it's about 15 minutes of the Destiny Community Podcast the clip in Ryan's video is taken from, interesting to see what people think of the game and where it might go from the perspective of being big Destiny fans.
hah, good one, you're even more famous now. Black bg is better. BTW, what platform are you on for this game? Any plans to do something in the OT for those of us who want to expand our friends lists to boost that Alliance Rep XP? Some sort of list for each platform we can add our names to and add each other.
All aboard!
I really like this Lump - here's my quick rendition of it :D Fun to play around with this... I also am a big time Iron Man fan, picked up 3 comics when I was 9; Iron Man, Doctor Strange and issue 1 of Ultimate Spider-Man. So seeing those characters come to life in movies, especially how RDJ plays Tony Stark has been a dream for me over my life - I adore the whole "Genius, Billionaire, Playboy, Philanthropist" thing.Anthem |OT| Take off that suit of armor, and what are you?
I'm not a dark mode fan but was asked to do a dark mode version of the chart so I did, I tried to focus on the actual colour scheme of anthem white/orange/red so never imagined that the white background would be bad/annoying to some. But made the dark mode version quickly and people seemed to like it:
In terms of a list for the OT, the gamertags channel on discord is kind of that already people list their platform and username on said platform. I'd happily put a list together or help someone put one together if they want to use the information from the thread + discord to make a usernamer/platform sheet of some kind.
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