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[Reddit] Removing your support items in Anthem massively increases melee/combo/proc/ult damage
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You know, I had such unreal amounts of hype for Anthem back when it was announced.
The setting, graphics, gameplay + Bioware basically made E3 for me.
The game has now officially hit Fallout 76 status for me where I've uninstalled it and am no longer even playing (never even touched F76 but still), but I am deriving more entertainment value from posts and revelations like this vs the actual game...
Also, what a twist: I bought a year of Origin Access Premiere mainly for BFV and Anthem.
Both of those games are currently uninstalled, but I noticed Premiere included full access to Dragon Age Inquisition + all of its DLC, so that's what I'm currently playing til my sub expires lmfao
The setting, graphics, gameplay + Bioware basically made E3 for me.
The game has now officially hit Fallout 76 status for me where I've uninstalled it and am no longer even playing (never even touched F76 but still), but I am deriving more entertainment value from posts and revelations like this vs the actual game...
Also, what a twist: I bought a year of Origin Access Premiere mainly for BFV and Anthem.
Both of those games are currently uninstalled, but I noticed Premiere included full access to Dragon Age Inquisition + all of its DLC, so that's what I'm currently playing til my sub expires lmfao
The flying and combos (basically the only two things that are good) were probably a part of the vertical slice. Everything else seems hastily tacked on a tech demo.
Technically it's rushed if the actual product we got was only in tangible development for 2 years tops and then actually rushed to meet the FY deadline. Which either way is what EA did, the same way they did with Andromeda. I'm sure the execs knew this game was rough and needed more time but the shareholders gotta have a physical release to end the FY. Unless they've changed that date IIRC Q4 ends in March for EA.
We are beta testers... Also props to the players finding these issues. I mostly gave up on the game and it manages to kill any cravings I have for playing by still being frigging unstable when I try to play it.
Back to Warframe and I may even go back to playing OW instead of just watching it.
Back to Warframe and I may even go back to playing OW instead of just watching it.
I am trying to negotiate with my self the idea of having Bioware terminated by EA.
It is a very painful process as it is something that i wish it will not happen.
It is a very painful process as it is something that i wish it will not happen.
If they could take the flying combat and setting from this game and the back end of Division 2 you would have a really good game on your hands. Well back to destiny strikes until they fix this.
No. If they had 7 years to work on this project and they only spent 2 of those years actually working on it, thats not rushing a product-thats taking far too long in pre development and poor management skills. Blaming this on EA after they spent 7 years pumping money and resources into this game without a damn thing to show for and then thinking they should have given Bioware more time is insane. Thats more time energy, money and resources than 99% of other developers get when making games. EA was entirely and totally in the right to at this point say, fuck it, you get no more time and money, were shipping the game and getting all we can from it and moving on. I would do the same thing as well. No way do we excuse them for spending 5 years in pre development or having to continuously start over and act like they were rushed. This isn't a rush job. This is just a bad job.
These are like, the most basic bugs for this kind of game. Hopefully nobody gets banned for doing this on a stream though.
While "Shareholders" is an easy-to-target bogeyman, the fact remains that Bioware worked on Anthem for six years. No publisher will ever be willing to throw infinite time and money at a project, and in the shape that the game launched, it's hard to say how much time Bioware would have needed to ship the game in a state that wasn't an embarrassment. So in this particular instance, EA deciding to release the game for the FY cutoff and eating the bad PR might have been their best option.
Nope, most long gone. We tend to forget that people don't often stay around in companies that long and then wonder how they fall from grace.
I really wanna read about what happened with this game. Sucks that Blood, sweat and pixels 2 isn't the next book.
ME1 was probably made by 100 people whereas Anthem was made by 750 so even if all 100 stayed, that's still a lot of new people.
I seriously didn't know that.
So most people who worked on ME1 gone.
No wonder..
Oh. My. God. That is hilarious. Like beyond funny into a new realm hilarious.
I mean you're going back pretty far. They have made plenty of mediocre/average games since ...
I mean, ME1 is pretty buggy, and its balance is non-existent.
r/anthem is having a massive boycott of the game. Jesus.
2019 has been fucking awesome, what?
We need a FFXIV style resurrection. I honestly believe that might work, though it all depends on EA.
They came out close enough it didn't even feel like it was worth it to try to wade through Anthem's endless nonsense.
I guess February was kind of disappointing outside of Apex for AAA games?
Maybe but 2.5 months into the year and we have Re2, Kh3 (didn't live up to the hype but its a good game), Apex, Dmc5, and sekiro next week. Thats fucking insane imo. Re2, apex and Dmc5 are all already goty contenders.
On the positive note (I guess) the guy on Reddit that said this game was a mess and would be delayed was right. EA just didn't do it. Hopefully that means he was about the PS5 too.
I cant help but laugh at all this drama but I also feel really bad for Bioware.
edit: removed part of my post cause it felt a little disrectful to the hard work these employees must have made to create this game. Sorry
edit: removed part of my post cause it felt a little disrectful to the hard work these employees must have made to create this game. Sorry
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We don't have to excuse it be we should consider to what extent EA influenced development of the game and how many times they restructured or completely restarted development. It's even worse than an Activision/Destiny situation in terms of the possible conflicts because BioWare is actually owned by EA, not simply contractually obligated.
To be fair this is really speculation, but EA doesn't really deserve the benefit of the doubt here.
I'm sure EA's culture has an influence on their studios, but we have heard many times that they've let a lot of their studios the freedom to do what they want. Both Respawn and BW have said many of the choices to do things have been their own. Im sure EA pushes certain things, but to me that doesn't seem to be the issue since we are looking at an incomplete game that can't even function. Based on a lot of things and their most recent games it seems to me that BW has leadership issues. Poor management, poor planning and low quality games.
With that being said, Casey is back and now the GM. So we will see in a few years if he can turn things around for BioWare.
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If they get that chance. I really hope Dragon Age comes out but I remember around the time Hudson got pulled back and other teams came to help with anthem, there were some ominous things said by some employees about dragon age and I'm assuming since all we've seen is a teaser that it was in predevelopment at best.
I really hope BioWare gets the chance to atone for MEA and Anthem
Have we been living in the same year? 2019 has been outstanding already.
This is the best use of this gif I've ever seen.
Bioware needs to stop drinking on the job.
Why are we assuming that this is what EA did? To arrive at your conclusion we have to start with the assumption that EA restarted development for them, that they changed what the game was and how it was being made, etc. And the problems with this game, many of its inherent designs, are in no way something a publisher would dictate (like the current topic at hand). Its ridiculous to blame the publisher to a time frame 99% of other games will never come close to receiving and acting like theyre the ones pushing this through quickly. I have no doubt that bioware had to put whatever they could together 20 months out from release, but we dont ignore the fact that prior to that they 4.5 years of dev time and clearly didn't use them accordingly. We can blame EA and activision for a lot of shitty, scummy things but at some point were excusing poor design decisions and time management by scapegoating the publishers when its clear that the game's inherent faults are coming from the developers and designers.
This was in no way a rush job. This was just a poor job.
Seriously I want to know what universe that person is living in to think 2019 is not a good year lol. 2019, not even a quarter of the way in, is phenomenal.
Yep, for me that would have been a release critical bug (or at least a high priority bug). Of course it's not possible to fix all bugs, but there is difference between measly C bugs and B or A bugs that really affect the experience.
And somehow there are people eho defend level scaling.
Though to be fair, it could be implemented better than that, lol.
Though to be fair, it could be implemented better than that, lol.
I'm not even gonna shit on Bioware for this. The game was clearly not ready for release but EA absolutely needed to kick it out the door this fiscal quarter.
That's actually exactly how game development works, different parts of a big game like this are made by different teams.
It's not massive in my eyes but there's a notable increase. Managed to easily kill Tyrant boss on GM1 without it scaling the walls. My sniper was doing over 200k damage to its weak point. Usually I think this is around 150k.
