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[Reddit] Removing your support items in Anthem massively increases melee/combo/proc/ult damage
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Maybe it's time for EA to take Bioware out back and shoot it like they usually do? Bioware clearly is not the company we used to know and love.
I feel sorry for the people at Bioware, to be honest. It's been constant negative press for the game since it launched and none of it will help sell more copies.
I wonder if the team regrets making it a live game.
I wonder if the team regrets making it a live game.
The inexperience from the peeps in Bioware in creating a looter game is really showing. Like really showing.
I still can't believe that something as basic as a waypoint is not available in this game. Like, how come? Unbelievable.
I still can't believe that something as basic as a waypoint is not available in this game. Like, how come? Unbelievable.
I haven't touched the game in over 2 weeks, almost everyone has dropped it on my friends list
Goddamn was this game a goddamn train wreck
Goddamn was this game a goddamn train wreck
This is how the developement of Anthem actually went down:
EA in 2017 AFTER seeing Destiny 2 hype: 'They did it again! The hype omg. They will sell millions of the same low content game for 60 $ AGAIN. Bioware I want one of these too, NOW!'
Bioware: 'Its just gonna a be a bad Destiny clone, no one is gonna like it'
EA: 'Clone? We don't copy anyone bwhahaha?' *picks up unused Mass Effect armor art design* 'Hmm this looks spacey enough, when was this made?'
Bioware: ,A few years ago, maybe 2013, wh...?'
EA: , So be it! We gonna say development started when this piece of art was made. So in 2019 it will be 6 years then. Which means we already worked 4 years on this.... why isn't it finished yet, Bioware! What am I paying you for you stupid pricks?!'
Bioware: ' Wut?'
EA: ' Shut up and begone, before I forget myself and send you to deat..er I mean to the place where our bad kids go. I expect a finished game by 2019.'
True story.
EA in 2017 AFTER seeing Destiny 2 hype: 'They did it again! The hype omg. They will sell millions of the same low content game for 60 $ AGAIN. Bioware I want one of these too, NOW!'
Bioware: 'Its just gonna a be a bad Destiny clone, no one is gonna like it'
EA: 'Clone? We don't copy anyone bwhahaha?' *picks up unused Mass Effect armor art design* 'Hmm this looks spacey enough, when was this made?'
Bioware: ,A few years ago, maybe 2013, wh...?'
EA: , So be it! We gonna say development started when this piece of art was made. So in 2019 it will be 6 years then. Which means we already worked 4 years on this.... why isn't it finished yet, Bioware! What am I paying you for you stupid pricks?!'
Bioware: ' Wut?'
EA: ' Shut up and begone, before I forget myself and send you to deat..er I mean to the place where our bad kids go. I expect a finished game by 2019.'
True story.
At this point, given that Bioware has shown in the past that they have known how to make a functioning product, I'm more inclined to believe the fault lies at EA's feet for pretty much everything wrong with this game
After Andromeda, I'm not sure how one can hold on to that belief.
Lots of companies make functioning products at one point and then make shit the next. You don't stumble around in the dark for 6 years simply "because EA". EA didn't mandate a No Mans Sky. That was Bioware's idea. And it was Bioware's idea to hold on to that idea for too long.
I don't know. At this point I'm starting to wonder whether Bioware's reputation is being damaged by association with EA, or whether EA's reputation (what little it has left) is being damaged by association with Bioware.
I love(d) BW, don't get me wrong, but what they did with Anthem is some shameful shit - and I'm not talking about bugs and loading screens, but the absolutely uninspired content, the minimal viable product they shat out.
Looking at what Massive did with simple core gameplay loop in The Division 2, how much varied and entertaining shit they bundled on top of it, how is the best Anthem could come up with "stand here until an arbitrary bar fills" and "shoot these dudes spawning from thin air until they stop spawning"?
Haha, they probably shouldn't do this, because it really does make it appear like they want the players to beta test their game, haha.
Nah, there's too much staff to let go without affecting EA's bottom line.
Now a name change on the other hand...
Yeah this isn't EA's fault alone. At the end of the day, Bioware developed the game and they're ultimately just as responsible for this train wreck.
Lmfao! This game will be dead in a few weeks anyway with the lack of endgame content and the overall bugginess of the game, if it isn't already (Division 2 is also incoming). The subreddit is also turning on Bioware really fast, whereas they were singing their praises just weeks ago.
What a shitshow
What a shitshow
Andromeda adds credibility to "EA meddling caused this", because it's part of a very visible pattern that started right after bioware got bought. We've seen this kind of thing since DA2 (remember the copypasta caves with the doors barely filled in?). Bioware is being squeezed, and it shows.
Haha, they probably shouldn't do this, because it really does make it appear like they want the players to beta test their game, haha.
Not a good look lol
Exactly, in the past where I assume a lot of developers were; likely aren't working at bioware now.
I have this nagging thought that a lot of design choices in say, certain website, social media, user interfaces and such that really bug me (and a lot of others) are from a newer generation of people who think form over function is more appropriate OR the older generation thinking that's what the newer gen wants and likes. It's really fuckin' important to read the entire thing!
It could also be Frostbite.
DA:I - https://www.tweaktown.com/news/57906/dices-frostbite-play-rpgs/index.html
Mass Effect Andromeda - https://www.usgamer.net/articles/the-frostbite-engine-nearly-tanked-mass-effect-andromeda
Cancelled Star Wars Game - https://gamingbolt.com/viscerals-ca...ung-by-the-frostbite-engine-as-per-amy-hennig
Anthem - Obviously we know what's going on here.
It's the same story each game "It's an engine that works great for what is was made for, adding and creating systems is very difficult".
I mean, they certainly did in so far that the game was clearly not ready and this post-launch disaster all but guaranteed.
That doesn't mean that the game's development wasn't a huge mess in and of itself and Bioware is likely to blame for that. But still, EA pushed for a release of a game that probably needed another year in the least. Or, which I find very hard to believe, Bioware was actually fine with releasing in its state somehow...
Nah, you don't shut down a studio after one dud (unless it's like, the Andromeda studio but that was its own weird thing...)
I can't lay blame for the messy developement of this game at Bioware's feet because I don't know how many times EA put their entire hand into the soup, or from how early on in developement they started doing that.
Yeah, everything about Anthem feels like a game that changed direction at least once during development and given what it seems to have changed into appears to be trend-chasing that definitely points towards it being an EA interference issue but I doubt we'll ever really know.
Sure, but by the exact same logic laying the blame at EA's feet is equally silly, and the only reason someone would do so is because that's what they want to be true.
The reality is that there's probably no way you could seperate out just one group of people involved with this project and say "these are the people who made the game bad". The failure is on both EA and BioWare.
Not when you take into account that Bioware have a history of knowing how to make functional products. Balancing that with EA's history of excessive interference in the cooking of the soup makes it reasonable to place the blame on them.
It's funny because in an interview they compared Anthem's story to FFXIV's.
They have a history of making functional products... in a different genre.
And it probably wasn't their decision to chase this genre. It was probably EA's. They have a history of not caring about the strengths of a development team and forcing their hand this way. It's part of why EA has killed so many of the studios they purchased. Erego...
That's the wierd part tho.. the stuff they got right is the new stuff, the stuff like story and RPG math its like they forgot what those things even are
It's hard to make story with a gameplay structure like Anthem's. It's not that they forgot. Story and gameplay are forever in a complicated dance and gameplay structure can irrevocably fuck over story in ways even experienced storytellers can't account for.
This was probably Bioware's desperate cry for help
I mean, that's just baseless speculation that actively goes against what BioWare themselves are saying.
You're picking and choosing what "evidence" you want to believe in order to create the narrative that BioWare have nothing to do with Anthem's issues.
This game is a train wreck. Not only have I been soured on this game, but I'm not buying DA4 at release because of it, and that was previously a no look, day one buy for me. I just don't trust Bioware at all anymore after them shitting the bed with back to back games.
I doubt you will get it, but it doesn't hurt to try. That's the biggest drawback to digital, if you regret it there is little recourse.
I doubt you will get it, but it doesn't hurt to try. That's the biggest drawback to digital, if you regret it there is little recourse.
DA2 was an excellent game that had less than a year of development time. Which is even crazier given the scope of its ambition. It gets really tiring seeing people shit on it like it's an incarnation of Big Rigs.
This reminds me of Curse of Osiris time in Destiny 2 except the game had a solid foundation to build on.
People shit on it because it played like crap and recycled content repeatedly to make up for how little was in the game. I agree, in context of how it was developed it's relatively impressive but that doesn't make it a better end product.
that deserves its own thread, i mean it is the most generous offering in video game history. lmao
I don't buy that this is all EA's fault because EA puts out games without this many problems in less development time.
I'm starting to think Bioware isn't what it used to be. Maybe it's a result of EA, maybe it's not. But Bioware have created 2 hot messes of games back to back now. It will certainly make me think twice when considering Bioware products in the future.