Why do people keep saying this? Who cares if they only worked on this actual build for 2 years? If that's the case what the fuck were they doing for the other 5 years? This game wasnt rushed lol
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[Reddit] Removing your support items in Anthem massively increases melee/combo/proc/ult damage
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A lot of the bugs are stupid little calculation things that shouldn't happen at a developer that's done RPGs for years...but then again, DA:I did have things like assassin archers that were just STUPIDLY overpowered early on due to skills applying to it that were apparently not supposed to. Maybe they just don't have anyone there doing 'big picture' overview of skills/equipment interaction like they should.
Outside of the bugs - which are just that, bugs...it's not meant to work the way it does...it's the same as every other loot treadmill game. You get loot and get more powerful, then you fight more powerful things that still provide a challenge to get better loot to fight still MORE powerful things... In most games like this you go back to a starter area and can wipe out the stuff there with trivial effort or attention, but that's changing a bit these days - with some games using scaling so it's not just a cakewalk wasted area once you've outleveled it.
I mean when I'm playing Diablo 3 and my character does a 3k fireball to kill creatures early on with 3K health, then does a 30k fireball later on to kill creatures with 30k health on a jacked up difficulty, the number is bigger but you're not really all that much more powerful feeling aside from that. That's where the treadmill games like looter shooters/dungeon crawlers/mmo's lose some people - they see the treadmill for what it is and lose interest.
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DICE games were in entirely different situations than BioWare ones. BFV was light on content from what I hear, sure, but what really broke it was CoD having a good year and extreme course corrections from prior titles. (SWBF2 launch MTX hell happening to blow the controversy up, SWBF1 going for $110 online BF3 formula without any SP, etc.)
Nowhere near SP Star Wars or BioWare insanity, at any rate.
A game needs to be released when it's done. If it's not done yet and it gets forced out anyway then that is the game being rushed.
There is no set amount of time for a game to be developed. It's done when it's done. And this clearly wasn't done.
Because it is an important distinction. They likely made several builds before this one that weren't good or acceptable. And with this build they HAD to meet the deadline, no exceptions. Which means they didn't have enough time to properly work on the game. The bugs, glitches and messed up stats and scaling is proof of that.
This doesn't excuse the games fundamental flaws which stem from problems with design not polish.
This is so fucked. I say this as someone who's enjoying the game in spite of its deeply fundamental shortcomings.
Gonna be a fascinating read, I'm sure.
I saw him post on Reddit yesterday that he's working on an exposé. At least, I think it was him.
Gonna be a fascinating read, I'm sure.
It's nobody's fault but Bioware employees and EA managers though
i'm a little ways into assassin's creed: odyssey, &, yeah, i agree: fuck scaling! :) ...
Honestly I put the blame on EA. I sincerely doubt Bioware was super hyped about releasing their brand new IP in a broken and unfinished state.
Anthem's release date of Feb 22nd, 2019 was announced at E3 back in June 2018. I find it hard to blame EA for the state of the game with a known launch date that far in advance. BioWare just couldn't get it done.
Accurate as fuck.
4 huge looter shooters (Borderlands, Destiny, The Division, and Warframe) and other prominent loot games (WoW, Diablo) to learn from and Bioware completely ignored all of their history.
The poor weapon and Armor variety, structure, mission design, and systems are all on Bioware though
Enemy health scales by which weapon you currently have equipped?!? What in tarnation
At some point you have to tell them to polish the turd and release it. Too many marketing deals to cancel it.
I really hope he is digging into it. I'd like to read something like that. Some of the decisions they made in this game are baffling and I would like to know if it's as simple as the game changed dramatically recently and they had to rush out what they had, or if it's something else such as severe staff turnover or whatever.
https://www.resetera.com/threads/ac...y-gives-the-studios-autonomy-and-more.105408/
I mean it was obvious but again this wasnt a rush job, this wasnt ea. This game got more time and resources than 99% of other games and it still came out like this. Theres no way in hell under any definition that this was a rush job. This was just a bad job. By bioware.
Enemy health scales based on the weapon you have equipped. So no matter what, gun X will just kill an enemy in "four shots"? And they don't actually have set HP pools? What?
I think it's more likely that the damage numbers shown is a complete fiction compared to the actual damage being dealt.
Enemy health scales by which weapon you currently have equipped?!? What in tarnation
Lol HOLY SHIT. Lofty is an understatement.
Should have called it project Millie Vanillie
I think that was a bug that only affected level 1 guns/abilities. Doesn't work this way with even level 2 stuff.
They designed a loot game where the numbers are all a lie.
How far into development were they until they rationalized that the scaling bandaid was acceptable enough to ship I wonder.
How far into development were they until they rationalized that the scaling bandaid was acceptable enough to ship I wonder.
More explanation on scaling
I'm not an anthem player, just a bioware fan watching this trainwreck from the sidelines with a vague sense of concern for the company, but this is the latest hotness from Reddit
https://www.reddit.com/r/AnthemTheG...rscaling_why_loot_doesnt_matter_anymore_math/
This isn't exactly new, since it's more of a detailed explanation of why removing your stuff increases your damage, but it does mean that as of this new patch, you have no reason to collect more loot from your looter shooter.
You just need one legendary weapon, and that's it.
https://www.reddit.com/r/AnthemTheG...rscaling_why_loot_doesnt_matter_anymore_math/
This isn't exactly new, since it's more of a detailed explanation of why removing your stuff increases your damage, but it does mean that as of this new patch, you have no reason to collect more loot from your looter shooter.
You just need one legendary weapon, and that's it.
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Ugh. This is why band aids usually don't help. I was hoping this game would be fixed in a few months, but it seems like the problems are worse than we thought. IMO, BioWare still hasn't come to terms with the fact that this game needs a long term plan to be fixed which stretches the timeline even further.
Since they seemingly faked all the stats in the game. It's gonna be a good year or more before we get a system which is good
They also need a Bungie or Massive level realization that their game needs that kind of work. Right now they seem to be fixated on short term fixes.
Why do you feel bad for Bioware?
They're the ones fucking this all up!
Even after the logic is fixed you still have a barren open world patrol area and the equivalent of 3 strikes as your endgame material. That is simply embarasing and also way harder to fix.
Considering every other game is decent to great, i don't think this is a cursed genre
Well, that's what I mean, it's the SAME problem as the OP, just better explained. And that's understandable, because they just discovered the problem, so they don't know how it works.
This post goes into detail explaining why and what that means for the endgame loot chase. It's the same problem, but in greater detail.
Isn't there some youtuber that uses that for every failed game?
BL, BL2, BL TPS were all fine. Destiny launched without issues and the raid was a success the end game was not deep though. Destiny 2 didn't really have any issues at launch, the loot progression was just shallow. The Division had a pretty smooth launch but the end game wasn't really there. The Division 2 seems to be doing fine but it's still too early to tell.
That being said I get what you're trying to say and I blame it on studios not getting enough time to work on the game and being overly ambitious with the scale/scope and bringing an always online component to it.
"but Anthem took 6 years" yeah and it obviously had development problems and then EA needed it out of the door by the end of the fiscal year. myself and others raised flags about the private alpha being so close to release and then how do you warn people about an alpha build of a game when there's an NDA. It needed more time.
