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Post by PillarBiter on Sept 12, 2019 8:08:05 GMT
yesterday in Anthem - finally got a lemon Rampager with +225% weapon damage (would have liked +225% melee more ) so the specific jav-chests are not too bad, at least the odds are a bit better when you are looking for a thing for a specific jav and I am still missing A LOT beacuse RNGesus wasn't kind lately 2 helpful corrections: 1) weapon damage also affects melee, so it wouldn't have mattered if it was +225 weapon damage or +225 melee damage. 2) actually, if you're lookig for one specific item, cost-for-reward-wise, it is actually better to use the general chests, because the javelin-specific chests cost almost the double. However, if you also want other items for that specific javelin, javelin-specific chests are indeed better.
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Post by Dekibra on Sept 12, 2019 8:12:58 GMT
However, if you also want other items for that specific javelin, javelin-specific chests are indeed better. duh
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Post by Deleted on Sept 12, 2019 13:17:24 GMT
Something I've noticed in the cat … folks who are new to Anthem or perhaps left, but have just now returned for the cat … those folks are making up a significant portion of folks filling a team. Folks who have no idea how to do the puzzles. If I were them, I'd go to GM1, to learn the puzzles and gameplay, then return to GM2 (or GM3 in PB's case) … but YMMV.
The folks fighting at Brita's … I figure they are just bad at math … score some minor points while the multiplier is low, chewing up time that could be used for doing the stuff when the multiplier is high.
More folks are using the exploit on Astrid … unfortunately, it also means more folks are doing it badly. About one in four fail, sometimes bugging the game, to where one of the echoes is perma-lost and the event can't be completed. Or you waste a lot of time trying to communicate with them what must be done to complete the event … sorta negating the whole point of saving five seconds with an exploit.
When pugs want to learn … that is cool. Was in two pugs last night, one where I was "the" pug, a guy was talking two friends through the cat … ended up with one new person following their experienced friend and the other new person following me to do the cleanup stuff. Worked really well and we completed Vara (on GM2) with time to spare, scoring just under 10M. In the other pug, I was with a friend, a guy came up on mic (my friend and I talk throughout, coordinating our actions) and said he just wanted to follow me, to learn the "stuff" … worked out for him, plus we had a decent teammate … so it was all good … again, scoring just under 10M in GM2.
As far as folks leaving the match … I had three in a row yesterday where ELPD (error loading pilot data) hit me … sometimes almost immediately, once after I'd completed a few pillars on Magnus. Also had one infinite loading screen. When I see folks depart early in the match, I figure they are having some of the same problems. Regardless … after those early … and frustrating … issues, the servers seemed to settle down and had no more problems (and did not note any more loss of teammates) the rest of the night.
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Post by force58 on Sept 12, 2019 16:24:25 GMT
How weird is it that people don't know the cataclysm by now and fuck everything up? A record of my evening. Well, for starters some of us, me, don't play Anthem exclusively. I just came back to do the cataclysm missions last week, did those, and then did 4-5 runs. I'm still learning everything there is about the first 3 encounters. I refuse to watch "how to" vids that end up spoiling it for me. To just leave a game because people don't understand all the mechanics is not good either. I've never understood that mentality. That mentality is part of the reason why I'd rather just solo all the events, but obviously that can't happen in this game. What I do do though is follow the team around and use them to try and figure out exactly what to do, like using my storm's dash to open the domes in the 2nd stage. I know everybody values their time, just try and be a bit more patient with us. I'm guessing by the time they shut the cataclysm down I won't be able to get to the other 4 events, I mean, with BL3 launching today.
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Post by PillarBiter on Sept 13, 2019 6:45:53 GMT
Did 2 more gm3 runs: 1 where we just coudln't kill vara (I still don't have a decent single target DPS gun on my storm...)., and one where he died at the last 2 seconds XD. The pugs were meh though. Then did a gm2, and had a really, really good group: all secrets collected only afetr doing all events, and killed vara. One of them actually messaged me how glad he was that it had been 2 weeks since he got a group where people knew what they were doing and he was thankful Got again nothing for my troubles though. Oh yah, another ligthnign rod...
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Post by seven on Sept 13, 2019 21:36:51 GMT
hmm... will I be able to finish my 3 remaining challenges (Vanquisher, ???, ???) when I get back from my vacation on the 27th then?! The timing as far as we know it now is that it will end on the 24th. Sorry :/ Damn holidays! As for greedfall. It may be good but is currently just not on my radar. Maybe if I end up with no games left to play in my ever growing backlog, and anthem becomes dull again, this might change. Currently, I am just passing the time between now and Cyberpunk release date. I am so going solo So much yes! Agreed with what you said earlier about greedfall (it looked like westernish a la rdr2 to me from the small amount I had seen), but I caved and bought it. It seems ok but...hurry up cyberpunk !
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Post by Energizer Bunny 211 on Sept 13, 2019 22:54:56 GMT
I feel so GUILTY....I haven't played ANTHEM is months. I played off-and-on during the summer (spent almost all my time out on a golf course)....But I haven't played it seriously since mid-march.
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Post by XCPTNL on Sept 14, 2019 11:13:52 GMT
Been trying to get a really good run recorded but having a lot of problems lately with doing one actually. We have had so many games with problems - like the interact button not working for somebody even after dying, players getting disconnected and all that stuff. And the games we completed were usually in the 17.5-18 million range because... reasons - usually somebody messed something up at some point. I'm also trying to get good valkyrie kills at 16x recorded but so far I have only 2 because we often split them up and another player is doing some of them or when I did them I didn't properly kill them and had to finish them off otherwise because my Interceptor damage is still messed up.
Haven't been playing that much lately as well.
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Post by correctamundo on Sept 14, 2019 12:44:53 GMT
I feel so GUILTY....I haven't played ANTHEM is months. I played off-and-on during the summer (spent almost all my time out on a golf course)....But I haven't played it seriously since mid-march. It is cool you know. I haven't been golfing in years. Well since I met my wife 19 years ago. I tried to get her out on the golf course but no go. I have managed to recruit her for the gym though so it's all good. Anyway Anthem is all about fun so if you don't feel don't sweat it. Today I ran some contracts, strongholds and cataclysms. Ran one with pilot 2, I messed up the whole callsign thing so now I go with pilot 1 and pilot 2 , GM1 (but she feels op for that by now so in the future will probably start GM2). We lost one player sadly flying to Magnus. One player was clearly a cata rookie. So it was me and the last player who did all the heavy lifting. But the good thing is our rookie didn't run off to Vara too early. Instead mostly followed around during secrets phase. Didn't sabotage either Brita or Astrid. When rookie felt ready for Vara waited for us other two instead of going in to early and kill her with to much time left on the timer. We still had one minute to go when ended it but got 6000000+ on basically two player om GM1. not bad really. And I am sure rookie picked up a thing or two.
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Post by Energizer Bunny 211 on Sept 14, 2019 23:31:04 GMT
I feel so GUILTY....I haven't played ANTHEM is months. I played off-and-on during the summer (spent almost all my time out on a golf course)....But I haven't played it seriously since mid-march. It is cool you know. I haven't been golfing in years. Well since I met my wife 19 years ago. I tried to get her out on the golf course but no go. I have managed to recruit her for the gym though so it's all good. Anyway Anthem is all about fun so if you don't feel don't sweat it. Today I ran some contracts, strongholds and cataclysms. Ran one with pilot 2, I messed up the whole callsign thing so now I go with pilot 1 and pilot 2 , GM1 (but she feels op for that by now so in the future will probably start GM2). We lost one player sadly flying to Magnus. One player was clearly a cata rookie. So it was me and the last player who did all the heavy lifting. But the good thing is our rookie didn't run off to Vara too early. Instead mostly followed around during secrets phase. Didn't sabotage either Brita or Astrid. When rookie felt ready for Vara waited for us other two instead of going in to early and kill her with to much time left on the timer. We still had one minute to go when ended it but got 6000000+ on basically two player om GM1. not bad really. And I am sure rookie picked up a thing or two. I often feel like I total Rookie because I often get lost in every arena after the opening one. Specially the one where you travel underwater several times....I always get so disoriented and then the 'beam' steals on my stuff.....I lose my $H!T and get so frustrated because I'm slowing down my group that I just give up and go back to playing Strongholds that I know....such as Tyrant Mine or even Sunken Cell, though with the water-based turbines in that one, I still get disoriented at times when traversing them.
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Post by PillarBiter on Sept 16, 2019 6:25:30 GMT
Well, I've given up on trying to get the remaining things I want from the cataclysm, as 1 legendary (useless) out of 80 weapon chests mentally broke me. I literally sat there laughing hysterically at myself and Bioware's BS. The frustration I've endured in the oh-so-many GM3 pugs where people (you know who you are): - don't help with the pillars at magnus - remove the echoes while i'm in the flooded chamber in britaheim - take an echo or a triangle at astrid and just run around with it instead of doing the puzzle - don't wait around to help with Valkyrie Takaro after the event has finished - actively work against me in kelrik by 'helping' to place the orbs - STILL take secrets like the shaper spheres before all events are done. well, I can't take it anymore... So I've given up on getting a decent rainmaker and steam vent. I'm just going to play for funsies until the cataclysm ends, and then quit for a while until they fix their loot system in some way. Later, I played some gm2, and the difference was staggering. Every game, literally, every game, everyone knew what to do: don't pop secrets until all events are done, split up the events so mor eground is covered faster. How come everyone drops 60 points in IQ from gm2 to gm3? Really weird... I did get a lemon ice storm and acid slugs which I didn't have yet, so that's cool, I guess. Now my Ifrit build (steam vent fire damage storm) is finished Well, except for a decent rainmaker gravedigger, or riza's ripper
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Post by Deleted on Sept 16, 2019 14:20:26 GMT
Finally got a lego RazerWing with decent (not god level) inscriptions. Gravedigger is the only one that hasn't gotten something better than the MW level. Switched to the #2 pilot before closing out the game for the night … we'll see what can be achieved today and in the final chapter of the cat.
My #2 pilot has all the gear, support gear, melee and at least the MW levels of the new weapons … thought I'd be spending the past week getting upgrades for him … but getting the Razerwing took a long time for the #1 pilot. On the bright side, #1 pilot only has one Colossus component and one universal component that are not legos. Plus, did get some of the older gear leveled up for her.
By the end of the cat, both #1 and #2 pilots should be in decent shape overall, for starting the next act.
Bring on the Urgoth.
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Post by PillarBiter on Sept 16, 2019 16:35:04 GMT
Finally got a lego RazerWing with decent (not god level) inscriptions. Gravedigger is the only one that hasn't gotten something better than the MW level. Switched to the #2 pilot before closing out the game for the night … we'll see what can be achieved today and in the final chapter of the cat. My #2 pilot has all the gear, support gear, melee and at least the MW levels of the new weapons … thought I'd be spending the past week getting upgrades for him … but getting the Razerwing took a long time for the #1 pilot. On the bright side, #1 pilot only has one Colossus component and one universal component that are not legos. Plus, did get some of the older gear leveled up for her. By the end of the cat, both #1 and #2 pilots should be in decent shape overall, for starting the next act. Bring on the Urgoth. It’d be neat if the urgoth were more of a horde type enemy. So we’d have a horde mode in freeplay 😱
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Post by force58 on Sept 17, 2019 14:33:10 GMT
It's pretty much what I thought would happen, I haven't played since I last posted on the 15th due to BL3 coming out. I don't see myself coming back anytime soon as I'm also playing Gears 5.
I will check out the forum everyday like I normally do but the whole notion of how some players are viewed in Cataclysm that aren't versed in every single aspect, know all the secrets, etc., just blows my mind and completely turns me off. If I do log in to play it'll be something other than Cataclysm, maybe just freeplay.
It seems to be a troubling trend in more and more games these days with people requesting others "watch vids" "to get gud". Screw that. I play to enjoy the "new" experiences, not treat gaming like a job and watch "educational" vids on how to do something. I know it must suck to be held back on certain activities but I'm not sure Cataclysm is considered to be "end game" unless you're in GM3, maybe GM2. I was going into Cataclysm on hard or GM1 as I'm sure most who are new to the activity were. I was going in mainly to check out the new environment, figure out the mechanics, and of course to get loot. What I didn't expect were the off-game messages I got from what I call "elitist jerks" who felt somehow I personally let them down. I don't think that's how this is supposed to work.
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Post by correctamundo on Sept 17, 2019 16:34:14 GMT
Oh....you l.... sob! But I did call it.
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Post by XCPTNL on Sept 17, 2019 22:34:23 GMT
Finally we got a good run in and finished slightly above 19 million. We took another route again this time and I will probably upload a video tomorrow... the new inversion is pretty sick with the Shard Storm. So much damage boosting... I will check out the forum everyday like I normally do but the whole notion of how some players are viewed in Cataclysm that aren't versed in every single aspect, know all the secrets, etc., just blows my mind and completely turns me off. If I do log in to play it'll be something other than Cataclysm, maybe just freeplay. I can't blame you for not wanting to participate in that. It surely isn't much fun. But neither is it for the others if you have no idea what to do as you can see in the post PillarBiter wrote. I don't think Cataclysm should ever have been available for public groups the way it is right now to be honest. I mean a lot of people would probably complain but this is just not a game mode for random, unorganized groups that don't communicate clearly and is also not really suited for players who lean to be more on the casual side of things. Even if you don't go at it hardcore and attempt to get high scores you still want a team that can pull off a decent run. I've had a few when I actually played public games but most of them sucked. The simple fact that the default route in public games is not very efficient compared to certain other routes in which you always end up doing either Casja or Britaheim last and leave all the other Valkyries for later puts me off those games. Also I'm used to playing with people with high dps so we get everything cleared quickly and have a lot of time left in the end to comfortably to whatever we want to do. Not something that happens in public games a lot either. I understand people who are frustrated by players who don't know anything about Cataclysm. When I started, I had 2 people show me almost all the things I needed to know first, after that I was studying a guide and a map and then we figured out more stuff over the weeks. I watched an older video of a run I did and stumbled upon several mistakes and also 2 notes I always missed because I didn't know about them for quite a while. All in all I have probably spent more time talking about Cataclsym, discussing ideas, planning routes and new strategies than I actually played the events. But I can understand people who don't want to do this - not just to the extent we are doing it but also not at all. Although in this day and age it feels almost mandatory to educate yourself outside of the game about the actual game. Certainly in games like this. Personally I like that and have been doing it for years - basically I was used to it from watching a lot of recordings back in my competitive CS days a loooooooooong while ago. We'll see what Bioware has planned next. Something like that Cataclysm caters to guilds and teams that play together regularly, who like to compete maybe or at least get the challenges done they wanted to get done (pulling off something you want to try to see if it works), speedrunners, people who like to strategize, optimize and so on. And I love it for that after initially being put off by it when I first played it and was annoyed by time limitations, stability stuff and such. Then I got into more and more and began loving it. But I can totally see how this does not cater to certain other groups of players at all. And in Anthem there should be quite a few of them. I guess the story missions were more up their alley although I found them a bit underwhelming. I'd like to see something like Cataclysm again for sure but I also want as many players playing the game as possible. And it's quite a difficult thing to pull off, especially there are probably way more casual players in Anthem than there are in other games of the same kind because of Bioware's history/fanbase. I think they might have to find better ways how you can maybe select who you are playing with when doing public games... so they don't mix up different kind of players that basically just won't fit together at all. All that being said I don't think insulting other players is helping anybody. But that's unfortunately how it is in a lot of online games.
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Post by PillarBiter on Sept 18, 2019 6:45:41 GMT
Well, lots to talk about today. First up, the final week. Kind of dissapointing, all in all. Besides the new inversion, which lets you do some sick-ass damage (steam vent is just an instagib gear now...) if you use something like Truth of Tarsis, the only addition is the end scene of the cataclysm and the scene in fort tarsis. The story is left a bit too open ended (warning, spoilers!) for my taste. I mean, go figure, the sahdy dude who did nothing but being shady was behind it all along. Who could have predicted that? ... quite a bit too predictable imo. And also, the final cutscene about Harken (a VERY good character though, you hate to love him) leaves us with just a slight bit too little information.
My guess is that Harken's goal was to wake up the worm in the emerald abyss. And that's probably where the story will go further. So I've finished the story missions, and yesterday I did some more runs so I could buy all vanity available, but now I feel like I am very happy the cataclysm is ending. I'm not grinding for a decent roll on a weapon or gear box anymore, since the rng makes that pure madness. I think I'm going to go back to enjoying freeplay for now. And when the cataclysm ends... well, I think I'll move on to other games because bioware obviously has nothing lined up for us anytime soon... (the god-damn blog post). The blog post. When I thought I couldn't be more dissapointed in bioware... "I am writing to tell you I want to communicate openly about the future of Anthem", and also: "I can't say anything about the future of Anthem yet". Dafuq? Yeah sure, they gave some vague information about what they're working on, but nothing enticing. The only thing they clearly stated (and this is what REALLY pissed me off) is that they were cancelling the Acts, in favor of doing events like the cataclysm. God. Damn. IT! NO! The acts were the one thing that could've held bioware's history as storytellers up and standing. I mean, the cataclysm had SOME story, but due to it being spread over 6 weeks, it was very intermittent and meagre (and hardly climactic). *fucking sigh* And more events like the cataclysm? I definitely won't fall for the same grind trap again. I know now that such an event burns me out and I don't feel like coming back to a game that makes me feel as such. A game is meant to be enjoyed, not feel like work. I have enough stress at work thank you very much. And yes, I know it a grind game, but the random system does not make it feel like a reward if I earn something. So event future cataclysm-like event will be received with only very mild enthusiasm to me. I am very very sad the acts are cancelled. One more pipe dream they fed us, where they now show their true colors. You know what I wish for? I wish anthem wasn't so much fun. At least then I could cast aside the game with much mor ease. PS: Colossus has been growing on me lately. I love hovering above an enemy, engaging Vassa's arc, and then plummeting down with a fire melee, setting an enemy on fire, - wait for the short pause between vassa's arc shots -, and then watch enemies all around me explode.
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Post by PillarBiter on Sept 19, 2019 7:08:04 GMT
Yesterday in Anthem. In steno form, just for a change of literary pace. Did a GM2 run with my storm. The current inversions make shardstorm a fantastic weapon! Got a lemon from literally the first enemy to die. Nothing good though. Got invited by some guys to join their party, must've liked what they saw. I don't use mic but I chatted on my phone with them Was a good gm2 game, ended up doing it with 3. Got 900k+ score before vara. Cool, friendly guys. Did remind me why I don't like multiplayer, with all the constant talking instead of ELEMENTAL DESTRUCTION! Stopped playing after that. Got a good chest-to-lemon conversion rate for my crystals (28/4). Nothing useful though. This morning wanted to try out boomtown (venom storm) colossus. Made an Optimus Prime look, LOVE. IT! Joined a random GM2 stronghold with colossus, was Tyrant mine. Again, literally first enemy to die gave me a lemon (rubidium furnace, didn't have yet). Proceed to steamroll everything with (only) double charges masterwork VS. The defense objective was hilarious, just stand in the circle and continuously pump out VS. "YOU SHALT NOT PASS!!!!" Boss lasted less than a minute... Maybe try on GM3 next time >_>
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Post by XCPTNL on Sept 19, 2019 12:38:48 GMT
For a relaxing change I've just been doing some legendary contracts for the daily/weekly and some freeplay. Maybe I'll go for some cataclysm runs later if we can get a good team going. I want to test quite a few things, especially about the inconsistency issue with points that was reported at Answers HQ but also some things about the Vara farming and server shutdowns. I'm not sure how much time I can spent playing until the end of the Cataclysm and how motivated I will be but I kinda want to get a 20 million score before the event ends. For that we need to figure out a way to optimize our run to get the necessary points. Looking at the current leaderboards I get motivated though because I can see that A LOT more points than what we recently got are possible apparently and I don't even need to get that much as I'm personally happy enough with a solid 20 million score to end the event. It's also interesting that some of the "usual suspects" aren't on first page right now. At least two of the top teams apparently haven't made a serious run yet since the reset. Which might be one reason why we have such a huge difference between the scores right now: First place with 21.131.516 points, second place with 20.530.630 which is already quite a difference - and then our team in third place with "only" 19.022.898 points which is a huge difference to second place. So if we can figure out how we can get more points (or maybe just not lose as many if we can figure out more about the inconsistency issues) I'm optimistic that we can break 20 million if we spent some time trying. But to be honest: I take some god-rolled items in my next chests over a few more points in the leaderboards any day. Actually... I might buy some chests now. Oh... and I also created a very extensive bug report about the mystery of the disappearing stability bubbles we had in our latest run. I have watched the gameplay again, talked to the team, talked to other high scorers and still can't wrap my head around what happened there and why it only happened at some locations but possibly at the same time.
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Post by PillarBiter on Sept 19, 2019 13:30:12 GMT
For a relaxing change I've just been doing some legendary contracts for the daily/weekly and some freeplay. Maybe I'll go for some cataclysm runs later if we can get a good team going. I want to test quite a few things, especially about the inconsistency issue with points that was reported at Answers HQ but also some things about the Vara farming and server shutdowns. I'm not sure how much time I can spent playing until the end of the Cataclysm and how motivated I will be but I kinda want to get a 20 million score before the event ends. For that we need to figure out a way to optimize our run to get the necessary points. Looking at the current leaderboards I get motivated though because I can see that A LOT more points than what we recently got are possible apparently and I don't even need to get that much as I'm personally happy enough with a solid 20 million score to end the event. It's also interesting that some of the "usual suspects" aren't on first page right now. At least two of the top teams apparently haven't made a serious run yet since the reset. Which might be one reason why we have such a huge difference between the scores right now: First place with 21.131.516 points, second place with 20.530.630 which is already quite a difference - and then our team in third place with "only" 19.022.898 points which is a huge difference to second place. So if we can figure out how we can get more points (or maybe just not lose as many if we can figure out more about the inconsistency issues) I'm optimistic that we can break 20 million if we spent some time trying. But to be honest: I take some god-rolled items in my next chests over a few more points in the leaderboards any day. Actually... I might buy some chests now. Oh... and I also created a very extensive bug report about the mystery of the disappearing stability bubbles we had in our latest run. I have watched the gameplay again, talked to the team, talked to other high scorers and still can't wrap my head around what happened there and why it only happened at some locations but possibly at the same time. You go girl! Git dem points!
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Post by XCPTNL on Sept 19, 2019 22:02:47 GMT
We improved the score. But only from 19.022 to 19.044 lol... We tested some things, also crashed the server again the run before. We will probably do another run with the "old" route and switch the last 2 events for comparison and then fiddle around the details as to when it's best for the Vara farmer to leave the group. But to sum it up... we basically need around 64.000 more base points than we currently get to achieve a 20 million score after killing Vara and applying the GM3 multiplier for the final score. I'm having a hard time seeing this get done unless we can farm Vara's adds a lot more without crashing or find other ways of doing things to get more points. There is another thing I wanna confirm or dismiss next time although testing it will be very boring - but might be worth checking out.
In other news I finally got another chance at a good Rainmaker but it turned out to have total crap rolls. Of course I got my 3rd godrolled 400% damage Flashfire though that is totally useless unless they buff it and make it a primer as well or let me transfer the inscriptions to weapons I'd love to see them on. Also really not sure what else I should buy until the event is over. Probably more weapons, then try melee weapons again and then support. None of the boxes are really worth it without a doubt because I'm looking for such particular things (or better yet: particular inscriptions)...
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Post by PillarBiter on Sept 20, 2019 7:02:29 GMT
We improved the score. But only from 19.022 to 19.044 lol... We tested some things, also crashed the server again the run before. We will probably do another run with the "old" route and switch the last 2 events for comparison and then fiddle around the details as to when it's best for the Vara farmer to leave the group. But to sum it up... we basically need around 64.000 more base points than we currently get to achieve a 20 million score after killing Vara and applying the GM3 multiplier for the final score. I'm having a hard time seeing this get done unless we can farm Vara's adds a lot more without crashing or find other ways of doing things to get more points. There is another thing I wanna confirm or dismiss next time although testing it will be very boring - but might be worth checking out. In other news I finally got another chance at a good Rainmaker but it turned out to have total crap rolls. Of course I got my 3rd godrolled 400% damage Flashfire though that is totally useless unless they buff it and make it a primer as well or let me transfer the inscriptions to weapons I'd love to see them on. Also really not sure what else I should buy until the event is over. Probably more weapons, then try melee weapons again and then support. None of the boxes are really worth it without a doubt because I'm looking for such particular things (or better yet: particular inscriptions)... 65k base points... that's quite a bit. Good luck with that :/ Omg I also have 2 god flashfires XD So... Yesterday I did what was probably my last cataclysm. I won't have much time to play the coming days, so I played my goodbyes last night. Did a gm2 with colossus and storm, and they were good games in their own right. Had 9m score on the last one, which is decent enough for a pug. Also had some lemon drops, but none were really useful (except for a softened blows with ultimate inscription, my ranger will like that...). But the crux of the night, that was at the crystal exchange. I had about 15k crystals, so I figured (since I'd had already bought all cosmetics): "you know what? sure, I'd love some more masterwork bullshit drops". So I decided to spend it on weapon boxes one last time (not like I can spend it on anythign else...). So I had abot 22 box chances, so off I went. Once I had reached 10 boxes without any lemons I was thinking: "of course, go figure, my luck is worse than average again". At 15 boxes I was thinking: "God dammit Bioware, I'm so glad this cataclysm rng bullshit is over and I can get sweet, sweet release from your grubby grips". At 20 boxes I was already thinking about the incredible rage post I was going to make here on these forums. And then, then came box 22. The very last cataclysm box I'd ever buy. All dreams, goals, and hard work were poured into this one tiny last speck of hope. And, there it was. Sweet..., sweet release. Redemption. Exhonoration. The blessed, long withheld - blue ball causing - injection of oxytocin. The one weapon I really only wanted all along since I first saw how it worked: a legendary 250% damage grave digger.HALLELUJAH! PRAAAAAIIIIISE JEBUS! It's extra special if you know that this is the first real good weapon that I have ever had the privilige to have dropped :/ I've always lacked an ability to do single target damage well against bosses, for example, and now I finally can. Phew, what a climactic cataclysm it has been for me... Naturally, I took it into freeplay for a quick tryout and boy oh boy, what damage this beast can do!! 12k damage at 10 hits a second. Not bad If we ever get to move inscriptions, I'm putting a mag extension on this baby, though (and... more damage ) Rainmaker is probably technically a better weapon, but I loved this PAW gravedigger gun since I first laid eyes on how it worked. So it's my favorite Plus, on my storm it gets extra boosted by elemental bonuses from MW components ('bout 90%) which rainmaker wouldn't receive. Anyway, as I close off the cataclysm chapter (might play one or two more runs on monday, but maybe not. The memory of the gravedigger climax may be too sweet to sully ), I would like to touch on the future of anthem (not bioware, that can go to hell for all I care). Here are my hopes for coming weeks, but this is really, REALLY best case scenario and very unlikely to happen: 1) Don't leave us hanging without new contect. Convert the cataclysm to stronghold-type permanent content. 2) Add cataclysm box drops to the loot pool at 61/75 power level. 3) Roll out your inscription rework. This is needed so bad, otherwise there really isn't any reason to play in between events. 4) Get on with the story in emerald abyss. But as I said, this may be too much for bioware at the moment and although all this is necessary, it is unlikely to happen. Lastly, reflecting on the cataclysm event itself, I can say that it was a step forward for anthem itself. Although it was far from perfect. the good: - Hey, new - pretty well developed - content - new items, some of which change the game meta quite a bit (JW was fun while it lasted) - challenge and engagement for the community - a bit of story (with my new favorite persona: Harken! I wanna see interaction between tassyn and harken in the future - fun to play the bad: - content is pretty grindy if you do nothing else for 6 weeks... and also, repeating the same puzzles umpteen times does get mindnumbing. - items could have been slightly better balanced... If one gun sticks out as the best (rainmaker) you need better balance - puzzles are too much for the pugs. Make sur ein the future that EVERYTHING is soloable (for all classes) - a BIT of story, with a relatively weak ending (too open) imho - too many bugs remaining despite PTS. - RIDICULOUS RNG! As for my reflection on bioware: They gained good traction at the start of the event, and some hope flickered... but then came patch 1.4, the new bugs, a needless extra week of cataclysm, and the one blog post which blew all their goodwill out of the water. So now I have no more expectations. I'm very torn between the good of wanting to fix core issues, but it looks like this will take quite a while yet, and we will not get meaningful content in the meanwhile... Ah well. It was fun talking with y'all about the cataclysm on here though. They did that right, at least.
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Post by dingleydell on Sept 20, 2019 7:48:46 GMT
It seems to be a troubling trend in more and more games these days with people requesting others "watch vids" "to get gud". Screw that. I play to enjoy the "new" experiences, not treat gaming like a job and watch "educational" vids on how to do something. I know it must suck to be held back on certain activities but I'm not sure Cataclysm is considered to be "end game" unless you're in GM3, maybe GM2. I was going into Cataclysm on hard or GM1 as I'm sure most who are new to the activity were. I was going in mainly to check out the new environment, figure out the mechanics, and of course to get loot. What I didn't expect were the off-game messages I got from what I call "elitist jerks" who felt somehow I personally let them down. I don't think that's how this is supposed to work. I agree. I haven't played the cataclysm much. Partly because I've been on holiday for two weeks of it, but also because I already work fulltime and I game for FUN. I don't need homework! The arenas are overwhelmingly confusing if you haven't had time for repeat runs or study. I've had some fun runs where I've been with a patient co-player who has explained to me how it works, but otherwise I feel like a burden and I don't need stress in my leisure time. This sort of thing is precisely what always put me off multiplayer games in the first place.
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