Anthem demo - expectation vs reality

Not to mention we see new loot only after the mission.

So much anger for the swimming. Literally swam a total of about 4 minutes. 15 seconds twice per strong hold. Seems sluggish but then, guess what? They're huge suits of metal lol.

Talk about downgrade....

I noticed this also :/ sad times. Also had Bioware ever given an explanation for the visual downgrade? I’m not a Twitter person so I haven’t been keeping up to date on the news on that social platform. I’m sure someone had to have asked the question.

Why do the enemies in this vid make sounds, & yet in all the demo gameplay videos I've seen, the enemies are all pretty much mutes?

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You won't be getting cosmetic stuff for 25 a piece.

So in essence EA wants to decisive us?

It looks like you're on XBox. On PC the controls are crazy.  Just going through that short bit during the stronghold several of us drowned because of becoming disoriented by swimming uncontrollably in circles, crashing into walls and getting stuck on rocks. I finally figured out that the mouse should be used as little as possible, but once you get into a death roll it's hard to recover. No wonder alligators use it.

Having played on both console and PC, I really fail to fathom why the PC is about 10x harder to control during flight. It's like you suddenly engage F16 flight simulator mode and need to carefully manage any movement or you get stuck on these awful trajectories that are hard to correct.

My reality after ~2hours playtime;
My biggest gripe is playing a power class and having two active skills, sure the super is cool for nuking a whole spawn but it doesn't feel like enough flavour in combat to afford trimming active skills to two. If you fight an enemy that is resistant to one of your powers, you're down to one. I played with a few other power Jav's but didn't see any compelling combo action happening either.

I can see the appeal to a wide audience, it's certainly got flashy effects, filled with explosions and the initial cool I can fly like iron man feelings, but I can see myself hitting end game, grinding gear for 20-30 hours and getting bored. For reference this is exactly what happened for me with Destiny 1&2 and The Division. 

Really don't like abilities and higher rank abilities being loot pick ups. There is fun to be had, it looks like there will be more ability customisation than Destiny, but I fear it will fall into all the same traps, this game will be made or broken by the quality of end game activities. 

Story wise the characters are well animated and voice acted, however the content of discussion and the way the story is presented leaves it far from compelling, but hey lets not get caught up here, it's a loot shooter not a story based RPG, so it might be unfair to expect too much here.

Will not be getting this at release, pending feedback around quality of end game content.