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Post by therevanchist25 on Jul 22, 2019 10:53:16 GMT
Sir, I would like to offer you my sympathy, for finally meeting the core Anthem problem. What you describe is literally THE primary problem with the game. The reason myself, and many many MANY others have just moved on with life. I also share your pain in regards to the Titans. I've been moaning and harping on about Titans on these forums for months, but no one else around here seems to see anything wrong with a giant monster called a Titan dying in 5 seconds. In fact the entire game has been more or less wussified, nerfed into Oblivion (Sorry I had to ) The sight of a Fury, or a Titan, use to fill me with Dread in the early days of the game, as honestly I feel like they should. Now? all the "Apex Predators" are sad, pathetic jokes. But to be honest, at this point it's every mob now, not just the Apex ones. One by one Bioware has utterly ruined every mob that was even remotely difficult with crippling nerfs. It's extra painful for me, because my fondest memory of Anthem came during those first couple of weeks before the nerfs began. It was my first Legendary Contract. To help Matti, at the end we had to go into the mine dungeon. Thats was when I first encountered 3 Lesser Ash Titans at once. To say the fight was brutal would be a gross understatement. It was one of the hardest things I had done in a game since end game WoW Raiding. That fight must have lasted almost half an hour, me and the 3 other ppl I was with were committed though. None of us left the group. We wiped probably at least 5 times, and came within a razor's edge of wiping probably about 5 other times. But finally, when the last Titan exploded. I physically jumped from my couch, tossed the Controller onto the cushions and screamed to the heavens in triumph. I didn't even care that all I got for that fight was a bunch of worthless purples that I didn't need. That fight was balls out amazing, and it was at that moment I knew this game had the potential to me truly amazing..... And now here we are...a world where every enemy is pathetic, Loot is still a stinking pile, the game barely functions, and Titans now die in 10 seconds on GM2 when I solo it..... I truly weep for this game...because I had that taste of what it could have been, and all I have now is whats left. The titans were annoying as fuck with their attacks through cover and stagger spam. I was more busy trying to figure out this broken bullshit than doing any damage. Most bullshit enemy in the game. Well I'm sorry you feel that way about it. I never found the mechanics, which haven't changed at all, to be overly cheesy. The only changes that I've seen is their attacks now do basically zero damage and they have the durability of wet toilet paper. To me it is a great tragety.
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Post by therevanchist25 on Jul 22, 2019 5:31:22 GMT
Hey All. Don't know if anyone else has posted this, so I apologize if it has been said before.....But I"ve been playing on GM1 and 2 for a while now since I hit Level 30 sometime ago (though I haven't played any games- ANTHEM in particular since mid March) and I've also had some PC troubles (which mysteriously seem to have vanished) so that has also prevented me from enjoying a session with my fellow Freelancers.....But today, I played with the always amenable, Ms Dingley Dell....and we did some Freeplay and some Legendary Contracts together....And one thing I noticed and am a little annoyed about is the drop-rate for any Masterwork or Legendary Embers, Components, Items or anything of the sort at the GM level. Everything is still Rare or Epic. Even strongholds rarely and scarcely yield anything above Epic loot. I'm sure this has been voiced before, and I know it is a hardline consensus of the general ANTHEM playerbase (not just here on the BSN), but I am alarmed at the lack of higher tier and higher quality loot of any kind (MW and Legendary) when playing at the GM levels. At those levels the shiny stuff should be bronze and yellow only-- NOT green, blue or purple! And.....maybe it's just me, because I'm usually playing with Dell or Talon or KirtheSid (whom I simply refer to as "Sid" in honour of Vetra's sister, haha) ....But even at the GM levels, Titans don't feel like they're all that hard to beat....And that's disappointing. There are days when my Freelancer specifically go out into the field looking for a fight; not that she has an attitude problem....sometimes, she gets the feeling that other people-- other Lancers, or even civilians, may think she has a deathwish. Or maybe that she's bat-sh** crazy. A few rounds short of a full clip. But she likes that false perception of the latter. Gives her an edge in the field. Yet when she comes up against a Titan, she expects a challenge. She knows she will win, but she expects the victory to be hardfought and well earned. She flies away disappointed when even with the assistance of her squad, a battle with a Titan is over before she's emptied her complement of 50 cal shells from her Sniper Rifle or has not burned through her entire complement of high-yield warheads for her shoulder cannon. There's a reason why she packs so much heat. She wants to use it. And she expects the pay off to glitter like gold or bronze. Not emerald, amethyst or sapphire. ANyone else share my thoughts on this? Or maybe have different thoughts? I'd like to open up discussion on this, or other players' experiences and how they get around it. Sir, I would like to offer you my sympathy, for finally meeting the core Anthem problem. What you describe is literally THE primary problem with the game. The reason myself, and many many MANY others have just moved on with life. I also share your pain in regards to the Titans. I've been moaning and harping on about Titans on these forums for months, but no one else around here seems to see anything wrong with a giant monster called a Titan dying in 5 seconds. In fact the entire game has been more or less wussified, nerfed into Oblivion (Sorry I had to ) The sight of a Fury, or a Titan, use to fill me with Dread in the early days of the game, as honestly I feel like they should. Now? all the "Apex Predators" are sad, pathetic jokes. But to be honest, at this point it's every mob now, not just the Apex ones. One by one Bioware has utterly ruined every mob that was even remotely difficult with crippling nerfs. It's extra painful for me, because my fondest memory of Anthem came during those first couple of weeks before the nerfs began. It was my first Legendary Contract. To help Matti, at the end we had to go into the mine dungeon. Thats was when I first encountered 3 Lesser Ash Titans at once. To say the fight was brutal would be a gross understatement. It was one of the hardest things I had done in a game since end game WoW Raiding. That fight must have lasted almost half an hour, me and the 3 other ppl I was with were committed though. None of us left the group. We wiped probably at least 5 times, and came within a razor's edge of wiping probably about 5 other times. But finally, when the last Titan exploded. I physically jumped from my couch, tossed the Controller onto the cushions and screamed to the heavens in triumph. I didn't even care that all I got for that fight was a bunch of worthless purples that I didn't need. That fight was balls out amazing, and it was at that moment I knew this game had the potential to me truly amazing..... And now here we are...a world where every enemy is pathetic, Loot is still a stinking pile, the game barely functions, and Titans now die in 10 seconds on GM2 when I solo it..... I truly weep for this game...because I had that taste of what it could have been, and all I have now is whats left.
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Post by therevanchist25 on Jul 22, 2019 4:32:33 GMT
For what it's worth. I haven't even been following Anthem news/playing it for over a month. I logged in today on a whim just to play for a bit, jumped into Freeplay to see Faye talking to me about Shaper Crystals and crap, like I already knew what it was. (thanks for the exposition Bioware <.<) And decided to fly around to see whats going on. I find a couple of events where I stand around shooting giant crystals for reasons that the game does not really bother explaining. Faceroll through all the enemies present because the games challenge has been neutered by never ending NPC nerfs. Then after playing for about 30 minutes and seeing absolutely no variety in the missions provided, even less than normal if you can believe it, I try to leave Freeplay....only to realize I literally cannot bring up ANY of the menus what-so-ever. I cannot leave freeplay, I cannot check the map, I cannot do anything except quit to PS4 Dashboard entirely. Then, after several minutes of trying to quit, just as I was about to quit to dashboard in a fit of rage, a loading screen appears....afterwards telling me the Server was shut down and I was sent back to Fort Tarsis....It was at this moment my anger and annoyance washed away and I started to just laugh in flabbergasted exasperation/ disbelief.
Still the same old broken ass game, after having not touched it in like 2 months...I'm so done with this crap.
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Post by therevanchist25 on Jul 22, 2019 4:07:10 GMT
Apparently some servers haven't been updated or something. On some servers everything is business as usual in freeplay, on others the crystal stuff is live. Also these updated server seem to be much more unstable, frequent disconnects occur for me while they are not a problem in strongholds (or when I was put on a server that wasn't yet updated earlier today). I wanted to try, honestly did. But reading this just made me think nothing has changed yet with bioware. So ill keep passing for now. For what it's worth. I haven't even been following Anthem news/playing it for over a month. I logged in today on a whim just to play for a bit, jumped into Freeplay to see Faye talking to me about Shaper Crystals and crap, like I already knew what it was. (thanks for the exposition Bioware <.<) And decided to fly around to see whats going on. I find a couple of events where I stand around shooting giant crystals for reasons that the game does not really bother explaining. Faceroll through all the enemies present because the games challenge has been neutered by never ending NPC nerfs. Then after playing for about 30 minutes and seeing absolutely no variety in the missions provided, even less than normal if you can believe it, I try to leave Freeplay....only to realize I literally cannot bring up ANY of the menus what-so-ever. I cannot leave freeplay, I cannot check the map, I cannot do anything except quit to PS4 Dashboard entirely. Then, after several minutes of trying to quit, just as I was about to quit to dashboard in a fit of rage, a loading screen appears....afterwards telling me the Server was shut down and I was sent back to Fort Tarsis....It was at this moment my anger and annoyance washed away and I started to just laugh in flabbergasted exasperation/ disbelief. Still the same old broken ass game, after having not touched it in like 2 months...I'm so done with this crap.
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Post by therevanchist25 on Jun 22, 2019 19:51:46 GMT
Of course they did...god forbid anything in this game be difficult.....sigh. Um... You do remember how the second you blew out a Valkyrie's shield and it fell out of the sky, it would just leap right back up and regen before you could get ANY damage in due to the framing problems? Those things were damn near unkillable, even if they couldn't do much damage back to you. No, I don't remember at all, because I was always able to get a combo on them before they got up....
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Post by therevanchist25 on Jun 21, 2019 23:12:42 GMT
PTS Update - 6/21/2019answers.ea.com/t5/Anthem-PTS-General-Discussion/PTS-Update-6-21-2019/m-p/7964925/thread-id/635Hey Freelancers, Here’s a quick update on the PTS. Right now, the team is implementing changes based on your feedback, as well as making some other fixes and improvements. We’re aiming to have another update to the PTS next week, but until then here is a preview of some of the changes we’re making: • Shaper Storm Events - Based on player feedback, creatures now spawn while waiting for the timer to finish counting down. • Updates to Vara gameplay, VFX and cinematics. • Cataclysm scoring is now affected by the difficulty selected. • Based on player feedback, notifications were added to inform the player of when each tier in the Shaper Storm Event starts. • Vara now drops loot after she is defeated. • Lowered the difficulty of the Valkyries in the story missions based on player feedback.• We’ll have the full update notes available for you to read next week once we have finalized all of the features and bug fixes locked in. Thanks again for your feedback everyone! Cheers, Darokaz Of course they did...god forbid anything in this game be difficult.....sigh.
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Post by therevanchist25 on Jun 21, 2019 13:10:04 GMT
Hrungr What a stink bomb. At least Andy Wilson is sincere enough about his intentions with Bioware. They're going to release stinker after stinker for a while and hoping to sell enough games on Bioware's name alone, so that they can recoup their loses. They're basically hoping to figure their GaaS formula out, before the lootbox, sorry surprise mechanics, fountain dries up so they can exploit, sorry engage their payers, sorry players, wow so many mistakes on my part, to sustain their current level of growth. And yet, Destiny 2, a game that was in a downward spiral, is suddenly at over 1 million daily players after Activision was shown the door and Bungie has announced sweeping changes to make the game ridiculously less greedy, implying they never wanted those systems to begin with. How strange, that a game can be massively popular and succesful, without bilking it's players for every penny in their wallet...it's almost like these companies insisting giant spider webs of MTXs are a nessecity of survival are completey full of it. But that can't be the case surely, after all, games are just WAY too expensive to survive without it.
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Post by therevanchist25 on Jun 20, 2019 19:10:25 GMT
That is a very facinating question, but sadly I think it's related to what someone said above. The book simply isn't written very well. I mean, have we all forgotten Mass Effect Deception? yes we have, but thats beside the point. Have we forgotten how much of THAT story made absolutely NO SENSE at all? how much of that book flew directly in the face of not just the games, but even the previous novels in the series? How that book was absolute trash on almost every level, bordering on being outright -legitimetly- offensive to several demographics? Never mind the blatent ignoring of canon and established rules and facts? Have we forgotten that Bioware AlSo signed off on that trash heap, then "promised" re-writes and changes after a backlash about it's piss-poor quality? Changes that never materialized because Bioware don't give a rip about their book quality? Uh, Mary Kirby and Ben Gelinas both helped with the lore on this book, it's in the introduction -- Mary wrote most of the Chant and Ben put together the entire internal lore wiki for DA. I really enjoyed The Masked Empire, not just as a Dragon Age novel, but as a piece of fiction - it's well written and hangs together as a story even if you don't know anything about DA. There are a bunch of lore tidbits in it that were later expanded on in the game, too, though there are parts like how humans feel drained and elves energized while in the Crossroads, that didn't make it in because of gameplay/story segregation. The easy answer for what Felassan was talking about is that humans are the ones responsible for breaking into the Black City, which was sealed off in the Fade by Fen'Harel along with the Evanuris, because they were going to destroy the world. What happened when the Black City in the Fade was breached by shemlen? The Blight was released into the world, the Old Gods started being corrupted, and Darkspawn boiled up from the depths. As far as is known, all of that was kept under control beforehand by what Solas (and apparently his friend Felassan) did to save their people from complete destruction. Varric and Solas even have a conversation about humans making trouble for the other races: Varric: So here we are, elf, cleaning up another human mess. Sera (if in party): Who you calling elfy, jackhole? Varric: Not you, other elf. Solas: What would the Inquisition do without our stabilizing influence, Master Tethras? Varric: I assume they'd just start burning things. Solas: That does sound like most humans I know. Cassandra (if in party): If you gentlemen are quite finished? Varric: Now, now, don't get touchy. We're just here to lend you simple humans our help. Solas: Before you cause everything to explode. Varric: Again.One of the things that happens during Inquisition is that Red Lyrium gets spread far and wide by, you guessed it, the shemlen, which was turning the Emprise du Lion into a hellscape, and is still spreading as far as we know. I don't think that Felassan is ignorant of Solas' intentions, but rather they are being called to action because the old plan fell apart -- the Blight got out, the "true" elves are nearly extinct, Red Lyrium is a thing again, and almost all of the Old Gods are dead. Even the Chant says that the world is going to need to be balanced again by Andraste and the Maker (see the Canticle of Exaltations) due to piled on calamities, so this isn't just Felassan being weird. Like the Sentinel elves, most of what he's been doing is watching and waiting for the next big thing, hoping that they can salvage some of what they were, knowing their power is limited while the Veil is still intact. By how he treats Briala, I think Felassan already believes that Solas is doomed to fail. He even tells him, the shemlen are "stronger than you think". Oh don't mistake me, I enjoyed The Masked Empire for the most part. I am merely pointing out the reality that, just because Bioware approves or signs off on something, does not mean gigantic mistakes and/or lazy, inept information cannot happen in these novels. Indeed the only novel thus far from the Dragon Age series that I found utterly dull and snooze inducing was Last Flight.
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Post by therevanchist25 on Jun 20, 2019 8:41:58 GMT
I am not convinced that it is actually meant to convey an oddness about his vallaslin so much as it's being descriptive of the flickering firelight in which we are viewing Felassan Thank you. That was the line I was thinking of. And yeah it prolly is just flowery language to describe the play of firelight on the vallaslin. The description just stuck with me and came to mind when seeing the different pictures Actually reading through that particular scene again, something particular struck me about one of Felassan's statements which I would be interested to have your opinion on: "Once my people walked this land as gods. We worked magic that would blind you with its beauty. Now we lurk in the deep forests and prepare for the next time you shemlen do something that upsets the balance of this world." There are a number of aspects to this statement that are curious in the light of what we now know. Obviously the first statement is true as no one denies that Felassan was an ancient elf from the time of the Evanuris. The second sentence simply shares the same sentiments as Solas, his leader/friend from that time. Now by the end of Masked Empire I was fully convinced that Felassan whilst not necessary an ancient elf who had survived to the present, might definitely be from an enclave of elves that had never been conquered/captured by humans who were the descendents of the ancient elves, although there were a lot of clues that possibly he was an ancient elf who had survived to the present. It was the reason why I never thought that Solas was a simple apostate but that he was likely from the same group of elves as Felassan, who "lurk in the deep forests", just as those in the Temple of Mythal and the Tirashan do. However, the part that strikes me as curious is the bit I have highlighted. At the time of Masked Empire the accepted version of history (the Chantry one) was that Tevinter were to blame for the Blight through trying to enter the Eternal City. This statement would suggest that Felassan also feels that humans are responsible for whatever evils are currently in the world. Yet in fact, as we discover subsequently, whilst Corypheus and Co might have been guilty of releasing the Blight, they were not responsible for its creation/presence in the world and the one big event that occurred in the past that truly upset the balance of the world was Fen'Harel raising the Veil, which Solas readily admits to. Also the way Solas talks it is this altered reality he wishes to reverse because of the effect it had on his people. So why does Felassan talk as though the purpose of his people who lurk in the forests is to combat the effects of what humans do in the future? Does that mean he was not aware of what Solas intended to do? Remember at the time of Masked Empire, Corypheus had not caused the Breach and so far as Solas was concerned, once his orb had been activated he was going to enter the Fade, tear down the Veil and restore the world of the elves, with any humans not likely even to survive but if they did they certainly would not be in a position to upset the balance in the future. It seems odd that Felassan should indulge a bit of empty rhetoric simply to antagonise Michel so why was he peddling what is essentially the Chantry version of history to a man who wasn't particularly religious? That is a very facinating question, but sadly I think it's related to what someone said above. The book simply isn't written very well. I mean, have we all forgotten Mass Effect Deception? yes we have, but thats beside the point. Have we forgotten how much of THAT story made absolutely NO SENSE at all? how much of that book flew directly in the face of not just the games, but even the previous novels in the series? How that book was absolute trash on almost every level, bordering on being outright -legitimetly- offensive to several demographics? Never mind the blatent ignoring of canon and established rules and facts? Have we forgotten that Bioware AlSo signed off on that trash heap, then "promised" re-writes and changes after a backlash about it's piss-poor quality? Changes that never materialized because Bioware don't give a rip about their book quality?
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Post by therevanchist25 on Jun 19, 2019 8:07:21 GMT
It’s the same with any mmo really. Some more so than others. WOW uses an obnoxious amount of RNG to extend the repetitive farming to certain extremes the fanbase do not appreciate. Tell me about it. As someone who was trapped in the "WoW Trance" for 5 long, amazing, miserable years. I cannot tell you how long I would run the same 12-14 hour Raid, just to get to that ONE Boss that drops that ONE stupid dagger I needed for that +Will and +Int. If you used Atlas Loot, like any and all self respecting Raider does, you would realize that the item you need has like a .5% chance of dropping, and even if it does, you'll likely have to compete with at least one other Guild member for that item when it drops. Chances are also good it's a Guild member with more "points" than you, since WoW Guilds typically use a Points system that you accumulate by being active and raiding as often as possible, meaning if you want to get more points, you have to run even MORE damn Raids, sometimes Raids you don't even need anything from, just so you can get enough Guild points saved up. It is truly a never ending, addictive hellscape. I thank the video game Gods daily for forcing me to quit the game. But likewise, spending all those years in purgatory has made me more immune than most to the mind numbing effect of repetative crap like Anthem. But being numb to it's negatives does not mean it's suddenly fun. It wasn't fun back then, and it sure as shit isn't fun now. It is merely a state of tolerating it's existence.
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Post by therevanchist25 on Jun 18, 2019 22:35:10 GMT
It's pretty bad for me as well on PS4. I've tried various times of day, various days. The last time I had a 4 player group was like a month ago, for a stronghold. Contracts? I get 1 other player at best. Strongholds I'll sometimes get 2 other players. i honestly don't even try Strongholds half the time anymore, because no one else shows up most of the time, and I'll be damned if I put in all the work it requires to solo a Stronghold for the same crap Purples we've had since the beginning. Also inb4 "evidence" to the contrary.
Nobody wants to do the same thing over and over no matter how much they might enjoy the game. Even I've finally been tempted away to revist Dragonage Inquisition (never did finish it!)
I'll be back with bells on once the new content drops though Have you ever played WoW? If not you would be surprised how long players will commit to doing the same repetative shit over and over. At the heart of it, thats all Raiding is, and for a large chunk of WoW players, thats all they do.
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Post by therevanchist25 on Jun 18, 2019 11:53:58 GMT
is anyone still playing. on Saturday and Sunday i couldn't find anyone to play with on the PS 4. I went through all 4 stronghold, contracts, and i can't get a group of 4. I also went through all the GM and still the same. Is anyone else getting the same thing on xbox and PC It's pretty bad for me as well on PS4. I've tried various times of day, various days. The last time I had a 4 player group was like a month ago, for a stronghold. Contracts? I get 1 other player at best. Strongholds I'll sometimes get 2 other players. i honestly don't even try Strongholds half the time anymore, because no one else shows up most of the time, and I'll be damned if I put in all the work it requires to solo a Stronghold for the same crap Purples we've had since the beginning. Also inb4 "evidence" to the contrary.
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Post by therevanchist25 on Jun 14, 2019 8:49:59 GMT
Hm.... Cataclysm fails to innovate enough. Hm.. perhaps a better way is to say that this DLC brought along frustrating baggage. Loot remains a problem, puzzles can be an issue and so is a reduced player base and matchmaking. This DLC was developed with "old habits". VOIP is restricted to performed teams (works as designed?).
If Huston is supporting/developing Cataclysm, they got work to do. I see July as a possible launch.... assuming both EA and Bio is serious about quality.
No. Don’t do it in july. Tell everyone to fuck off and telease it in august or even september. Don’t care, as long as it isn’t something that obliterates 90% of the critique, they won’t gain a massive influx again. Honestly at this point, that would require "Anthem Reborn" imo. I just don't see EA letting Bioware do what Square let Yoshida do.
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Post by therevanchist25 on May 31, 2019 23:44:23 GMT
Looking around the media outlets, youtube, and gaming forums, it seemed like the community as a whole was ... underwhelmed. But we'll see what sort of spike in active players it will provide, I guess. I've no doubt it will provide a spike of some sort. However once the Event ends I suspect the drop off will be even larger, because now players won't have access to the "best" gear anymore. Instead they'll just go back to the regular gear. So the few guys that got lucky and got that new Real Endgame gear will have the best stuff, and everyone who didn't now have no chance of getting that gear until the Event returns in who knows how long. So why would many of those players keep playing the same mundain content knowing it's not gonna drop end game loot?
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Post by therevanchist25 on May 31, 2019 16:40:42 GMT
I'd also seen that 'Storm' as a portal you need to enter to get to 'whatever it is' that the Cataclysm is. And this is just Act One, there's loads of room for how the world may be impacted in the future. We're not even 100 days in. *Remembers when Spartan Ops was declared only one season of an ongoing story*
I too remember the glorious promise of Spartan Ops...
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Post by therevanchist25 on May 31, 2019 16:37:02 GMT
Welp, I think The Cataclysm might be the last straw for me. A Timed Stronghold on a big map, that was their Ace in the hole.....I don't even... What a surprise that this ended up being absolutely nothing like what they originally "promised". We were also told that cataclysms would "shape" the world after they had happened - but none of this is actually happening. Cataclysm before it was shown: Event that would shape the world Hardest content in game Out in the open world Must work together with other players Cataclysm after stream: Omnidirectional stronghold with modifiers and a timer
As far as I can see the cataclysm is going to be exactly what they said:
It will shape the world both physically, in the form of a new map, and through the inversions which will apply different effects to the laws of physics throughout the course of the event.
It is almost certainly going to be the hardest content in the game for those who want a challenge and are trying to get the maximum score on the leaderboards. Why doubt it?
It is definitely in the open world. We saw that quite clearly in the stream, with multiple locations in that open world to explore.
If it is the hardest content in the game it necessarily follows that it will require you to work with other players (just like Strongholds do).
I don't see a single point you listed that it doesn't obviously hit.
Plus we didn't see any actual gameplay so there is zero reason to be dismissing it as "standing in a circle fighting off waves of enemies". Even the tiny bit we saw showed that there were seven pylons that needed to be deactivated (presumably in a similar manner to Sunken Cell). I'm sure every arena will have it's own unique challenges and secrets to discover and the timer adds to the difficulty, why is that a bad thing if you are jaded about how easy things are currently?
Even the nature of the new gear could change the way you play and spec your Javelin. Particularly the melee primer vs detonator slots.
I'm not seeing any reason for all this pessimism!
I'm sorry but reading that is just the wildest mental gymastics I've ever seen. I envy your ability to twist anything into foolish optimisim and plays on words. I would love to still be that hopeful. Even IF what you say is true, the combat experience is too far gone for me personally to enjoy any longer. It has simply been nerfed too hard. I cannot bring myself to see a Titan die in 5 seconds again, knowing how fun and challangeing they use to be. One of my fondest memories of the game, was the first time I did Matties Legendary Contract, and had to fight 3 Lesser Titans in an Interior Cell. That fight lasted half an hour, and it was exhilarating. Now those 3 titans die in 10 seconds, and I get a pile of worthless Purples for the "trouble". That is not something this update will fix. That is something that will never be fixed, because people can't be bothered to "waste" 30 minutes fighting a Titan. For me those amazing encounters were it's own reward, since the games actual rewards are so lackluster. But now I don't even have that. I now sleep-walk through this game on GM2, because no one plays GM3. Wasting an entire Clip of ammo trying to kill 1 mob is not "challange". Endlessly boosting HP and DMG numbers is not Challange. That is "Lazy Hard".
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Post by therevanchist25 on May 31, 2019 14:39:20 GMT
Welp, I think The Cataclysm might be the last straw for me. A Timed Stronghold on a big map, that was their Ace in the hole.....I don't even... What a surprise that this ended up being absolutely nothing like what they originally "promised". We were also told that cataclysms would "shape" the world after they had happened - but none of this is actually happening. Cataclysm before it was shown: Event that would shape the world Hardest content in game Out in the open world Must work together with other players Cataclysm after stream: Omnidirectional stronghold with modifiers and a timer Of all the things we were sold pre-launch, this one just angered me because the content is basically nothing. It's the same kind of content we have already with no real substance. Adding a multiplier and a timer to basic grindy content doesn't improve the game at all for me, and doesn't live up to what we were shown before the game released. Granted what we were shown before release was 100% lies and fabrication, but that lie is the promise you sold Bioware. I'm not the little 14 year old who played WoW for 5 years driven mostly by FOMO. FOMO does not work on me anymore Bioware. Neither does increased Gear Level. What in gods name is the point of making us stronger when you keep nerfing every single enemy until their completely pathetic? I use to love fighting Furies, Ursix and Titans, now they all die in 5 seconds. I swear the only enjoyment I get anymore is the "Super Fury" from Sunken Cell, because it actually requires you to still DO something! Monitor is just a boring HP grind, Swarm Tyrant is a giant walking Weak-Point and Scelos is adequate. And now your even nerfing the damn Dominion Brutes, the last mob that ever gave me any trouble at all...The combat was all that was keeping me going at this point Bioware, and now you've made the game too damn easy. This coming from a guy who plays every game on "Normal/Medium" at most. That alone was driving me nuts, but this? This was your big epic Cataclysm? Standing in a Circle fighting off waves of enemies until a timer goes off?!?!?! MORE OF THE SAME CRAP I DO EVERY DAY!? Oh no wait, it's TOTALLy different because now I have a limited amount of time I can stand in those circles. Such a game changer. For me, the only positives are the removal of Luck, and addition of 3 new Story Missions, but alas, it's only 3 Missions...that'll last me what, 2 hours tops? Then once again I am out of compelling content. I don't even care about freaking Loot anymore, I don't care about Leaderboards, I don't care about Guilds, I don't care about any of that crap. All I wanted was interesting new game mechanics, and a decent sized story update. Instead all I get is a fucking Omnidirectional stronghold with modifiers and timers and 3 missions. My hopes were already set so damn low, and somehow I still end up disappointed.... Bioware there is nothing more I can do or give. I want to love and enjoy this game so badly you have no idea. But I just cannot do this anymore. I truly loved and enjoyed this game at first. Once the story ran out (which took a few days) I went about my business grinding and loving the combat. Then somwhere along the way thanks to all your nerfs, I even stopped loving the combat, the one carrot that I adored about this game. I was truly hoping this update would provide something fresh, something exciting. Instead it's just more of the same, locked behind another god damn loading screen... I seriously think I might cry.
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Post by therevanchist25 on May 8, 2019 19:27:32 GMT
I want Titans to not suck anymore. I use to love fighting Titans, now it's a sad, depressing joke. My only complaint about Titans before was how fighting them wasn't worth the effort due to the crappy loot system...and their response was instead to just ruin the Titan fight...smh
I want greater variety of tasks and different missions, with greater story context for them.
The Loot thing goes without saying at this point...
I want a goal, an end game, a reason WHY I'm spending these countless hours grinding your crap loot system. Right now once you get geared up theres nothing else to do.
I want the Freeplay open world map to be more lively and diverse, with living, interacting elements.
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Post by therevanchist25 on Apr 26, 2019 12:02:51 GMT
Now, onto the actual topic at hand...It was very nice to have a candid update.
I do understand that not all information can be shared - however I was very relieved to hear this line:
"If we’re going to do a stream on story, combat, level design or something else, we’ll state that ahead of time so you can know what to expect."
Honestly, a stream on The Sunken Cell's design/lore/world would be cool, I genuinely think it is a super cool mission by design and art. The thing however, was that we had no idea that questions would be limited to that, and that other questions wouldn't be fielded.
I get that people would still probably say "LOOT!" anyway, but even just a sort of "hey we'll only be answering questions on the SH" would at least have set the expectation in advance.
I'm sure other form factors would have been better too: such as a VoD or Blog post.
I too, like Jesse, would love to see streams return to the fun nature, however at the moment streams are the communities only lifeline into the "State of the Game" and the problem is at the moment, there is no other outlet for that. If Jesse and the BW team can come up with a system to allow that "state of the game" information to be shared regularly in other ways (ie. a blog post) then most of the stream can actually be dedicated to the fun stuff.
I am still rooting for Anthem and the BW Austin gang because I really think they have something special buried underneath the issues.
Thank you Jesse.
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Post by therevanchist25 on Apr 26, 2019 11:50:05 GMT
People have spend up to 80 bucks on this game, maybe more. They got their money, I just don't feel sorry for them.
I thought this forum is more mature then reddit audience. This is a really poor argument. People complaining mostly played over 60 hours and let me give you an example. I paid GoW 60 dollars and only played for 15 hours. Finished story then done, i didn't find new GoW as fun as old series but that game is selected as game of the year.
So, did I screwed by sony? 60 dollars for 15 hours way expensive then most games. Which reminds me every 60 dollar single player game has 20-25 hours gameplay actually, except Persona 5 and Witcher 3. From your point of view everyone who bought a single player game is cheated by companies.
As a developer and a person, this is my opinion and if i were developing Anthem and an emplyee of Bioware i weill never ever write to Reddit where trolls are running around. Reddit is a place where toxicity and trolling rules. Not so much for decent people. When they say something useful, constructive or meaningful they down voted to the ground but every single complaining up voted.
Everyday i checked AnthemTheGame and first page was full of my loot after 1 hour gmX play. Same post over and over for days up voted. That's plain bullshit.
People had to realize game developers are not their enemy. I hate Bungie for years for not communication to their community and after Anthem i realize how wrong i was. You shouldn't discuss important matters with children and trolls.
Using hours played to determine the value/enjoyment of a video game is a ridiculous argument. Because I could play trash asset flips on Steam for 935763231366 hours, that does not mean that "game" is worth anything.
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Post by therevanchist25 on Apr 24, 2019 1:09:20 GMT
To me, the problem is "We know you have been waiting for these updates, and that you might not be pleased with where we are today. We understand and respect these perspectives." No mentioning of how they share this perspective, because apparently from their PoV everything is fine, and it's our fault we don't like it. The sense from the whole message is more "I'm sorry that you're upset" than anything else. What a familiar response from Bioware, one I'm damn sick of seeing. Edit: They could've posted the patch notes last week and commented on it themselves saying that they will mostly talk about level design, lore etc during the live stream. Would've saved 33 minutes and possibly large amounts of disappointment, instead they decided to get salty because no one wants to talk about freaking Level Design and the Weather in Edmonton because their Loot system is total crap and continue to say nothing about it. They have acknowledged that Anthem needs a lot of hard work several times in that single post, so I have no idea where did you get 'from their POV everything's fine' from? I'm also pretty darn confident 'nobody wants to talk about level design' was a self-aware joke - also... how are they not talking about loot system? It's there and they've acknowledged loot issues long weeks ago, admitted that they have work to do in that area and explained that this will take time and moving a ton of parts over the course of months so... what else is to say here?(also - I know from other games that combat balance and itemization will *always* be a point of contention, so I actually don't expect for a chunk of fans disgruntled with loot to EVER cease grumbling, regardless of what will actually be done) I'm sorry, but reapting over and over "we're not happy with the loot system, please wait for an untold period of time in silence while we look at it" is not addressing anything. Give people some idea of WHY you as a stuido are not happy with it, tell us what you hope to achive with it in the long and short term, explain as a studio what your current plan is and how that plan might change in the future. They have effectively said nothing, except a token "we're not happy with it either". That is not an answer, no matter how strongly you want to believe it is.
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Post by therevanchist25 on Apr 24, 2019 0:28:38 GMT
CataclysmThe Cataclysm is an important addition to the game and it’s currently a big focus for the team. The Cataclysm will bring new challenges and rewards and pushes the story of Anthem forward. As our work continues, we will share more with you in May. How is something like this supposed to work? Say this part of the game goes live in May, or whatever. If you don't start playing the game until June, is this something you completely miss out on or ??? Is it part of the story, that everyone will get to play whenever they get to that point, or something more like a ME3MP weekend challenge where if you miss it, you miss it forever? No one knows, because they insist on saying nothing about it, other than how awesome and game changing it's going to be.
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Post by therevanchist25 on Apr 24, 2019 0:14:28 GMT
Ah.. I see. A challenge... well, I hope you like the new silence. If there are guys who can bend over backward to interpret 'we announced things too early' into 'it's players fault for delays!' then I think it's best for them to remain silent and just focus on whatever they're working on. Clearly, whenever they say or do anything it doesn't allow you to finally move on to whatever you consider being greener pastures... To me, the problem is "We know you have been waiting for these updates, and that you might not be pleased with where we are today. We understand and respect these perspectives." No mentioning of how they share this perspective, because apparently from their PoV everything is fine, and it's our fault we don't like it. The sense from the whole message is more "I'm sorry that you're upset" than anything else. What a familiar response from Bioware, one I'm damn sick of seeing. Edit: They could've posted the patch notes last week and commented on it themselves saying that they will mostly talk about level design, lore etc during the live stream. Would've saved 33 minutes and possibly large amounts of disappointment, instead they decided to get salty because no one wants to talk about freaking Level Design and the Weather in Edmonton because their Loot system is total crap and continue to say nothing about it.
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Post by therevanchist25 on Apr 23, 2019 23:32:34 GMT
Dear Bioware, please stop living in a bubble. Learn from other Studios, for once in your life. I beg you. FFS ppl call her "Space Mom". Thats how popular she is.
For Bioware, a studio that only seems to ever want glowing praise and fan squees, they sure don't take the steps required to get those types of reactions.
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Post by therevanchist25 on Apr 23, 2019 23:09:27 GMT
Honestly all we saw was how much contempt Jesse has for the playerbase. There was NO respect and NO love there. His body language and his eyes and facial expressions and tone indicated he actually doesn't like us at all and doesn't respect us. Getting pissy because no ones asking about the damn Level Design? seriously? Why would people be asking about that my man? Saying "you've answered our concerns about Loot definitively" by pointing us to a copy and pasted two sentence non answer?
Really all of them just acted like they would rather be anywhere else, doing literally anything else. Livestreaming without community interaction is just a long commercial. Why even bother livestreaming if this is how your going to go about it now? FFS you could have just pre-recorded that last week and posted it given how little interaction that took place.
I'm so sick and tired of the perception of contempt that Bioware gives off every time things don't go their way. I've never seen this problem so consistenly from any other development studio in my life. After a lifetime of love and support, I seriously wonder why I keep bothering.
P.S. I loved the akward 10 second silence they all shared after opening a chest that contained nothing but 4 Epics. Then just acting like that never happend.
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