E3 2014 Anthem teaser

Ah that damn shack.

Half of what they showed then were literally just assets ripped from Battlefield. The trees, the grass, basically everything besides the building. I doubt they had any real vision locked down then besides "a contemporary fictional setting"

Also, just heads up. In the earliest DA3 videos Mark Darrah also talked about how bringing over Frostbite was going to mean "more immersive NPC interactions and living breathing worlds like never before" and what we ended up getting was the safe, been-there-done-that BioWare brand of NPCs that are hard-locked into the ground and half of them clipping through walls just trying to follow scripted patterns. Similarly they talked about a living breathing world for Andromeda again and that did not turn out super dynamic.

I think Anthem is the likeliest to nail it but somehow I don't expect actual day-night cycles to work, simply because it's BioWare and furthermore I noticed that there's some BioWare Austin-quality to when the 3 players dropped in, in their E3 vertical slice. There's some effect that looks really stiff like in SWTOR. They also reused the Jet-jump movement from Andromeda in one part. I expect the movement to be slick and I hope the quest-giving and HUB is great, but somehow I don't expect them to crack the code on making the world feel dynamic, because BioWare has just never been good at that ever.