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Post by slimgrin727 on Feb 2, 2019 6:15:52 GMT
Anthem exploration outside your mission boundary: loading screen.....
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Post by Kappa Neko on Feb 2, 2019 9:14:23 GMT
Yeah this demo is a PR nightmare. It runs poorly, you can't explore, you can't talk to NPCs...
It has completely turned me off the game. Even if some features have changed in the meantime, what I got to play left a pretty bad impression.
I did like the tiny bit of story with Matthias. But everything is just a godawful technical mess. And I expect it to stay a mess for months after release.
I seriously doubt that all poorly designed co-op mechanics and loading screens everywhere were just an old build. Because then the demo would basically be a different game to me and completely useless at showing the gameplay of the final product.
No idea what they were thinking...
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Post by Kappa Neko on Feb 2, 2019 10:56:48 GMT
I really don't get why people think this game is so pretty. Look at these screenshots and tell me this doesn't looked horribly washed out without any godrays or fog. Jut rough as hell: This is maxed out PC graphics at 1440p... And yet fps is all over the place despite the very obvious lack of real shadows and proper lighting. Dipped as low as 32 on my GTX 1080Ti during heavy combat. Old build or not, I do NOT get the hype for the graphics. The trilogy looked better than this to me. Had great art style at least. Texture quality is secondary to good lighting. This is dull as hell. How much better Horizon Zero Dawn looked on console. THAT game was amazing. I'm done hating on the game now. I'm going back to building bases in No Man's Sky. Having a lot more fun with that.
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Post by Sartoz on Feb 2, 2019 11:28:19 GMT
I really don't get why people think this game is so pretty. Look at these screenshots and tell me this doesn't looked horribly washed out without any godrays or fog. Jut rough as hell: This is maxed out PC graphics at 1440p... And yet fps is all over the place despite the very obvious lack of real shadows and proper lighting. Dipped as low as 32 on my GTX 1080Ti during heavy combat. Old build or not, I do NOT get the hype for the graphics. The trilogy looked better than this to me. Had great art style at least. Texture quality is secondary to good lighting. This is dull as hell. How much better Horizon Zero Dawn looked on console. THAT game was amazing. I'm done hating on the game now. I'm going back to building bases in No Man's Sky. Having a lot more fun with that.
You get little light under a jungle canopy. I suppose the artists decided to make it look reasonably lifelike.
In any case have you tried to lower your graphics settings to see if the loading screens get any better? High settings = larger texture files = longer loading times.
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Post by Kappa Neko on Feb 2, 2019 11:38:09 GMT
What canopy? The map is fairly open... Look at the E3 trailer and then look at this. My game loads twice as fast as on my boyfriend's non-SSD install. The problem is that everything has a loading screen in the first place. I won't be touching this game anymore. If the final product has a good story and fixes private lobbies I might buy it for 15 bucks in a year.
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Post by therevanchist25 on Feb 2, 2019 11:38:50 GMT
Well...I gotta say. In the words of Urdnot Wrex. "Better than I feared, worse than I hoped."
I do not think this is a game i will be playing. The dialogue is absolutely lifeless and monotone, and combat is an absolute chore, taking WAY too damn long to kill fucking anything but the most basic of enemies. The guns deal almost no damage and you yourself just get lit up like a christmas tree. i have to exactly mimic Kappa Neko's experience.
"I have the exact opposite experience with the colossus. Died within a minute. No shields. Moves super slow. It's special abilities take too long to aim/charge. In the meantime half my health is gone. Since weapons do so little damage I didn't know how to really deal damage.
It was an absolute shit experience to me. This big boy is a glass cannon."
That is exactly how my experience with that Suit went, was an utter disaster. The only way I survived longer than like 20 seconds was just running around with the Shield raised, and you can't attack with it up. The Ranger performed much better, and was much better at taking damage and much better at dealing damage because the abilities don't take 5 years to charge or aim.
The enemies simply have too much health, it's absolutely ridiculous how long I was shooting most of the enemies. And the giant mech boss in the mission to rescue the Archanist was the absolute worst. The damn thing ate like 5 Ultimates, countless grenades and bullets before wiping the party. Only to do the same thing 3 more times before finally killing it after like 10 to 15 minutes of just shooting it over and over and over. I get that it's a boss creature, but if your design plan for Boss enemies is as basic as "Just give it 13536213874298459 HP and make it 3 shot players. Thats good enough" Then imo you need to rethink what makes a Boss enemy enjoyable.
Then, the very first mission, where you recover that artifact, it gives you the stupid color code puzzle, then proceeds to give absolutely zero explanation of wtf you are suppose to do to solve it. THe party just ran around randomly selecting colors for like 10 minutes until something worked.
Honestly, if this is truly indicitive of the final product, and given how close to launch it is, I'm sure it is. Then imo this game is the definition of bordem. All the missions felt exactly the same. Fly to locations, kill enemies until something happens, rinse and repeat. Fort Tarsis was also anything but a reprieve from the tediousness eaither. With it's boring, lifeless NPCs and their mostly uninteresting "Small Talk" conversations. The game is meh, it is utterly boring. Literally the only aspect of this demo that brought me any joy at all was the ability to fly around.
I feared a total disaster. It is not. I hoped for a fun, engaging game. I didn't find one. It's like Andromeda all over again, a boring, repetative blob of meh.
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Post by river82 on Feb 2, 2019 12:15:24 GMT
There's only a few youtube game commentators I really like. This guy is one and he did a pretty decent rap up of the Anthem VIP demo:
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Post by Deleted on Feb 2, 2019 12:36:41 GMT
I really don't get why people think this game is so pretty. Look at these screenshots and tell me this doesn't looked horribly washed out without any godrays or fog. Jut rough as hell: This is maxed out PC graphics at 1440p... And yet fps is all over the place despite the very obvious lack of real shadows and proper lighting. Dipped as low as 32 on my GTX 1080Ti during heavy combat. Old build or not, I do NOT get the hype for the graphics. The trilogy looked better than this to me. Had great art style at least. Texture quality is secondary to good lighting. This is dull as hell. How much better Horizon Zero Dawn looked on console. THAT game was amazing. I'm done hating on the game now. I'm going back to building bases in No Man's Sky. Having a lot more fun with that. Just fanboy hyperbole anyway. The game has generic and repetitive environments, visually okay /good but without any identity actually ( unlike what we saw in the E3 trailer ), pretty much like in DA:I. It's empty, boring, lifeless. This game has absolutely zero identity with pretty much everything, even their javelins and their " customization "
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Post by Conquer Your Dreams on Feb 2, 2019 13:42:29 GMT
Some of my mates started to played Anthem last night and now only is still there. Trying to found out why they left so early, only one reply to me ands says something similar to therevanchist25 "lifeless and monotone"... I am sure some people will enjoy Anthem as it is.
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Post by therevanchist25 on Feb 2, 2019 14:28:26 GMT
Red Dead 2 Online...as broken, glitchy and tedious as it is, is still giving me more enjoyment than Anthem did. Purely because it offers a small variety of tasks that I can be working on at any given time. Anthem has the same single task, dressed up slighty differently each time, like a wig instead of a goatee. Shoot enemies until something happens.
The E3 demonstration now looks hilarious. The game is nothing like that at all. The wildlife does not interact with each other in any way. The entire world space feels artifical, because 99% of All Life outside of Grabbits are hostile to humans, and sit around in one spot waiting for humans to show up.
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Post by lennybusker on Feb 2, 2019 14:45:04 GMT
Yeah the graphics are seriously not great at all. They certainly aren't good enough to deserve running at such a low framerate.
Sigh. BW being forced to switch to Frostbite has done nothing but hurt every game since.
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Post by crackdownjr on Feb 2, 2019 14:56:06 GMT
Some of my mates started to played Anthem last night and now only is still there. Trying to found out why they left so early, only one reply to me ands says something similar to therevanchist25 "lifeless and monotone"... I am sure some people will enjoy Anthem as it is. Freeplay on the demo leaves a lot to be desired. Flying around a visually stunning world is cool and all, but like your friend said, it feels lifeless. I hope this is not a reflection of the final product. Idk if it's fair to compare every other game to something as amazing as RDR2, but I never felt like I was in a lifeless world while riding my horse around that map. Playing freeplay on Anthem almost feels like I went back in time to PS3 before developers had the ability to make such bustling wildlife and you kinda just accepted that the world would be empty.
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Post by BamBam the Destroyer on Feb 2, 2019 15:01:15 GMT
Yeah this demo is a PR nightmare. It runs poorly, you can't explore, you can't talk to NPCs... It has completely turned me off the game. Even if some features have changed in the meantime, what I got to play left a pretty bad impression. I did like the tiny bit of story with Matthias. But everything is just a godawful technical mess. And I expect it to stay a mess for months after release. I seriously doubt that all poorly designed co-op mechanics and loading screens everywhere were just an old build. Because then the demo would basically be a different game to me and completely useless at showing the gameplay of the final product. No idea what they were thinking... If it was a beta, why not just call it a beta? Seriously..
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Post by Hrulj on Feb 2, 2019 15:10:10 GMT
Why was Bioware forced over to Frostbite? Serious question
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Post by lennybusker on Feb 2, 2019 15:27:50 GMT
Why was Bioware forced over to Frostbite? Serious question I went looking for news and interviews about it when the switchover happened and according to Aaron Flynn it wasn't a commandment from the publisher, the decision was made at BioWare. www.pcgamesn.com/bioware-ea-frostbite-engineI haven't listened to the Kotaku interview, so I don't know if they addressed all the reasons why. Licensing costs might have been a factor, I'm sure EA DICE's engine probably cost less to use than UE4 would have.
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Post by Conquer Your Dreams on Feb 2, 2019 15:33:48 GMT
Some of my mates started to played Anthem last night and now only is still there. Trying to found out why they left so early, only one reply to me ands says something similar to therevanchist25 "lifeless and monotone"... I am sure some people will enjoy Anthem as it is. Freeplay on the demo leaves a lot to be desired. Flying around a visually stunning world is cool and all, but like your friend said, it feels lifeless. I hope this is not a reflection of the final product. Idk if it's fair to compare every other game to something as amazing as RDR2, but I never felt like I was in a lifeless world while riding my horse around that map. Playing freeplay on Anthem almost feels like I went back in time to PS3 before developers had the ability to make such bustling wildlife and you kinda just accepted that the world would be empty. It reminds me beautiful but empty maps/planets from DAI and MEA. BioWare still didn't learn the lesson how to create interesting worlds. Of course Anthem got a lot of space to improve, but in my case it will change nothing. No matter what i play, i need a story. Amazing, great or average, but a real entertaining story. Anthem doesn't have any.
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Post by monkeylungs on Feb 2, 2019 15:34:55 GMT
Frostbite is EA's proprietary engine.
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Post by 10k on Feb 2, 2019 15:37:49 GMT
If it was a beta, why not just call it a beta? Seriously.. Exactly, they decided to call it a demo; which is suppose to be a demonstration of the actual game before release. If this is truly a demo this is how the game will be on release day. RE2 remake demo was the game before the release day, and it was great.
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Post by Hrulj on Feb 2, 2019 15:56:45 GMT
So what is the concensus with the second demo? Is the game getting hate or love?
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Post by 10k on Feb 2, 2019 16:04:00 GMT
So what is the concensus with the second demo? Is the game getting hate or love? Neither, it was just boring.
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Post by monkeylungs on Feb 2, 2019 16:56:37 GMT
One thing to keep in mind when people are saying "The actual game is better ..."
If they fail to mention they are playing on closed networks they aren't telling you the whole story. Playing this game on a closed network or a completely OFFLINE mode would mitigate many of the issues the game has with it's trouble connecting to other players, EA servers, and Anthem's servers.
We're still Beta Testing their network connectivity. The people playing at launch will be testing the network connectivity.
People who wait to buy this game will get a better deal and a better experience. The most loyal and dedicated fans will continue to get the worst treatment by Bioware and EA.
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Post by lennybusker on Feb 2, 2019 17:02:54 GMT
One thing to keep in mind when people are saying "The actual game is better ..." If they fail to mention they are playing on closed networks they aren't telling you the whole story. Playing this game on a closed network or a completely OFFLINE mode would mitigate many of the issues the game has with it's trouble connecting to other players, EA servers, and Anthem's servers. We're still Beta Testing their network connectivity. The people playing at launch will be testing the network connectivity. People who wait to buy this game will get a better deal and a better experience. The most loyal and dedicated fans will continue to get the worst treatment by Bioware and EA. MFW watching your sharp descent into skepticism since the demos i.ytimg.com/vi/KRw4mnX62TY/maxresdefault.jpg
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Post by biggydx on Feb 2, 2019 17:10:21 GMT
One thing to keep in mind when people are saying "The actual game is better ..." If they fail to mention they are playing on closed networks they aren't telling you the whole story. Playing this game on a closed network or a completely OFFLINE mode would mitigate many of the issues the game has with it's trouble connecting to other players, EA servers, and Anthem's servers. We're still Beta Testing their network connectivity. The people playing at launch will be testing the network connectivity. People who wait to buy this game will get a better deal and a better experience. The most loyal and dedicated fans will continue to get the worst treatment by Bioware and EA. MFW watching your sharp descent into skepticism since the demos i.ytimg.com/vi/KRw4mnX62TY/maxresdefault.jpg (BioWare sees Monkeys progression): YOU WERE THE CHOSEN ONE!!!
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Post by Pounce de León on Feb 2, 2019 17:19:27 GMT
Runs like ass on my system. Which is no surprise. I found the gunplay mostly atrocious. Due to the circumstance the viewport gets to bounce around like hell and ends up uncontrollably looking in all kind of directions. Bug? Shitty frames? I can't tell - but it seems to maybe related to the recoil. I dunno.
Powers seem OK, but you're stuck with the more shitty ones that only detonate and there is little joy when it's pure Rangers in a mission.
Game told me I unlocked new javelin but it dint happen until I reached level 12.
UI is kinda clumsy.
Saw a couple enemies phase in and out of existence in freeplay. Quite often.
And fuck those Titans. A reason not to play.
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Post by Pounce de León on Feb 2, 2019 17:23:10 GMT
Solo play: It's not worth it. Less rewards and pickups. Unless they change some drop rates for release you better ngo with randos.
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