Everything we know about Anthem

During the demo, quickplay did set me up to reinforce missions I hadn't completed yet, but I believe you see the name of the mission before you click to launch.

Reminds me of why I don't random que for Flashpoints in TOR anymore. I haven't played the Knights expansion content yet.

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It looks you might be able to, as I don't see any that are Stronghold-only. That said, if the Explorer trophies require you to play Strongholds to get them, that might be a sticking point.

So idk if this is the proper place, but could someone possibly give a (obviously spoiler free) review of the campaigns writing quality so far?

Most of the opinions I've seen about the game thus far is that it's pretty polarizing, with opinions largely being dependent upon how much you like the genre, and how you feel about MTX's. Either its a fun looter-shooter, or it's a mediocre title. Game generally runs better, but has a number of QoL issues, with the biggest offender being the sheer amount of load screens. Missions structure seems to also be hit-or-miss for a lot of people. It's fairly repetitive, but you mileage may very depending on whether you're okay with this or not. Another issue I've seen is the gating of main story missions with fetch quests, which apparently happens more than once during the campaign. Story elements are alright overall, and Owen (your Cypher) tends to be the crowd favorite so far.

I have a dumb question: what is the definition of an "expedition" and why is there a loot limit on them?

old.reddit.com/r/AnthemTheGame/comments/ar8hm9/whoever_implemented_this_shouldnt_be_developing/

Is an expedition any "outside of Fort Tarsis/Strider" activity? So each of a critpath mission, a Stronghold and a Free Play session count as expeditions?

If some people complain that the game is mediocre at worst, then I'm not sure the game is as polarizing as some are trying to sell it

And "fetch quests" in what sense? If those are 'fetch quests' then I'm afraid most of standard RPG/game fare are fetch quests. The perceived repeatability likely stems from the fact that we get quests in the 1 RPG hub we have so far and go outside to 1 available massive zone to complete an objective, but aside from that, it's not really much different from what other games did for decades and no less repeatable. Virtually all quests (that I've played so far) have unique character interactions, come with lengthy unique banter during missions and completing them affects more than just getting XP/reward (the game has no (visible) approval system for characters, but there's an 'approval' (loyalty) system for factions). Main quest missions also come with sizeable cutscenes (outside of the Fort) and a lot of them take us to unique locations. 

The biggest complaint I've seen so far is regarding *one* roadblock - at some point in time you have to complete a set of 4 challenges and then enter 4 locations to cash it in for a decent chunk of gold and chest with loot. The challenges are retroactive and can be completed via just doing side quests or strongholds or freeplay. From the looks of it, these specific challenges are also repeatable - they are one of many ways for the game to provide us with cash and loot whenever we complete those challenges again after the main campaign is done. So I think the issue is more about the game having to communicate the initial aim of this quest better and for Bioware to fix the bug that prevents all people in the group to receive credit for opening loot chests, which is one of the challenges.

Anyway - funniest thing for me, so far? People complaining after demo that Fort Tarsis is just too small and that there's nothing there to do. There are so many character interactions (a lot of them are actually mini-quests or can lead to quests or different things) after we come back home from missions, the chief complaint now is that people have to run all over the place to talk with people   Talk about 'damned if you do, damned if you don't'. It's just too funny. Though I think that if the Fort will keep expanding together with game and game updates, we may need some internal fast travel points like in Skyhold.

As for Owen - let me just say that now I know why Bioware insisted we met this character first and know him best before we do the rest

That's actually a really good question. I don't think so, but I haven't done a before-and-after comparison. I guess I should, now!

Polarised opinions? In a mutli-cultural society?

Why, I never! Did NOT see that one coming.

Does the memory from the 2 demos, don't it carry over to the final game