Livestream - Paris Games Week (Video)

They haven't said what they're going to be showing yet. I'll fire off a tweet and see if I can get an answer...

So new gameplay tomorrow and next week? OMG!

Unless next week livestream is watching the devs playing the game without seeing what they are doing, lol.

Lee Williams @justbiglee
Join Thomas from Bioware, @kijooki and me live from Paris Games Week for some all-new @anthemgame hotness 🔥 including a new mission, a look at the Storm and Grabbits!!!


- 2 more hours to go!

i missed it and watching via youtube.

Hope there will be another upload soon with better quality and some form of subtitles because it's really hard for me understanding what they are saying.

I skimmed it, without sound. Youtube has it up at 1080p now, but the original stream doesn't seem like it was all that great.

I'm not going to comment on the actual content, I just skimmed it.

Not really. I think the downgrade comes from the fact that all builds prior to getting the console ports made were on super-pcs that BioWare built. I remember Mike Laidlaw stating that to begin developing Inquisition they poured resources into buying some of the most expensive rigs they could find to crank up the graphical capabilities to where they thought next-gen would be. But Andromeda had a very similar graphical downgrade of lighting and effects fidelity between early snippets and final code (not the 2014 leak just the brief E3 footage with storms on Eos and stuff) which I can only believe was from running in special builds. Those builds were prettier because it was built for an all-powerful pc and without all systems playing together.

When Anthem reached Alpha that was when all of its campaign content alongside night and day cycles, combat, online component, plot triggers, you name it worked together without any gaps or debug code necessary to jump between them - only with the possibility of game-breaking bugs that need to be fixed until it's Beta - this is also the same code that has to run on the consoles, so I think in part the downgrade is from all systems working together where some of the game performance can no longer do what it could in isolated builds that would test, say an individual mission, or just Fort Tarsis or their superscripted Vertical slice. Another part of it is, as is usually the case, that by porting to PS4 and XB1 and making the code possible at all on those with their limitations it has to be built for it and the flipside of that is that pc also gets a downgrade from how it looked in prototype builds because it has the exact same code like the consoles at the end of the day.

The only difference is that like Inquisition and Andromeda I expect PS4 and XB1, even One X builds will run with Frostbite settings at medium/high. High texture quality, medium or high shadows, low shaders, not highest lighting and other stuff.

The result is that surfaces and especially characters with skin look a bit more like clay on PS4 whereas if you put it on Ultra on a pc there's more shades to it, as was the case of Inquistion and Andromeda on PS4 vs pc. A lot more surfaces had a plastic feel to it on consoles whereas it would look like the real thing on a pc. It's simply because a PS4 can't keep up when it comes to Frostbite Ultra settings.

Ok so that video link for Youtube is completely unwatchable for me. All the audio is echoing.

I clicked through the video, annoying commentary aside I like what I see.

The graphic settings are on low, here is a comparison of the same scene (top is stream, below is on Ultra).

The stream quality is pretty crap too and there was a bunch of animation bugs (Storm's cap, Colussus Ultimate ability jerking, etc). The Storm's cap is already fix in the current build.

i completely agree with this....

So far my feelings toward this game have been neutral to tentatively positive. Unfortunately the stream put me squarely back in the "meh" category.