So, dear ME3MPers, anyone played that ANTHEM demo and wanna report ?

well, it s more an arcade game with flying, friends, combos, melees and builds to discuss. Still can be fun in my book, even if it s for 50 hours.
Stupid ai is stupid though . I m too lazy to launch it atm, but i might do it soon

But do you realize that this game is a loot-shooter and what that even means? Of course the weapons don't do much damage until you get a good version of it. That means legendary version with at least 1 good roll. You basically need additional damage in any form on them for higher difficulties. Your overall power-level is also crucial for the amount of damage of the proc-effects of weapons. Also additional debuffs like target beacon or acid are needed on higher difficulties. And you can also triple-stack sigils (green, blue, epic) if you desire. I run into so many people that don't have the gear and power-level to play on GM2 or GM3 and of course they then do shit for damage. 

As an Interceptor I do most of my damage with melee and powers but I also use a wide variety of weapons. Depending on my loadout and playstyle I may use the Siege Breaker sniper rifle for example for freezing enemies or shooting their heads of. And yes, some of them actually lose their head. Or I use the Thunderbolt of Yvenia marksman rifle for the electric explosions. I also use the Artinia's Gambit for sustained dps vs. bosses. Sometimes I use my Rolling Carnage for some shotgun action in between melee attacks and power. Divine Vengeance with its' fire explosions on weak point hits is also fun as is a good Truth Of  Tarsis explosive sniper rifle that can deal a lot of blast damage on bosses. The Avening Herald heavy pistol can also hit like a truck. In the end it comes down to the weapons you get and what rolls you get on them, the class you play and the benefits this class has when it comes to gunplay, your overall quality of items and power-level as well as team synergy and damage debuffs. I have changed my loadouts and playstyles so many times since I started playing this game. Yes, right now I want to use different powers but I don't have good legendary versions of them so I use something else which is also very good but requires a different playstyle. A guy I play with recently got a Cycle of Pain LMG with good rolls and now he's using this over his autocannons on the Colossus because it does more damage (so much for your statement about Colossus machine guns).

When I play public with random people the game is usually not that much fun. If I play with some people I know and we talk in discord and have good team synergy it can be a lot of fun. Like I said: in pugs a lot of people are undergeared and underscored for the higher difficulties but join them anyways and then complain on reddit or some place else - probably at the same time while I have to do the heavy lifting and carry them. Not saying that is you but it's happening a lot in this game. This is a game for people who like grinding, optimizing their builds and eventually becoming overpowered. If you don't like games like Warframe, Destiny, Borderlands, Division, Diablo... this is just not the game for you. The problem about it: this is not what Bioware's main fanbase consists of. Or in different words: this is the right game done by the wrong company.

The game itself is still in a state that I'd call "early access/beta phase" and has a lot of problems, bugs and not enough content. So at this point I would not recommend it to anyone even though I'm still having fun myself - but my Origin premier access is ending soon and I haven't yet bought the game. If the game survives and improves further it might be a nice game in a few months or a year. It's really a shame they did so many mistakes that could have been avoided simply by learning from mistakes other developers of this genre have made (and corrected) in the past.


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At first I would have loved to be able to endlessly fly around without worrying about overheating. But now I'm not a big fan of this idea anymore. Your problem sounds like another L2P issue to be honest. You have to make use of the terrain and find opportunities to cool down your thrusters. On top of that there are insciptions for thruster life, thruster cooldown speed and heat threshold in general as well as universal components for this sort of thing. But as a  Colossus I would not worry about it too much and rather build it towards being a tank that can draw aggro and not have to worry about much else.

I hope you're just oversimplifying, but I find it highly comical to think that "reload twice" is BioWare's *attempt* at Gear of War's 'Active Reload' mechanic.

And what in BioWare's history, particularly recent history, doesn't shout that this is PRECISELY what they are going to keep doing? You'll be lucky if it isn't a buggy mess when they move onto releasing the next unfinished cash-grab.

I don't think Bioware has many opportunities left. If they are also screwing up the new DA title EA is gonna ditch them. But this is a discussion for another topic.

i d like to see sales figure, 'cause anthem might not be a hit, but might be still seen as a success ?

That's likely hard to tell with EA's Origin access program factoring into the sale numbers as well. And then we only see stats about physical copies which seem significantly lower through all the video game industry this year so far. Be that because of digital distribution and / or a general decline of market.

It's part of Nvidia's game bundle so there's a bunch of sales there as well.

AMD's bundle was better though. I bought an RX 580 just for Resident Evil 2 and Division 2.

Apparently Anthem is Bioware's bestselling launch game after Mass Effect 3 even with all its flaws. After my Origin Premier Access ended I have now bought the game as well. I wanted to wait a bit for more fixes and updates but in the end I just enjoy playing too much even with all that is still wrong with the game and I also think they are gonna fix more and more things. It's still a shame to release a product in this state but it is what it is now and judging from their communication I have more faith in this game than I had in Andromeda.

www.pcgamesn.com/anthem/anthem-sales-numbers

venturebeat.com/2019/03/19/february-2019-npd-anthem-and-jump-force-tops-software-sales/