Anthem Twitter Thread

Jonathan Warner @bio_Warner
I still find astonishing views... #AnthemGame #BioWare #RangerJavelin




[HASH]ANT

Huh, seems the Storm has a proclivity towards hooded helmets.

There have been folks on that Stockholm event playing on m+kb and - according to this guy in video below, at least - it felt really good.

Battlefield games are isolated from each other with no shared persistence. Anthem is a shared persistence world. What one player sees that's world-persistent, like the effects of a Shaper Storm, all players see. That complicates things.

Plus, as noted, netcode is hard and capping each instance at 4 reduces complexity of the netcode problem. Battlefield at release always has netcode problems, so I applaud Bioware for being ultra conservative about network load per dedicated server. That should make for a smoother launch with a lot fewer netcode problems.

Design/technical limit is the same thing to me. Which is cause or effect doesn't matter. But, I do agree that in time, they could experiment with raising the cap and see how things go.

Really? Risky move there, Bioware. I mean, I get it, but unless there's a banner announcing that across every screen, people not clued into this largess might experience something akin to bait-and-switch when they play the real game, no?

The exact same thing happened with the NieR:Automata demo, btw. Combat was dialed down just a notch in the demo, so people who breezed through the demo were shocked at how much harder the actual game was. Not so shocked as to file class action lawsuits, but there was talk in forums.

Yeah... Unless there's some sort of message ingame to inform EVERYONE about these details, I can see this biting Bioware in the ass.

The world state is irrelevant for a social hub. There is no need to display shape storms or grabbit kill counts in a bar. Persistence is a tool. Not an omnipresent entity.

Also there is liztle need for time critical network stuff like hit detection.

It's a tricky one.

As it's a demo they could just make everything available but then people would complain that you have to earn coin in the game.

They can't actually replicate the real economy in the demo, because it's a demo.

I sincerely hope that the most basic, vanilla Javelins with minimal customization (read - no one spent IRL money to look fabulous because it doesn't help you shoot better) dominate the leaderboards.

Ideally, the most customized Javelins indicate scrub level.