I liked doing the quests alone at my pace not someone else. But the stronghold was fun with a group, cooperative multiplayer is usually nice.
Pacing, playing on your own schedule, and SP games generally offering a better sense of immersion are the main reasons for me. Then add onto that the griefing, cheating, and general poor behavior you can run into if you play with randoms.
by Author - Chad RobertsonPosted on - February 4, 2019 Head of Live Service
Greetings to our Anthem Community!
I’m thrilled to share that our public demo weekend exceeded our expectations. Operationally, things were super smooth – our war rooms were tranquil this weekend, which is exactly how we like them.
Most importantly, your response was again overwhelmingly positive. We had more than 40M hours of play in the game across our two demo weekends. That’s incredible! We hope you all enjoyed the small taste of what’s to come with the full game. As developers, we remain humbled by your positive response to what we’ve built. Thank you so much for your support!
Of the many cool things we’ve seen from the community, the creativity around Javelin customizations has been mind-blowing. So many favorites, but here are several that caught our eyes:
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Our focus now shifts 100% to launch and beyond. Our development team is hard at work on finalizing our launch builds and beginning our countdown preparations. As I’ve mentioned previously, the launch version of the game has a long list of updates and improvements that were not in the demo builds. And, of course, launch will be the first time our community has access to the full game with all content.
There’s so much more than you saw in the demo and we can’t wait for you to play it. We’re also very hard at work on exciting post-launch content. You saw a small glimpse of it in the game Sunday. We’ll have much more to share on that soon.
I’m thrilled to share that our public demo weekend exceeded our expectations. Operationally, things were super smooth – our war rooms were tranquil this weekend, which is exactly how we like them.
Most importantly, your response was again overwhelmingly positive. We had more than 40M hours of play in the game across our two demo weekends. That’s incredible! We hope you all enjoyed the small taste of what’s to come with the full game. As developers, we remain humbled by your positive response to what we’ve built. Thank you so much for your support!
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ok, that seemed a little 'happier' than I expected.
Maybe from a Live Service perspective things were sweeter, with 3x the players from week one. Making more obvious some demo bugs which were an annoyance but more in game development's box than 'Live Services'.
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by Author - Chad RobertsonPosted on - February 4, 2019 Head of Live Service
Greetings to our Anthem Community!
Big SnipOur focus now shifts 100% to launch and beyond. Our development team is hard at work on finalizing our launch builds and beginning our countdown preparations. Snip Onward! Stronger Together!
Chad
Hm...
Feb 15 is Early Access to the full game, yet he is talking about the Launch date which is Feb 22. Presumably, then, Feb 15 won't have all the patches?
Just wondering....
Morpheus: "know what happened happened and that it could not have happened in any other way".
I’m thrilled to share that our public demo weekend exceeded our expectations. Operationally, things were super smooth – our war rooms were tranquil this weekend, which is exactly how we like them.
Most importantly, your response was again overwhelmingly positive. We had more than 40M hours of play in the game across our two demo weekends. That’s incredible! We hope you all enjoyed the small taste of what’s to come with the full game. As developers, we remain humbled by your positive response to what we’ve built. Thank you so much for your support!
...
ok, that seemed a little 'happier' than I expected.
Maybe from a Live Service perspective things were sweeter, with 3x the players from week one. Making more obvious some demo bugs which were an annoyance but more in game development's box than 'Live Services'.
I’m thrilled to share that our public demo weekend exceeded our expectations. Operationally, things were super smooth – our war rooms were tranquil this weekend, which is exactly how we like them.
Most importantly, your response was again overwhelmingly positive. We had more than 40M hours of play in the game across our two demo weekends. That’s incredible! We hope you all enjoyed the small taste of what’s to come with the full game. As developers, we remain humbled by your positive response to what we’ve built. Thank you so much for your support!
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ok, that seemed a little 'happier' than I expected.
Maybe from a Live Service perspective things were sweeter, with 3x the players from week one. Making more obvious some demo bugs which were an annoyance but more in game development's box than 'Live Services'.
They have more of info on the state of the game and people playing or problems experienced than we do. So I have little reason to doubt them - I think that most issues that happened were manageable or they don't expect them (in large quantities, at least) at launch.
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I’m thrilled to share that our public demo weekend exceeded our expectations. Operationally, things were super smooth – our war rooms were tranquil this weekend, which is exactly how we like them.
Most importantly, your response was again overwhelmingly positive. We had more than 40M hours of play in the game across our two demo weekends. That’s incredible! We hope you all enjoyed the small taste of what’s to come with the full game. As developers, we remain humbled by your positive response to what we’ve built. Thank you so much for your support!
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ok, that seemed a little 'happier' than I expected.
Maybe from a Live Service perspective things were sweeter, with 3x the players from week one. Making more obvious some demo bugs which were an annoyance but more in game development's box than 'Live Services'.
Surely you did not expect otherwise? Notice the minimization of the negatives.
There is lots of work to fix things in the main game... especially this "grab orbs and dump them in a fixed location" but the mission can't close ... 'until all the orbs are dumped with some players unable to or decide to go afk. This definitely needs a re-think.
Anyway, I wish them luck....
Morpheus: "know what happened happened and that it could not have happened in any other way".
Has to be said, the quantity of traffic on EA's Support forum (where I also pop in) was noticeably less busy this weekend, vs. last, even if those who did comment were demonstrably more salty than last week - though there were fewer of them.
If Chad is saying there were 3x the number of player in the game during the Open Demo, that's a lot.
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Your Anthem @anthemyour @sarahschachner I must have heard bits of the “Legion of Dawn”track two dozen times this weekend and aside from the fact that I’m hooked, what were you saying over the synth if anything at all? Just sounds or were they words?
Sarah Schachner @sarahschachner It’s an extinct language spoken exclusively by predecessors to the freelancers. And yes, I made it up 😂
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Emily (aka Domino) Taylor pentapod Dear computer game players who prefer to play solo, not co-op/multiplayer ... why do you prefer to play alone? What prevents you from trying multiplayer games? (As someone who's gameplay has been very MMO-focused, I'm curious!)
Not being able to commit to unbroken periods of time, as in being interrupted regularly so I don't want to piss others off by having to stop playing. Also exploring/finishing missions at my own pace rather than being in a PUG where some people have already done the mission and they are like wham bam and its done and I am like WTF!!!!
Your Anthem @anthemyour @sarahschachner I must have heard bits of the “Legion of Dawn”track two dozen times this weekend and aside from the fact that I’m hooked, what were you saying over the synth if anything at all? Just sounds or were they words?
Sarah Schachner @sarahschachner It’s an extinct language spoken exclusively by predecessors to the freelancers. And yes, I made it up 😂
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GoD @gameordeath1 @benirvo Will the swimming areas have more lighting on the launch, cause during the demo swimming was one of the most hardest things to do even though I knew where to go the 3rd time and so forth it was still kind of hard to see.
Ben Irving @benirvo We are going to increase the light from the player to help with this
Kobrashade @kobrashade @benirvo @gamblemike How will balancing be applied to concepts of double stacking certain weapons across and entire team? Double stacking buffs etc?
Ben Irving @benirvo This is a great question but it doesn’t have a simple answer. We will review case by case. We are currently ok with stacking double shields (windfall / bulwark) we are maaaybe ok with stacking muster point, we are not ok with a certain sniper rifles damage
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Kobrashade @kobrashade @benirvo @gamblemike How will balancing be applied to concepts of double stacking certain weapons across and entire team? Double stacking buffs etc?
Ben Irving @benirvo This is a great question but it doesn’t have a simple answer. We will review case by case. We are currently ok with stacking double shields (windfall / bulwark) we are maaaybe ok with stacking muster point, we are not ok with a certain sniper rifles damage
Kobrashade @kobrashade @benirvo @gamblemike How will balancing be applied to concepts of double stacking certain weapons across and entire team? Double stacking buffs etc?
Ben Irving @benirvo This is a great question but it doesn’t have a simple answer. We will review case by case. We are currently ok with stacking double shields (windfall / bulwark) we are maaaybe ok with stacking muster point, we are not ok with a certain sniper rifles damage
No touchie the Devastator
(but let's be real here... it's gonna be the first on the nerfing block)
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You can be quite sure that all the cosmetics will be purchasable with coin. | | | Skill Up playing #Anthem @skillupyt
Thanks Michael. Are you able to tell us how much the shards/real money cost of major cosmetic items? Thanks.
I can imagine some EA marketing exec going: 'not yet...' but this has to be irritating to all concerned for the next few days...
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