Anthem Twitter Thread

I believe giubba means that the Anthem reddit is actually surprisingly positive about the game relative to it’s critical reception.

The Guided Gamer @theguidedgamer
After completing the "Challenge of Valour" you must then complete the "Challenge of Might" #AnthemGame A really cool cut scene comes with this and oh my is it lore heavy. Magna Stral, Midderon and a chimear. I look forward to making some lore videos soon.








- Okay - while it is cool you get a cutscene for this , those rewards are... wow. I have to wonder if this is this a mistake... A holdover from an economy of an earlier build?

Yes i sometimes visit there and the place is quite okay, was pleasantly surprised to not find out a toxic dump.

Jon Renish @jonrenish
Kerbal has to inspect the #AnthemGame shirts I picked up.

Anthem Loot Update:
www.reddit.com/r/AnthemTheGame/comments/avm9yn/anthem_loot_update/

BenIrvo

Hey All,

First off, thank you for all the feedback around loot drops, this is what we have heard:

- Many inscriptions are not useful to the item they are attached to
- Due to this, players need to get many masterworks of the same item to find a “good one”
- Players want the frequency of masterwork drops to increase to help with the above OR…
- They want us to change how masterwork inscriptions work so that they are more “useful”

There is more feedback, the above is a summary.

This is our plan for changes to go live on February 28th or March 1st (central US time)

Inscriptions are now better for the items they are on
- This applies to new items earned in Anthem (not existing ones in your Vault)
- If an inscription applies only to the item it is on (gear icon), it will be useful to that item. Otherwise the inscription will provide a Javelin wide benefit
- For example, an Assault Rifle will not have an item specific +pistol damage inscription. It may have a +electric damage suit wide inscription (cool for a lightning build)
- Some more information below

Removed uncommon (white) and common (green) items from level 30 drop tables
- This was a highly requested change and we agree, so that’s that.

We have reduced the crafting materials needed to craft a masterwork from 25 masterwork embers to 15 masterwork embers
- As you salvage or harvest, you should be able to craft more masterwork items to get the inscriptions you are looking for
- Now that inscriptions are more relevant to their item, this should yield better results for players

Additional inscription change details

Its hard to write a short version of this, but I’m going to try. If we need to add more information later we can do that…

Current: There are a large pool of inscription options available to roll on items, the inscription pools are generic (e.g. Weapons)
- Every masterwork item has 4 inscriptions – Major Primary, Minor Primary, Major Secondary, Minor Secondary

Change: Each item type now has a specific set of inscription options for each of their inscription pools. The pools are smaller and are targeted to the specific item type
- E.g. there used to be a Weapon pool, now there is an Assault Rifle pool and the assault rifle pool has 4 pools for each of the inscription types listed above
- Primary inscriptions are focused on damage or survivability
- Any item specific inscriptions (gear icon) will always benefit the item they are on
- Javelin wide inscriptions (suit icon) will benefit damage or survivability across the whole Javelin
- Secondary inscriptions focus on utility and can be targeted to the item (gear icon) or the entire javelin (suit icon)

There are likely a bunch of questions, we will read through the comments and if we need an additional post to clarify things, we can work on that.

Thanks again for all of your support

Ben

GorillaDump
Any update on making GM2 and GM3 worth going through?
The drop chances of masterworks and legendaries is not that much more noticeable in GM2 and GM3 to warrant such a daunting task.

BenIrvo
looking into this. understand the problem space for sure.

Nathan Zufelt @zoober
The slippers are comfy.....

Thaer Thabata@thaerthabata
Anthem could've been an awesome classic Bioware RPG experience and was really disappointed when it was confirmed as a Live service because I don't like those kinds of games at all. Why did you guys choose to go the Looter Shooter route instead of making an RPG?

Michael Gamble@gamblemike
because we want to make different things. we still make RPGs you know.

Something I've been puzzling.

With the bugs and many things being 'not at launch', I thought an 8.5 game would fairly deserve 7.5 review scores as the potential is obscured by bugs and so forth.

That the game is averaging at 6.5 (which I find utterly irrational) I would put down to two things:

ONE - Professional reviewers review games as a job. If they have to fight the game's bugs, disconnections, issues and so on, on a pre-Day-One-patch probably PC version (the least stable platform) then you are really irritating them as they need to get the review done in a set time. They are working not playing.

TWO - There are plenty of critics, particularly amongst YouTubers who haven't been following the game, more than happy to wade in still salty about EA, Battlefront II, Battlefield V and Andromeda. Not only to enjoy kicking Anthem but immediately following up with 'When will EA shut BioWare' pieces.

Clearly, the game needed at least another 6 weeks, but that would have taken it out of Financial Year 2018/2019 which was never going to happen.

I sense mild frustration with this question... rightly so

Anthems score is not low, it's adequate for what the game is. People expecting a 8.5 after actually playing the game, I can't even...

Anthem Patch Notes for 2/28/2019
www.reddit.com/r/AnthemTheGame/comments/avrqr9/anthem_patch_notes_for_2282019/

Hey Freelancers,

This morning we will be deploying a patch with the following changes:

- The tethering timer for missions has been increased. Players should now have more time to catch up to their Squad before seeing a countdown timer.
- The Swarm Tyrant encounter in the Tyrant Mine Stronghold can no longer be reset by the entire Squad exiting to the main menu and rejoining the session in progress.
- Players are no longer able to reopen chests that have already been looted in Strongholds.

NOTE: This patch does not include the loot updates that were mentioned last night. The loot updates will still roll out later today (Feb. 28) or tomorrow (Mar. 1).


Chad Robertson @crobertson_atx
Latest patch for Anthem going Live now. Note that the loot updates we shared info on last night will come later today or tomorrow.