The ANTHEM VIP Demo has come and gone, and it's left many with divided opinions, including ourselves. There's clearly potential in BioWare's shared world loot shooter, but countless technical issues have put a dampener on the hype -- at least to some extent.
The developer says that it's working hard on fixing things ahead of the public demo's launch on Friday, however. "It was an eventful VIP Demo weekend for BioWare," the studio writes in a new blog post. "It started rocky, but we stabilized that afternoon and maintained it until we turned servers off Sunday evening. We learned a ton about our game, our service, and you, our community. We’re working hard to ensure everyone can enjoy the game exactly as we’ve designed it."
"We’ve got a long list of things that were addressed during the weekend, or are being addressed for next weekend’s public demo," the post continues. In particular, BioWare says that it's improved the infinite loading screen problem that plagued the VIP Demo. Thank god for that.
To round the post off, the developer teases some kind of in-game surprise that's happening on Sunday: "Make sure stick around for Sunday afternoon; you’ll see a glimpse of some of the cool things we’ll be doing in the future!"
Will you be playing the public ANTHEM demo? Pray that it works much better than the VIP Demo in the comments section below.
[source ea.com]
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We learned a ton about our game, our service, and fleecing you, our community.
I'll give it a go this weekend but as I wasn't a fan of either Destiny games or The Division, i'm guessing this will not be for me. I'll remain hopeful that it'll surprise me though
Excited to get back in. Between the alpha and last weekend probably put on a got 8 - 10 hours so far, can't wait for more. Being iron man shooting aliens feels awesome!
I wish I could stick around on Sunday afternoon. But my timezone won’t allow me to stick around unfortunately. I wish they would do it on Saturday.
I suppose it will be mostly Americans who will be able to “stick around”.
Even with all the problems I find myself thinking about the game a lot. I actually miss it now that I can't play it. I have so many unanswered questions about it.
One of the Youtube reviewers who got early EA invites said that the VIP was a portion of the game extracted from a Beta while work carried on with the the full version back at the studio. So while we were playing the VIP chunk last weekend, things had moved on with the full game. My bet is that this weekend we'll get a more updated chunk of the game.
My guess is that the Full Game is near complete and ready to ship. I'm really looking forward to Anthem because it looks and plays beautifully. Playing as the storm and bringing down the Ultimate on a bunch of Scars or a Boss was spectacular. Anthem is a visually stunning game that blows away anything Destiny has ever put on the screen.
I can't wait for the full game.
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