Surprise, Latest ANTHEM Patch Is a Disaster as Community Reports New Bugs and Broken Gameplay Issues

This isn't funny anymore.

Bethesda releases a broken patch for Fallout 76.

Bioware: "Hold my beer".

At this rate EA probably will shut down Bioware.

just can't win can they

I'm so glad I stayed far away from both Fallout 76 and Anthem. To play a game, only to have it constantly change in bugs and issues with every patch that releases must be an incredibly frustrating thing to deal with.

Put this game out of its misery. Just not fun anymore.

Please just go back to single player games bioware.

You start to wonder if they at this point really know what version is out there anymore. Just like final fantasy they should just stop regather themselves for another year and try their best to do a game that's actually a game. Bioware was once deemed a great gaming studio. Now I deeply worried about one of the their franchises which is supposedly under programming. At this rate they won't fix anthem and will make a huge mess out of the other one. Breath deep reflect rethink and re issue cause players pay with money for a game you actually enjoy to play.

@Tasuki
They are shlooting themselves in the foot.

They never fixed poor HDR, never fixed frame drops and now these! sigh! Bioware are done. They could have done better with single player for this game.

Boosters overheat and need to cool meaning you have to stop flying? I thought flying was meant to be one of the fun parts, why not make them so they never overheat in the first place? It’s like game companies forgot how to make fun things in their games anymore.

Hahahahahahaha

That's really all I got at this point. It's not insightful or helpful, but I laugh out loud at every new mini disaster with Anthem.

Do they not have an internal qa team to test new fixes and make sure general gameplay is fine?
I work as a dev and our qa team will not allow a release unless everything is working as it should

Anthem and Fallout 76 should have babies.

I noticed a couple of these bugs - the boss loot and receiving other players loot pick-ups. A little irritating, but happy with the removal of the forge loading screen and the Elysian chests that give out all cosmetics (minus armour) for free. 161 items I believe. There are a lot of articles on the misteps - none on how the MTX are possibly some of the most gamer friendly going at this point in the Triple A GaaS scene. Still a lot of fun.

I admit it : I'm beginning to think about selling my copy for buying The Division 2. I have to finish the campaign first (still lvl 20) but when it will be done, I don't think I'm gonna launch myself in all this endgame stuff. Not in Anthem, thought. But the main campaign is fun, it's a solid arcade shooter. It's all this endgame that is broken.

@Bobobiwan I played through Anthem and had a fun time with it (though admittedly it’s getting tougher to defend lately). I got the Division 2 and I enjoy it much more. It’s a fantastic game that’s all around fun.

What the heck happen to bioware, they're not some indie devs, they're AAA devs backed by EA. Even hello games, an indie devs is better than them at updating games.

Would have helped if they finished the game before launch.

And yet despite all the outrage and controversy the game will still make a ton of money and once again prove that publishers can make any old crap and 'gamers' will still buy anything.

Apparently, if you look up the word "clusterf*ck" in the latest edition of the Oxford English Dictionary, there's a picture of the Anthem cover.

the game doesn't need to give you even more loot, because the crafting system is totally and utterly redundant, and you just fill a rather small inventory with junk. even finding what to junk was hard work and the dismantling process was laborious (or was before i gave the game back, they may have at least ordered the inventory in a recent patch so duplicates are together).

This game is cursed.
God knows what's going on at EA these days but surely this must be the bottom of the barrel for them.
Nobody burnt by Anthem will buy another EA game (especially if it's looter shooter GaaS) unless it's polished like a diamond on release day.

Getting just plain sad at this point. They can't even fix the game without breaking it at the same time. This one needs a FF14 style makeover at this point

@FinneasGH presumably so they can sell you upgrades for real world money down the line i guess?

Gaming is on a dangerous path at the moment. This pay to win, game as a service, microtransaction filled nonsense is spoiling our hobby.

Glad i largely stick to single player titles

Bioware's overrated and Ubisoft's underrated at this point.

So EA isn't there just yet then at being the world's greatest games company? 😉

I have no particular love for Bioware (Dragon Age origins was alright, I enjoyed Inquisition a tiny bit more and haven't touched anything else they've made) and on one hand I'm kinda sorry for them...

...but this is somehow even worse then Fallout 76! I didn't think things could get lower then that...

RIP Bioware. Just stop trying and start other projects, you're going to destroy this game completely!

Folks still play this game?

@Shellcore I finished all my daily missions and it was still stuck on 1 out of 2 dailies done so i couldn't even get a key...

Yes it sux they keep breaking the game but you people are pathetic for continuing to sh*t on the individuals who are just doing their job.

Would hate be in their shoes. surely many of you are not so under the microscope in your career (if you even have one). I didnt buy this game because it seemed clear to me it would be troubled.

Lotta gamers made bad decisions to purchase on day 1. This is just how the industry is.

I bought f76 and played for a few hrs only due to rdr and havent gone back. Division2 is a great example where theyved had the opportunity to learn from misktakes. I suspect anthem may be able to turn it around. They are professionals after all.

Just put this game on for sale alongside Fallout 76 in the Bargain Bins and lets all move on shall we

plays The Division 2, suddenly feeling pretty good about his decision to skip Anthem

It seems really unlikely this is game will survive for long. On the bright side, that means more staff to work on DA4.

At this point I just feel sad for Anthem and Bioware. I'm still rooting for a DA4, so I hope they can restore themselves as an excellent single player experience

Who needs to play the game to write a news article, let's just go to that games Reddit page and get the most skewed take that's nice and spicy.

FFS actually play the game instead of copy and pasting what you read on Reddit.

I had 8 masterworks and 1 legendary drop in two hours last night (running 3 GM2 leg contracts, a GM1 Stronghold, and a GM1 leg mission), which is more than I had gotten all weekend before the patch. A lot of the people raging about loot sound like they were expecting guaranteed legendaries with every mission/stronghold.

This is all laughably vague in it's description of bugs. The only real bug I've encountered was the loot being picked up for you by other people which I could care less about since they improved how long it takes to junk things in the vault.

No problems here. Been playing for 3 hours.

Damn, when @Shepherd_Tallon — basically the most rational person on this entire site — is ready to put the game down, you know something's wrong.

@Chraq Actually play Anthem? Are you having a laugh?

@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy Nothing's worse than Fallout 76.

I can’t customise my javelin! The colours are messed up, each time I choose a colour it goes bright blue and when I leave the forge my suit just goes to its default colours, so annoying!

So SONY moved the release date for Days Gone for this mess???

@Rob_230 I agree with you, the corporates should be stopped from pushing companies to release half finished games and locking content behind pay walls, all this strategy does is push us gamers to hate and abandon them, so in the long run they’re killing themselves.

@bGruesome 100% agree. The big publishers have become far too interested in short term profit rather than long term loyalty from their customers. The bubble is bursting though and gamers have had enough.

This is not 100 percent accurate. Before the update my game used to crash every time the mission end screen came up, but after the update I played for four hours after it was released, with no glitchy gameplay, lag or crashing, it was the most fun I've had with the game, I also got a few legacy pieces and a ton of masterwork items in those four hours after the update, and while I did get a lot of purple and greens, I did get orange and yellow as well.

My roommate bought two used copies for us. We're not mmo players so this is our first time playing something like this. She usually hates conflicts, firefights and anything to do with violence. She plays games like Child of Light, Mario platformers and Gris. Closest would be Tomb Raider/Uncharted and even then, I do all the killing sequences. She loooves all the puzzle and loot gathering which is perfect; I find that tedious.

She. Flerking. Loves. Anthem. Violence and all. Gotta admit, I do too.

It doesn't bother me at all that people are leaving. The less people the more we can wander by ourselves in this gorgeous game.

Ok, just another perspective. And I'm not defending Anthem, but I am still enjoying dipping into the game. I've played for 3 hours today and have dropped 2 legendaries and around 15 masterworks. RNJesus? Possibly. Drop rates from my history compared to today are improved... I'll update tomorrow to see if it is just RNJesus.

@darklaw plus the QOL updates, being able to instantly access the mission screens and the forge are great. Admittedly they should have been in there from the start.

@Dante_Cubit

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