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The game is being made with Unreal Engine 4, so here is hope they release a quality game that doesn’t suffer from the same issues other EA games suffer from.

This will hopefully be a game to show all others how a looter shooter should be done in this time.

Instead of writing an article about the patch on 12th March that fixes this and also the PS4 crashes, you guys just aim for negativity it seems.
I’m done with this website.
I don’t like negativity.

It seems like TD2 and Anthem will be the combination for me to go for the foreseeable future.
On PC I was able to get a 20% discount because I had 100 coins for whatever reason. That made the choice easy to upgrade from standard edition to gold and play it 3 days earlier inclusive 1 year pass.

Japanese people absolutely love mech and iron man.
Also they love grind games.
Anthem should be doing pretty well here.
Expectations of Japanese players are entirely different.

I wished the game could have been pushed back another 6 months, but I guess EA doesn’t like that.

Well we will see now how the game will look like after 6 months and if that will be a state the game should have released in in the first place.

Will most probably start my preorder soon. Looter shooters everywhere. Best to play all of them.

Playing on PC I feel my loading times are just a few seconds, I barely see them. So I of course don’t know how bad it is on consoles.

There has been a lot of criticism about them and I hope they manage to make the loading screens at least more Destiny-like down the line, being more interactive. Also having the ability to at least open the inventory or cortex.

I think you guys forgot the cataclysm for May.
https://www.ea.com/games/anthem/acts
Says “Cataclysm starts”, which is the content which might be equivalent to raids in Destiny and TD2.

I feel BioWare wanted to release the game later, but EA wanted the release to be within this fiscal(?) year or something.

I’m still playing it on PC, and I fear most reviews came from before the day one patch was even released, which fixed a hell lot of things. Also BioWare i think actually wanted a March release, but EA said nope.

I’m having a blast and I couldn’t care less about all the hate. Vote me down as much as you want! You won’t stop me from playing

I think this is not even the complete list. Just the most important ones I guess.

I wonder how “widespread” these issues really are. I haven’t had any issues in alpha, vip demo, public demo or the early access I’m playing right now.
Even though we still don’t have the day one patch, since it’s early access.

No story my ass, BioWare will show you

Although I am usually quite optimistic about ANTHEM, I think EA is as usual expecting too much. They should better half the expectations because of their very own logo being on the box

@supergurr ANTHEMs story has a beginning and an end though. At least that’s what they said. The main story arc will be fully available at launch. So you can wait for reviews to see if the story is worth playing or not.

It’s interesting how the poll looks much more positive towards anthem compared to the comment section.

@kyleforrester87 I see the "privacy" mode being only useful for:

(1) playing with friends
(2) making sure you can play the story without people rushing through it

And @RogerRoger, if Normal is too hard, why not play on easy?
I found Hard to be even almost too easy when you are full rare equipped, but it all depends on equipment + skill.

@topic, I played all 4. And while the Storm does indeed seem to be the most popular one, I found myself liking Ranger most.
I just need more components that allow me to "float" longer.

@Nakatomi_Uk actually ANTHEM is far more solo player friendly? Because everything has matchmaking. So you will have more opportunity to do things without friends than you got in destiny.
One of the reasons I am dropping destiny for anthem

@BearsEatBeets it’s honestly like many demos where you are thrown in somewhere in the middle and have to figure a lot out without a tutorial.
The final game will of course start with a tutorial

I barely had issues last time, let’s see if it will be even better this time.
I guess it’s mostly the western half of the world that has problems.

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”.

I gladly put $100 into cosmetics so I can support the game to stay alive for long enough. I actually expected to pay $15-20 for a vinyl, which I am fine with. It should feel worth something and special. Not something everybody can just get.

Most gamers have absolutely no clue about what it takes to keep a live service game alive. I am against MTX in pure single player games. But a live service game? How do you guys think they can support this for 10 years? Do you also want to work for free for your company?

It doesn’t work that way. People scream no paywalling DLCs, no pay2win, no monthly subscriptions. Nobody of you is giving an actual solution to the problem, you just complain.

I find the above solution to be the best balance between people who don’t want to spent anything and people who gladly support BioWare to keep ANTHEM alive.
If you don’t like it, stay away from live service games, there are enough single player campaign driven games out there, especially on PS4. I wish for anthem to be successful, for BioWares sake.

@ShogunRok like the Escari? Damn that was a tough fight.

I’m one of the lucky few with barely any issues in the demo. I put probably around 14 hours into the demo and had a blast.

It appears to be connected partly to the region and also potentially to ISPs. I’m in Japan and I also heard nothing bad from Australians so far. In the 14 hours, I had only 2 crashes and 2 infinite loading issues. Other than that, everything else was very stable for me and I highly enjoyed it.

I just wonder how many are there that have issues vs. have no issues at all.

I think I was one of the lucky few who had no issues.
I have been playing the demo for hours now without any problems.

@Shellcore VIP demo and Legion of Dawn skins are the only ones you can’t get through buying or playing post release.

@Luna-Harmony No season pass, no paid story DLCs. Pay $60 once and enjoy without any worries. The only paid content are cosmetic micro transactions which you can also get by simply playing the game and collecting in-game coins to get them.

Far too much negativity once again for something that should be applauded. They could have just not done it at all.

Yeah, delay it. Then I am definitely sure I won’t buy it anymore instead still trying to consider it right now. There are too many other great games coming out.

Super excited.
I got the demo downloaded on PC and ready to go this weekend.

I really hope more people try this game and stay open minded. Just forget EA for a minute and have a bit of trust into BioWare.

There is only so much you can do in terms of diversity that keeps people engaged.
It’s easy to critique a game to not have much diversity, but difficult to actually give ideas about how it could be made better.

That’s why I personally think that what I have seen from Anthem is enough. You can’t just keep expecting more and more, leading to unrealistic expectations.

What people seem to not understand is that not-so-important NPCs regarding the story might not have facial animations of the same quality as important NPCs.
Also the textures look like low quality on this video compared to many other streams we have seen, which further worsens impression.
There is enough other material (e.g. the Story trailer) which shows that this game has great facial animations in place.
I hope Pushsquare will do a hands-on article for the Demos.

I’m not much of an AC fan. It got boring very quickly (I only liked AC1 and brotherhood), I was also very bored of AC origins. But AC Odyssey was a hell lot of fun. It doesn’t feel much like an AC game, but in general I think it is a very good and solid game, and especially fun and engaging.

I would recommend other people who are not fond of AC titles to give this title a try.

I personally don’t care, but it doesn’t hurt having it in every game. It would also make it easier for the studios themselves to provide screenshot material to the media.

@BowTiesAreCool what else than MTX being only cosmetics do you still want to know?

@Deadcow there is also a public demo without any pre order required on 1. February

@leucocyte how I understood it is that almost everybody loved the alpha. Not sure what you mean.

@ShogunRok I guess if Conan exiles allows for nude stuff, it would be a reason.
I live in japan and I can say sometimes it’s even strange for “normal” Japanese what is going on here.

Am I the only one who thinks the music and the trailer just doesn’t glue well at all?

Damnit, I thought I could play Anthem on 15th for a week and then quickly get through Metro. I guess I might have to split the time now.

I really hope the price tag will be worth the content. Apparently more story etc. so I will definitely keep an eye on it.

The idea it follows seems to be similar to the relays left behind in Mass Effect. Something left a powerful technology behind. But in this case somebody is trying to make use of it to save mankind, but he is actually the bad guy.
Doesn’t sound that much like destiny to me. But what’s much more important is how the characters will turn out. I expect BioWare typical deep characters.

@misterMike they are looking into it, but not at launch. Do there is still a chance someday

Highly looking forward to it. So far everything that has been shown in streams (despite today's stream having died because of technical issues) looks great and got me excited.
I signed up for the closed alpha, but have yet to get an invite.

@Nerdfather1 Even with the live streams they have shown? The javelin customization in this game looks amazing.

@RBMango, how can Anthem be a Destiny clone when it was being made before Destiny was released?
It is more of a combination of ME + WarFrame + Monster Hunter. There is almost nothing in this game that reminds me of Destiny, but a lot that reminds me of WarFrame, ME, Monster Hunter.

Its funny that the "outstanding Alien: Isolation" has a lower rating than SOMA.

@General_Spiller What paywall? All "missing content" will be coming without any additional cost.
Also its not "paying more for less content", as the content will come. You can complain when they cancel it.

You talk about the trend, but I don't see BFV being part of that trend right now. They probably just should have been more transparent and clear about their plans.

I'm fine with them delaying certain parts of the game. Gamers should really stop complaining this much, it is getting extremely annoying. I almost hate to identify myself as gamer nowadays, because of everybody's attitude.

At least I can play BFV now and it is quite a robust game already. And especially it is a lot of fun. Other than waiting many more months and have nothing at all. It is also not bad for focusing the player base onto one content after another.

I would be complaining if the current state of the game would be a bugfest. But it is not. Its stable. And its fun. Period.

@Incognito_D yep, this is what’s happening to 95% of my ps plus downloads

Currently playing early access. There is quite a bit of bugs to be fixed before the official release.
For a couple of us the cutscenes are stuttering and the PC optimization is partly underwhelming.
But other than that the game is great so far. I could never get into COD, I want to feel the war and Battlefield V does this job very well.