Bioware's "Anthem"
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Jorren
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I love how whoever that producer is, speaks like anyone gives a shit and we are all now hanging on baited breath to find out what happens next. Because I would guess 90% of this forum won't be playing past 10 hours or one month (Whatever they are subscribed too) and that goes for a majority of the gaming populace.
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One thing I do like about this a bit more than destiny is each of the "classes" plays pretty differently. A lot more diversity between the javelins than just your grenade and particle effect colors. The ults all seem very satisfying the bastions big gun is hella satisfying on that strong hold in the demo when all the lil scorpions are charging up the ramp. I racked up some hilarious kill counts. Also I had to learn to be more aggressive with the ult instead of holding it till the "perfect time" it recharges pretty rapidly so better to use it on any reasonable clump of mobs than trying to hold it.
kaid
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I played about 6 hours of the demo this weekend. I only really concentrated on the big mech and some on the iron man one. I can see easily getting 40-80 hours out of this game play wise to do the story/try different mechs and load outs. If I can get in that ball park the I feel like I got my monies worth. I don't know that this is going to be a long term play game but I see putting enough hours in to be worth while.
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Utnayan
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The nice thing is if you are playing on PC you can just basically get the 1 month premiere sub and you won't be out 60 either.
spronk
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today is the last day to sign up for origin access basic for only $1 either inside the Origin client (best) or web
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Make sure you immediately cancel your membership afterwards, otherwise you will be charged $4.99 on March 4th. Your membership will be good for 27 days even if you cancel, I just did it and could download all the vault games no problem and will get 10 hours of Anthem access on Feb 15th (in 11 days), I'm guessing that will be more than enough to decide if I want to play more or not. Even after the 10 hours I could upgrade to premiere ($14.99/mo) and get unlimited anthem access for a month or get 10% off anthem if I decide to just buy it for some bizarre reason.
The vault games on PC are pretty good, I might actually check out a few over the next few weeks. I saw Tyrant and Unravel 2
I don't see any such deal on xbox unfortunately, and Anthem kinda runs like ass on consoles right now anyways.
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Make sure you immediately cancel your membership afterwards, otherwise you will be charged $4.99 on March 4th. Your membership will be good for 27 days even if you cancel, I just did it and could download all the vault games no problem and will get 10 hours of Anthem access on Feb 15th (in 11 days), I'm guessing that will be more than enough to decide if I want to play more or not. Even after the 10 hours I could upgrade to premiere ($14.99/mo) and get unlimited anthem access for a month or get 10% off anthem if I decide to just buy it for some bizarre reason.
The vault games on PC are pretty good, I might actually check out a few over the next few weeks. I saw Tyrant and Unravel 2
I don't see any such deal on xbox unfortunately, and Anthem kinda runs like ass on consoles right now anyways.
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Hekotat
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I did freeplay for the first time yesterday in order to see the shaper storm stuff and man, the world is absolutely empty. I hope this is just due to the beta but it was boring not having anything to fight. I feel like this is a legitimate concern.
Interceptor and Ranger were my favorite two suits but the Interceptor seemed pigeon holed into venom bomb + melee attack to really fuck shit up.
I could see playing this for a month or so but I couldn't get a single person to play it with me so I'll probably just pass on it for now. Hopefully it shapes up well, but if the world is that empty the masses are going to revolt.
Interceptor and Ranger were my favorite two suits but the Interceptor seemed pigeon holed into venom bomb + melee attack to really fuck shit up.
I could see playing this for a month or so but I couldn't get a single person to play it with me so I'll probably just pass on it for now. Hopefully it shapes up well, but if the world is that empty the masses are going to revolt.
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They should have called the last two weekends a beta and not a demo. Some of the concerns stem from an old build (8 weeks old now?) which at launch should have many of the QoL improvements people are complaining about. They intentionally crippled the client and I heard (need to find source) had an entire team stripping things out so it couldn't be datamined. That has to effect a lot of your game systems if you're trying to not show a lot.
The server issues and weird instancing shit that happened is probably a direct result of this. It felt more like a stress test of their backend than a peek at the game. Hard to say honestly. It could be a dumpster fire on launch, it could be okay, it could be awesome. We will find out on the 15th when all of the uber PC players get their hands on it for that week and people start beating the game.
I will get my monies worth and had a blast flying around with friends, even in the crippled client. My perspective is that derived value per dollar metric. $60 for 30-60 hours (assuming some form of longevity) isn't bad even if you stop playing for a year and come back like with The Division.
The server issues and weird instancing shit that happened is probably a direct result of this. It felt more like a stress test of their backend than a peek at the game. Hard to say honestly. It could be a dumpster fire on launch, it could be okay, it could be awesome. We will find out on the 15th when all of the uber PC players get their hands on it for that week and people start beating the game.
I will get my monies worth and had a blast flying around with friends, even in the crippled client. My perspective is that derived value per dollar metric. $60 for 30-60 hours (assuming some form of longevity) isn't bad even if you stop playing for a year and come back like with The Division.
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I'm curious about the Premier membership. Do you retain full access to Anthem, or is it like XBox All Access where your ability to play goes away with the cycle of games, though there's an option to buy it for cheaper? I think I'll get a month out of the game, so buying into the membership on 2/15 sounds about right.
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with both basic and premiere your access to the library goes away when your sub ends. For anthem it'll preserve your "save" (all server side anyways) so you can pick back up a few months or years later, although with GAAS games like this pretty much everything gets reset every year with xpacs anyways. origin does cloud saves so any other games you play that are SP should also keep your save forever.
ii don't think they have removed any third party games so far but yeah it'll probably happen at some point. most of these third party games are kinda proliferating everywhere though, especially on PC - twitch prime, epic store launch, origin access, etc.
Jorren
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Should have stopped by our Discord, we hit it pretty hard both weekends.
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meStevo
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That to be expected though, it's an online only game with no online servers.
kaid
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it was a sneak peek at the game but it was also very much a stress test. And clearly it is a stress test that was necessary for the game as there was some wonky stuff going on not unplayable but some oddities. But it seems like from my friend who played the VIP demo weekend stuff went way smoother this go round I only had one hard server disconect and once I figured out how to tweak the mouse keyboard sensitivity stuff that got pretty reasonable control wise other than the weirdness that is initial entry into water.
