about 5 years ago - /u/UNTDrew - Direct link

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Welcome back, Freelancers,

They say these long dark nights bring us together during this season. It’s not just about needing the light anymore—anyone can set up a torch or turn on a light. No, it’s about the people, Freelancer. The people you fight for, and the people we live with every day.

Stories get shared around the fires of Fort Tarsis during this time. One of them was shared last week. This week’s story isn’t really a happy tale—most aren’t even sure how it ends—but it’s a reminder:

Freelancers are heroes to the people of Bastion, but when a hero doesn’t come to save you, you have to save yourself.

Lighter is the story of one man, by no means a fighter, facing off against the terrors of the long night by himself. More than anything, he wanted to be saved, but he knew that wasn’t going to happen unless he tried to save himself first. After all, bravery isn’t simply the strength to stand up to something. Bravery is the strength to stand up to something, even when you’re afraid.

https://www.ea.com/games/anthem/news/lore-lighter

It’s a story worth learning about, so be sure to take some time out of your busy schedule saving everyone to read it if you can.

With that, let’s jump into what you can expect from this coming week.

Season of Skulls — Week 4

Freeplay

To unlock the weekly anomaly, complete the three seasonal events each week: Arcanist Research, Freelance Pilgrimage, and Sentinel Bonfire.

  • Boss Event
    • Swarm Tyrant: No One Likes Spiders

Echoes of Reality Arenas

Each week, we’ll add another arena to the list, keeping any from previous weeks as we go.

  • Ring of Magnus (added)
  • Britaheim
  • Crucible of Astrid
  • Casja’s Forge
  • Sea of Takaro
  • Diana’s Landing

Inversions

  • On the Edge
    • At low armor, damage dealt increases
  • Soldier's Reward
    • Killing an enemy restores a small amount of shields

Challenges

  • Daily: Crawling Horror
  • Daily: Uncanny Storm I
  • Daily: Dark Ranger I
  • Daily: Monstrous Colossus I
  • Daily: Unsettling Interceptor I

Store(s) Refresh

Here’s what you’ll find in the Seasonal Store this week. As a reminder, crystals can only be obtained from in-game events and activities, such as the Echoes of Reality or in Freeplay.

Seasonal Store Items Crystal Cost
War Chest: Legendary 5000
War Chest: Ranger 2500
War Chest: Storm 2500
Entry Roar 1100
War Chest: Interceptor 2500
War Chest: Colossus 2500
Graphic: Greed's Glisten 2300
War Chest: Weapon 2000
War Chest: Melee 1500
War Chest: Gear 1500
War Chest: Support 1000

As mentioned previously, the War Chest: Legendary is a new item to the game that guarantees a random Legendary drop upon opening it.

Featured Store Items Coins Shards
Tuesday–Monday
Shepard Shuffle 23,000 475
Graphic: Andromeda Initiative 36,000 600
Turian Armor Pack 61,000 850
Asari Armor Pack 61,000 850
Quarian Armor Pack 61,000 850
Krogan Armor Pack 61,000 850

Leaderboard Refresh

With the leaderboards refreshing weekly, we like to update you on the top scores on each platform week to week. With that said, I never updated you on the Week 1 winners, so here are all the winners so far from Weeks 1-3 of the Season of Skulls (with Week 3 updating once we have the final tallies):

Week 1

PC (6,514,382 total points):

  • Bidding
  • Grayfenix
  • --sK--ryPta--
  • JRSVengeance

Xbox One (6,374,862 total points):

  • killshot101010
  • Nikki_John0924
  • ObigmanjdO
  • VENOMOUSDRAGON_4

PlayStation 4 (6,304,590 total points):

  • EvilZombieDad21
  • Tubagenrealfast
  • RedReaper2019
  • uR Astero

Week 2

PC (8,267,999 total points):

  • Bomboom2
  • ElFishPreslyy
  • shwervy
  • TheNewDisease

Xbox One (8,141,457 total points):

  • UNDER PSYKOSIS
  • WakeNBakeJake85
  • RedReaper2019
  • ScooterX011

PlayStation 4 (8,151,374 total points):

  • ROBOWSKO
  • ccastilhos
  • emil051007
  • JoeyTyke

Week 3

PC (10,633,688 total points):

  • Grayfenix
  • --sK--ryPta--
  • Quasimiyao
  • JRSVengeance

Xbox One (10,239,132 total points):

  • Lostoldfeller
  • KnightTheShield
  • XJ2OOO
  • Offshoremoss69

PlayStation 4 (10,333,060 total points):

  • ROBOWSKO
  • ccastilhos
  • emil051007
  • Asura-god-

Let us know what you think of the Season of Skulls so far! Share your thoughts with us HERE.

Until next time, Freelancers.

-AJ

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about 5 years ago - /u/UNTDrew - Direct link

Originally posted by TurbulentSundae

Bring your ranged guns for this week.

This looks like it's leftover from last week, when sniper and precision rifles were buffed with the inversion.

Really been enjoying the Season of Skulls, so far. The Freeplay portion is a lot more fun than just the conjunction stuff from the Cataclysm, although the occasional bugs that keep you from being able to complete one of the three pre-events required to access the final event can be really annoying.

I like the tweaks that have been made to the actual event, along with the scoring changes. It feels like a much more level playing field, as there aren't as many game mechanics available to increase score. Everyone can do everything, the top teams just do it faster. No trying to figure out how many waves you can get Vara to spawn without crashing the server. Just run everything as clean as you can. Everything seems tied to DPS and team coordination, as it should be.

Also, gotta give a shout out to the ghost spiders/scorpions. They just look super cool.

Haven't played around with the chests very much, as I'm saving up to go on a binge, but the increase in legendary rate seems to have gone over well.

All in all, it's been better than I expected it to be, and it arrived sooner that anyone thought.

Looking forward to hearing more about the PTS.

Good catch. I've fixed that.

almost 5 years ago - /u/UNTDrew - Direct link

Now updated with Week 3 Leaderboard Winners! Congrats to those that hit 10M last week.