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Hey everyone! We hope you all had a great holiday. We’re back in the office here at BioWare and we wanted to drop an update for you on the challenge tracking issue that we ran into at the beginning of Icetide.

For those unaware, back at the beginning of the season there was an issue that prevented everyone from gaining progress, specifically in the Tip of the Iceberg Challenges. While we had a fix for it that worked to solve the original issue, it unfortunately had an unforeseen side effect that caused everyone with existing prog...

The team is still well aware of this and we will update everyone on it as soon as we have something concrete to share.

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Hello again, Freelancers! We hope you all had a happy holidays indeed, and while some of us might still be getting up to speed again in 2020, we do hope you've had some extra time to spend in Bastion on your various holiday breaks.

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Community Cortex | December 30

Greetings once again, Freelancers!

As the holidays and Icetide are still going strong, we’ll keep things brief and to the point so you can get back to your festivities (and gaming). Most of us at BioWare and EA are on holiday as well, and we’re just as eager to do the same.

Like last week, we won’t be providing scores of the top Stronghold contenders until after the holidays. Please bear with us until we’re back up and running. (Some of us are still digesting too much grabbit meat turkey.)

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Community Cortex | December 23

Oh, the weather outside is frightful, but the—well, actually...so are the outlaws. And the beasts. And the Shaper ruins. Really, just the general sense of danger every time you go beyond the walls. Jak likes that feeling, though. He’s an odd one.

The hardest thing to do is move on. You know what that’s like, of course, Freelancer. You were in the Heart of Rage. Yet it’s easy to forget what kind of world Bastion is at this time of year. Everything we’ve been through—all the struggles and hardships, the losses and stumbles—all of it melts away into the twinkling lights and warm smiles people share inside the Fort. Maybe that’s for the best, though, right?

Adding this as an additional comment as well:

Apologies for the time before this followup but we wanted to make sure we had something concrete to share when we could. You should be able to now see the Tip of the Iceberg challenges again and correctly gain progress. If you don't see it please exit the game and log back in and you should then see it.

... that wouldn’t come into cert until much later in the event.

You know the struggle. This is the way.

Yes we're aware of this issue as well. We've been working on a fix but no updates on that just yet.

A work around some folks have pointed out is that they were able to obtain the Gold credit on Easy, but I haven't seen this personally. So you might give that a shot in the mean time while we try and get that fixed up! :)

For clarification it was broken, we tried a fix, and it remained broken but also changed the progress some players had.

Since Icetide has been live the challenge has not actually been able to be completed but players were able to make some progress towards it. This reset is to fix the tracking so that all players can now correctly make progress and complete it.

Just for your awareness we shut down for the holidays, so a bigger more complicated fix wouldn't have been able to be done before we all come back in January. It's also impossible to get update approvals for consoles during the holidays because most studios/offices outside of BioWare also shut down for holidays.

We weighed this into the decision and opted to simply reset the challenges while there is still a large amount of time left in the event. The alternative would've been everyone being stuck in a state where they earn no progress at all for several weeks and then you'd only be able to retain what you had before it was broken, as the data wouldn't be able to track what was done in the mean time since it was broken.

In this case we're making what we feel is the best decision for players, even though it does feel bad to lose what progress you have obtained.

Hello everyone! Just wanted to drop an update on some changes that we made today for Icetide.

Earlier today we pushed a change that was intended to fix an issue with the tracking for the "Bonus Objectives" and "Targets Destroyed" objectives in the Icetide challenges. Essentially there was an issue with the data that affected the tracking and today's change was intended to correct that to show your correct progress. However this change had some unintended side effects on the live servers that changed objective progress for some of you.

To fix this we will be disabling the challenge and resetting it to put players back in a state where they can earn progress again, you’ll see the challenge temporarily change to be listed as “???”. This should be happening soon. We know it doesn't feel good that your progress wasn't counted and we want to reward you for the progress you should've had, as well as give you the actual chance to still earn the Icetide challenges. We apolog...

We always want to know if people are exploiting in Anthem, making the experience less enjoyable for our community. If you have proof of this happening, with or without the people in question, we would love to review it.

We do not, however, take action against players from just hearsay.

Edit: Now updated with Week 1 Leaderboard winners!

Please note, due to the holidays that we will likely skip the scores on a couple of the Cortex entries over the next couple of weeks, but we'll update on all those weeks on the first Cortex following the break. Happy Holidays, everyone!

Community Cortex | Week 2 update

A cold wind blows across the jungles of Bastion. In the wake of the Season of Skulls, bonfires may once again be lit—this time to fight the cold.

Season’s greetings, Freelancers, and welcome to the Icetide season! But don’t go thinking the frosty landscape has made your foes any less determined. While you’ll find fewer Scar and Dominion enemies out in the wilderness this time of year, outlaws are seizing the opportunity presented by the “hibernation” to come in greater force. The cold never bothered them, anyway.

With Icetide, dozens of new challenges have been added for you to complete, including ones that are added each week and three that are se...

Hello freelancers,

You should have a prompt to download a new patch today (1.6.1). This will not require any server downtime, so once you download, you should be able to jump back in and play immediately. If you're currently in a session, you will need to exit the game, download the patch and then start the game again.

Here is what was addressed in the patch:

• Fixed a couple of instances in the Icetide Freeplay events that could cause crashes for some players.

Thanks for your feedback on Icetide. If you have anything other feedback, please do share it with us HERE.

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Screenshots never hurt, if you can provide them. Will help us look into it. Thanks!

Thanks for the report! Just for some awareness we are tracking an issue currently with some crashes coming from Freeplay mode specifically. We believe we've narrowed in on the cause and are currently working on a fix for it.

Just a heads up that we are aware of this issue and currently working on a fix. You're not crazy as it is in fact not tracking the credit correctly!

Also hello fancy new flair!

Hey there. We have talked to the team and they’re aware that some players have experienced more crashes since the update. Can confirm that they’re looking into it.

Thanks for the report. I can confirm the team is aware that some players are experiencing some crashes since the latest update and they’re looking into it.

Thanks for your patience.