Does that mean there's no chance that I'm taking people with me when I end freeplay without a squad? I sometimes load in solo, then people join in. I'm sometimes worried I'm taking them out with me when I end it.
Nope, you're just going out and then coming back - you don't affect others (or at least you shouldn't be 😊).
Any chance we can get a peek as to the legendary version of glacial storm/spear? As it is, its my go to setup and possibly the most broken build in the demo, especially with an Ice component for faster priming.
But that would ruin all the fun of discovery! 😊
It's a spawning platform that we use during development. 😊
I always think about how sweaty it must get... 😶
AW MAN POSTING VIDEOS GONNA GET THINGS NERFED ALREADY
Haha well... We know about a bunch of small issues that should probably be tweaked. (I abuse this on my dev account Storm as well 😊)
With you guys having dedicated servers, do you think it'll be possible to do cross saves?
I understand cross play -- playing with other platforms -- is limited by the owners of those platforms, but I'd really like to see cross save so that, if my friends jumped on PC, I could buy the game on origin and have it use the same save I made on Xbox, since everything is sorta linked through the EA Account.
That's what's bothered me the most with Destiny, I've had friends change platform but I'm already invested in Xbox so I don't want to go through starting from Zero just to play with them.
Its a bit more complicated, but it is something we're interested in and will be looking into post ship. 😊
If Anthem has dedicated servers, why does an expedition end when a single person leaves?That feels like peer hosting, and the host leaving ends the expedition.
If you're in a squad, the squad leader controls what the group does... So if they leave the whole squad does.
If you're not... It's a bug 😣.
Cool. Question, if I may:
You (not you personally, you as in BioWare) mentioned that the reason why you will have dedicated servers is to make sure everyone is experiencing the same, right? Is that still up for launch?
Also, are the 3 platforms (PC, PS4, XBox) going to be synced as well?
TIA!
Yep we wanted to ensure the same quality of experience for everyone, with peer hosting the connection quality can be fairly variable. It also lets us do a bunch more stuff on the service side as well.
Updates like this are global for all platforms 😊.
Sweeeeet, do we keep any souvenirs from the beta for participating in this “event” ? Just wondering haha
Your memories of a (hopefully) fun time? 😊
Did the event end? Tried to load freeplay twice now, nothing happening anymore.
No it should be up for some time, the server is probably still just rolling over 😊.
i keep seeing in threads, "yeah man, i just quit out after the second chest, no loot from the last boss" how miss informed are you? While technically true, you still get loot from completing the mission. https://imgur.com/a/Z0M00AE sure it might be faster to quit out and reque and get loot faster by just running the first 2 chests if you're bad at boss dps. but if you want the path of least resistance for the most loot...go play freeplay instead and just run around looting chests and doing events.
the whole not getting loot in a chest at the end of the dungeon is kinda anti climatic sure, but you still get loot.
We're working on making it a bit more clear and celebratory 😊.
Yep this is working as intended, though the frost stacks might be building a little too fast on those turrets 😊.
They are restarting servers left and right, give it 30 minutes (making an assumption)
Yeah, it'll take a little bit for the servers to fully roll over 😊.
I've experienced that one as well! My "fix" was to exit the program and load back in.
I never tried it, but maybe entering one of the caves and exiting inside would work?
Were you playing with someone else in a Squad when this happened?
I might have some recorded footage of this happening on my Storm. I have not uploaded. I can get it uploaded to youtube tonight. What would be the best way to get it to you?
It's ok, I think I have what I need for the bug report - thank you though! 😊
Thank you so much!
Which suit were you playing?
Is there a way to reduce the intensity of the blue flashes you get when you take damage? Im a epileptic (very controlled/mild case) and those effects are almost triggering. Sorry for my english, but they are best described as blue stutters.
That's concerning, I'll make sure we get something filed! 😊
I hope this will fix the loading screen issues. Thats basically the most critical bug in the Demo.
And maby the Audio issue? But that's something you can live with as you can still finish the mission and then restart the game...
We identified one major problem (a resource wasn't being released under some conditions, so the level could not unload) and prepped a fix on Saturday, tested all day Sunday/Monday and it went through certification shortly after that.
There are some other fixes that should help the game recover when there are service errors (which was also sometimes presenting as 'infinite loads').
All that said, we reproduced and fixed some problems... though given the narrow amount of time we had to turn around a fix, we might not have caught everything. 😊
Read moreSo I had meant to make a post during the VIP demo, but haven't had a chance till now. Somewhere near the end of the demo I noticed that in the settings was the option to play with Color Blindness settings. I am Red-Green Color Blind (Protanopia). I for the most part spend my life kind of just accepting colors without really labeling them or thinking about it. But in some game content I've found that settings like this can really help discern between different items or areas (Destiny for example makes it easier to tell the difference between element shields and engrams).
So on to the issue. Upon setting the game for Protanopia I found that the games contrast had been heavily changed to the point that I could not see in front of me during a night time Stronghold. Obviously I played with the brightness and contrast, but found it to largely wash out the picture, both with monitor settings and game settings. My monitor (XF270HU) does great in other games that offer these options...
Just as a note, we're looking in to this 😊.
Read morePlayers need to be able to keep track of (all players'):
- Damage Dealt
- Kills
- Objective Completions
- Downs
- Deaths
- Mission Completion Time
Players will want to see how they stack up against other players and themselves with alternate builds. With no scoreboard it is much more difficult to see our progress and performance. Also, in a team game (with hopefully challenging late game content) we need ways to see our teammates' performance and contribution without directly watching them play.
For me, and I'm sure for many others, seeing the scoreboard at the end of a mission or raid plays a big part in the fun of the game. In any PvE game with replayable content we need this kind of information available. In Diablo it's leaderboards and ladders, in WoW it was 3rd party sites and addons, in Destiny it's scoreboards.... for Anthem I would say scoreboards at the end of missions should suffice. Any additional inf...
Thanks for the feedback! I'll forward this along, we have some thoughts on this sort of thing... But I'd be interested to know what you all think 😊.
What sorts of comparisons would you find interesting? Among friends? In your alliance? In a similar gear score band? By geographic region?
What sorts of stats are you interested in seeing?
Thanks!
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