Greetings, Freelancers,
Last week, the final Icetide lore story was released and it was very unlike the others. The Cypher’s Kiss is an interactive short-story where you get to make the choices along the way. Okay, maybe that’s not the most surprising thing to come out of BioWare, but it...
Read more External link →Welcome back, Freelancers,
This week, the final Icetide lore story will be released. Look forward to checking it out on Thursday if you’re a loremonger or interested in an unordinary tale. However, unlike previous lore stories, this one allows you, the reader, to make choices along the way, affecting how it plays out. One might call it a love story in lieu of Valentine’s Day, but it’s a bit deeper than that, to say the least.
Be sure to let us know what you think once it’s out! Our writers will be eagerly awaiting your reactions!
(Also, ...
Read more External link →Community Cortex | February 3
Hello once again, Freelancers,
We’re going to keep this intro a bit shorter this week so you can get right to the good stuff. We did want to mention, though, how great it’s been to see more and more creative content being made on social media, Reddit, and beyond! Like, ...
Read more External link →Community Cortex | January 27
Greetings, Freelancers,
As we’re in the heart of Icetide and its glacial winter guise, we noticed some of you haven’t been bundling up quite so snuggly. Every now and then, we see incredibly creative javelin suits on Twitter and Instagram, some based off of iconic pop culture figures, while others are unique creations of their own. We love to share these when we can, so be sure to tag us directly or use #AnthemGame on your posts if you want us to see them.
As you may have noticed, we added two new Icetide armor...
Read more External link →It looks like there might have been a hiccup with the original patch installation but there should be a pretty easy fix to this. Try the following:
1) Close Anthem
2) Navigate to Anthem in Origin
3) Right click on Anthem and then select repair
4) Try it again once it repairs
So far we've seen this fix it.
Community Cortex | January 21
Happy Icetide, Freelancers,
The cold winds are howling once again, depending on where you live. All the way down past -40°C/F in Edmonton or...a nice, pleasant 14°C/57°F in Austin.
Okay, one of these places is clearly not Icetide-ing hard enough. Still, no amount of cold can stop us! And that goes for Freelancers (like you!), too. Be sure to bundle up, though.
Read more External link →Hello again, Freelancers,
Have you beaten your racing records? Have you just edged your way into gold? You better not be letting all the ice damage your armour. You-know-who would never let you hear the end of it.
Hopefully, you’ve also been taking out some outlaws along the way. It’s a bit selfish of them to seize the quieter festive season as a time to increase their attacks, but at least they keep things lively while the creatures of...
Read more External link →Thanks for flagging this one, obviously that's a little unexpected and we're looking into this. I also want to clarify that this isn't the 20k Minor Crystals we're granting, and that is still being done. You should still expect to receive those once the team has finished making all of those grants. We will post an update on the original thread here when all of those have gone through. Thanks for your patience.
UPDATE: Just to keep you all updated, we’re still in the process of granting the crystals. This kind of process can take some time, so we currently don’t have an ETA as to when this will be fully completed.
What about "left out in the the cold" wreath challenge? Iam still 9/10 in eastern reach and it wont complete?
I know the work around but i'd rather not do it, if you plain on fixing this before icetide is over.
This is something we've been tracking and a fix should be coming very soon. I don't have an ETA on that just yet that I can share, but it's on the way.
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.
Thanks so much for responding quickly to the community on this matter!
I was just in the middle of a run and tried looking for my “Tip of the Iceberg II” challenge to track how I’ve been doing, was surprised I couldn’t see it but noticed the new ??? challenges as you’ve previously mentioned above.
Thought I’d check Reddit to see if anyone was speaking about it and a Community Manager is quickly dealing with the subject which is great to see - I can definitely see the point in choosing to reset and try to fix it now rather than wait for a fix that wouldn’t come into cert until much later in the event.
Please keep us posted on any information BioWare has on how they’ll reimburse players for lost progress! Perhaps these Tip of the Iceberg challenges could pull data from challenges like Fall Harvest which tracks Outlaws Defeated or something of the Trial - Bronze / Silver / Gold Flyer challenges to roughly count towards completing 40 races etc?
... that wouldn’t come into cert until much later in the event.
You know the struggle. This is the way.
Hey /u/CM_Ythisens is there any word on the Gold Time Trials for specific Javelin challenges? Currently for me both Rust Bowl Run and Fortress Run are not counting my Gold times for the Interceptor, Storm or Colossus challenges.
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! :)
So it was already fixed and then glitched again?
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.
They should have took some more time to fix it properly then. This is just going to generate more negative reception.
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...
Read more External link →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!
This has actually been a tracked bug since beta FYI.
It’s extremely hard/unable to be consistently reproduced from what I was told. While I was CM I bumped it and mentioned it tons of times but it’s one of those tricky ones that doesn’t appear when you’re trying to get it to show up.
Not an excuse but just trying to shed some light on what I knew about this particular issue. I’ve had it happen to me as well. It’s pretty damn frustrating.
Wait... I said this like a month ago? Reddit you’re weird.
Yeah Ion is among you, reading your posts, probably even reading this thread. Hey Ion! Hope all is well! I miss annoying you guys with emails and questions 😂
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