Well, wow. I finally managed to convince my friend to buy on discount and play with me.
I bought my game back at the release, but haven’t downloaded the game since I removed it the first two weeks.
I downloaded it pretty quickly from my library, maybe 15 minutes, as did my friend from the PS Store.
Upon finished install, he got straight into the game, while I’ve now been stuck for TWO HOURS in some sort of in-game update load screen.
This is by far the most insane loading time for an upgrade (??) I’ve ever experienced.
It’s EA. It may not be too long (a year? 18 months?) before Anthem goes to live on a nice farm upstate, where Anthem can run free and chase birds and frolic in the grass.
stusser
3429
It won’t be this year, but I’d be surprised if it lasts past 2023.
Update: Well, I don’t care how buggy or flawed it is. The world is FRICKIN GORGEOUS.
And I’m having fun in it.
And the gameplay is a blast, imo. Shame it wasn’t just conceived as a single player game (which could have been more content complete), then maybe they could have used it to do multiplayer, ala titanfall
It is! I don’t think I mind that it’s a multiplayer. By know, my main issue is that the game keeps crashing on me when I finish missions. We’ve had to replay 4-5 missions the last two days cause it keeps throwing me out at the end of the mission (where you get your rewards). It’s getting pretty tedious. It always says it’s my internet connection, but I haven’t had a single connection issue with any of the other online multiplayers I’ve played, so I don’t buy it.
I play on a PS5, on a wifi-connection. I can’t connect it to cable.
Any tips?
rei
3433
Anthem currency is 10% off in the Origin store.
(2200 shards for $23.39 CAD)
Now that it’s on Gamepass, I decided to start to play it. Last time I played it was in the open beta before the launch…
Holy shit this game is so bad. Just the core technology, used to build the game upon it, doesn’t work. It’s easy: 5 minutes. FIVE FUCKING MINUTES to play.
With a stopwatch:
30 seconds the initial boot up, from double click on EA Play app, the logos and all that.
1 minute 22 seconds the ‘connecting to online services’ Tarsis load.
25 seconds to select and start the mission. Ok, we can ignore this I guess.
1 minute 32 seconds for matchmaking
1 minute and 9 seconds to load up the map.
Total: 4 minutes 59 seconds.
This is with a amd 3700x which didn’t even exist when the game launched, and a nvme ssd, a samsung 960.
Oh yeah and 1 more minute for the debriefing that it isn’t shown until Tarsis is loaded again.
As flawed as Cyberpunk 2077 is, it isn’t technologically broken like Anthem. CP loads up very quickly a big, dense open world with no limitations nor intermediate loads.
Yeah, I have it on PS4 and the load times are one of the many things that quickly killed my interest. There’s so much wrong with this game. It’s a great shame because, as many have noted, the core gameplay isn’t bad. But almost everything surrounding it is terrible. Anthem is one of the biggest gaming disappointments of all time in my opinion.
morlac
3436
I quit playing Cyberpunk because of bugs. Glitchy ones is one thing but I couldn’t even open my apartment door the first time without rebooting. Then multiple quest Breaking ones and reboots later I gave up until they patch it. Anthem I just got bored. Nothing technical bout it.
I dunno if you can blame matchmaking on the technology. You gotta have players to matchmake with.
rei
3438
This is at least improved by 50% from release when all the match-making and multiplayer services were broken and before they cut out many of the loading sequences with the ability to launch from anywhere without having to slowly walk out to the launchpad.
It occurred to me that a single test wasn’t a good representative sample, I want to be fair so I used the same method again.
This time instead of 4:30, it needed 3:50, skipping the selecting mission part, so a bit better. In this occasion the matchmaking put me alone, so maybe I didn’t have to wait for other players to load was the difference that made it faster.
I could make a big post of how even forgetting this aspect of the game, it is still poor, but I would be beating the horse two years later at this point…
edit: ha hah the stupid game got me stuck in a mission, I’m in some caves and I believe one of the enemies fell through the floor down, I still have the mission of eliminating all the enemies and I see a lonely red point indicating his position, where I can’t see anything.
It’s interesting they didn’t use its appearance on GP to try and get some interest going.
It’s dead. Unfortunately, there’s no point.
I still remember when people complained the game had no social area (because showing off your loot is a big part of… y’know… a LOOT game), so they added a social space separate from Fort Tarsis, that amounted to a featureless square room, lol.
So I take it for a solo single player interested in story and fun gameplay there is nothing of value here?
I remember people being angry about (among other things) some grind missions that completely killed the pacing, was that ever patched out?
It’s on gamepass so I wonder if I should try it out.
edit - seeing Turin’s post above does not inspire enthusiasm
I would give it a go. It had some annoyances but pretty minor compared to enjoyable core gameplay. The grindy part could catch you out in SP if you were only playing the main missions but if you were exploring a bit you would already have done some of the stuff.
People really seem not to like the absence of an interesting endgame.
morlac
3445
People shat all over the writing/story but I had a few genuine LOL moments with some of the exchanges. I am easily amused but I cracked up more than in most games. Pretty sure it was intended even. I can’t recall anything about a plot though so I wouldn’t go looking for that.
Hmm, now i kinda want to install lit.
The gameplay is tremendous fun. You should absolutely give it a try while you can. Story is not a strong suit
