Anthem

I've played Interceptor pretty much exclusively. I originally picked it due to being pretty different to my usual choices and deliberately getting out of that comfort zone but any time I try another class they just feel soooooo sloooooooowwwww .

The power jump once you do start getting MWs and Legendaries is nuts. I mean in a few hours I went from kinda squishy to a war god who can face stomp bosses.... in a class that is meant to be sneaky. And I love that they have enough diversity in perks to really make me think about my build now, as I said above that's how the game should be from the start instead of trying to pile on equipment that by chance has extra shields/armour etc. but still going with the same kit for handiness sake.

Stone Deaf 4evr wrote: »

started this yesterday, was off sick and put a good 8 hours or so into it. played up to the first stronghold and a mission or two beyond it.

unbiased impressions -

Opens strong, flying feels cool, the world looks great, went with storm javelin, and have gotten some pretty cool abilities. Playing the missions on hard difficulty by default as easy felt lacking.
Tutorial wise I feel like they could have done a little more with regards explaining the ins and outs of your suits abilities, your very much left to figure it out for yourself. not sure how combos work, some times it pops up, more times it doesn't.
Fort Tarsis - its like a different game that's been sandwiched into it. Conversations seem meaningless enough for the most part, and all the voice actors have this weird delivery where its like they're talking / responding too fast.

It might become clear at the endgame, but the launch bay area - it feels like at some stage this will become similar to the tower in destiny, removing the need to plod around fort tarsis in first person perspective?
I'm happy enough to keep playing, hard to tell yet what kind of staying power it'll have, but I'm enjoying it so far.

Hard difficulty should probably be the standard.

Didnt notice any replies regarding combos. Theres basically two types of abilities from what i know:

Primers: These have a little circle in front of there name in the forge. Use them to set up enemies for detonation.

Detonaters: These have a little star like symbol before their name in the forge. Use these to detonate primed enemies.

Hit an enemy with your primer,they should have a little debuff symbol over there heads,then use detonator. Also notice that if your not quick to detonate another player can also detonate your primer taking the combo. The primer will then have to be re applied. In good squads there is just a constant kerching noise from the combos

Also from what i gather not every type of damage can detonate a target primed with a different type of damage. Still working that out.

Not every enemy can be primed,bosses for instance cant be frozen solid,hence cant be detonated for a combo. Storm ult can combo a boss if you drop every circles on them one after another.

Getting closer to level 30,just shy of 28 atm. Ive found burning orb as detonator and ice storm as a primer to be a good combo,frost shards and lightning bolt a close second. If you have decent regen on you abilities through component slots even better as ice storm can take a little bit to regen,although it has 3 uses when fully charged and each use returning is calculated individually which i think is a nice touch.

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Drowning in purples now at this point. I can see why people were critical of the end of campaign loot,its just a stream of very similar stuff. Gonna get to level 30 and stick the game on grandmaster 1,for freeplay at least.

While the story of the campaign wasnt great and the frequent trips to tarsis were way to frequent,i felt it was an ok introduction to the game,not story wise but just a gradual buildup to higher tier gear. Was only by the time i hit about level 20 that i wanted the story to finish and just get to the higher level stuff. I finished the campaign at level 24.5. All played on hard difficulty.

PC patch is out .... 46GB :eek:

Edit - NM, false alarm. It stated that was the download size in preparation phase and then dropped to 3GB for the download.

Carry on, nothing to see.

Been having issues since the patch. After downloading last night and booting up, both the missus and I had persistent audio and stuttering issues as well as disconnects. After both getting disconnected from a mission simultaneously, we called it a night. Game won't load at all now, seems the file was corrupted or something. Going to reinstall when home from work and see if that helps.

I should probably flag I'm playing on an Xbox One X.

Yesterday's patch.

Are legendary contracts not meant to guarantee a masterwork drop? Just did my arcanist one and got fcuk all.

Its freeplay GM 2 for me someitmes there is feck all going on,no missions no spawns..frustrating sometimes

I got Ralners Blaze, combine that with Avenging Herald and Raptors Dead Eye = everything dies.

https://www.digitaltrends.com/gaming/sony-apparently-grants-refund-requests-for-anthem-playstation-4/


This blew up on Reddit apparently and has been picked up in the media. It doesn't ring true. Sony allowing refunds, no questions asked sounds hokey.

Captain Chaos wrote: »

Fallout 76 on PS4, Sony issued refunds no problem.

Anthem looks like a game of the year winner compared to the disaster that was Fallout 76.