Electronic Arts and Bioware have detailed the day-1 update for Anthem. According to the release notes, this patch will improve loading times, fix many infinite loading screens, fix multiple challenges not tracking properly, address a number of issues that were causing players to disconnect or crash and will add numbers for weapon and gear modifiers.
BioWare's multiplayer shooter Anthem was terminated this week because EA no longer wanted to maintain servers for people to play the game on, and without them, no one can play the game. But the former executive producer of Anthem has revealed that BioWare had technology working, close to the game's release, that would enable us to host our own servers to play the game on.
I'd be fine just playing it as a localhost and dumb as rocks AI bots. Just give me the choice.
BioWare and EA had previously said the game would be accessible to those who owned it until it shuts down on January 12.
Time flies (like a Javelin suit): there are only 10 days left to play BioWare's ill-fated multiplayer game Anthem before the servers are switched off, presumably forever.
In my opinion, Anthem was a good IP that was worthy of a no man's sky or cyberpunk 2077 treatment.
To this day, their sub reddit is active and I was able to get into a game quickly a few weeks ago when I booted it up.
It is a shame EA and Bioware didn't want to give the game the overhaul it needed to turn it into a competent looter shooter.
I wholeheartedly agree. If ANY game deserved to get the rework/relaunch it deserved it was this one. More than literally any other. Even over FFXIV, No Mans Sky etc.
I just finished this up a couple days ago. Although it's a bit repetitive and the story is meh, the game feels great to play. Even if you can only hop on the game for a couple hours before it shuts down, I think it's worth it.
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They can spend billions to buy or get bought but they can’t spend a fraction of that to fix or overhaul a game that could have been truly special, smh.
Excellent Work, Bio! Can´t wait to pilot my Colossus and unleash Hell on my enemies! XD
These Day one patches are rather annoying, why not just finish making and not release it the public incomplete?? Good Grief man!!!
I think when gamers started and continued to buy games that weren't completed at launch, Game companies took notice. Now the game studios can still get revenue while fixing the game post launch.
How on earth is "Enabled waypoints to be set on map" not on a day one patch?! God, what is going on over there? The load times are one thing and I am glad they are being shortened, but it's not just the time, it's the AMOUNT of load screens you have to go through while playing this game.