Yeah, they built a looter/shooter where the armor pieces don't give you stats and has no weapon variety, let me repeat that, a Looter Shooter with NO loot

The components are what gives you stats. You can customize your the 6 sections of your armor to be different material types and colors (Destiny you can do 1 color theme for your armor and can't change the material), and mix and match the armor sets how you want to look.

As for weapon variety, there are 9 types of weapons with each having 2 or 3 varieties (3 types of grenades launchers or autocannons/belt fed machine guns for example, assault rifle as 1 group with the classic full auto or burst [pulse rifle for comparison] fire types) within that type that function differently. It's actually very similar to destiny that has like ~16 weapon classes total (with some being similar types like Anthem as pulse / assault are both rifles, drum / single shot grenade launchers are both grenade launchers, and 1 type is just swords). But if you want to be a stickler, Anthem has more weapon varieties in total.

As for the bug, hopefully the fix it quickly.

It's really not that hard to implement, but if I had to guess, updates aren't updating the HDR metadata with a brand new metadata table, and instead using an append method for the added content. But, when you do this, and the update has core meta data that doesn't match up with the older data, it causes all sorts of problems.

It shouldn't be a hard fix, and is something that's talked about at length in the SDK's on how to implement HDR, which basically just consists of building a metadata chart, and selecting the option to be on during your build.

I've run into a few times where I've screwed up HDR in updating my software, and the above was often the cause, and was an easy fix. Now it's the first thing that I look at if something gets screwed up, or a dev asks for tech support from one of my tools. The other reason would be improper meta data which doesn't point to where it needs to to display the pixel.

Eh then maybe ill just redbox it...honestly why cant anyone give us a legit flying openworld game.

Ghost Recon Wildlands. Far Cry 5. Those games have fantastic worlds to explore by plane/helicopter

It does look that way.

It is open world, but it isn't as vast as you think, movement is constrained.

Do not pay $60 thinking you're going to have a lot of fun exploring, this isn't the type of game. Shoot you can pay 3-4 bucks (on sale) for "Valley" and have a good experience. $60, for exploration? Yeah, no, just rent it Anthem if just for exploration. It's also not worth $60 as a whole. But I paid $15 for Destiny 2 and was mehh, but love Halo. So, it might just be me.