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PancakesZA said:
Press Esc and then Hold F, it'll pull you out of the mission.

I have to say the game has issues, but I'm still having a lot of fun with it.
Biggest problem for me now is that the end game is a little lacking. Hopefully the March update brings a lot of content.

My Colossus is now at power level 480 and it's finally feeling beefy, that says it feels like the Armor/Health is inconsistent. I can tank the strongest hits from the final boss on GM1 but sometimes I go down from a single shot from Frost brute's, that needs to be looked at. Also I've seem people mention that some of the inscriptions on the Mastercraft and Legendary weapons don't work at all, so yeah another thing for them to look at.
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By the time I got stuck in this bug I was just over it. Because you hold f then it goes to the end expedition screen where you have to wait for all that shit then you load screen again then you back in fort tarsus then only can you actually get out of the game. Very meh gaming experience :/
 
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Well eventually i finished the main story line, took me roughly 30 hours, this is also doing the contracts and stuff on the way, chilling, strongholds and stuff.
Main story was pretty fun, nothing groundbreaking, the final boss was a bit meh but overall okay.

I haven't started the grind yet, but i am looking forward to it cause for once i am not killing a game by playing it for 10 hours a day and getting bored. 1-2 hours per day is fantastic, keep the longevity going and i'll be ready just in-time for the new content to launch.

Haven't been affected by any bugs to badly. Wish they had all the QOL things that should've been included in the first place, but they will come so its okay.

Still having fun, which is what counts.
 
Been battling with the Multi Kill requirement for the Tomb of Cariff unlock...but eventually got it! After some googling and finding a youtube video on a decent javelin build to help...i got my Colossus build with the Flame thrower and lightening coil that helped get the multi kills quick.
 
Lol and reading on reddit, the 1.0.4 update broke the loot even more hahah, jeez these devs have A LOT of kak on their hands.
Personally gonna give this game like 6 months to update itself into a proper playable state. I've put in 50 hours and I love the game, it just needs to be finished.
 
kotaku.com

How BioWare's Anthem Went Wrong

It wasn’t even supposed to be called Anthem. Just days before the annual E3 convention in June of 2017, when the storied studio BioWare would reveal its newest game, the plan had been to go with a different title: Beyond. They’d even printed out Beyond T-shirts for the staff.
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PancakesZA said:
kotaku.com

How BioWare's Anthem Went Wrong

It wasn’t even supposed to be called Anthem. Just days before the annual E3 convention in June of 2017, when the storied studio BioWare would reveal its newest game, the plan had been to go with a different title: Beyond. They’d even printed out Beyond T-shirts for the staff.
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Pretty shocking. A copy-paste from the Andromeda's disastrous development. Schreier is super connected and the best in the business at this type of investigation, so I believe every word of it.

Bioware's final fall. A sad end to a once-great studio.
 
I just hope they do actually actually still add those two content patches they promised. I think once they're added on the game will be much more favourable.
 
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Mast3rBlast3r said:
I just hope they do actually actually still add those two content patches the promised. I think once they're added on the game will be much more favourable.
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I think they will have to, they can't just abandon the game like they did Andromeda. They have already sunk too much into supporting this as a service going forward. They might have to scale back and pull the plug eventually, but they are probably still hoping to turn it around.
 
PancakesZA said:
kotaku.com

How BioWare's Anthem Went Wrong

It wasn’t even supposed to be called Anthem. Just days before the annual E3 convention in June of 2017, when the storied studio BioWare would reveal its newest game, the plan had been to go with a different title: Beyond. They’d even printed out Beyond T-shirts for the staff.
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Was about to post this but came and checked here first to see if anyone posted it. Bioware is a shitty company. I can now say that I will never support them again.

This shitty press release (clicky here) doesn't even deny it, but instead is just a BS generic statement. I believe every word of that Kotaku article. It's fucking disgusting how a company would treat the staff that make them money like they are less than the lowest of human beings. Neither BioWare or EA would be anything if it wasn't for all those people. I am fucking enraged by this.

Some further reading on this: The press is not your enemy, BioWare
 
Never been so happy to not have sunk any money into this garbage. I'm done supporting big companies, small time devs are so much better.
 
Braducken said:
Because they actually say their games are in beta for several years unlike big companies who lie and say they are complete? haha
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Far too many credible reasons but two that stand out to me.

Generally they are less interested in making as much money as easily as possible, instead most of them try to make their games make the money because they have no name to make money for them.

Also you don't hear from some EA rep hired to sweet talk, you hear from Steve, lead dev, whose English is pretty poor but knows the game like the back of his hand.
 
Spectaitor said:
I'm done supporting big companies, small time devs are so much better.
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Small time devs don’t generally deliver AAA quality games which is the problem with small time games.

The problem is development houses that sell themselves to publishers like EA and development houses like BioWare that is owned by EA. Those development houses then have to answer to these greedy corporate bastards and do as they say.

Take a look at Naughty Dog. They might be owned by Sony, but their deal with Sony is that they don’t answer to them and they don’t do as they say. Naughty Dog doesn’t even have appointed producers. Their development team and the creative director has complete and utter freedom over the development of their games. There’s no Sony wants this so do this. And their products speak for themselves. Uncharted and The Last of Us are among the most highly praised games out there and their developers never complain about dick.

Then there’s CD Projekt Red. They aren’t answering to a big publisher either and look at their games. Quality products through and through with the exception of the issues with The Witcher 3 in the beginning, and why was that? New NVIDIA technologies that they implemented (surprise suprise, another big corporate company sticking their fingers where they don’t belong).
 
LaidtoRest_ZA said:
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Small time devs don't necessarily mean indie. It's a bit of a broad stroke but you get what I mean. What exactly constitutes a AAA title anyways? A little bit of everything being the best possible? Depends on the person playing the games I rate. Obvious exclusions would be broken games. I guarantee you that Anthem was not a AAA game in my opinion. Destiny had far more to it even in it's broken state and even LoL gave me more entertainment during that one day I tried it.
 
Spectaitor said:
Small time devs don't necessarily mean indie. It's a bit of a broad stroke but you get what I mean. What exactly constitutes a AAA title anyways? A little bit of everything being the best possible? Depends on the person playing the games I rate. Obvious exclusions would be broken games. I guarantee you that Anthem was not a AAA game in my opinion. Destiny had far more to it even in it's broken state and even LoL gave me more entertainment during that one day I tried it.
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AAA games are not dependent on the player’s enjoyment, opinions or the game’s graohics. AAA games are games that have a high development and production budget as in millions of dollars, which is why small time developers’ games are not classified as AAA games.

And you are free to correct me if I’m wrong, but never has any “small time” studio delivered a game with quality and experience as say God of War, The Last of Us, Tomb Raider, GTA V etc. Some of them make good games yes, but not with the production quality of these bigger titles.
 
LaidtoRest_ZA said:
AAA games are not dependent on the player’s enjoyment, opinions or the game’s graohics. AAA games are games that have a high development and production budget as in millions of dollars, which is why small time developers’ games are not classified as AAA games.

And you are free to correct me if I’m wrong, but never has any “small time” studio delivered a game with quality and experience as say God of War, The Last of Us, Tomb Raider, GTA V etc. Some of them make good games yes, but not with the production quality of these bigger titles.
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Very subjective terms you throwing around bruh,
"Quality and experience" Of what? Graphical? Glitches? Entertainment? Storyline?

Observe the kiddies game -Fortnite. Big money didn't go into that but the experience was stellar, Quality of entertainment and performance was great.

All the shit we've been served since BF4, less than stellar except for any hardcore fan.

COD is literally the same game every 6 months. The only new thing was BR.

What about Anthem you say? Did millions of dollars stop consoles from eating shit?

Nah, like I conjected, AAA is a title thrown at whatever company has the biggest name and biggest pocket, regardless of what they actually spend on the game itself.

I'd love to know what percentage actually goes to some of these AAA games' development instead of the CEO's, advertisement, useless studies blah blah blah if the game comes out and people have to ask if it was ever tested properly in a beta?
 
Spectaitor said:
Very subjective terms you throwing around bruh,
"Quality and experience" Of what? Graphical? Glitches? Entertainment? Storyline?

Observe the kiddies game -Fortnite. Big money didn't go into that but the experience was stellar, Quality of entertainment and performance was great.

All the shit we've been served since BF4, less than stellar except for any hardcore fan.

COD is literally the same game every 6 months. The only new thing was BR.

What about Anthem you say? Did millions of dollars stop consoles from eating shit?

Nah, like I conjected, AAA is a title thrown at whatever company has the biggest name and biggest pocket, regardless of what they actually spend on the game itself.

I'd love to know what percentage actually goes to some of these AAA games' development instead of the CEO's, advertisement, useless studies blah blah blah if the game comes out and people have to ask if it was ever tested properly in a beta?
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LOL. Just LOL. Go study up on gaming terms and classification and come back when you are more educated. IDIOT
 
LaidtoRest_ZA said:
LOL. Just LOL. Go study up on gaming terms and classification and come back when you are more educated. IDIOT
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Alright relax kiddo, no need to get offensive. I find that generally when someone isn't open minded then they resort to name calling. No need to get so upset that you don't even read what I'm saying....smh
 
Spectaitor said:
Alright relax kiddo, no need to get offensive. I find that generally when someone isn't open minded then they resort to name calling. No need to get so upset that you don't even read what I'm saying....smh
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Just because what I told you doesn’t coincide with your view doesn’t mean i’m not open minded. All ot shows is you are trying to push your view off as fact when I gave you the very definition of what a AAA game is classified as. Not mu fault you can’t handle it “bruh”
 
LaidtoRest_ZA said:
The problem is development houses that sell themselves to publishers like EA and development houses like BioWare that is owned by EA. Those development houses then have to answer to these greedy corporate bastards and do as they say.
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The "blame the big publisher" excuse is getting very old. If Anthem showed us anything, EA is too incompetent to be the villain everyone assumes them to be. They should have intervened YEARS ago to avoid this disaster. They gave Bioware all the creative leeway in the world, including 5 full years of dicking around with absolutely nothing to show for it. Soderlund was an incompetent hack who barely oversaw anything on the project when he should have had much closer involvement in this dumpster fire.

Bioware is 100% responsible for this mess, not EA.

Devs need to take some responsibility. Everyone was up in arms about the microtransactions in BO4, blaming Activision for being the usual big greedy publisher and forcing poor Treyarch into it. Then Michael Condry revealed that the COD studios actually have a major say about their microtransactions. They just need to have a monetization system, making it the most exploitative one known to man is entirely Treyarch's fault.

Fact is devs are to blame for their own failures the vast majority of the time.
 
LaidtoRest_ZA said:
Just because what I told you doesn’t coincide with your view doesn’t mean i’m not open minded. All ot shows is you are trying to push your view off as fact when I gave you the very definition of what a AAA game is classified as. Not mu fault you can’t handle it “bruh”
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AAA is also a title given to some Indie games that have been of a very high quality so that in itself is a contradiction to your 'definition'. Where is the quality of these AAA games I listed above??. Instead of seeing what I said and coupled with your copious knowledge of the subject you can say, "well it makes sense from a certain perspective" you just all out tell me to get learned and call me an IDIOT.

I can see you don't debate very well lol.

Bottom line is that the term AAA is bogus if you can call a poor quality game AAA and then a high quality Indie game as well, the definition simply does not fit then.
 
HelloCat said:
The "blame the big publisher" excuse is getting very old. If Anthem showed us anything, EA is too incompetent to be the villain everyone assumes them to be. They should have intervened YEARS ago to avoid this disaster. They gave Bioware all the creative leeway in the world, including 5 full years of dicking around with absolutely nothing to show for it. Soderlund was an incompetent hack who barely oversaw anything on the project when he should have had much closer involvement in this dumpster fire.

Bioware is 100% responsible for this mess, not EA.

Devs need to take some responsibility. Everyone was up in arms about the microtransactions in BO4, blaming Activision for being the usual big greedy publisher and forcing poor Treyarch into it. Then Michael Condry revealed that the COD studios actually have a major say about their microtransactions. They just need to have a monetization system, making it the most exploitative one known to man is entirely Treyarch's fault.

Fact is devs are to blame for their own failures the vast majority of the time.
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Did you even read the article on Anthem or watch any of the videos regarding them? Those poor developers are not to blame at all. In fact, they should be commended. The mess that is Anthem is actually a damn miracle given the time they had to hack it together. Management is to blame. And I say EA is to blame too because they own the studio. They should ensure that the executives they appoint are doing their jobs.
 
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