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So took a shot and registered for PC closed alpha for Anthem and got an email this morning to download. First session is tomorrow at 5pm. Anybody else gonna be on and want to team up, if it's even possible?

To the game... Bioware are one of my absolute favourite developers and Dragon Age and Mass Effect are still my favourite games of all time. That said, I'm still a bit hurt about Andromeda in that it felt like a dumbed down action-RPG; heavy on the action and null on the RPG. The story was phenomenal but was so let down by the average acting and mostly stupid missions. I still played and finished it though.

To me Anthem feels very much the same so I'm not sure about it. I'm gonna absolutely play the shyte outta this alpha though; I really hope it grabs me.
 
Also received an email. Unfortunately I see the download is 40gb. So it'll take me most of the weekend to download lol. Poor 10mbps line..[emoji20]

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Also received an email. Unfortunately I see the download is 40gb. So it'll take me most of the weekend to download lol. Poor 10mbps line..[emoji20]

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Ah that sucks :(
I'm also on 10Mb and the download should only take around 12 hours so should be done in time for the first session tomorrow evening?
 
Also got in,

I got 4 time slots, tomorrow and sunday 9-12 and 2-5pm on both days
Same. Times are CT so the first session is doable, second not so much. I'm definitely gonna be on the 1st tomorrow, hopefully Sunday too.
 
TBH I believe all PC registrations were accepted, some people received insider emails that they were allowed in but they forgot to actually still register.. something or other.

Also there is most definitely an NDA, you probably accepted it when either signing up for EA play test or when signing up for Anthem, but it pops up somewhere... I'm sure someone will leak..

So from what I know it's purely a performance test, so customisation is locked but you'll be able to normally play so should be a lot of fun.. I basically just wanted to see what it really is like, because we all know trailers mean nothing.
 
i cant wait to play this game. Im really excited about this. Never been impressed by anything, in a really long time and I hope it doesn't suck.
 
Unfortunately PC is having heavy server issues. Server capacity filled faster then they thought and the server couldn't handle it...
So wasn't able to give it a try at all the session, will try for the next one though..
Some people did get in though, just capacity was a lot less then expected. Heres hoping. [This is what CA are for]
 
How can you not have enough server capacity for an invite-only,closed alpha? You literally cannot have a better indication of what load to expect. That's a whole new level of incompetence.
 
Only managed to play 3 minutes before the servers dropped and couldn't get back in. According to them the server issues were a "planned test" as well. Gonna give it another shot today and hopefully get a bit more time in.

@HelloCat - knowing how many people are invited or even in-game cannot realistically be used to determine server capacity. I think the whole point was to get as many people as possible to join so that they could determine average usage requirements and likely they hoped the server would crash so they could use it to fault find and set thresholds.
 
I see someone streamed it and EA removed all his games on Origin.

Edit: I see now his viewers confirmed he only had Anthem in his library, so he only lost access to that.
 
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I see someone streamed it and EA removed all his games on Origin.

Edit: I see now his viewers confirmed he only had Anthem in his library, so he only lost access to that.
Lol what a day tool.

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How can you not have enough server capacity for an invite-only,closed alpha? You literally cannot have a better indication of what load to expect. That's a whole new level of incompetence.
This closed alpha was all about network stress, basically they didn't know how much the traffic would hit their server. It was the sole purpose of this test, so while I'm upset I couldn't play, I don't blame the devs, this is valuable info for them to know... Apparently the PC traffic is way more then the console.

Will definitely try for the next session.

Just saw that article on that streamer, what an idiot, if you get invited to play you get so many warnings about the NDA.
 
was hard to find players, only after 11pm I found players. Im kinda impressed with the game so far.
 
I read the NDA basically said you can only say that you're invited to the alpha, you can't say anything about the game itself.
 

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