If you had been zapping round Anthem over the weekend and felt a patch had made loot drops stingier, properly, it did – however solely as a result of a bug had briefly made BioWare’s looter-shooter extra beneficiant than supposed. Oops. While BioWare are nonetheless patching away to repair issues since Friday’s official launch (and its unofficial “early access” launch every week earlier), they’re additionally opening up about longer-term plans for content material updates. Three large blasts (or ‘Acts’, to make use of the official time period) are due throughout the subsequent three months, with the primary hitting in March. Like different latest EA games, they appear to be in it for the long-ish haul.
First, the weekend’s upset. Many gamers had an irksome suspicion that BioWare had undoubtedly nerfed drop charges in a patch, and BioWare have confirmed they’d. However, this nerf solely got here after an unintended buff at launch on Friday. This was merely correcting a mistake, BioWare say. Whether intentional or not, some did really feel BioWare had been making it much less enjoyable by forcing extra grind. Looter-shooters, eh?
“In our Friday changes, one of the edits we made had the side effect of increasing certain drop chances. This was not intended,” lead producer Ben Irvo stated in a Reddit post on Sunday. “Once we identified the problem we changed it back to how it was before. That was about 11 hours later.”
At which level, gamers began feeling one thing humorous was up and thought BioWare had sneakily nerfed drops. Not so, BioWare say.
Irvo claims that “it took a little time for that message to make it around internally and to make sure we understood what happened and how to avoid it going forward.” He added, “It’s never our intent to make changes without being transparent, so we wanted to come in here to respond and clarify.”
Looter-shooters designed for lengthy lives hook gamers by giving them sufficient goodies to really feel inspired however not sufficient to be sated. Going by some reactions, Anthem could also be a contact too miserly. Or perhaps it simply sucks to be so starkly confronted by the character of the machine you’re cranking.
As for the longer term, BioWare laid out their “90-day roadmap” on Friday. This kicks off with “Act 01 – Echoes of Reality” in March with new world occasions, higher social options, and a brand new Cataclysm to combat by means of. Acts 02 and 03 are extra obscure, although I’ll say the teaser artwork for the third lump suggests BioWare will add a murderous conga line:
And sure, extra fix-o-tweak updates are deliberate. BioWare’s Chad Robertson said that we must always see extra enhancements this week.
What’s Destiny truly like? I wouldn’t know. Despite downloading Anthem’s weekend beta shopper, I by no means acquired round to it. I’m too deep in Destiny 2’s looty-shooty to have time for an additional, y’see. However, Alice B has a evaluation brewing and Alice L has some not-entirely-thrilled ideas to share on this video:
