Anthem Demo Issues

VG247 reports on the issues many players are experiencing trying to access the VIP demo for Anthem, BioWare's upcoming mech action/RPG. EA Help offers this tweet and this one to explain what they're doing about it:
We're adding more server capacity to the #Anthem demo right now. Hang tight while we work to get everyone into the game.

We're looking into the infinite loading issue with the #AnthemGame demo. In the meantime, try relaunching the game and rejoining your mission to see if that helps you.
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Jan 25, 2019, 20:51
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robdot wrote on Jan 25, 2019, 20:37:
Yet another "game" who's sole intent and design is to tunnel everyone to the online store. Games should reward the player,for playing,,,,not buying. And of course it will take 6 months of patches before any of it functions,,,except the online store.

I must've missed this store you're talking about....
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Jan 25, 2019, 20:37
 
Yet another "game" who's sole intent and design is to tunnel everyone to the online store. Games should reward the player,for playing,,,,not buying. And of course it will take 6 months of patches before any of it functions,,,except the online store.
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Jan 25, 2019, 20:29
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Jan 25, 2019, 20:29
 
RaZ0r! wrote on Jan 25, 2019, 20:05:
I had no trouble getting in the game, but I played one mission and I was out. Very boring and generic. It just screams "I wish I was Destiny.".

There are so many post-effect filters in play that everything is very blurry even at 1440p. Nothing about the demo and that first mission made me want to explore that world any further.

It doesn't help that I don't like third person shooters anyways. If I was going to spend time in a MMO shooter, it would be Destiny 2 over Anthem no question.

Try it out though, it might be your cup of tea.

Your full of shit about the destiny remark, its vise versa, Destiny wishes it was even half as good as this is. Especially when it comes to the open world. Keep Destiny, it sucks balls.
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Jan 25, 2019, 20:25
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Jan 25, 2019, 20:25
 
I realize this is an online-only open-world game. What's unclear is whether it has a proper single-player story, or is it basically like an MMORPG with mechs and exo-suits where your actions have no real meaning on the world around you? If the later, I'll pass.
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Jan 25, 2019, 20:05
RaZ0r!
 
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Jan 25, 2019, 20:05
 RaZ0r!
 
I had no trouble getting in the game, but I played one mission and I was out. Very boring and generic. It just screams "I wish I was Destiny.".

There are so many post-effect filters in play that everything is very blurry even at 1440p. Nothing about the demo and that first mission made me want to explore that world any further.

It doesn't help that I don't like third person shooters anyways. If I was going to spend time in a MMO shooter, it would be Destiny 2 over Anthem no question.

Try it out though, it might be your cup of tea.
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Jan 25, 2019, 19:22
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Re: Anthem Demo Issues Jan 25, 2019, 19:22
Jan 25, 2019, 19:22
 
Welp, after spending most of the day fighting the login and game servers, I finally finished out the demo's narrative.

I will say that it's better than I was anticipating, but honestly I don't see myself personally playing all that long since no one I know really likes the genre, and there's only so much fun I can have running around solo in a universe I'm not 100% invested in.

Gameplay wise, it's pretty solid. Outside of the server issues, I don't think I had any frame issues or what-not on the High setting. Controls are still a bit wonky to me, but that's probably due to being a newer game mechanic and not changing keybinds from their default.

Since I have Origin Access, I'll more than likely play it when it's released, and hopefully I can get engrossed in it.
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Jan 25, 2019, 18:51
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Jan 25, 2019, 18:51
 
eRe4s3r wrote on Jan 25, 2019, 18:37:
Sorry for sniping 1 thing, but fov 45? You sure about that? Because I'd need a bucket and not just a bag at 45, that'd be like ramming your face directly into the screen. Heck, not even ADS in iron sighting (ie, zooming in) uses 45° fov without blacking or blurring out the edges because it robs you off so much peripheral view that it makes anyone with that problem instantly sick.

So maybe better I don't even bother with the demo then.

If that number is correct, I'm sure it's vertical FOV, which a lot of games reference instead of horizontal. 45 vertical is 72 horizontal.
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Jan 25, 2019, 18:46
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Jan 25, 2019, 18:46
 
Dammit Slick don't tease me with an interesting Bioware universe to explore.
The gameplay looks like trash to me.
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Jan 25, 2019, 18:37
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Jan 25, 2019, 18:37
 
Yeah, Destiny felt really shallow to me. Glad this has got more going for it.
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Jan 25, 2019, 18:37
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Slick wrote on Jan 25, 2019, 18:13:
I can't remember if The Division's open beta was this bad, but its launch was this bad. At least I think they had a server queue at launch.

I never play MMOs so this whole "servers full" thing is odd to me.

And I can finally talk about the game!

It's.... okay!

The combat is better than I thought it would be, but pretty familiar. Once you figure out and remap the awful default keybindings on PC, it becomes a lot more fun. Get a dedicated "hover" button that's easy to reach.

The PC port in general is pretty fucking awful. No FOV slider, and it's locked to like 45. So keep your vomit bag at the ready. And there's this super weird laggy unresponsive mouse movement that is just dogshit. It feels like my mouse is emulating a controller analog stick, but they just ramped up the precision and sample rate so it's mostly invisible... but it just feels so off.

The UI is also a hot mess.

Other than that, I finished the first mission, it had a neat ending. The cutscene felt like Bioware. Honestly I kinda got sad that I had to go back out and play more boarderlands before i got to see more... I wish they'd do a remaster of Dragon Age Origins... That game was so damned good.

But give it a chance, if you enjoy the combat and don't care about PvP, it might be a winner for you. Because you get the Bioware world-building and actually interesting lore. From my playthrough of the Alpha and this demo, the Alpha had more world building, and I think more "codex" things to find to actually explain what is going on. I guess they're going light on that for the demo? Maybe I just haven't gotten to it yet? I just remember being very pleantly surprised to find my curiosity growing about this world, when at a glance it's easy to dismiss as action sci-fi schlock a-la Destiny.

Sorry for sniping 1 thing, but fov 45? You sure about that? Because I'd need a bucket and not just a bag at 45, that'd be like ramming your face directly into the screen. Heck, not even ADS in iron sighting (ie, zooming in) uses 45° fov without blacking or blurring out the edges because it robs you off so much peripheral view that it makes anyone with that problem instantly sick.

So maybe better I don't even bother with the demo then.
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Re: Anthem Demo Issues
Jan 25, 2019, 18:13
Slick
 
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Jan 25, 2019, 18:13
 Slick
 
I can't remember if The Division's open beta was this bad, but its launch was this bad. At least I think they had a server queue at launch.

I never play MMOs so this whole "servers full" thing is odd to me.

And I can finally talk about the game!

It's.... okay!

The combat is better than I thought it would be, but pretty familiar. Once you figure out and remap the awful default keybindings on PC, it becomes a lot more fun. Get a dedicated "hover" button that's easy to reach.

The PC port in general is pretty fucking awful. No FOV slider, and it's locked to like 45. So keep your vomit bag at the ready. And there's this super weird laggy unresponsive mouse movement that is just dogshit. It feels like my mouse is emulating a controller analog stick, but they just ramped up the precision and sample rate so it's mostly invisible... but it just feels so off.

The UI is also a hot mess.

Other than that, I finished the first mission, it had a neat ending. The cutscene felt like Bioware. Honestly I kinda got sad that I had to go back out and play more boarderlands before i got to see more... I wish they'd do a remaster of Dragon Age Origins... That game was so damned good.

But give it a chance, if you enjoy the combat and don't care about PvP, it might be a winner for you. Because you get the Bioware world-building and actually interesting lore. From my playthrough of the Alpha and this demo, the Alpha had more world building, and I think more "codex" things to find to actually explain what is going on. I guess they're going light on that for the demo? Maybe I just haven't gotten to it yet? I just remember being very pleantly surprised to find my curiosity growing about this world, when at a glance it's easy to dismiss as action sci-fi schlock a-la Destiny.
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Re: Anthem Demo Issues
Jan 25, 2019, 18:13
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Jan 25, 2019, 18:13
NKD
 
Got a VIP demo invite from a friend and got right in, haven't had much time to play yet, but the game seems to run pretty well and is gorgeous. Can't say much about the gameplay. I blasted a few baddies and did a couple quests. Traversal is fun. Gunplay feels snappy and responsive compared to what I was expecting.
Do you have a single fact to back that up?
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