Anthem Makes A Big Change To How Future Content Will Be Released

@Thanatos2k: I just go by what I read and what other devs do with games like this. Everything you are saying is speculation so it really doesn't hold weight, it's just what "you" think. Plus I never said "higher quality" content, I just said more.

@cappy: You’re not wrong about any of that, but BioWare’s actually made attempts to improve in each of those areas.

The powers in Anthem actually ARE loot. Each Javelin’s (class’s) powers are items you equip in different slots, and there are several options per slot, per class. Plus, each class has a bunch of mod items that provide passive buffs or modifiers to the different powers. So you’ve actually got a fair amount of customization options via loot, beyond just guns.

The performance WAS awful at launch. I played on an Xbox One X, and Athem’s gotten a lot smoother and quicker since it first came out. Load times are still a thing, but there aren’t that many and they’re not so bad anymore. At least on the X.

You’re right about the hub world being weak. I think BioWare realized that, because they added the ability to launch missions and access your inventory/crafting/load-out screens from anywhere (instead of having to run around to a specific spots in the hub to do either). There’s also a “Launch Bay” you can return to after a mission, rather than the hub, that you can pick up the end game repeatable missions and shop at.

Anthem launched as kind of a mess that didn’t quite know what it was, but I think BioWare’s come a long way towards cleaning it up and figuring it out.

@relentless: I stopped playing cause the chance of getting decent loot was pathetically low. I put a lot of time in and was barely rewarded even playing on the highest difficulty. That was also when the population took a nosedive making it difficult to even find 4 people for Strongholds.

@relentless: My understanding is that they've improved it. I never made it to the level cap, so I was never getting the really high end stuff, but I did stick my head back in during the Cataclysm event recently, and I was seeing better drops than I had before, for sure. The perks on weapons and gear seemed to make more sense and be more meaningful, and the couple of purple drops I got were a significant upgrade over the stuff I'd been using.

I think they could still stand to create Destiny like gear perks that do more interesting things than +X% to Y stat, but the gear I found seemed about as compelling as something like the last two AC games or the Dragon Age series.