Anthem (New Bioware IP) - February 19, 2019

[6souls]

https://www.reddit.com/r/AnthemTheGa...m_loot_update/

Loot update is coming either today or tomorrow (March 1st).

• Many inscriptions are not useful to the item they are attached to
• Due to this, players need to get many masterworks of the same item to find a “good one”
• Players want the frequency of masterwork drops to increase to help with the above OR…
• They want us to change how masterwork inscriptions work so that they are more “useful”

There is more feedback, the above is a summary.

This is our plan for changes to go live on February 28th or March 1st (central US time)

• Inscriptions are now better for the items they are on
  
  • This applies to new items earned in Anthem (not existing ones in your Vault)
  • If an inscription applies only to the item it is on (gear icon), it will be useful to that item. Otherwise the inscription will provide a Javelin wide benefit
  • For example, an Assault Rifle will not have an item specific +pistol damage inscription. It may have a +electric damage suit wide inscription (cool for a lightning build)
  • Some more information below
• Removed uncommon (white) and common (green) items from level 30 drop tables
  
  • This was a highly requested change and we agree, so that’s that.
• We have reduced the crafting materials needed to craft a masterwork from 25 masterwork embers to 15 masterwork embers
  
  • As you salvage or harvest, you should be able to craft more masterwork items to get the inscriptions you are looking for
  • Now that inscriptions are more relevant to their item, this should yield better results for players

Additional inscription change details

It's hard to write a short version of this, but I’m going to try. If we need to add more information later we can do that…

• Current: There are a large pool of inscription options available to roll on items, the inscription pools are generic (e.g. Weapons)
  
  • Every masterwork item has 4 inscriptions – Major Primary, Minor Primary, Major Secondary, Minor Secondary
• Change: Each item type now has a specific set of inscription options for each of their inscription pools. The pools are smaller and are targeted to the specific item type
  
  • E.g. there used to be a Weapon pool, now there is an Assault Rifle pool and the assault rifle pool has 4 pools for each of the inscription types listed above
  • Primary inscriptions are focused on damage or survivability
    
    • Any item specific inscriptions (gear icon) will always benefit the item they are on
    • Javelin wide inscriptions (suit icon) will benefit damage or survivability across the whole Javelin
  • Secondary inscriptions focus on utility and can be targeted to the item (gear icon) or the entire javelin (suit icon)

https://www.reddit.com/r/AnthemTheGa...hnical_design/

Official comment on the luck stat and how to properly gear for it.

I just noticed there was another thread about this!

It's as you say (wanted to confirm).

Everyone has a base of 100 luck. After 90 bonus luck, you're not going to get any additional benefit.

Hope that clarifies things a bit!

And someone made a World Events & Titan Freeplay Spawn map;

Spoiler: show

[Fiendishone]

490 MW Ranger so far.
Did a GM 2 Legendary contract and holy hell there was a fuckton of yellow bar shield mobs.

[6souls]

https://www.reddit.com/r/AnthemTheGa...s_for_2282019/

New Patch, separate from the loot update

• The tethering timer for missions has been increased. Players should now have more time to catch up to their Squad before seeing a countdown timer.
• The Swarm Tyrant encounter in the Tyrant Mine Stronghold can no longer be reset by the entire Squad exiting to the main menu and rejoining the session in progress.
• Players are no longer able to reopen chests that have already been looted in Strongholds.

Now how about a PS4 stability update? The frequent crashes are a bitch.

I just had the glitch where all prompts disappeared. Sucks soloing an event only to be unable to open the chest at the end.

[Cyn]

I just had it on PC as well. Couldn't revive my teammates on a GM1 TH run.

[Weltall]

Breaks are across all platforms and basically across any and everything that involves the activate button. Doors/mission queues/revive, etc. The most aggravating is the god damned Launch Bay. Load screen to go there > hope to launch quicker > activate button fails to load > have to go to Fort Tarsis through another load screen > run to the damned launcher at the speed of a snail > hope it loads here > load again > select mission > load again.

Completely miserable experience and design.

[Cyn]

Downloading this little patch at a blazing 500 KB/s lol. Guess I should go have lunch or something.

[6souls]

The total PS4 crash is the worst. I've had it once, but I've read that it's happening to many others multiple times. I have to unplug the system before I can get it back on again. The PC version would crash in a similar matter during the beta.

[-Zer0-]

The total PS4 crash is the worst. I've had it once, but I've read that it's happening to many others multiple times. I have to unplug the system before I can get it back on again. The PC version would crash in a similar matter during the beta.

On multiple occasions, my friends and I on Xbox have had crashes that disable sound, and the only way to fix it is unplugging and restarting the console. Definitely kills the boner.

[Einherjar]

So who all here is ps4? This game gets damn lonely.

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[Cyn]

Just got a Ten Thousand Suns with +150% elemental damage. Giggity.

[Fiendishone]

Just got a Ten Thousand Suns with +150% elemental damage. Giggity.

I like the Thunderbolt of Yvania better. The thunder damage it does murders anything that has a blue shield.

[Cyn]

You can use both at the same time you know, since one is a gun and the other is a focus seal.

Edit: My first legendary drop was the fucking pistol that reloads partially when you melee.

[6souls]

https://www.reddit.com/r/AnthemTheGa...m_loot_update/

Loot update is coming either today or tomorrow (March 1st).

Loot update went live last night, but they didn't fix the greens and whites drops. "Needs more testing."

[6souls]

Just got my first masterwork at lvl27 doing Freeplay on Easy. Thank you based loot update.

[Fiendishone]

Need to add the damn MW for support gear already!

[6souls]

That's a funny looking Storm.

[Fiendishone]

Blame the FFXI nostalgia.
I see the word "Ranger" and I just wanna shoot stuff.

[Cyn]

And you see robot armor and you wanna be Iron Man?

[Fiendishone]

I mean you do fly around iron man style.
You'd be amazed at how many colossus javelins I've seen made to look like some hulkbuster suits.

[Obsidian]

Every time I smack something with the shield I just start saying "go to sleep to to sleep go to sleep"