Seems to be another patch that breaks as much as it fixes. The bug thread on reddit grows really fast. Seems they broke the stats on MW and legendary items.
Seems to be another patch that breaks as much as it fixes. The bug thread on reddit grows really fast. Seems they broke the stats on MW and legendary items.
Apparently that's purely a visual bug and doesn't actually effect weapon damage.
Edit: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/415394336
Livestream for anyone interested. It really was about the stronghold only, as they said, but it was still pretty disappointing. Not sure what the point of doing a livestream is if they're not going to bother engaging with viewers. If they wanted to do a video showing off the stronghold just do a canned video as a marketing asset and call it a day.
Last edited by Edge-; 2019-04-23 at 08:50 PM.
Hold up. Did they actually call a 60 dollar worldwide retail release Early Access? fuuuuuck off.
Really baffled by their PR decisions. That stream was as unnecessary and counter productive as it gets. After giving patch and release notes before there was nothing left to talk about. Just akward 30 minutes of them doing the most boring stream I have ever seen with constant reminders that they will not talk about issues people actually care about. There is zero reason why this shouldn't have been a simple youtube video last week.
I hope they finish DA4 before EA justifiably closes them.
No, they just used stupid terminology.
They're referencing the start of early access launch rather than the proper launch, not implying that the game is still in early access. It makes me wonder just how much they're actually reading community discussions, because that's been a particular sore spot for folks and what one would pretty safely call a "meme" : P
As a PR dude, I can guarantee that no PR folks were involved in this (community isn't PR).
I hope not. Or at the very least let them just create the story. But even then its not like all of the Dragon Age has stellar story. It still annoys me that Awakenings was pretty much ignored. Or that inquisitions best story came from DLC. Bioware's strength has always been their story and conceptualizing. It would be interesting to see if EA could make it work to "lease" Bioware out to studios to do those aspects of the games.
One thing is for sure is Bioware needs DA4 to be an epic success. That or some how manage to turn Anthem into a late blooming story (or somehow justify an anthem 2 to get it right)
"Man is his own star. His acts are his angels, good or ill, While his fatal shadows walk silently beside him."-Rhyme of the Primeval Paradine AFC 54
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Well, that is definitely a better option. Their decision to use Anthem as their base instead of Inquisition is bizarre to me.
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If it's not single player I don't even want it to succeed, honestly. The one concept I heard of other people dropping in as your party members sounds like trash. I guess we'll see - their IPs are great but the studio itself obviously has one of the most inept leadership teams in the industry when under any sort of outside schedule.
As for Anthem, I feel like they're too far from their initial concepts that they had some passion for to be able to get themselves out of the corner. Perhaps their limited world building and low effort thus far gives them an opportunity to bring something completely unexpected, though; an essential story rewrite post release.
Reading this:
I actually laughed out loud at the nutty-ness of bioware saying that. bioware actually saying they delivered on many of the features on time for Act 1 when the truth is. They delivered on two things and pushed back most features.While we have delivered many of the Act 1 features on time....snip
bioware delivered on few features not many features.
Was definitely a weird thing to say.
They've spent the entire time in triage mode trying to fix bugs and stability. They've made some good QoL changes, especially things the community asked for, but a lot of those things are "should've been done in the first place if you have any experience playing these kinds of games" kind of things so they don't feel like something they should be praised for.
They aren't delivering on content at all, but that isn't surprising based on what we've heard about the process. Not really worth stressing about at this point, we know the situation. Just gotta wait it out and see what comes when it does.
..and so he left, with terrible power in shaking hands.
It's not like people in charge and people who actually do stuff were in disagreement about deadlines on this "roadmap", but since people in charge are in charge they did whatever they felt like doing. Which leads us to this situation, where people who actually work on the game can't do everything in time
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Just going to call back to myself on this.
With the player base completely severed after the first month of release, I don't see things going well.
I still expect they will put out one decent portion of DLC later in the year, but they're probably already on a skeleton crew producing it.
The bug fixes, etc are required, things that I saw and reported in the Alpha last year have only just started to be fixed now.
Its in EA's best interests to finally step in, get Dragon Age 4 done right with a united Bioware, or just dissolve the company if they fail to perform again, even with Casey back on board.
At this very moment it's dead.
The stream was pointless and they have nothing to offer till at least mid-june, assuming there's no further delays on whatever they plan to add.
They did add a new stronghold, another pointless one that takes to long and rewards to little.
When PR people can never say things right. They should never said "early access" because of the stigma with Steam of that word. I get they meant the days Preorders and Premier users got the game early before retail launch. Still the better word would been "Launch" since early Launch didnt get a patch till retail launch.
It's nothing but a little bioware - MAGIC!
Weird is putting it lightly. Learning biowares current plans for the game, what is postponed and then reading that statement, it makes me question biowares current mental state.
Last edited by quras; 2019-04-24 at 12:41 PM.
They literally said Early Access Launch. They called the early launch period Early Access (because you know you accessed it early). As usually people are taking to extremes certain words just to give a reason to hate or rage or whatever you want to call those negative emotions.
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