Last month, Bioware executive producer Mark Darrah fielded a fair amount of questions right before the company’s E3 Conference. The Ask Me ALMOST Anything About Anthem took place on his Twitter account, in which he answered a plethora of questions.
From that brief AMAAAA, Darrah revealed a lot of info regarding the game. The information varied from mission structure to details surrounding Javelins (See the full list here on Variety).
A little under a month later, Darrah is currently answering Anthem related questions on Twitter yet again. Below is the majority list of information that was revealed through the Q&A.
- Anthem will have melee weapons. Currently the Javelin is the only one
- Melee weapons are specific to each Javelin for now
- Players will be able to see their body when looking down from a first-person perspective
- Melee weapons will not have ammo
- Javelins will not be able to grapple and powerbomb monsters through tables (Editors note: DAMMIT!)
- Javelins will have a light for dark caves and night cycles
- Day and night cycles will be set on the server
- Full day and night cycles are around an hour
- Average mission length varies per mission
- It can become nighttime mid-missions
- Day vs Night will impact enemy types and behaviors
- Anthem will have fast travel points
- Animated Weapon skins likely won’t be in the game
- Currently there is one ultimate per Javelin
- Players can still launch from fort Tarsis’ gates and go anywhere they can see from
- No confirmation on local dedicated Australian servers
- No melee only builds at launch
- There will be a vault to stash items
- You can run out of oxygen in Javelins underwater
- Different Javelins will not a limited time only attainability
- There are more than just caves and woods in the game location wise
- Shields regenerate
- There will be controller support for PC
For the full list of responses, including a few more comedic ones, head over to Darrah’s Twitter account.
Anthem will be released on February 22, 2019, for Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and PC.
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