Anthem Won't Put Any Obstacles Between You and Playing with Your Friends, Says BioWare

BioWare's Game Director Jonathan Warner said players will be able to play with their friends in Anthem even if they are underleveled, through clever difficulty scaling. You may even elect to play a story mission you haven't done yet, provided you don't care about the spoilers.

[Imp0ssibl3]

Good, it's lame when that happens.

[UltraNova]

What's lame is that we are still waiting for info on the SP side of things...

Tbh a simple "No Offline/SP" would suffice.

[Haaliax]

In the closed alpha the game states just begining that requires online connection to play, tho the firsts missions are played alone

[GottaBjimmyb]

There will probably be no offline SP, that seems unfortunately obvious, though I still cannot believe we really have people here complaining about that, the absolutely massive minority of people with no internet that own and play consoles is so small. (And the I can't afford $30/month for internet, but can buy a $250-450 console and games argument is the worst, so even fewer cannot get internet) Though I do also agree it is a pretty odd/stupid choice to link SP with online activity.

This headline seems more like a jab at destiny for closing off certain modes and events to matchmaking, making it virtually impossible to play together. The only weird part of this statement is it also implies a lvl 76 and lvl 30 can play the same mission together, which kinda seems against the grain. Guess we will see.

[UnHoly_One]

I think they've already said you can play the whole game solo if you want.

I'm sure you'll still need to be online, though, as I imagine your characters are stored online much like Destiny or other MMO-type games.

[UltraNova]

Haaliax,

Well then thats as good of an answer as we'll get. No offline/SP it is.

[darthv72]

Isnt this game meant to be a co-op game though? So offline would not really be ideal, unless you want to go it alone.

[Cmv38]

Hmmmm. Sounding promising

[slate91]

Except the friends on other systems =x

[porkChop]

Yeah cross-play would be nice for these coop shooters.

[slate91]

Makes 0 sense not to have it at least confirmed.

[InTheZoneAC]

bad consumer decisions are only a barrier when they don't buy the right system

[porkChop]

There is no "right" system. Which system is better in your eyes is just personal opinion.

[DaveZero]

Yeah cross play can only help drive sales really.

The game is looking nice.

One thing I really hope is that they add more suits. It's one thing that drives me nuts with the games today is that in today's gaming they should be adding more playable characters, suits that are not just skins, which come with new move sets as well as new looks.

[Critic4l_Strik3]

Bioware wont...EA will

[senorfartcushion]

Just Cause 4 has a jet pack. I'm good.

Don't need your greedy ass game thanks.

[DaveZero]

It does look good just cause 4, loomed funny as hell from the video I watched, however they are complete different games, one is a sp/sandbox/rpg/shooter the other is coop/sandbox/rpg/shooter. The amount of players is what makes the games different from eachother.

[Haaliax]

I never liked the Just Cause serie. I like more serious games.The story telling in this one is pretty nice (to my personal preference). Im not saying JC is bad, just that I dont like it

[senorfartcushion]

Let's just say that this is the first to actually have a story, so...

Lol

The company look like arse, but it is taking itself seriously enough for me to be invested.

[Shikoku]

After seeing more of this game, I didn't get into the damn alpha, I'm kind of excited about the game I like that it isn't another FPS action rpg.

[winter_hill]

I like that I won't be spending money on it, because it doesn't have an offline campaign. So **** them I'll spend elsewhere.

[Shikoku]

An offline campaign is a thing of the past my friend. I've had my feet dug into on things like that but my legs are tired and these younger gamers don't want offline anything. They don't seem to care about consumer rights, ownership or power and control over their media they apparently are willing to just give it all away for "free games" and supposed "cheaper digital" games. Fight on fellow gamer but I'm hanging up my guns.

[Nacho_Z]

"An offline campaign is a thing of the past"

Bullshit.

[Traecy]

I forgot to play,it should have been on later in the evening between 8pm until 2am.

[neutralgamer1992]

If you want to succeed

Do what worked in division and destiny and avoid at all costs everything that didn't. It's simple as that

Destiny doesn't have match making which is simply absurd

And it took division 2 years to become good so learn from both of those games and make a game that gamers want to play

[InTheZoneAC]

sounds like the game is for the casuals that want a mindless grind that has no actual meaning or story behind it.

[DafunkyRebel]

Better not, I’m sick and tired of warframe and Destiny doing stupid things that make players pissed off like micros or some nonsense that limits your playability unless you open your wallet

[Shikoku]

??? You can do everything warframe without spending a dime so I don't know what the hell you're on about, Destiny sure I'm with you on that.

[GameRant]

Ya, it will. The platform.

[chris235]

uh ok... but this headline is putting a big obstacle between my wallet and the purchase of this. i don‘t care in the slightest about other people spoiling the experience for my games. further, i don‘t like generic. which is what you get with online games.

[Phoenix76]

Anthem Won't Put Any Obstacles Between You and Playing with Your Friends......

unless of course you break a NDA agreement. In which case, your f###ed lol

[DaveZero]

I think they should totally try and do a marvel collaboration and get iron man and war machine suits added, even put some of iron mans enemies in as bosses like iron monger and titanium man.

[Hedstrom]

Well! Ditch EA as publisher then :)

[Shikoku]

EA isn't their publisher EA owns Bioware big difference

[hborotoy]

Good way to show your friends how powerful you are.

[capjacksparrow]

I thought this was going to be a confirmation of cross play or something lol