Anthem has just been released on the PC and we’ve decided to capture some screenshots on Ultra settings in order to share them with you. As always, we’ll also share our initial performance impressions using an NVIDIA GeForce RTX2080Ti, and we’ve included MSI Afterburner in our screenshots in order to give you an idea of how the game performs on it.
First things first. The final version runs better than the demo EA released back in January (those interested can find our initial performance impressions for Anthem’s demo here). This is pretty crucial as the demo performance was underwhelming. However, the overall performance in the final build is better on all fronts (I believe the overall CPU usage has also been reduced compared to the demo build).
Secondly, Anthem is one of the most beautiful games to date. Graphics wise, and even though the game does not take advantage of real-time ray tracing, it will impress all PC gamers out there that can run it on Ultra settings. Yes, the game has been downgraded and does not look as stunning as its E3 trailer, however – and contrary to Watch_Dogs for example – Bioware’s shooter still looks absolutely incredible.
Now unfortunately the NVIDIA GeForce RTX2080Ti is unable to run the game with 60fps in 4K/Ultra. By 60fps, we obviously mean constant 60fps (or at least with drops to 55fps). As you can find in the following screenshots, there were a lot of scenes during which our framerate dropped to 45fps. The good news for those with GSync monitors is that the game works great with them (contrary to Metro Exodus) and as such it does not feel THAT choppy even when the framerate drops to below 50fps.
In our opinion, the ideal resolution for those owning an NVIDIA GeForce RTX2080Ti is 3325×1871. We’ll test this custom resolution in our upcoming PC Performance Analysis but until then, enjoy the following screenshots!
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Let’s hope Act1 of roadmap will bring much needed QoL/Content to this game 🙂
Would you eat a piece of s**t, if it was made to look and smell good? I thought not. Who cares if it “looks gorgeous”?
This thing, is a worthless pile of money siphoning, and manipulative, garbage.
I concur!
The endgame can be summed up as “do challenges to continue playing”
This disaster is worse than expected.
Sometimes i wonder if thats the same bioware that made neverwinter night,kotor,dragon age and mass effect trilogy
I guess working at EA is like a lobotomy for talent
Its not the same team, 99% of that bioware team we all actually liked has been long gone. Almost everyone is new there thus why the last dragon age, andromeda and this are bland at best.
To me, “good” Bioware ends with Marauder Shields
That will not change that terrible 61% Metascore.
not as gorgeous as me.
I want your Nude Mod.
Let’s not bullsh*t each other here. We all know that dagoat is photogenic. Observe him frolicking about in this pic.
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i got a stiffy
so you think all goats look the same don’t you? racism does not shock me on this website anymore, i’m used to it at this point.
here’s a sneak peek at the pov version of my upcoming seks tape:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMNqrULZXhU
I want your Nude Mod.
“In our opinion, the ideal resolution for those owning an NVIDIA GeForce RTX2080Ti is 3325×1871”
No Johnny Boy, I ideal resolution is and will always be 3440×1440. Ultrawide Master Race is the true Master Race.
Too bad the crafting is hard core sand bagged/hard core grind and feels like it is designed for micro transactions 🙁 . At level 10 I have no money to keep up with my upgrades(LOL and all my slots are not even open yet) and the world drops for mats and mission complete rewards are pretty terrible. Mind you I have played only solo so I suppose in MP this is all different? I doubt it. Oh boy a Titan dropped health, ammo and three white items wtf?
So much potential what a shame for it looks amazing and flight + controls are awesome. Also that damn town hub which looks incredible needs a freaking run button it is so slow I can’t stand it. The speed and 1st person view breaks the immersion for me it should be 3rd person until you talk to someone then it should zoom in dynamically to 1st.
While I am at it they should of made the game SP with no servers but instead a hosted optional 4 player co-op mode(for your friends) and keep the town hub loaded at all times and you fly in to it with no loading and all the other areas and zones are always there or streamed in. If this game was seamless(all loaded or streamed) and had no loading it could be incredible.
Why do I need to load the Forge each time my 3D model is static the rest are sprites. Same with the town hub why is it not cached it is static minus the new conversation icons. Heck World of Warcraft in 2004 had everything loaded and hundreds of other players. How the Forge, Town Hub etc are all not instantly accessed blows my mind,
Sucks when servers + always online and micro transactions ruin what could of been an incredible game.
At least I just bought the game pass to try it out I doubt I will buy it at full price or at all, pretty sure they will never change my issues.
Dude what the f*k are you talking about spending money on upgrades? That sh*t is a lie.
Components Slots (minor skill perks) open gradually so you are not on the go a f*ing beast cause then there is nothing for you to farm or progress in levels. Nothing you can buy with money affects gameplay/guns,etc. Purely cosmetics sh*t with real money if you want. Doing challenges (guns,gear,mats) or contracts or opening chests gives you tons of money and you can buy everything on the store right now with barely minimum giving a f*k to grind.
The loots gets better when you have reached level 15, a titan will drop masterwork for you even. You want everything to drop on first kills or wtf ?
Can’t you read? “Too bad the crafting is hard core sand bagged/hard core grind and feels like it is designed for micro transactions” I didn’t say you pay real money for crafting materials but it 100% feels like it was originally designed to be that way. It’s not fun crafting you can’t keep up at lvl 10+.
16 hours to get to level 11, ok. How about at each level up you basically need to craft 2 new weapons, and 5 new spells for your current slots at lvl 11. 7 new items needs a massive amount of mats which all need sh|t loads of Chimaeric Alloy that don’t drop at all during missions and is really hard to find their spawns. On top of that it cost 2000 coins for a stack of Chimaeric Alloy and grinding three contracts(at lvl 11) barley gives you 1500 coins. Then you got waves of mobs(feels like a 100) per contract focus point in the mission that basically at best drop a few health orbs and ammo packs.
The loot drops are a joke in the game and probably 1 of the worst out of any RPG, MMO and ARPG I have played. The end of the mission loot is a joke at lvl 11 and below and you pretty much scrap them all. Best part to get any real loot or money you have to finish the mission or contract or it is a complete waste of time.
The design that everything is tied to crafting for your upgrades and the price of crafting material and the drop rates and spawns are mental. Making money feels impossible, to me the game design is really bad and felt like it was designed for microtransactions(yes I know they are only cosmetic).
“You want everything to drop on first kills or wtf ?” LOL the drop rate is a joke on mobs you are lucky if you get a health or ammo pack, what are you talking about there are pretty much no loot drops until you complete a mission just like Vermintide 2.
If you really think the leveling, money system, loot system and crafting are balanced and well designed I don’t know what to say other than enjoy.
Primary Edit: You are bad playing this game and/or 3rd person ARPG.
Ok so you seem that you didn’t get the game eco at all.
I have played from the beginning, mission 1 to the last boss fight on Hard mode.
I did not once had to buy some mats from market or anything to be precise cause I got all from the loot that dropped and the minor freeplay I did, maybe 4 times.
I played with 3 javelins, Ranger (401 PW), Storm (421 PW) and Colossus (391).
When I was near the end I did maybe 10 times, a “raid” (Tyrant Mines) so that I will see how is it different from my equipment compared to my randoms and hoped for more OP. I was OP already (Spoiler)
If you had to buy that means you sir have no patience on what the game has to offer or you were the most unlucky guy in the game.
The drop rate is ok for now, it gives too much actually since in one “raid” I got 6 masterworks on hard mode. (Temple of Scar)
Edit: Grandmaster 1 gave me right now just 4. (Temple of Scar)
Edit 2: I have never grind for materials. They were all over the place in missions/contracts.
Edit 3: No micro transactions needed for you to play and enjoy the SP and MP (Freeplay,Strongholds,Contracts), only if you want to be the most fashions javelin in Bastion and you pay no attention what is around you in Bastion to collect.
“You are bad playing this game and/or 3rd person ARPG” ok what ever you say. ARPGs are my favorite genera, the game just sucks if you play Solo and should not be advertised as such. It almost feels as bad as Lineage II’s grind.
I am not playing it right ok bud, so what is the Pro tactics or the right way to play? You get a mission you kill everything, look for plants and mineral spawns and loot them, if your lucky and find that one rnd chest loot it, kill the mid and then end boss if there is one. Next go to town talk to people for new contracts/missions, then craft/upgrade all your guns and spell slots, that is the games whole loop. There is nothing else you can do in missions or how you play there is no tactics or “playing it good”.
Do you stream or something full time how on earth can you have 3 javelins at that PW level? Do you work at BioWare or EA or something?
I am a lvl 11 Storm at PW 83 LOL your at 421… ok what level are you no wonder it is easy. Your telling me going to lvl 11 solo was not a grind that is just bullsh|t. The game is a grind, you are the 1st person I have heard said it is not. So what is Torchlight 2, Grim Dawn and Diablo 3 in terms of progression, loot drops, grind in comparison if you think Anthem is good.
I think I am done with this conversation, say hi to BioWare and EA’s marketing team for me.
[ Edit ] If anyone read this thread and had my issue with crafting, loot and also played solo just go play Freeplay mode. This mode has all the mats you need and the loot is better. Feel like I should of ran this mode from the start. The reg contracts and mission feel like a waste of time in comparison to Freeplay mode now that I tried it.
I had some fun with it in the beta, but ggman review was detailed enough to stir me away the only way for anthem to survive is to fix the major issues it have and go free to play.
Even the first division at launch was in better shape, and the division 2 looks promising.
As for anthem when i see the environment and mobility i wish it was a single player focused game like bioware used to make, it could have been great but thanks to EA we cant have nice things anymore
At the same time mass effect andromeda was single player and yet was quite a failure, the first signs of bioware getting sloppy was the infamous mass effect 3 ending(even the “fixed” ending is far from being satisfying)
Wow i rambled too much :p
Meanwhile on xbox dynamic 900p as low as 720p.
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cantsoles
And that e3 demo they said “ran on xbox one x” add it to the list of greatest lies of e3 along killzone 2 e3 2005 trailer and watch_dogs/the division reveals
It’s up there with Watch Dogs and The Division.
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E3 proper explosion, retail are fireworks,
andromeda expansion
They had all the time in the world but came up with this garbage ? bu..but MEA was Bioware’s Z team, Anthem will be their A team. Yeah, it’s their A team alright.
It’s disappointing to me that we have all of this powerful technology to make video games that offer us these visually amazing worlds and the best we can do is make shooters devoid of any interesting stories, characters or environmental exploration and interaction. Incredibly graphically intensive carrot-on-a-stick simulators are the pinnacle of video gaming in 2019.
Too bad it’s missing, oh I don’t know… an entire game and relied on a mobile model gimmick like flying around like a moron attempting to hook people and get them spending in their Costco. It’s not a game at all but a game-themed store.
how much EA paid for this article?
And John, you forgot to mention that the game is a big steaming pile of garbage!
Full of bugs and poor gameplay design…!
It can look good
Still its a pile of….. EA https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/eb44799db61bbf9cf6d144c407eac8b78db35ec62443a1e02a78e38679b9e29d.png
BORING
Is DSOG getting paid to promote Nvidia’s RetardTax?
If you wrap a turd in fancy graphics
…
It’s still a turd unfortunately
I wish people would stop giving credit to brands instead of the actual creators behind the games, the Bioware that people use to love is long dead since the dev team behind it left the company, the old Bioware won’t come back and since they now hire based on diversity/whatever BS you want to call it instead of talent and competence things will only get worse.
why is your 2080 ti running so slowly? Free the card up. This game has no problem running 4k 60 at ultra. Assume the card is running 2ghz (not the 1700 in your screen shots.)