Anthem’s scaling enemies and how a lack of PvP means BioWare doesn’t “need to worry about power curves”

Source: www.vg247.com --- Friday, August 24, 2018
I’m playing the GamesCom build of Anthem and I’m unleashing a rocket barrage on a group of ten enemies. Fire and explosions are filling the screen, one of my allies is hovering overhead and they toss a frost grenade into the carnage. The near-dead enemies freeze up, and another player leaps in with an energy sword, slamming down and shattering them all to pieces. It’s an overused word, but it can only be described as epic. Of course, this demo takes place around the midway point of the game, the developers have equipped us with some rare kit, and we’re joined by two experts from the team to make the combat scenarios really sing. So how does combat look when players are starting out? “You’ll always have your pieces, but that frost grenade in the demo is a legendary item, and the pulse cannon you had is either epic or legendary,” game director Jonathan Warner admits. “We loaded that up with some extra bells and whistles so you could get that cool experience. You’ll start out and the first horizon that you’re chasing is the rarity horizon – I’ve got my javelin, I have common gear, and now I want to get my uncommons. “One of the beautiful things about creating a cooperative PvE game like this is we don’t have to worry too much about power curves on our weapons. We can make them ridiculous because you might fancy, at the endgame, just wiping out [the enemies] and sometimes that can feel great.” Like in many RPGs, enemies will still s ...

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