BioWare Gives Anthem Demo Infinite Loading Glitch Workaround, EA Lists Current Issues Demo Has & It’s Not Pretty

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If you’ve been trying unsuccessfully to play the Anthem VIP demo, you’re not alone. As far as we know, all three platforms are suffering connectivity issues now, which BioWare says is not related to servers at all.

Now, if you did manage to connect, there’s another bug hindering you from playing, and it’s the Anthem demo infinite loading bug! From personal experience, I’ve encountered it  countless times regardless if I was trying to play an Expedition, Freeplay, etc. While no Anthem demo infinite loading glitch fix has been rolled out just yet, there is a workaround that I can confirm worked for me!

Executive Producer Mark Darrah shared the method on Twitter, and it involves hard quitting the game.

Not a fix, BUT: If you are hitting the 95% load hang Try quitting out and restarting. You may get a message, “Game server detected, do you want to rejoin?” say yes. That MAY get past the block. Again, not a fix, but it may get you past.

By “quitting,” this means you have to stop the application and reboot the game. Once you’ve entered the servers successfully, you’ll be asked if you want to rejoin your recent Expedition, and picking yes will take you out of the infinite loading screen of doom. Again, it’s not a fix, but it is a workaround that has worked for lots of people (including me).

In related Anthem demo news, the official EA support page has listed down the known Anthem demo issues, and it’s not pretty.

We’re currently tracking issues for the Anthem VIP Demo and the team is working very diligently to quickly resolve them. 
Here’s the current list of the most reported and known issues affecting some players.

  1. Infinite loading screens when launching the game or entering an expedition.
  2. Unable to get past the Anthem title screen.
  3. Some Xbox One players are unable to access the Anthem VIP demo.
  4. Some players are unable to access their Anthem VIP demo friends codes.

At the time of this writing, over 11,000 people have reported to have encountered the same problems above, which isn’t something you want when you’re asking people to try your game out.

Have you managed to get into an Anthem game with a squad or randomly matched? What did you do to bypass the infinite loading glitch?

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PapaSpud
PapaSpud
5 years ago

I finally got in the game, then realized they lied about fixing the controls for K+M= canceled order, if I wanted to play with a controller… I would buy a console.

Kjell Kristian Heidal
Kjell Kristian Heidal
Reply to  PapaSpud
5 years ago

Lied about K+M? Care to go into details there? Because I’ve been playing it with K+M and it’s smooth as expected. Flying is a bit clunky, but it still is with a controller.. so not K+M exclusive.

PapaSpud
PapaSpud
Reply to  Kjell Kristian Heidal
5 years ago

You have to constantly recenter your mouse cursor or you fly all over, mostly the ground. It isn’t really relevant, the gameplay is pretty poor too after playing a little more= not even a little interested anymore.

Kjell Kristian Heidal
Kjell Kristian Heidal
Reply to  PapaSpud
5 years ago

Was never a real issue for me, just tweaked the mouse sensitivity and flying was fine.
But fair enough you didn’t like the gameplay, every game out there isn’t for everyone.
But lied about controls they never did, as Roy pointed out… it wasn’t applied to the demo build as it’s not launch build.

Roy Howard
Reply to  PapaSpud
5 years ago

They specifically said the fixes were not applied on the demo code, the demo code is 6 weeks old.

L 7 CHAPEL
L 7 CHAPEL
5 years ago

After 11 and a half hours,
I was actually able to load into the bay, and then spent the next 2 hours plus trying to get past the infinite loading glitch… and finally said enough is enough.

this was a pre-order because of it’s Christmas present for my son,
I would have cancelled my pre-order yesterday without a doubt.
I won’t personally be purchasing anything more for EA ever.
It’s funny because my son was able to get in and play some of it, but it crashed a couple of times on him,
and I did notice a few glaring things when he was playing.

#1, it looked almost exactly like Mass Effect multiplayer.
same combat, same angle,
same “jetpack feature”, everything…
it was almost a carbon copy of it,
the way enemies Spawn, and the waves/flow, a lot of it it was just mind-blowing that.
that’s exactly precisely what it looked like to me…

#2, the version he was playing looked very grainy and framerate stuttering, that reminded me of when pubg first launched. it looked like an alpha heading into beta,
and I’m not saying that to be cruel,
I was surprised at how very downgraded it looks,
particularly because they’re claiming this is a demo and not a beta?
well it doesn’t look like a beta,
it looks like an alpha…
course I don’t know if I’ll ever be able to see what it looks like on my own TV apparently…

andrewsqual
andrewsqual
5 years ago

How generous of them. So, this is going to be the worse release of such an overhyped game of the gen, isn’t it?

Jared Quance
Jared Quance
5 years ago

I never get passed the title screen; here’s why I think there must be a local (me) issue: I’ve used two different Origin accounts and two different VIP invites from two different people; both experiences are exactly the same. Here is a link to the text that appears in a momentary flash of the onscreen text (can’t see/read this text in real time): https://imgur.com/NYnlool

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