Earlier today, BioWare showed off the Anthem VIP demo by doing a livestream on IGN. While playing BioWare Producer Scylla Costa mentioned that there’s going to be three Stronghold missions available in Anthem at launch.
Stronghold missions are team-based quests in Anthem that require teamwork, and will net the players excellent rewards. Think of them as the same as souped up version of Destiny’s Strikes, or a shorter version of Raids. According to Costa, the three Anthem Stronghold missions will be available once the main story is completed, and is a big part of Anthem’s endgame (it’s around the 23:30 mark in the video).
Over on Twitter, Lead Producer Michael Gamble also confirmed that there will be three Anthem Stronghold missions available at launch, with more presumably added post-release.
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— Michael Gamble (@GambleMike) January 24, 2019
Before anyone panics, Strongholds can be replayable, and will have multiple difficulty settings, and from what we’ve seen so far, these quests will take a long time, with the latest gameplay of it taking 40 minutes, and they didn’t even finish it.
For those curious how it plays, BioWare has confirmed that there will be one Anthem Stronghold mission available in the VIP demo set to launch tomorrow.
Are you OK with this number? is it too few? Or are you confident BioWare will add more Stronghold missions consistently post-launch?
This is definitely not enough end game content. That’s a joke. If other content will be added for free then cool but that’s highly unlikely. Might as well wait until the expansions are released and then get the “GOTY” version.
Ya because Destiny haveing 1 raid at launch was acceptable lol. Strongholds, Difficulty, and the other normal content will keep people happy until more content can be released.The first Stronghold took 47 minutes and they didnt even get to the boss lol. Destiny took 45 minutes to rush a raid once people figured them out. Definitly need to hold your horses.
Did I say Destiny having 1 raid at launch was acceptable?
Having only played destiny 2, the one raid was not enough at launch; and it was a raid that had actual mechanics in it that made each fight interesting where most of anthems boil down to spank n tank or basic phases of boss-mob spawn-boss. Three of this caliber are not enough; honestly they probably needed 8 of them with specific loot pools or guaranteed high rarities (end boss didnt drop loot on my run), mini bosses, and reasons to run a specific raid be it for specific loot in the for of cosmetics or weekly (daily) challenges.
The idea that people were ok with the lack luster amount of content in destiny 2 is laughable looking at the lack of players still engaged with that game.
I agree not enough end-game, but I also think Bioware is aware and has a plan. Remember we’re probably getting a 20-30 hour story, free-play, 6 difficulty levels and more will make the path to the end-game strongholds feel less rushed compared to a Destiny, and I’m sure they have firm plans to add more strongholds. They also will have Legendary Contracts and The Shapers Relic’s being able to alter the world. I can see them borrowing from Fortnite and keeping players interested by changing the world throughout the year. I hate Fortnite but you can’t deny they keep people coming back due to the map changing and providing events and just being fun. Anthem at the end of the day looks like it’s going to be really enjoyable just flying around with your friends doing random stuff, on top of grinding.
The fact that they also already added a new Social Hub based on player feedback before the game has even demo’d shows dedication to providing content after launch which is cool. They do have the advantage of studying really solid games over the past 5 years such as Destiny, The Division, Fortnite, Warframe etc..where they can borrower stuff from.
Just by two cents, I hope the game is great!
Is that why the extra content after launch is free? You’ll just release a game unfinished and release the rest of it under the false pretense that you will support it most launch.
Maybe itll be good. Maybe it’ll be great but EAs constant Fuck ups leave me very skeptical