Anthem players are finally getting to try The Cataclysm public event, and early reactions are... not great

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Scrolling through the on any day of the week makes for grim reading. If someone isn't screaming through their keyboard at BioWare's lack of communication on the game's future, then aꦰnother person has published a poetic eulogy i♎n anticipation of its online death. 

At the moment, the general vibe is one of anger, disappointment, and existentialism over the game's recent update, which introduced 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Anthem Public Test Serversℱ for players to try out the ൩impending Cataclysm Event; the first major content drop for BioWare's open world looter shooter since launch. 

, with nearly 15,000 upvotes on the game's page explains the problem with Cataclysm pretty succinctly, predicting that "Anthem will not survive to the end♏ of this year" if it continues in this fashion.&nbꦰsp;

"The Cataclysm is basically the Freeplay Area with a heavy blue filter of death", reads the post. "Yes, as long as your screen is blue you are dying. You fly into a “Safe Zone” where you complete the same exact crap you have been completing for the last 3 1/2 months. Afterwards, you fly to another zone, complete some more shaper relic events until finally you reach a boss. The boss mechanics are boring, baseless, lore-less, and lack all sorts of creatiꦓvity. Same exact mechanics as a Titan found anಞywhere in Freeplay. So it doesn’t even feel like new content. Once the boss dies, you collect your blue’s and purple’s, the event is over and your [sic] back at Fort Tarsis."

continues: "Had BioWare released this type of gameplay activity 30 days after release, it🐬 would have been very well received. But, to have players grinding endlessly for over 90++ days, then add a filter to Freeplay and call it “The Cataclysm” is beyond ridic🍸ulous and a dis-respectful way to treat whatever player base is left."

So... it's not great, then? The hundreds of comments beneath the post reveal an alarming consensus on Cataclysm, too, though some are just happy to be playing something new in the game after months of silence from BioWare. Speaking of, Anthem will have a small, 5-minute live stream at the E3 2019 this weekend, as part of the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:EA E3 2019 programme, so perhaps the studio can pull something out of its hat✃ to turn Anthem's fortunes around? Maybe? I wouldn't♕ hold your breath. 

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