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Bioware Addresses Player Concerns, Longterm Support For ‘Anthem’

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Bioware’s open-world RPG Anthem hasn’t been as big of a success as they’d have hoped. Still, the devs are working to try and correct the lingering issues. In a recent blog post on the official site, Bioware’s head of live service, Chad Robertson, discusses supporting Anthem long-term and addressing some concerns players have had.

“We hear your concerns on core issues in Anthem and are acting on it,” says Robertson. “Those systems require a more thorough review and re-working versus quick fixes. We’ve got a team working on that now, and early results are promising.”

As for the longterm outlook for Anthem, Robertson explains that the devs will need to do a bit of pivoting from the current “Acts” plan in order to tackle this.

“In order to address these long-range plans, we are moving from the Acts structure for updates,” Robertson continues. “Instead, we have additional seasonal updates planned for this year that we think players will enjoy. These events will deliver challenges and chases similar to what you’ve seen, and are built around some fun themes we’re bringing to the game.”

The most recent update, Cataclysm, added more story content to the game, as well as other fixes. Robertson also mentions the adjustments made to the game after the Public Test Server. Among the changes made are in combat balancing, additional types of reward crates, and adding more tips in the load screens to help explain what’s going on in Cataclysm.

“As I’ve said previously, we want to be transparent with you that we know more work needs to be done to make Anthem better. We also want to ensure we’re backing up our words with a great game you can play,” Robertson continues. “So I don’t have any news today to share about the long-term changes we are bringing to Anthem. What I can say is that we will continue to engage with you, our community, through [the Public Test Server] when we can show you what is coming.”

Anthem is out now on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC.

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Survios Announces VR Title ‘Alien: Rogue Incursion’, Coming This Year [Trailer]

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Remember back in 2022 when developer Survios had announced that they were teaming up with 20th Century Games to develop a new Alien title? Well seeing as it’s Alien Day, Survios has announced their brand-new VR title, Alien: Rogue Incursion. Coming “Holiday 2024” to the PlayStation VR2, SteamVR, and Quest 3, Rogue Incursion will feature an original story that “fully surrounds players within the terrors of the Alien universe”.

Details on the game are light at the moment, but the official site describes the upcoming title as being “designed by Alien fans for Alien fans”, with Survios aiming to craft a “technically advanced, and frightfully immersive Alien virtual reality game.”

Seeing as Alien: Isolation never got official VR support when it was released, this is obviously a welcome announcement. In the meantime, if you’re keen to experience an Alien game in VR, you can always check out the fan-made mod for Alien: Isolation by Nibre_, which allows both the Steam and Epic Games Store version of Alien: Isolation to be played using the Oculus.

And speaking of Alien: Isolation, as you might expect, it’s got a hefty 80% discount going on at the moment on Steam until May 1. So if you still haven’t grabbed it after all these years, this is as good a time as any.

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