Week of 14 Aug 2022
This week was all Anthem, all the time. I could see that I was getting to the end so just felt compelled to pour every free waking minute into getting this done. As I laid out last week, the name of this game is all about gathering the various types of equipment for each Javelin and completing four missions while having them equipped. You also need to get kills with all of the guns and melee weapons, but the former are shared by all the Javelin models (and I’d already completed that last week) and there are only two melee weapons for each. I switched from random World Events to the Strongholds, using quick match to get into teams working on clearing them. Seems most of them are playing the Heart of Rage seasonal Stronghold, which is the final level of the main storyline. It doesn’t take very long and gives some really good gear, so the timing couldn’t have been better.
I had the Colossus completed quickly on Sunday, so played as the Interceptor and Storm the rest of the week. They’re both a bit flimsy, but I never seemed to have much difficulty fighting the enemies, even on Hard. I ended with the Interceptor, which seems to have trouble going long distances while flying…even worse than the hulking Colossus? I’m not sure; it just seemed like it. But I loved how stupidly OP the melee damage is as this class, especially once I collected a Masterwork-level set of blades. Even on Hard, I could quickly mow down entire waves of elite and legendary enemies. It’s pretty cool! Speaking of equipment rarity, this quickly became my biggest concern heading toward completion as I had barely reached Epic level of my Javelin. But, luckily, I had not used any of the pile of embers I’d collected throughout my playthrough so I could go to the Tomb of Yvenia and gather up enough Legendary support items to level me up. I’d already picked up Masterwork weapons and side-weapons, so this would push me over the mark with zero grinding! All that was left was the collectibles. I used a map to quickly pick up the handful of static misplaced writings and arcanist runes I needed. The real pain is finding the randomly-placed collectibles in the form of enemy clan intel and friendly archives. Normally you find these as you’re flying around in enemy encampments or amongst friendly freelancers, but really how often are you hanging around the latter? So I was about done with the intels, but had VERY few of the archives. While most of these appear in random locations, you can sometimes nail down a spawn point and abuse the way the game spawns in locations to grind what you need easily. Took a few hours on Saturday flying back and forth a few locations to get what I needed, and that was it! This game was nowhere near the travesty the gaming community made it sound like. Was it great? Nah. But it’s a pretty enjoyable game and a very simple completion.
Achievements unlocked: 46 (+14) | Completed
I can’t wait to freely explore this massive landscape!
