BioWare discusses Anthem revival, picks up team of around 30 developers

Many months ago, rumors were floating around that BioWare was planning a massive overhaul of Anthem. The game's launch didn't get smoothly because of the convoluted and incomplete story and performance issues. Since so, the team has stock-still the technical issues, only the overall problems with gameplay remain.

Today, Christian Dailey, the Studio Managing director for BioWare Austin, discussed the Anthem revival and how the squad was experimenting with certain features. You can read an excerpt from the BioWare blog below.

The Anthem incubation squad has kicked off and nosotros are starting to validate our design hypotheses. Incubation is a term nosotros apply internally – it essentially means we are going dorsum and experimenting/prototyping to meliorate on the areas where we believe we fell brusk and to leverage everything that you love currently about Canticle. We are a pocket-size team – about 30-ish, earning our way forrad equally nosotros set out to hit our commencement major milestone goals. Spoiler – this is going to be a longer process. And yeah, the team is small but the whole indicate of this is to take our time and go dorsum to the drawing board. And a small team gives united states of america the agility a larger one can't afford. We really want this experience to be different for the team and our players, but we know nosotros have some tough challenges to tackle. We want to include you as we go and be open and honest with where nosotros are at and what the expectations are with where we are going. The reality is you will see things that await crawly but cease upward on the cutting room flooring or things that you might call up suck that you experience we are spending besides much fourth dimension on... We take a great studio here in Austin working on Anthem and other absurd projects.

It'due south unclear what the timeline for the Canticle overhaul is, but it it may be towards the end of 2022 or beyond. What exercise you desire to see from the game'south overhaul? Let the states know.

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