Anthem's 90-day plans after launch unveiled

By Brandin Tyrrel

Anthem, BioWare's shared world-wide shooter, is officially unveiled today for everyone. BioWare announced the events and changes you can expect in the next three months.

Chad Robertson, Head of Live Service on Anthem, shared his short-term vision of the game by glancing at the first 90-day roadmap of what the live service team had planned .

You will find below a list of activities, broken down by activity month. It is important to note that none of these activities have a concrete deployment date, or weeks, assigned to it for the time being. We will therefore have to remain vigilant to know when we can expect them to take place during the calendar month.

Anthem – February 2019:

• New Freeplay Event: "Outlaw Outrage"
• New Freeplay Event: "There Be Giants"
• New Freeplay Event: Shaper Surge

Hymn Live Services – March 2019:

• New cosmetics: "Caches of Elysian Bastion"
• Rewards: New Items
• New missions: Legendary missions – Phase 1
• New Freeplay event: forthcoming (to be announced)
• Freeplay event: "There are giants"
• Freeplay Event: "Outlaw Outrage"

Hymn Live Services – April 2019:

• Extended Progression: Mastery System
• Rewards: New Items
• Several Freeplay events: coming soon
• Freeplay Event: Shaper Surge
• New missions: Legendary missions – Phase 2
• New Fortress: "The Sunken"
• Social Game: Weekly Fortress Challenge
• Social game: rankings
• Social game: Guilds

Hymn Live Services – May 2019:

• Freeplay Events: coming soon
• New missions: coming soon
• Rewards: New Items

Although February is only dedicated to launching, troubleshooting, patching, patching, quality of life improvements and a small series of freeplay events, things will really start in March.

In March, Anthem will present new cosmetics, new Legendary missions, new awards and a new freeplay event.

April is the big one for Anthem, where we will see an extension of late-game progression with a "mastery system", in addition to a new Stronghold strangely named "The Sunken". In addition, BioWare will target the vaunted social aspects of the anthem, such as rankings (for the time needed for Stronghold, etc.) alongside the guilds. Finally, we will see a Stronghold introduced weekly challenge that should add a new twist to the four fortresses available (by here).

Anthem & # 39; s May will offer more events, missions and rewards in freeplay, none of which are featured at the moment.

"The launch of Anthem represents a commitment we make to you," Robertson said in a message, "we are just beginning, we have a growing list of improvements that we are evaluating for the future. to see the next ones next week. "

Our official review of the IGN anthem found that the potential for a good game was acceptable, but all indications are that a lot of work remains to be done to reach this point.

Brandin Tyrrel is IGN's Xbox publisher. You can find it on Unlocked, or discuss on Twitter @BrandinTyrrel.