To focus on the current state of Anthem, the developers at BioWare have postponed some planned content indefinitely. Now the Community Manager has announced that the team is currently working on the Cataclysm content.
This is why content was postponed: After the difficult launch of Anthem, the developers at BioWare quickly announced new content. A roadmap was published to illustrate which features were supposed to be released when.
However, since Anthem is still plagued by bugs and issues, BioWare has decided to postpone a whole series of announced content. Of all the planned features for April, only one was actually released: The new stronghold “The Sunken Cell”.
Now the Community Manager of Anthem, Jesse Anderson, has revealed on Twitter that the team is currently working on the content related to Cataclysm.
What are the Cataclysms? Even before the launch of Anthem, BioWare talked about world-changing events called Cataclysms. Anthem was compared to a Netflix series that evolves continuously and about which players should constantly talk.
These should center around story or world events that, for example, change the map of Anthem. With the Cataclysms that are triggered by the Anthem of Creation, new locations could emerge or be annihilated.
In story events, new characters might appear or familiar faces might die.
The whole thing is to be accompanied by new, smaller events that eventually lead into a Cataclysm.
This is why Cataclysms are important: The world events of Anthem should make up a large part of the game. BioWare had many ideas on how these events could change the world. But how Cataclysms will actually look, players still do not know today.
At the end of the open demo of Anthem in early February, there was a concluding event that was meant to give a small taste of what players could expect in the dynamic world. At that time, a red spot appeared in the sky over Bastion and a storm brewed. Later, special Titans appeared.
Despite the current problems, many players still want to know what the Cataclysms are about. If these world events can excite the Freelancers, BioWare could suddenly look good again and win back seemingly lost players.
However, the opposite could also happen if the Cataclysms are not worth the wait in the eyes of the players. The Cataclysms could thus decide the future of Anthem.
