Your pilots will not receive a skill tree in Anthem. Some players are disappointed by this and believe that an important RPG element is being lost.
What happened? We reported in June 2018 that Anthem will not have skill trees for the individual Javelins, but rather for the pilots, meaning the characters who are in the suits. These were also supposed to gain experience points and thereby improve skills or learn new skills, such as dealing more damage overall or being able to fly longer.
After rumors that the talent trees had been scrapped, a Reddit user has now directly asked the developers. Employees of BioWare confirmed that they opted for a different system and that the pilots will not have abilities in the finished game.
This is what will happen to the feature: According to BioWare, they love abilities and talent trees, but the planned system in the game was not as impressive and engaging as they had hoped.
The developers have taken this as an opportunity to revise the components for the Javelins. This should satisfy the hunger for growth and various statistics for Javelin builds and abilities.
However, they did not rule out that they would take another look at the talent trees for the pilots in the future.
This is what players say: While some players are looking forward to the new system, others seem very disappointed that the talent trees for the pilots will not make it into the finished game.
In the Anthem subreddit, some users say they are disappointed because a major RPG factor would be lost.
Thus, the user GhostOfHodor states that the RPG aspect had first sparked his interest in the game. In his opinion, it feels like a big piece of Anthem has simply been cut away. He is also afraid that progression will now depend too much on randomness.
demonofelru1017 says that it makes him sad because the skill tree for pilots was one of the few true RPG aspects of this game, and now it’s gone.
What do you think about the talent tree for pilots? Are you sad that the idea has been discarded or are you rather looking forward to collecting the components for the Javelins?
