• Anthem is Reportedly Bricking Some PS4 Consoles
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https://www.dualshockers.com/anthem-bricking-ps4-refunds/ Over the past day or so, numerous reports have started emerging from Reddit that Anthem is causing their PS4s to crash. Reddit user u/forthemasters kicked off the conversation this weekend on the official Anthem subreddit stating that the game is the only one they have that constantly causes their PS4 to crash. “When encountering a crash or game error, sometimes I get booted to the main menu or out of the game completely to the PS4 dashboard. But twice now when trying to matchmake my PS4 has completely turned off,” the user posted. The story was met with dozens of similar tellings from others in the thread who have been playing Anthem on PS4. “The worst part is when it shuts your console off, it does it as if you pulled the power plug out of the wall. The console has to fix itself as well as repair my external HDD,” responded one Reddit user in the thread. In a separate thread, one Redditor said that Anthem completely bricked their own PS4. “My playstation has been completely bricked to the point of not even turning on because of Anthem,” they said in the post.
Should have been called Requiem then.
Apparently, people on PC and XBOX also reported similar issues on the past days: PC: https://answers.ea.com/t5/Technical-Issues/Anthem-shuts-down-computer/td-p/7496417 XBOX: https://www.reddit.com/r/AnthemTheGame/comments/ax246k/psa_to_playstation_anthem_players/ehqvp2n/ If you have the game I personally recommend you stop playing it until Bioware explains whats happening, or if the issues are confirmed to be simple coincidences (There are too many now so I doubt it), don't ruin your PC/PS4/XBOX.
As tempted as it is, I'm glad I sat out because no way in hell was I going to ruin my new 2TB HD full of all of my PS4 games just to try out EA's recent hotmess.
How the hell do you fuck up this badly? That every console version of the game fucking destroys the hardware? What if people decide to class action so they can go buy new consoles?
If the issue somehow causes the console to instantly shut off due to some ~mystery total failure~, that could result in the internal drive being fucked up, if it has one, which could brick the console.
Bioware is just EA at this point. Andromeda, Anthem, two canceled games Shadow Realms and C&C Generals 2 just before these. SWTOR at launch was bland, though it's quite good now but only if you subscribe thanks to EA's greedy ass F2P model. EA is going to close Bioware soon, guaranteed, because that's EA's MO
From some Reddit comments: My PS4 just hard shutdown while playing Anthem, then I saw this post. It then had issues restarting. It'd come on briefly then shutdown a couple times. I was alone, in a dungeon in freeplay when the game froze then the PS4 shutdown. Before anyone says, this is not a heat problem (at least in my case). Shutdowns due to heat have their own specific error code. Also, my PS4 is 'somewhat' modded for extra cooling. I've re-applied Thermal Paste to the APU. Applied Thermal Pads to the Memory Chips. Have a custom top shell for extra ventilation and a small fan blowing over the chip. I got System Software Error CE-36329-3 when my PS4 finally turned back on. It did a System Storage check and repaired my SSD. I've never had this sort of issue in any game I've played, never had a game shutdown my PS4, never had a system software error, nothing like that. Something is causing the console to shut down unexpectedly, which causes the filesystem to not unmount cleanly. Typically when you shut down a console it has time to close all of the files and flush its cache to disk. Since it did not close cleanly, it forces a rescan/rebuild on boot to make sure nothing is actually corrupted. The same thing happens when you unplug a drive from your computer without ejecting it first.
Holy fucking shit the AAA games industry is throwing itself over a cliff this winter. If it wasn't for the RE2 remake coming out at last and having mad quality to show for all that time, and Apex Legends actually being good because EA kept their fucking hands off it and also didn't reveal its existence until *launch*, this season would be a fucking write-off. FO76 is a dumpster fire, Anthem is a joke, Artifact is the punchline of a joke nobody wanted to hear, Red Dead Online is already approaching mid-strength GTAO cancer, Kingdom Hearts 3 is... Kingdom Hearts so moving on, Metro Exodus is apparently great but there was that shit with the Epic Store, what a fucking mess. Smash Ultimate also launched but until Nintendo ports its games to any part of the non-mobile ecosystem they don't really count for this argument. The consumer public has demonstrated that they're willing to swallow shitty day-1 releases (as long as patches come reasonably quickly), lootboxes and other microtransactions, outright P2W, and DLC out the ass. They've proven to be sheep, frankly, but there must still be a breaking point if the industry doesn't rehabilitate its practices and stop looking at maximizing profit and shoving everything down to the lowest common denominator. The commoditization of gaming must be halted, or at least there needs to be a clear delineation between the 'old' school of gaming and game industry practices and Skinner boxes from the mobile world taking over everything with both sides preserved for their respective markets. If the industry doesn't correct course, I fear that in about ten years gamers who want a fun and engaging experience, and not a shallow microreward engine with the minimum effort given to everything except flashy glitz and graphics, are going to have to rely on the bonkers-risky Star Citizen style of crowdfunding campaign where the cash hits tens of millions and everyone's money is tied up for most of a decade before a release is ready -- and that's a bad thing. If every big game that wasn't an abusive lootbox shitfest was forced to beg the crowd for money and run their development transparently, the gaming public might learn to appreciate the length of time a game actually takes to make but this process is also likely to result in one game successfully launching with most everything promised for every eight to ten projects started. That's a grim future. I'd much rather the industry reform itself than go through the SC rollercoaster even just a second time.
My first thought reading that is something is wandering off and accessing memory addresses it shouldn't be, causing the kernel to panic and shut down. If this is happening on Xbox, PlayStation, and PC, though... If it were just one, I'd blame a shitty sandboxing job by the operating system. But the chances of all three having the same vulnerability is abysmally low, let alone one that hasn't been found and patched already. Not sure what else it could be, though, if it isn't a heat / power issue.
accessing an address you don't have access to won't cause a kernel panic it'd just cause the app to crash; it could be caused by a GPU issue though
https://twitter.com/EAHelp/status/1102712802576347137 https://twitter.com/jasonschreier/status/1102631142753226752 Looks like is a real problem then. I repeat what I said earlier: Don't play Anthem until this is sorted out!
Fuuuck I had such high hopes for this, now I just have questions Why did this take Bioware 6 years? Why did EA shove it out the door at the same time as Apex Legends? How was it not tested enough to prevent stuff like this happening 2 weeks in?? I really hope it turns itself around like R6 or D2, I can still see this being a gem with a ton more polish
How did this pass cert? How?
im sticking with what Woolie said; EA realized Anthem was going to be a trainwreck, so they pushed Apex out to launch to buff their numbers before Q1. Don't get me wrong, Apex is fantastic (bar netcode issues) but you can tell there's a LOT of content missing with heroes or weapons. Even some of the T2 weapons aren't in the game yet and are on the release radar later this year.
I guess Bioware is taking the whole "Anthem is crashing and burning" rhetoric a bit too on the nose. Sorry, not sorry.
bioware is so fucked
Hell I understand fucking up on PC hardware since it's impossible to test for every single possible PC build but for a fucking console?
consoles get internet connection for easy patching so devs got lazy, back then broken games like this would be a nail to the coffin for a developers /s
I know people love EA BAD meme but jesus Bioware just does not deserve to exist in this market anymore, they've not put out a quality product in *so* long.
its a competition between bethesda and bioware/ea for who can make the worst game
I don't know if it counts as a AAA game, but Hitman 2 is quite good too and I feel like it deserves a mention That said, the AAA industry has been shit, imo, ever since 2012, which is when problems started to surface and got under every spotlight
The ultimate irony would be the devs PCs not booting because Anthem bricked them.
If that'd happen, i would sue the fuck out of EA.
We’re investigating and ask that you share your crash data reports when prompted. It kills the console you idiot how can you send a crash report
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