Use Primers And Detonators For Combos

One of the game’s core mechanics for combat involves attack synergies in the form of primers and detonators. Primers are abilities that applies a debuff or condition on enemies like Freeze or Burning. Detonators on the other hand exploits affected enemies with conditions to deal Combos for extra damage and more XP for through the Combo feat. This is both important and useful to know to get multi kills. What players can do is to play Javelins that are able to freeze or burn enemies in a large AoE situation, before going in melee range for multi-kill. This is best done on the Storm and Colossus. Who can both apply AoE primers and then detonate them effectively. For a tip, hit up Free Play in Easy difficulty and do multiple World Events to achieve this easily.

Turn Game Mode Difficulty Down

The obvious way to achieve this feat for multi kills is to turn the difficulty down. You will lose the chance for better loot, but ultimately you’ll be able to easily achieve multi kills in your game modes. For best results, Contracts and Free Play mode are the best ways to find large clusters of enemies. In Contracts, often time enemy reinforcements arrive mid-way through objectives, so simply head over to the location and begin freezing/burning them up before taking them out with your detonator skills, preferably grenade launchers and other AoE abilities. I cannot stress this enough, running an effective primer/detonator gear with AoE is a must.

Always Use Your Ultimate Ability When It’s Available

Another handy thing to imprint in your head is to use your Javelin’s Ultimate ability every time it’s up. When playing Anthem, its common to find players just holding on to it, saving it for whatever reasons. This is pointless because of how fast they recharge in most situations if you’re in combat. The trick to multi kills with Ultimates is to time it right. All Javelins from the Ranger, Storm, Colossus and even the Interceptor’s Ultmiates all can do great AoE damage that should outright kill mobs when used. If you’re worried about other players in the group taking your kills, the best way to achieve multi kills with Ultimates will be then to run Missions or Contracts solo, or go off and find your own World Events along in Free Play.

Ultimately, it comes down to practice and timing and you should be racking up multi kills in no time on Anthem.

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Loading Screen Taking Too Long? SSD Is Your Friend

One of the most common complaints among players about Anthem even during the demo weekends were the long loading screens. It can take up to 90 or more seconds before the loading screen takes you to the in-game world. This isn’t fun, since the fun starts with your Javelin out there. To help reduce load times, ensure you’ve got Anthem installed on an SSD, and this significantly cuts down loading screen times. HDD’s are the most common storage units for gaming PCs, and unfortunately Anthem just isn’t optimized enough before launch. There are talks of a day 1 patch to reduce load times though, but we still recommend using an SSD nonetheless.

Learn Your Javelin’s Combat Skills

Zooming around and blowing things up is definitely a blast in Anthem, but are you aware of the combat mechanics? Anthem’s Javelins have unique abilities called Gear, that does a variety of things from damage, damage over time and even crowd control. One key mechanic that isn’t explained properly is the Primers and Detonators function. Some skills are Primers, that puts status effect on enemies, like Frost or Burning. Other skills that are Detonators can exploit enemies that are already Primed, which result in Combos that deal massive amounts of damage. This is a key combat feature that will be absolutely necessary to use in harder difficulties and content, so get used to them now.

Use Respawn If You’re Stuck

Most games unfortunately come shipped with bugs at launch or in early access. Anthem does, and while patches are coming there are some quick fixes to get you out of a frustrating road block. For instance, some missions will require certain enemies to spawn or enemies to kill in order to proceed to the next area of objective. Sometimes, those walls won’t come down. A quick fix here is to have one player open up the map and hit the respawn key (Y/Triangle on consoles) and that should clear any issue. If all else fail, have the entire squad wipe or die on lava or something.

Check Your Tracks Often

In Fort Tarsis, there’s a few interactables to help you see what objectives are left for your Daily, Weekly and Monthly Trials. If you’re done with those, wait! Heading into the Track section of the menus will show you a lot more Trials for the day and week that can be completed. For whatever reason, the interactables in Fort Tarsis doesn’t list them all. So don’t miss out on easy free Coins that can be used to buy crafting materials or Javelin vanity items from the store.

Don’t Ignore Large Bodies Of Water

If it’s loot you’re after in Freeplay, you’ll most definitely come across lakes and other large bodies of water on the map. Pro tip: don’t just fly past them or hover over to maintain your heat thrusters. Go under. For every body of water, there’s a high likelihood of loot chests to be found, which might contain your next Masterwork or Legendary loot. Of course, there are tons of chest cheat maps out on the internet already, but if you don’t plan on using one, just remember water is your best friend.

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