Yep, Anthem fans have been working on a revival, but apparently it’s a lot harder than it looks

So the Anthem servers have shut down, however as we’ve been protecting, gamers had been already deep-diving the sport’s code making an attempt to tug collectively fragments and provides gamers an opportunity to fly round as soon as extra. And there’s already a proof-of-concept video within the wild about precisely that. However the crew behind that video wish to make it clear that nonetheless thrilling the prospect could also be, it’s nonetheless within the very early phases, and a number of the problem comes again to how the Frostbite engine handles video games.

An interview on Ars Technica with Ness199X, the person who has executed a lot of the tinkering required to make it work, explains that there have been three primary features wanted to make the non-public server work in a bare-bones sense, and two of them had been simple sufficient to emulate. The issue is that the third operate, the Frostbite engine, relies upon closely on on-line knowledge that was saved on Bioware’s servers. How a lot of the essential degree knowledge could be discovered instantly from the consumer goes to finally resolve how doable the venture is, and that’s even with out quite a few Anthem-particular Frostbite oddities.

In abstract, is there nonetheless hope? Sure. Is it going to be a simple or easy venture? Completely not.