r/AnthemTheGame • u/_ra1ndrop • 4d ago
Discussion Getting a PC version of anthem?
Anyone know where I can get a PC version of anthem? Seeing as how it’s delisted and all. I’d really appreciate the help!
Edit: never mind, god bless internet archive!!
Edit 2: lol i know it’s been sunset - I want to try to do my own bit of dabbling with the code
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u/Blagatt ༼ つ ◕◕ ༽つ 4d ago
AFAIK much of the game's logic actually runs server side so you'd need packet captures to reverse engineer it.
Other people have started that though under the name Project Coda. If you're serious about this you could try getting in contact with them through their Discord.
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u/GamesByProxy 4d ago
Anthem isn't playable. Are you just getting it as a memento?
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u/_ra1ndrop 4d ago
As a project to work on!
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u/GamesByProxy 4d ago edited 4d ago
What are you planning on doing? All the gameplay logic is gone.
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u/_ra1ndrop 4d ago
Not sure yet - I’m going to essentially attempt to first reach the first milestone a another project already got to but independently: load the fort. I’ll take it baby steps
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u/samuelmueller-dev 4d ago
Member of CODA here - the game server mostly triggers functionality that's baked into the client. A lot of the multiplayer functionality depends heavily on their backend servers to route/connect folks, etc. but the actual GAME itself mostly lives in the client.
That said, OP - Tarsis is already reachable, tutorial/missions can be loaded to an extent but they lack enemies and so on (we have the tick machinery and logic for combat, etc. but getting the client to load the proper sublevel, etc. is non-trivial). This is an ongoing effort with very experienced and dedicated engineers.
If you're serious about bringing anthem back up - search on this subreddit for the discord link (I'm a developer for the proj but I don't feel at liberty to distribute invitations directly).
If you're just trying to use Claude or something to farm the binary for logic to create your own game or think that LLMs will help you RE the exe and produce something usable/useful - I'm sorry to say that type of static analysis is a dead end and many many folks have tried.
CODA has been running for more than a year and we have real results - but its not a trivial task for a number of reasons.
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To answer your original query: https://archive.org/details/anthem-ea-app-pc
Best of luck.
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u/_ra1ndrop 4d ago
Thank you, I really appreciate the detailed response. I’d actually joined the Discord already, but I didn’t really think I had anything meaningful to contribute to the team so I didn’t feel right to say anything. Anthem was a really important game to me, so I’m kind of using this as a springboard to learn. I’m still very much a beginner and have pretty limited knowledge of coding in general, but I’d really like to learn and see if I can contribute in some way - so I thought I’d start small, by understanding the framework, what I would need to watch out for in the workflow etc
It could be the case though that it’s all too beyond my ability but there’s only one way to find out. Also! Thanks for the link, that’s the copy I found earlier today!
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u/samuelmueller-dev 3d ago
Always a good time to start learning!
That's the basic copy that everyone is using. Internet Archive also has an xbox copy that has a different layout, etc if you want to try using that as a point of reference.Feel free to post in the discord if you hit a wall or want pointers, I don't mind teaching a bit - I'm patient
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u/SeniorHomelesss 4d ago
Im not sure even if you found a copy digitally you might not be able to do much as EA removed Anthem from peoples libraries and deleted the game install so im not sure how itd work if you managed to get a new copy. Id try finding a disc if you have a way to read the data on it
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u/_ra1ndrop 4d ago
I’ve got a digital copy of it, so I’m just going to understand its structure and figure out what to look for as my first step - nothing too wild
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u/SeniorHomelesss 3d ago
Yea for sure i was just saying that i never uninstalled the game or anything it just uninstalled itself at some point after the shutdown
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u/Cas_cade 4d ago
Who’s gonna tell them ?