Anthem - Dr. Harken: the Complete Dialogue Collection (Cataclysm)

Here you can find every Dr. Harken’s dialogue from the Cataclysm quests. Since those quests are non longer available, and most likely will never get a chance to reply them, I decided to put every single conversation involving Harkin in a video. I heard many persons hadn’t the chance to complete those quests before the event expired and they have been left with an unfinished story. I made this video to give them a chance to experience the whole story of the infamous Dominion scientist turned (probably) Freelancer ally and to allow those who completed the Cataclysm story arc to re-watch those scenes. In all frankness the fact some players were unable to experience the Cataclysm full story arc because they hadn’t the chance to complete them before the event experience is a proof a bad design. Players should never cut off from the game story quest. Timed event should limit the access to special items not to the main story. It doesn’t matter if there was a constant timer acting as reminder. Some player may not have enough time to play often or other may be new to game. Let’s not forget the Cataclysm quests were available to those who completed Heart of Rage quest, namely the last mission of the “first arc”. The “new content” of Cataclysm brought a certain number of players to game and those players had to complete every single story quest of the first arc before being able to even start the Cataclysm ones, so it’s understandable not every of them had the chance to complete all of them before the event expired, sealing the access to the new quests forever. Talking about design mistakes I have to mention Vara’s final cutscene. During the last week of the event completing the Echoes of Reality mission was supposed to show a cutscene depicting Vara’s final defeat and her words about an alleged Harken’s involvement in the creation of the Cataclysm itself. I played that mission more than 25 times and the cutscene never ever played. Only a scree saying “cinematic in progress”. At first I thought it was because other players were skipping it but a couple of times the loading bar reached the end but no cutscene appeared and it’s possible it was another bug. Anyway, I understand the need to skip cutscenes when farming missions like that but they should have designed it in order to not deprive a player of the only chance to see that cutscene. They could have made it play right before the expedition results screen, so every player would have been free to decide if skipping it or not. For many player the storytelling in important. Story missions and “farming” missions should be separate for this very reason. They did it with Heart of Rage: story mission with cutscenes and stronghold “farming” mission without them. The second half of the Cataclysm content looked very rushed, if you ask my opinion. Anyway, I won’t make this text even longer. If you have any question feel free to ask. Thanks for watching :) Credits: Anthem, the related characters, names, concepts etc are Copyright of BioWare/EA This video has been made according to EA Video Policy: https://help.ea.com/en/article/how-to...