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Anthem‘s release date is quickly approaching, but before it arrives, BioWare and EA have lined up a couple of demos for the game. The first demo, which is coming up this weekend, is limited to VIPs – that means people who have either pre-ordered the game or are subscribed to EA Access or Origin Access. BioWare detailed what players can expect from the VIP demo today, as well as confirming the times it’ll take place.

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The Anthem VIP demo kicks off tomorrow, January 25 at 12:00 PM Eastern. It’ll run through January 27, but BioWare hasn’t given a precise end time for it. Those who are granted access to the VIP demo will also be given three different codes to invite friends.

Those who pre-ordered digitally though EA, the PlayStation Store, or the Xbox Store don’t need to do anything else to be included in the demo. However, if you pre-ordered a digital copy elsewhere or opted for a physical copy pre-order, you’ll need to enter the code you were given by the retailer over at the Anthem website. The demo is available for pre-loading now on PS4, Xbox One, and Origin, but obviously, it won’t unlock until tomorrow.

You won’t be able to get your friend codes until you’ve booted up the demo for the first time, and after you’ve done that, you once again need to head to the Anthem website to receive them. BioWare also shared a list of minimum and recommended PC specifications for the Anthem demo, so check below to see if your computer is up to the task of running this game:

Minimum requirements

Operating system: 64-bit Windows 10
Processor (Intel): Intel Core i5 3570
Processor (AMD): AMD FX-6350
Graphics card (NVIDIA): GTX 760
Graphics card (AMD): Radeon 7970/R9280X
Video memory: 2GB GPU RAM
Memory: 8GB System RAM
Hard drive space: At least 50GB of free space
DirectX: DirectX 11
Internet connection: 512 kbps or faster stable internet connection

Recommended specifications

Operating system: 64-bit Windows 10
Processor (Intel): Intel Core i7-4790 3.6GHz
Processor (AMD): AMD Ryzen 3 1300X 3.5 GHz
Graphics card (NVIDIA): NVIDIA GTX 1060/RTX 2060
Graphics card (AMD): RTX 2060/AMD RX 480
Video memory: 4GB GPU RAM
Memory: 16GB System RAM
Hard drive space: 60GB
DirectX: DirectX 11
Internet connection: 512 kbps or faster stable internet connection

If you haven’t pre-ordered Anthem (give yourself a pat on the back for that one), you’ll still be able to participate in a demo, just not the one this weekend. Next weekend, beginning on February 1, BioWare and EA will host a demo that’s free for anyone and everyone. We imagine it’ll follow the same kind of structure as this demo, with pre-loading going live a couple of days before on all of Anthem‘s supported platforms.

In other Anthem news, BioWare lead cinematic animator Tal Peleg recently tweeted that the game has gone gold. That, of course, means that the game has been finished and is headed to manufacturing so physical copies can be prepared for launch. It also means that barring some kind of unforeseen disaster, Anthem will indeed meet its release date and won’t be suffering more delays.

Anthem was originally scheduled to launch in late 2018, but EA and BioWare ended up moving that release date back to early 2019 before eventually settling on February 22. You can read more about preparing for the demo over on EA’s help site, and be sure to head down to the comment section and let us know if you’re planning on participating in either the VIP demo this weekend or the open demo next weekend!

Story Timeline

Apolyton Demogame: The Cold War

The key focus in the turns following construction of the Great Library was lining up some kind of trade partner, as our team was running the danger of getting locked out of the trading loop. Remember that we had made out like bandits in the first round of exchanges following the discovery of Alphabet. However, we had gotten very little since then, and we had completely missed out of the latest brokering group. The darned Templars were amazingly the big winners this time:

The Templars had gone after Metal Casting tech, something everyone else ignored, and due to its monopoly status they managed to land a major tech haul in return. Good for them - this was one of the few nice moves that they pulled off in the whole game. (It didn't hurt that PAL and Imperio obviously didn't see Templars as a major threat, and therefore had no problem trading with them.) Given the atrocious teching rate of the Templar team (21 turns to research Metal Casting!), we knew that they wouldn't be able to keep this up much longer... but in the immediate future, it was pretty bad news!

The only deal we had lined up was a trade for Civil Service with PAL. Recapping the negotiations that led to the above post:

We requested to swap in Horseback Riding for Drama, as our team was seriously worried about Imperio's growing power and wanted the ability to train horse archers and war elephants. We could build the war elephants because PAL had agreed to trade us ivory in exchange for a source of wines. (We asked PAL if they would cancel their ivory for gold deal with Imperio and replace it with a gems for gold deal, but they refused. PAL clearly wanted to supply both Realms Beyond and Imperio with ivory and let us fight it out, which was an excellent metagaming balance-of-power move. Well played.)

We did not want to trade with PAL, the dominant power in the game, yet our team was in a Prisoner's Dilemma situation. Trading with PAL was a losing proposition for everyone in the game, but at the same time, if we didn't trade with them then everyone else would, and we would only end up further behind. We knew full well that PAL was going to clean up another haul of techs with Civil Service. Still, what else could we do? All of the available choices were bad ones. At least this way we would get some return on our Aesthetics/Literature research.

So we did manage to get Civil Service from PAL, trading for it on T112. We had also just completed researching the critical techs of Monarchy (T108) and Mathematics (T112), which allowed Realms Beyond to double-revolt into Hereditary Rule and Bureaucracy. Our team had been slowed down for some two dozen turns by our lack of happiness resources, yet now that artificial limit was coming off and our team was starting to explode in growth:

The whole time, we had been pestering Imperio to carry out some kind of trade with us: Aesthetics/Literature for Monarchy, then Aesthetics/Literature for Mathematics, then Aesthetics/Literature for Currency. They rarely responded to us, and our team was pessimistic that we would ever get anything out of it. Yet we kept trying:

Two weeks went by, with no word from Imperio aside from a short note that they were considering the deal. Meanwhile, as we tried to negotiate a deal, Imperio began to show signs of impending hostility with us. Recall that our Non-Aggression Pact (NAP) was due to run out on T120, which was less than a dozen turns away. Imperio had the potential to field a powerful military, with their possession of Construction, Civil Service, and Feudalism techs. Furthermore, for no apparent reason they began running 10% on the Espionage slider and allocated all those points to our team. That was a strange move, and seemingly a waste of valuable commerce that could be going into research instead. We soon found out why they were doing it, however:

Imperio used a spy to pillage our copper resource! The idea was good, but the timing itself was bizarre, to say the least. Imperio all but told us that they were planning future aggression, dialing our warning meter up to full, long before any attack itself arrived. If they did want to attack, they should have waited until the outbreak of the war and then pillaged our copper source, which would have been a lot more damaging. Instead, we simply moved a pair of workers back to Cape Town and reconnected the resource, building a couple of archers at Cape Town in the meantime. The writing was on the wall: a Cold War had started with Imperio.

Note the date on the above picture, T112. And then on T114, out of the blue, one of the strangest moments in the game popped up:

For no apparent reason, Imperio agreed to the Currency trade with us! It made no sense, as Imperio was actively working to sabotage our team and building up an army that could only be intended to attack Cape Town. And Currency was a huge tech for us, opening up markets and those yummy extra trade routes in every city. The bigger the civ, the more important extra trade routes tend to be - and we were the largest civ on the planet! Imperio's decision to make the trade made no sense. Were they our enemy, or weren't they?!

More good news came rolling in as our team met up with Donovan and Team Banana:

We finally had contact with all six teams! PAL was even kind enough to allow our units to meet each other, which was probably a bad decision on their part. With Banana, we finally had another team that could serve as a real trading partner. Neither of us were anywhere close to one another, literally on the opposite ends of the two starting continents, and we both had ample reason to work together against PAL and Imperio. Best of all, Banana was actually strong enough to serve as a true research partner, unlike the crippled Rabbits team. It was a natural strategic partnership, each of us being able to help the other against their powerful nearby neighbor (Imperio and PAL respectively).

The critical bottleneck tech was Metal Casting, which had been researched by the Templars and traded around to everyone other than us. Remember, this was a game with 'No Tech Brokering', so we could only get Metal Casting from the Templars and no one else. If we could somehow get it from them, we could then trade a mixture of techs that we had researched (Aesthetics + Literature + Monarchy + Horseback Riding) to Banana for Machinery, which they had lightbulbed with a Great Engineer from the Pyramids. Furthermore, Donovan told us that he was researching Feudalism currently, and that along with Machinery, plus ivory for war elephants, would put us on even terms with Imperio.

And yet we knew that Templars had negotiated some kind of 'no-trading' agreement against us with Imperio, where both teams agreed not to trade with Realms Beyond. Dastards! The only thing to do was lean on Templars, and lean on them hard. The diplomacy team went to work again; first we lobbied Imperio to trade Currency to us, and once they did that, we turned around and used that deal to drive a wedge between Templars and Imperio!

And when Templars didn't respond to the above email, we were even more explicit in pointing the finger at Imperio:

Another two weeks went by with no response. And then, late one night when I was typing something up on the forums, Hercules of the Templars started sending me a series of Personal Messages (PMs). After asking me, 'But just to confirm you have Literature,?' (which was absolutely hilarious as they had congratulated us for building the Great Library in their last email! ), we chatted and successfully negotiated an Aesthetics + Literature + Horseback Riding for Metal Casting deal. Huge break for Templars? Quite the opposite! We immediately swung around and sent Monarchy + Aesthetics + Literature + Horseback Riding to Banana for Machinery (and an agreement to trade for Feudalism later). Along with our own Construction research and possession of ivory, we could now build maces and elephants. That would allow us to face Imperio on even terms if they decided to get frisky. What a coup!

As I told my teammates, all we had to do was keep leaning on the Templars and they would eventually be willing to cut us a deal. Persistence really paid off in this game.

Also, just to set the record straight, we had no desire to attack the Templars at this juncture. Maybe we would have done it eventually (we had floated the idea of an attack at some point far down the road), but our goal right now was entirely to defend ourselves from an Imperio attack at Cape Town. Templars would later accuse us of negotiating in bad faith. But as sunrise was posting in our forum:

We wanted to extend a Non-Aggression Pact for another 20 turns after it ran out. It was the TEMPLARS who rejected that. We were the ones who wanted to form a three-way teching alliance along with Banana. It was the TEMPLARS who rejected that too. We adhered to every treaty we signed with the Templars, and never initiated any aggression against them. If anyone was at fault for the breakdown in relations between our teams later, it was certainly not the Realms Beyond!

Here was where our team stood 115 turns into the game:

As shown in the above picture, we were building the Hanging Gardens inside Pink Dot, following another elaborate plan in the 'Operation: Hanging Gardens' thread!

Yes, there were really eight different plans on how to build the Hanging Gardens most effectively! As with the Great Library, our guys just went crazy with the micro work, coming up with tighter and tigher plans to get the wonder done faster and faster. (Something tells me that regoarrarr and Ruff weren't being too productive at work on these days, hehe!) Now we didn't want the Hanging Gardens all that badly for ourselves - though of course it wouldn't hurt - but more so because we wanted to deny the wonder to PAL, who was racing us for the lead in city count and would benefit immensely from its construction. Thanks to our extensive chopping micro work, we completed the Gardens in a mere six turns (including the aqueduct!) and finished it on T118.

Much later, we would gain visibility on all the cities on PAL's continent, and saw that the city of Thebes suspiciously had an aqueduct located inside it. Evidently we had raced them to the wonder and gotten there first - ha!

To round out our status in the game at this point, I will post part of my 'State of the Empire: Turn 115' writeup, an overall evaluation of our current position compared to the other teams:

All of the numbers reflected our rising status on the international stage, as Realms Beyond began to separate itself from the pack and join the PAL/Imperio co-leaders. Economically, we continued to move from strength to strength. Due to pure dumb luck, we landed the 'Soldiers Returning from War' event a SECOND TIME!

Then we completed our slickly-managed Hanging Gardens, for another population point in each city on top of the free ten food:

And finally, we produced a Great Scientist in China Beach after those long turns of running specialists, and used him for an Academy in the capital. That allowed us to research Construction in a mere two turns of deficit spending!

We'd come a long way from struggling along to Monarchy while suffering under a crippling lack of happiness!

Throughout this period, we continued to run numbers constantly on our rivals, especially Imperio. All of this C&D info continued to pay off handsomely, as we literally tracked every single Imperio military unit through a combination of Soldier Count and the use of a scouting chariot that ran around within Imperio's borders. (Why Imperio never told us to kick this unit out, or why they never bothered to scout our territory with their own units, I have no idea.) Our thread on 'Rival Militaries' looked like this:

By knowing the exact composition of Imperio's military, there were no surprises lurking for us in the fog. We even knew what Imperio was going to build in the future, due to tracking production in their cities via C&D. These numbers were updated every single turn:

I've seen many Demogame teams do some numbers analysis with the Demographics screen, but never to the extent that our team did in this game. We could therefore assess how many units we needed to build ourselves, where to position them, and know ahead of time if emergency whips would be necessary. Imperio tried again to sabotage our resources a little bit later, but this time their spy failed, losing the spy and wasting Espionage Points. We continued to feel that Imperio's diversion of commerce into espionage spending was a silly waste of resources, and their actions gave away any possibility of surprise. Thus the Cold War rolled on, as we drew closer to the end of our Non-Aggression Pact...

At the Cape, we were chopping all of the forest tiles on the approach routes to the city:

The chop hammers went into production of elephants and maces, while we grew Cape Town up to size 6. That was the city's limit on size until the arrival of Biology, where it would get 18 shields/turn base, doubled to 36/turn when building military. Almost good enough for 2t maces and elephants, and indeed good enough once we could add a Forge later. Now this is still rather sad for a Heroic Epic city, but given the land we had available, it was the best we could do... and it made a real difference in the ongoing Cold War against Imperio!

Imperio still lacked Machinery tech (they actually hadn't met Banana as yet), so their military was very heavy on elephants, longbows, and catapults:

We were researching Engineering, which we had an agreement to trade to Banana for Feudalism. (The road movement bonus and potential ability to train pikeman didn't hurt either!) We were also hoping to trade it to PAL for something along the Liberalism line (Education or Nationalism), but they weren't budging in that area. As we continued to grow in power and influence, PAL had less and less to do with us. I can't say I blame them, since they had plenty of other trading partners and we were turning into more and more of a threat on the international stage.

Turn after turn passed, as we drew close to the end of our Non-Aggression Pact with Imperio. T120 came and passed with the end of the NAP, however both sides remained at peace, watching and waiting. A standoff developed, with our team pouring defenders into Cape Town and Imperio building up on their side of the border at Chichen Itza. Imperio's units looked pretty scary, but 'General' sunrise was our tactical mastermind, and had full command of the tense standoff:

We tried to dissuade Imperio from considering aggressive action against us, arguing that this would merely throw the game to PAL:

But in typical Imperio fashion, they made no attempt to respond and continued building more military units. We were tracking their builds via C&D, which allowed us to see that their three core cities (Mutal, Lakamha, and Chichen Itza) were all doing nothing but military, one build after another. Along with the fact that Imperio was in Vassalage instead of Bureaucracy (another curious choice!), their actions weren't exactly subtle. Imperio was planning to attack someone, and it didn't look like it was going to be the Templars...

Therefore our main diplomatic goal was ensuring that the Templars either sided with us in what appeared to be a looming conflict, or at least agreeing to remain neutral. We asked them to enter into a three-way trading agreement with our team and Banana, with each civ researching one tech and them exchanging them around to one another:

For the umpteenth time, the Templars failed to respond to our message. Yet Donovan soon contacted us, with the following news:

This was good news; our three teams were all behind Imperio and PAL, the game's tech leaders, and it made sense for us to collaborate to catch up. Although the Templars never actually responded to us in person, Donovan was adamant that they wanted to be part of a three-way exchange of techs, with each of us supplying Construction (RB), Drama (Templars), and Calendar (Banana). Yet, in typical Templar fashion, we saw the Templars shortly trade Theology to Imperio for Compass and Construction, neatly invalidating the deal we had worked out. When we sent them a message asking them to explain, Hercules sent this rather lame response back:

This was at best disingenous, and much more likely an outright lie. If Templars knew that they had a deal lined up with Imperio, why did they deliberately allow us to think that they were going to participate in a three-way trade with us and Banana? Their trades went through with Imperio and Banana, but they unilaterally decided to alter the terms of our deal?! Pretty low for the supposedly honorable Templar warriors. Our team started to draw closer to Banana, as Donovan was the only one in the game who actually seemed interested in dealing with us fairly. Donovan was even nice enough to send us his only source of iron, so that we could build pikes, in exchange for our team agreeing to send him horses upon request - which we would indeed fulfill later on in the game. (PAL also would have been an excellent partner, but our respective roles in the game didn't really allow us to work together.)

We paused from the military buildup briefly to chop out another wonder in the deep south as part of 'Project Colossus':

Demo Game The 100

We discussed this over as a team, and ultimately it was agreed to go with the plan. Everything went according to schedule perfectly, and we landed the Colossus on T131. I'd say more, but by now our team was used to this sort of thing. No surprises and nothing special was good news!

As the standoff at Cape Town continued to build, we incredibly popped a second copper resource at the same city!!!

Dunno what the odds were of that happening, had to be something like a million to one. What a strange game this had been!

Imperio kept on moving their units around within their territory, grouped together into what we started calling the uberstack:

And now the Templars started moving some incredibly outdated and decrepit units up close to our eastern border!

Demogame The 100

Jeez, don't tell us that they're going to jump into this conflict too! The Cold War was heating up in a real hurry, and the game was about to get a lot more interesting...