Biggest Problem with multiplayer

I'm talking all enemies.

I'm just going to leave it at these enemies are not fun to play against and let someone else break it down further if they want too. Since others always do a better job then me at breaking things down and nicely worded too.

I disagree that it's the enemies, although they are certainly impacted by what I believe to be the actual problem.

Weight.

There's no heft, no oomph, nothing hits. You almost have to use your imagination to round out that anything happens at all. Enemies are small and maps are bigger to allow for more of the floatier gameplay brought about by jetpacks. Headshots barely work off host and are rewarded with a reticule animation, as opposed to a popped melon. The fiend may as well be a housecat sneaking up on you, especially with the teleports. Guns, while buffed, still do not ring out like you've really done damage. The hardest hitting shotgun, the Dhan, has a projectile that appears ethereal whereas the Claymore fired pure, unrelenting hatred.

The enemies lack weight as well. Beserkers almost float when they deliver an elbow. There's no sound when they rush you, no footfalls at all. As a result you never feel like you're in danger, you only get to feel bored or annoyed. In a way, I can sympathize with the stupidity of "My Shields are down? How?"

The feel is just off - it just is. There is a disconnect between your actions and the results that just lacks a visceral aspect that was much more present in ME3MP. Don't believe me? Go back and play a Melee KroSent and watch how your actions register.

Gee, I would've said the biggest problem with multiplayer is p2p and people hosting with shit connections.

Not shit connections. Shit netcode.

ex-wife?

Yes. You are correct. Enemy design is a massive disappointment compared to even base ME3.

The problem is that there are pretty much two kinds of enemies:

- the things that shoot at you or use a one-off immediate ranged skill to damage you and run around aimlessly otherwise
- the bullet sponges that take ages to kill without a Vanquisher but have otherwise extremely predictable behavior (Remnant Destroyer, Kett Ascendant, Kett Fiend - and of course the Outlaw Berserker / Hydra but to a lesser extent than the other factions' offenders).

Outlaw faction is even worse, because their special abilities are mostly not-at-all-useful nonsense that's there as at best a placeholder.
- Pariah's backlash does nothing
- Agent's illusion does nothing
- Saboteur does something that I don't even know what it is?

Same goes for some others:
- Nullifier's shield does nothing
- Assemblers supposedly create Breachers but I honestly just see a swarm and some robots that shoot at you, lol

The sync attacks where you have to mash F are just annoying (I know it's a direct copy of husks from the reaper faction, but for whatever reason the Adhis doing it is much more frustrating instead of "oh shit")

Kett faction is stupid-unbalanced because they have two units that instantly kill you, but you don't get any extra bonus despite it being obviously harder. Also, these two units are bullet sponges that take ages to kill.

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Overall, the enemies' behavior is just generally "shoot and run around like headless chicken", there is nothing that would be interesting. No turrets, no DoT missiles, no monsters that fly at you and gobble you up (collector praetorian), no flamethrowers, no combat drones, no cloaking shotguns; and even what is a direct copy (pariah<->phantom, ascendant<->banshee, fiend<->brute, maybe even sharpshooter<->nemesis) are just somehow worse than the original.


In the end, the most interesting enemy in my opinion is the Observer, because it's flying. Every other enemy is just like the other, or an annoying bullet sponge that you just shoot at for half a minute because "lol artificial difficulty".

I hope for a DLC that changes every enemy behavior to something that's a bit more interesting...

Wasn't directed at you. Just somebody looking for a word, since all the words I know for that in my native tongue aren't really translateable.

Asked the person who already made two to threads today solely for complaining about either how others play the game or how the enemies are.

Dude even I, as somebody who bitches a lot, can tell you that you are your biggest problem with the multiplayer.

Don't play it if you dont like it, bitching and moaning fishing for sympathy here doesn't help.

VERY shit netcode indeed.

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