Will DA4 have an accessible MP?

Jul 10, 2017 20:53:02 GMT LukeBarrett said:

Jul 10, 2017 12:22:47 GMT @carefull said:

Hi good folks. I've never really felt like playing DAIMP, because it's too much like a dungeon & gearing is nuts, so the game is pretty much a non-starter for a latecomer, but I was wondering if they are going to put an MP in DA4 & make it as accessible as ME versions of it?

What specifically do you consider makes MEMP accessible compared to DAIMP? (I'm not disagreeing at all, I'm just curious about your specific examples)

I came to both games late, in late 2016. I had never played a coop before, but have some (small) experience in objective based PvP (SWTOR) and dungeons (SWTOR, BnS), about a couple of years combined.

In MET, I quickly read through the intro guides on the net, grabbed a Human character with powers, loaded a Bronze game, and was able to play through no problems, and ended up logging in 150 hours with fast pugs and even got as far as gold with friends, tried a bunch of chars and just started Andromeda MP after I tore myself from SP.

In DA:I, I started reading to prep to try to load into an MP game, and while the game was newer, the following put me off even trying to pug once:

I was told the pugging is very slow, and I am normally a pug-player.

1. It appeared that unlike MET, the promotion system really made my starter character into a non-participant compared to the old-timers

2. Crafting gear system in DA. Which means you have to know what stats you want on your gear on which character, and work for each armor set or sword, while in MET it just unlocks levels no-brainer style

3. Looting system that involved loot sharing more like in raids, that also necessitated characters of particular class to open the doors.

4. Dungeon crawl style, that meant that this late in the game the old-timers will be rushing through the dungeons at a neck-breaking speed while I am lost somewhere in the beginning (meaning a kick probably)

5. Repeat drops in loot extending the gear grind by unknown time

6. The estimated length of an entry level match is 15 min in MET, 30 min in DAI:MP, so if you don't like it, you'll be done sooner in MET

7. Between 1 through 6, I felt that DAIMP is designed for people with 4+ hrs a day to play, rather than 1-2 hrs, and that it is extremely new player unfriendly. And there was no tutorial that I could see or explanation of what I would be doing (props to Andromeda for including one).

8. Finally, DAI:MP relies on trinity, rather than an all-out DPS style of MET/MEA crazy adrenaline-rush faceroll which tbh is more to my liking at this point of my life

EDIT: I also did not make it that far in a study of what you get in the DAIMP character wise, but my understanding was it was not 3 abilities like in MET/MEA MP, and I prefer everything to be easily thumbed through on my mouse & DAIMP chars are pre-named or something like that, unlike the blank slate in ME