Anyone else wish you could inspect team loadouts?

Well... I would say "No".

I've been playing my Kineticist for 500 odd hours now. I've gotten so used to her style of play that I could probably pick the strangest combination of evolutions and still rock her equally as well as I run her right now. Anyone looking at the power evolutions wouldn't know how well I play her.

I gather it'll be the same for other character kits.

Sure, certain power sets would be much better, but it's not a guarantee that the player with said power evolution would even use it well or appropriately. So being able to see such evolution list seems nothing more than a tool for players to pick on others with. So again, I would say "No".

Yeah, that would be cool.

I would also like BIGGER ICONS in the lobby as well as TEXT LABELS (in a readable font size). I don't know which of the blurry circles means what, for Boosters and shit.

Like I want to see if someone has Incendiary Ammo equipped before I decide to bring a Human Engineer, for example.

After seeing numerous people with Apex 15000 - 20000 play underwhelming...

I don`t think I care about anything I see before game starts.

Serious.

You can't really judge somebody on one performance... we all have bad games sometimes, off days, especially if I'm trying something new for the first time or a character that i'm unfamiliar with compared to the ones I have more experience with and tend to do better with. I suck with the Exemplar and don't really like it but I'm pretty decent with the Insurgent.

We've all been there. Especially when you're expected to carry other people, it's late, you've got maybe 100k credits to go, perhaps trying to do a platinum hack as the designated infiltrator, there's a minute remaining and all it goes sideways because I un-cloack accidently at the most un-opportune moment and now there's two Ascendents and a Fiend and a congo of Blaze Krogans and Hydras sitting in my hack and it's looking like a waste of 20 minutes of everyone's time and I hear Shepard's eternal words in my head... I should go.

As someone who grinded all the challenges (guns & powers), I know all about weird builds..... or not using powers to only shoot a crap ass weapon, or only spamming 1 power like Pull (holding enemies and running away from teammates so it does more damage while holding them).

But would you do that in Platinum?  Would you jump into a Platinum game, with a Gladiator just trying to get Pull or Annihilation field points, knowing that crazy setup means enemies squashing your ass most of the time?  Knowing all 4 players need to carry their own weight, and now you're putting more pressure on the other 3 while you work on a sole challenge?

Weird loadouts in Gold or lower now = people wouldn't have an issue.....as an FYI, soloing bronze is an excellent way to complete some of the shittiest powers & guns.  But coming into Platinum with a crazy loadout?  I don't see how that would be fair to the teammates on the 1 difficulty that needs people to actually work together.

I'd rather have a "Mute All" button that remembers my choice for future games.

Not to be an ass, but you don't see the irony in telling someone THEY'RE overthinking something....... then proceed with a hypothetical scenario of blaming others for a team failure and absolving yourself of potential blame?

That's just asking for thinking!

Especially when 1 sentence says you can't carry beyond gold with a weird build, but feel blaming you for a failed mission isn't fair because others weren't doing their part.  Implying their part is to carry you?

Aside from semantics, solo'ing bronze might be boring.  But adding potentially 5-10 minutes to Platinum because someone is deciding not to use their best power is potentially boring (but mostly aggravating) to 3 players.  Math alone says the 3 players needs outweigh that of the 1 player. 

One of the worst players I have played with had an apex rating over 40k and had a hurricae siphon X. He even had the audacity to try and bark orders from the grave. Judging a book by its cover is not a good idea. Not to mention we dont need anything else to slow people down in the lobby.

I already wear multifocals.

This has nothing to do with my eyesight and everything to do with the fact that developers work on giant 4K monitors 1 foot from their face and never test their font sizes on 5-year-old TVs 8 feet away from the couch.

Font sizes are TOO FUCKING SMALL in pretty much every game made in the last couple of years.

Apart from it probably never getting implemented anyways because of obvious reasons - I also don't think it would really help.

Already in ME3MP we had (and still have) people with Challenge Ratings in the 130k+ range and hundreds of hours of playtime scoring abysmal with OP guns and kits while you're wondering: "What the Hohenzollern are they doing??!" Paladins and EDI bots not using Snap Freeze, Geth Infiltrators not using Proxy Mine, putting Sniper Rifles instead of Assault Rifles on their Turian Ghost...you get the picture.

Then again, there are those with much lower ratings and seemingly strange weapon/equipment choices blowing your mind away with their performance - leaving you wondering: "How the hell does he do that?" And you might've questioned his skill choices if you'd seen them beforehand.

Also, I do believe there are lots of players who don't go out of their way to inform themselves about the mechanics of a video game - they simply want to have fun and don't really care about the ins and outs. In fact, I personally do still play ME3MP quite regularly with an ingame friend who doesn't care about "optimal" builds and who considers reload-canceling, pizza-running and using the weapon weight glitch "cheating".

Knowing everything about their loadout may simply lead to them getting kicked out of lobbies way too often, prosecuting them for not knowing certain things.