ME3MP and MEAMP: How do they compare?

MEA had a few smart changes I like, but it's completely drowned by the fundamental mechanical problems, rampant glitches, many bad design choices, horrid balance and complete lack of support moving forward.

Take a hard pass on this one.

MEAMP is fucking basura.

Here's the things I like better in ME:A MP:
- No Collectors BS
- No Geth stunlocks BS
- Vanguards are playable off-host
- Two good melee characters (Angara Avenger, Asari Duelist)
- Far less sync-kills
- All characters have jetpacks and full maneuverability
- No button needed to use cover (which was also used for everything else)
- No BS ladders that don't work at the worst possible moment
- Full 3D movement and not the pseudo-3D like in ME3
- Warp isn't on every other kit like in ME3
- No lag when healing, even as the toon goes down (rather than wasting an ops pack + medigel)
- No shared ammo boxes (finally, more than one player can spam grenades)

Things I like better in ME3 MP:
- Quarians (how could I forget?)!
- And Volus were entertaining rolling down ramps, but yeah
- Four factions vs. three
- No Fiend teleporting grabs/kills BS
- Sniping works off-host
- Totally OP'ed toons (such as GI and edibot)
- Grabs in cover (although the nerf vs. Geth Pyro was BS)
- Cooldowns are generally faster
- Warp is not available on any kits (so far) in ME:A
- Reload cancelling (it's a bug-feature!)
- True one-shot kill weapons
- No UR glut and collecting the same weapon 4 times
- Rockets actually kill things
- More variety with melee attacks (I miss the Batarian hate surfing)
- A lot easier to chain explosions to take out everything
- Hazard maps (although at times they can be more frustration than anything)

Probably forgetting some stuff. Anyway, for a scrub like me, I enjoy the much greater freedom of movement in ME:A. It's really cool to jump off the top of a building to then Biotic Charge, launch Shockwave, etc.

Although Cryo Beam is cool, I much prefer playing the ME3 HE. Those chain fire explosions just don't happen in ME:A.

Generally, I found sniping and engineers more fun in ME3, vanguards more fun in ME:A, and biotics about equal. All in all, I like having both games... some characters are more suited for ME:A's playstyle and some are better in ME3, so now I can pick and choose.

The bad tremendously outweighs the good. Turn the other way and run before you learn the truth about this criminal disaster.

Wait, ME3 MP is still alive? and if it is, do you know how alive it is?
Because, if it is more alive then just slightly breathing, i think i just go back to that.

ME3MP is fun, addictive, unpredictable, cooperative

MEAMP is a generic third person shooter,
boring, repetitive, everyone is running and shooting, cover is useless
almost no coop powers

It is alive, I played it a few days ago.

One sucks, the other doesn't. Not much to it.

(Hint, ME3 is the one that does not suck).

I'd take the + away from freedom of movement because really it's not more free in my opinion. I don't know why people like jetpacks. I think they're retarded. Just imagine a real conflict, now think of the guy who jumps out of cover and yells "Hey I'm right here!". Not real smart. And besides all that, jetpacks allowed the devs to build crappy maps with no flow. Combat rolls are far superior to jetpacks(and also were unique to species).

I'd also put a +/- on the cover system. It is better in some ways but hard cover in ME3 had advantages too and enemies in MEAMP can shoot you most of the time when you are in 'soft' cover even when you cannot target them. So the MEA cover systems' benefits are cancelled out and possibly pushed to a negative.

Its very alive, I play pretty much every day.
Can be a bit slow, but definitely still going.

On 1 you can find a pug game pretty fast, on the other you have jetpacks.

Marvel at my thoughts 2 days after game launch.
bsn.boards.net/thread/5855/first-impressions-on-xb1

MEAMP is in a lot better state than it was at launch (in particular, powers are actually worth using since Patch 1.06). Whether you personally will find it fun, I can't say.