Better bosses/enemies in the next game

I had actually forgot about the architects they are that boring. I was thinking of the destroyer. It’s pretty basic. Stay in cover when the autofire is going pop out and pop up and shoot an arm while avoiding the timed big cannon. If it moved faster had a giant leap at you move and it’s close range move was faster I’d dig it.


Edit to add. The more I think about it it’s also the elite units. I mean observer and the mini gun dude actually were less threatening than the run of the mill unit. The outcasts/rokkar had okay elite units but they were more defense oriented either stealing shields or reflecting attacks, they needed a more threatening unit.

I suspect some of this is the open world in action. You can’t have kill you in 1 second dudes as often when cover is consistently 5 seconds away. But I just never felt pressured in mea outside the remnant tiller. ME3 while not super hard or anything had points that challenged me if I didn’t slow walk it too much.

As merely elite enemies, the only thing missing from the attack arsenal of the ascendants, destroyers and architects in ME:A was mobility to match the increased amount of mobility the player had.  They were unique elite mobs whose attacks were quite a bit different from the other mobs in the game... so they did serve their purpose and add variety to the game.

That’s a big thing to be missing which is why I brought up how open world design probably effected this. And even then though only the destroyer and atlas clone had threatening enough attacks to worry about with increased mobility. Unless you somehow manage to let yourself get sync killed the other 2 had such a large delay between attacks you had to work to be killed by them.

It's too bad Harbinger couldn't take control of the proto reaper. I do agree with the above post that shooting the supports should be enough to deal with 3-eyes.

I like the fiend. It was great seeing it grab the duck, take a big bite out her/him, then smash them to the ground like a piece of crap.

The fight with the kett-in-a-bubble was alright.

Fighting the grasshopper at the end of ME1 was...yeah, sure, whatever.

Even the fight with Leng was lame. On Thessia, have the guy start fighting, then a few phantoms show up. Shepard has to deal with them. While that's going on, Leng leaves the fight to grab the info, then leaves just as Shepard finishes with the phantoms.

Maybe I wasn’t clear enough previously, but yes the close world and reduced mobility added some of their boss difficulty in me3 and similarly open worlds and increased mobility reduced the challenge of many enemies in mea. Which style of mobility is the fail is largely a matter of taste.

And yes people will die in the fights. That’s less about the challenge of the enemies ability or attack pattern and more about the length of the fight. In a long enough fight it’s easy for anyone to make a mistake. And the architects had one move the autofire laser that could kill you quick if you were out of cover when that started shooting. The architects could work as a tough enemy even with a static position but it shouldn’t only spawn remnant when it’s attack is down for a while. If you had to both pay attention and deal with remnant while avoiding the architects attacks it could be a legitimately challenging fight and not a if we draw this fight out long enough people will get impatient and make a mistake style difficulty. If it continuously spawned enemies and it was mobile that would be a epic fight. I’ve died in architect fights and every time it was for the same reason. I got bored with how long it was taking so I took a stupid risk to try and speed it up. The only challenge is to my patience.

The end boss fight I don’t remember too well but that if I recall was actually reasonably difficult as it has what I was talking about. A boss with multiple spawning enemies giving you a lot to deal with so it wasn’t just a simple learn to listen for the guns about to go sound effect. But again I’m talking more about elite units than the end boss fight.

The Krogan battlemaster suffers from the same flaw as all the enemies in ME1.  They spawn in exactly the same place and run exactly the same pattern of attack in every single playthrough.  The Krogan battlemaster will move to Shepard's left as a geth moves to the right to get to the cover that is to Shepard's right and behind coverr and two geth will run to the cover that is slightly behind them and to their left as they face you.  If Kaidan is along, the KBM can be dropped with a single neural shock.  Warp will also leave him quite vulnerable.  Lift or singularity will also make the fight a snap.  Sure, on the first playthrough, any of the fights can be tough, but only because the player is unfamiliar with the enemies.  Most frequently, new players attempt Therum right after leaving the Citadel for the first time, so the KBM is the first elite enemy the player usually faces.  They also are usually very unfamiliar with using their powers at all and often are sitting are Level 7 (maybe Level 10 if they did a thorough job clearing the Citadel of side quests).  If the player doesn't go to Therum early and learns about using powers (as opposed to just gunning their way through the playthrough), the KBM is a pushover, really.  After the first playthrough, he's completely predictable as well.

That seems to be bosses in general though. I can predict just about any pattern of attack for any boss in the ME games, but I'm just talking about the effect on a fresh run where you don't know anything about the boss. I thought it was pretty effective, even if a subsequent playthrough is perfectly predictable.