LF: the "trial" vets advice for newbs starting on the 21st

Shields regen faster in cover.

Right hand advantage no longer works as well (it still does, just not as reliable).

Aerial Dashes are faster then running on the ground and just superior in every way to every other form of movement in the game. Keep low to the ground to stay less exposed as well as faster movement as you only have one action in the air (note: may not be true, have been able to dash and nova from very high up) and the sooner you hit the ground, the sooner you can refresh your aerial actions.

Nova is faster from the air, you can also dash-cancel it into a melee hit.

Melee is by far stronger then anything else early game (unless you're lucky with boxes). Air Melee is also AoE and is an on-demand stagger. I believe Melee has a base damage of somewhere greater then 300, but less then 400 (level 1 no bonuses).

The Katana, which was decent in ME3, is now garbage. Just melee.

The Khett Ascendent can only execute while firing his ranged attack or his nova bubble. There's only small windows of time between those two actions, so until you can recognize those stay away. A Charge+Nova dash away will get you grabbed if you don't do so at the very end of their animations, but a Charge dash away won't typically.

Destroyers open up sometimes and reveal some glowy bits. Shoot those.

Outlaws are very easy.

Backlash can parry melee attacks, but good luck if you're lagging.

Lance can headshot.

The best starter weapon is the Avenger, or if you can get it the Charger.

Don't be discouraged if you used to farm plat in ME3 and can't even do bronze off the bat. The movement system needs to be adjusted to.

Use push to talk please, if you want to talk. So many open mics and background noises.

As for an overall opinion of enemy difficulty my mind says (from easiest to hardest),
Outlaw<Khett<Remnant
Outlaws are squishy, and don't do too much damage. They lack executes, and the Hydra is very slow and has telegraphed attacks slow as molasses.
The Khett do a fair bit of damage and has a few special units that are quite deadly. You have the Anointed, heavy machine gunners who will mow you down if you don't break LoS, the Destined, who stealth if shot at and have fairly accurate shotguns, Brutes I mean Fiends, Wraiths, dogs who stealth and chase you down with a stagger on hit melee, and the Ascendent who shoots cover piercing energy balls as well as an aura damaging ball around himself if you are close enough. He also executes.
The Remnants are jerks, like the Geth. Those energy beams from the flying ones track insanely well in the air, are constant, and deal massive amounts of damage. Other then that they aren't so bad, but Destroyers are probably the tankiest things in the game right now.

Send out Strike Teams! Mission Funds will probably be very useful.

Don't be like peebee. Point the gun at your enemy

In all seriousness, I would take a similar approach as in ME3 and start off by buying basic packs to unlock your common items and characters. This will help you progress with skill points upgrades and easy weapon upgrades you can use immediately rather than saving all your money to buy 1 expensive pack that may give you nothing useful. It will also help you grow your consumables which are invaluable at times.

It does not let you dodge on double tap of the awsd still?

I meant the jetpack evade. It has it's own button.

Krogan must headbutt eachother inbetween waves. If there are no krogan to headbutt you must headbutt the others. If a friendly krogan is headbutting you, you must headbutt them back or melee in a timely manner. Failure to do any is punishable by death in the empire.

Used a bit more of my time left in demo for nabbing a few image bits for reference mainly. (Most won't be for all vets, but general useful reference stuff.) Sorry on the cruddy image bit, but something quick was needed here with the time left.

There is no more quick recharge past the baseline 100%. Not anymore, basically you have the baseline 100% and degrees under which add times. Some powers run upwards of 20 seconds for recharge. 



From the image above, we have the weight thing. Note it doesnt go above 100%, so your baselines are always that. The other is with my heaviest stuff, it looks odd because it goes from 100% to something like -1% and down. To what i'm guessing is double recharge times at -100% (The best I could do with weight is what you see. And power times did not want to update to reflect)

That would likely mean that at -20% your 10 seconds are now 12s seconds and so on. So in a way, its more open, and sorta not. I didn't have enough time left to check if different characters had different weight values. (Sorry.)

Under that, from left to right is Ice Primer, Fire Primer, and Biotic Primer. Red for likely Unaligned or Soldier abilities (Frag Grenade, Flak Cannon) The usual Orange for Tech, Purple for Biotic. 

Bonus Stat, below that, is what that class works to permanently unlock for all classes when you get a level.

To the right, universally so for tech or biotics, the combo detonator icon for quick reference purposes.

excellent post, thanks for this. it's always great when people take the time to write such informative comments on the whole, how much would you say you've enjoyed what you've played so far?

I believe this is the only way to buy gear.

I saw that too, and immediately went to the store to see how much they cost.  And they aren't there.  Hopefully they'll show up for the full release!

The Turian Havoc can spec into things like that, it's not something all the characters get. (There is an option for improved damaged resistance while hovering under Fitness for all characters though)

I consider it suicide to hover though, especially on later waves of Silver, or Gold (I'd imagine)

Blind firing while in cover is incredibly accurate in comparison to other games. USE IT!

And ammo type consumables are way more useful than they've ever been. In my opinion some kits(like the human kineticist) requires them to be viable. So be sure to stockpile them early on.