Cryo Combos are a joke in Andromeda

I haven't played engineer yet, but I did notice that when I detonate cry explosions it seemed underwhelming.

As for armor, I finally got the extra damage to armor skill on frag grenades for my soldiers and hardly noticed a difference. I guess 50% of 0 is still 0. Seems like armor is much tougher in ME:A than ME:3 or is just me?

Engineer is very underpowered. I have engineer X lvl 17 and his level 6 turret just tickles enemie on gold. Level 6 cryo is only effective against the very few enemies and you take massive damage trying to use it.
Play the vanguard, adept, or infiltrator, and then tell me the engineer is even close to being on their level.

Actually the ME3 Turret was not so bad when decked out towards full power damage I used it to supplement my overall DPS not to mention the cause Phantoms to panic bubble.

TBH tech bursts were very hard to pull off in ME3MP at first, you had to kill a mob to trigger a cryo/fire explosion until the buffs. 

They need to revisit combos in general.


Let's not go crazy.

At the risk of the headaches? Nope.

I have been tolerating Flamer since it has been used to carry me, but better believe I'll be complaining as soon as I can stand on my own two feet.

Has anyone tested out if Biotic/Tech/Universal amps influence combodamage?

I'm taking your word for it once I feel bold enough to try MEAMP 

Most people I've encountered so far:

1. no
2. maybe but not likely
3. definitely not, everyone is hoarding level 1 boosters as if they won't have 200+ sitting around eventually
4. finally an occasional yes!
5. who knows?

I said that I specced completely for combos. of course I went for 66 and all passives.

and why would I spec for power damage when this thread is about combos?

I did not say I want to kill every mook with one blast. I said my cryo explosions are barely tickling them. and they are not even slowed down much.

did you try cryo explosions in andromeda yet?? hard to believe you did

It is not easy like really easy for me personally but, yes, it is more forgiving than ME3. Also, AI can be really silly, something is wrong with it when half of the enemies are running away from me chasing some other guy who just spawned on LZ on the other end of the map ignoring everything and I have to run after them. I understand that the enemies are deaf and cannot hear anything as lolfiltrators are completely invincible while running around with TC. That reminds me of DAIMP AI very much. In ME3, you hit harder and the enemies hit way harder. In MEA, you can get in a bad spot and will be overrun almost instantly. Otherwise, I think, most of the weapons and majority of powers have quite low general dps.It is not really needed, you can jet away or move out of danger having more mobility. I wonder what the cut off waves 7-10 actually had in them and why they were cut off. Three hydras? Two fiends? Do waves 8,9, 10 in ME3 make sense, there are no new bosses to fight, they are just a filler? Lol, so not true but whatever. Surely, if you can get through wave 5, you can get through wave 8, same thing repeats itself?

Alas, we probably would never know. Apparently it was a bit too much and too long for somebody. But to me it looks like we have a hybrid with experience obviously lacking as if it was taken from 10-wave game and put into a 6-wave game without any recalculation and numbers per level were taken exactly from ME3. We just get these numbers essentially halved. Seems like somebody just cut these waves during some stage of testing. After all, it is easier than rebalancing enemies and difficulties and readjusting weapons. So, we get trolling weapons as initially planned by somebody who never played anything, strange combo mechanic probably from the same source and I get the impression these two were never really put together or tested extensively. There is no obvious need as in its current state, it kind of sort of works. They even took challenge points numbers from ME3 where you had 140K points for weapon challenges and 50K for most powers. It is really amazing, I mean the extent of copy paste without any checking. They just conveniently forgot that maximum points in ME3 were around 400K per regular 20-22 min gold game while in MEA it barely can reach 70-80K in a 15-17 min standard MEA game.

IMO, nerfing rockets is a good thing but giving too few consumables in packs is a bad thing although there are already too many of these as the games are shorter. It does have some semblance of balance. However, I don't see a point in maxing manifest for practical reasons. Looks like most of the bad guns will remain bad despite having 10-15% higher damage at tier X versus tier I and good guns are already good at tier I. It was partially true for ME3 as well although eventually people realized that blood pack punisher can be quite stylish and good on a marksman class and well worth its UR status after some balance changes. Maybe, MEA hides some nice discoveries here as well. I'm very much afraid though that there won't be any balance changes this time, not on a weekly basis. It is too much work obviously. We'd be lucky if they do it DAIMP way, maybe once every couple of months based on some internal processing of feedback data.

tldr: We have some hybrid here with messy production history and parts glued together from ME3 and DAI with some unique additions.

Have you not seen? It's back in the game. Look at cryo beams last evo.