Today's mandatory "Is this game worth playing?" thread

Posting here really is more fun than the game. I sincerely enjoy the tomfoolery in the threads and the validation of not needing to play anymore.

That makes sense from a "theorycrafting - did not try it yet" point of view.

However, the drop rate seems massively biased towards characters (or, for me, though maybe some of the other stuff I got from the store changes how things drop for me)?

*My* problem with all these new weapons is how long it takes to recustomize when you quick match into a mission which wants different weapons from your equpiped loadout:

• There's no selectable loadouts, so you can't just go "pick my favorite assault rifle / pistol / sniper / shotgun" set for this character
• There's no search by name so you wind up having to scroll through a long list of them
• maybe half the time when you re-equip a weapon the mods get unequipped so it takes that much longer (not that you would probably have that if you like a mixed weapon pair)
• And, of course, if you had any weapon specific boosts equipped you will have to change them also

So, anyways, I certainly agree that there are problems with these changes - I just think people are focusing on theory problems rather than problems which annoy me...


Edit:

Actually, looking closer, I think I was getting something not too far from equivalent amounts of character and weapon cards for my rares (well... maybe 2:1 in favor of characters - that's not "too far" is it?)  I picked up 80 rare character cards and something just under 40 rare weapon cards before I ran out of possibilities for character cards  from expert packs. 

Currently (I bought a couple expert packs after getting my batarian to xx and, once again, all my rare weapons were maxed before 1.09), my counts of ranks on these new weapon variants looks like this:

III: 1
II: 12
I: 12
(and 49 that I have not unlocked yet)

And that is a strange distribution - I would expect that my "II" count would be much lower than my "I" count if this were just random picks.

I think the store has always been giving characters first then weapons in the same rarity levels, no? Stats people?

This game sucks ass in comparison to ME3 but it's not about that. It's about whether you have fun playing it or not. For me the answer is no. I have more fun on other games like Overwatch but I can see how some people still have fun playing this. The longevity will never be there for the grind of this game.

To stay on topic, I couldn't tell you. I played a few matches following 1.05 and haven't touched it since.

I spent like 2.5 million credits but my Batarian is still at III or something...

I wonder why...

Been lucky enough to have him at 5. I get him once in every 3 or so reserve packs. Just think, I would have maxed him out by now if the new cards werent added...

Did you have all your rare characters maxed before you started spending those 2.5 million credits? If so, that seems very very odd.

I would expect something not too far from half characters and half weapons when that is possible. (I will fix my previous post, now that I have taken a look at my own numbers...)

The game being worth playin is all about what each person plays the game for. I love running around causing explosions and taking down entire spawns of enemies. I love bustin the heads of kett. I love watching scorewhores after every wave pause and look at the scoreboard and wonder why they are getting outscored by a level 1 batarian. I also love opening packs just to see what I get.... yeah...I do.
The game as it is now is good, you can average 3-4 premium packs an hour if you play right.

I love Witcher 3's multiplayer

My answer is: No.

I used to love this game, some might have seen me as a fanboy. I invested over 600 hours and enjoyed it quite a lot. I would actually say it was a better game than ME3MP all the way to patch 1.08. But patch 1.09 is a total joke, it ruined the game for me. I can't put up with this mindless grind anymore. Even with a pretty advanced manifest at my disposal as it is, I have had enough.

For someone starting a new, fresh manifest, the grind is insulting. And I am not talking about RNG per se, but rather the regular stuff you have to unlock to build your manifest. Characters go up to level XX, guns go virtually up to level XXXX, and weapons mods go up to rank X, however (please someone correct me in case things have changed) you won't be getting weapon mods at all until all characters and guns of that rarity are maxed out. So yeah, that puts things into perspective.