One Year Anniversary is March 21st

So, people don't want to get out from their comfort zone. I was talking about that.
I'm ok with changes made, you are not.
Also, most changes made were bugs in ME3 that were fixed in MEA, Incendiary ammo/warp, reload animation cancel etc...

That was easiest way, yes. I didn't played that way, I experimented, found other ways and had fun. Of course, fun in different way than in ME3.

Interesting...
Keep talking...

This is something I've also thought when people are raving about .. and the only kits usable are the few "edi with reegar" and stuff. Maybe I havent played it enough to understand though :dumb:

There's a couple things I would keep from MEA: if you disconnect, you get to keep the credits you have made, and the non-stick covers.
However, I think the jumpjets were a huge mistake. While it may work on a few kits, like the asari, but on 1-ton krogan and meaty batarians jumping around is absolutely ridiculous.
The krogan basically lost their essence with the removal of the heavy melee system and by adding the jumpjets, they lost their feeling of "being punchy", too. (Not even mentioning the 12-year old kids voicing them).
On the mechanics: it is quite mind-boggling why the removed the head-popping and that minimal gore that ME3 had. With that, they lost the feeling of the weapons having punch as well.
Shooting stuff in MEA to me feels like shooting at memory foams mattresses - while shooting the canopy of an Atlas with a Claymore or a Raider or a Wraith feels like I'm wrecking the shit out of it.
Or the feeling of popping the head of a Dragoon with an Executioner Pistol. It is especially weird because this ME game was made "18+" and yet we have absolutely no gore and the voice actors sound whiny and like they haven't finished 5th grade yet.

And how 'bout you get off your high horse?

People provide valid descriptions of what they find lacking, and like an egomaniacal child, you try pissing on them to make yourself feel better. Their points are no more or less valid than your own subjective opinion on the matter, stop acting like only your word matters.

Just ignore him, he's clearly seeking attention

I don't see where people think the enemies are bullet sponges. Everything below platinum drops in 1-2 abilities. Now if people are using assault rifles or .... *erherm*... fudging equalizers, then yes, while I kill 4 enemies that just spawned with 1 grenade (I have 9-11 of them), a person with a non-XX auto weapon will feel like gold is "supposed" to take more than 11 minutes.

The game as it is now, if it had been "released" this way, I believe it would have retained more of the crowd. The main issue, as I said before, is that many of the weapons, even at XX are underwhelming or overshadowed (hurricane>sonded) completely. So adding 3 more sets of those weapons when people were already chasing a unobtainable dream seemed like a punch in the face.

I can't say this game is bad though, comparing it to ME3 is kinda apples and oranges at this point. The game actually has its own flow apart from ME3. Had every gun served a purpose, and each character had an ability besides overload, incinerate, shockwave and throw, I believe the atmosphere would be different, because from what I can tell, pugs don't know shyt about this game and play willy nilly. They do notice that the guns are crap, and that every character that isn't a UR is basically the same.

Let's agree to disagree here folks and move on.

Cheers.

I plan on getting some games in soon for anniversary blah blah blah. Maybe this weekend (although I find myself having trouble breaking away from FO4) 

This thread had some interesting discussion so I thought I'd throw my two cents in. I like the game for what it's worth because I think it's still a fun and enjoyable experience. It definitely has it's flaws and should have been better (especially at release cuz holy shit) It's a vastly different game compared to ME3mp for sure. MEAmp did some things I thought were an improvement over ME3 such as shorter games. Seven waves is actually nice for a quick match (eleven waves in ME3 can go on too long sometimes) I liked the jetpack feature quite a bit to be honest. Thought it was fun to just jump around and hover and shit (I tend to be a bit goofy when I play anyway so jetpacks gave a good excuse to be silly  )

Things I didn't like were the underwhelming powers. They were god awful at release (biotic/tech combos couldn't even kill mooks on bronze) but over time were improved but I still feel like they could have been better. No warp was a big disappointment and didn't get added until way later only for one of its evo skills to be broken   The krogan are just terrible in this game. They lacked everything they used to be in ME3 with no other melee moves other than their headbutts which seemed to miss the targets half the time. Speaking of melee, very underwhelming again. Most kits just had a single punch and that got old after awhile. Unlocking extra points for kits with character cards soured me as well. Then of course my biggest disappointment was the big loot pool explosion with the weapons. That really pissed me off. To me it was completely unnecessary and caused me to quit for a good while.

All that said, the game is good but not great. I'd still choose ME3 over MEA any day. I haven't played since October but I've been getting an itch to play again because I miss playing ponytail adept. Dat singularity 



p.s. First time I saw a salarian operator being revived and hearing him go "OH THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!" I laughed my ass off