Mass Effect Legendary Edition (General Discussion)

GPB89 … sorry my dude, but significant chunks of your post just aren't true.

Zero, Paradox, Aqua, Icebreaker, Vertigo, Magma, Nimbus and Derelict all have strong points you can defend for waves on Gold and below. I really don't play Platinum, so I can't say there.

The latest "trend" in MEAMP is for some folks to defend less than optimum strong points, just for the challenge … to include staying in the LZ for the entire match, except for the objectives. I'm not into that, but, hey, others are.

Sandstorm … other than the LZ defense, it doesn't really have a strong point folks use, but for most, having three players on the roof of the large complex and one player on the roof of the other complex … while not defending a stronghold per se, certainly allows you to maintain a position for all but the objective waves and the last 10 seconds or so of extraction.

As far as combos (both biotic and tech) are concerned, my Asari adept says hi. My Asari sentinel says hi. My Angara exemplar says hi. My Krogan engineer says hi. My human sentinel says hi. My human commando says hi. My human kineticist says hi. My Batarian vanguard says hi. How you spec them matters … a lot.

There are others that can do combos, that have longer cooldown times … so combos probably shouldn't be the focus for them. Then again, at least four of them are common characters.

OBTW, my Asari adept … she carries a shotgun (Crusader or Dahn) with a heavy blade (for her melee) and a pistol (Rozerad). Amazingly enough, I've never thought her to be underpowered.

With respect to carriage capacity, it does depend on how you spec them. For some, because I prefer the power options, I tend to go with one heavy weapon and one light weapon. I have a few that I run with pistols only … resulting in about 80% unused weight capacity, but for the others … those that tend to have larger carriage capacity, I tend to make those gun bunnies. The exception is the human commando … she has awesome carriage capacity, but her focus is on her powers, the weapons are an integral part of her package, typically running with cryo ammo to prime and warp to detonate (depends on the faction), with her singularity combining with warp for biotic combo crowd control.

As far as melee … yeah, I wish the Krogan had the ME3MP melee, but the Krogan gladiator is pretty darn awesome and probably better than the ME3MP warlord. She can grab unshielded enemies and smash them with her hammer … to include the Ascendant … I love it when she breaks the Ascendant's orb, shooting it with her Dhan shotgun (rocking a heavy blade, of course), grabs the unshielded Ascendant (and any nearby mook) and pounds the Ascendant into Varran chow. The Krogan vanguard is probably the only other Krogan that uses melee as a primary weapon. The mercenary and engineer are gun bunnies, with the engineer having awesome tech combos, the merc using the flak cannon … melee is an option, but mostly not used.

Now to your last part … yeah, a LEVEL 1 character isn't going to be doing much damage, combos or otherwise. And MEA did split up skill points between level build and getting added drops of a given character … but both ME3MP and MEAMP characters reach their full potential only when fully leveled up. Also, the last 10 drops of a character slowly add some bonuses … but unless you are chasing URs, that process goes very quickly. That the URs take a long time … yeah, I seem to recall that also applied to ME3MP.

I leveled up my ME3MP characters over and over and over … so I am very familiar with how capabilities progressed with additional skill points. Some folks chase leaderboard stats in MEAMP, but for the most part, I've left my characters fully leveled up and have not reset them, the way I did constantly in ME3MP.

tl;dr: my sense is you played MEAMP for a short time, never really upgraded your characters and quit long before you had decent weapons and gear … prolly not the best case for judging the game.

Ah, you are right that is better. I had forgotten that change. I had hoped they would have eased up on the grind just a smidgen as I felt me3s was a bit too long.  I get tehy want micro transactions so it can;t be easy, but they took it a bit too far in ME3.  MEA made it even worse, sigh.  If I liked it as much as ME3 maybe I'd put int he god knows how many hours to max stuff out, but seeing how long the haul would be just dissuaded me from even trying.

I'm excited to see what kind of textures and shaders we'll see, and how big of a difference it can be.

I preferred the waves in ME3, I got into it late ME3mp enough that I almost never got disconnected. So I was totally unaware that change was a thing. But I will agree getting partial credit for a disconnect sounds like a decent idea.

Is that image going to be what the cover looks like? If so, then I like to see one for the crew on the other side. 

So just to let you know where I'm coming from, I've played both, and I still liked ME3mp better, but MEA was new and shiny and did improve a few things so I played it for a while. Only about 1/4 as much time as I put into ME3mp, but definitely enough time to get a feel for it and have plenty of characters at XX.

As to Adepts in MEA... well, the biotic explosions were a little underwhelming coming from ME3, but the vanilla human adept in MEAmp is a slaughtering machine. I pretty much stuck with the Rozerad once I got that gun, and while I never got it past level 3, it was good enough to have no issues carrying gold with the HA. The change to individual power cooldowns essentially necessitated them nerfing the powers a bit, as it is the Human Adept can effectively nuke a spawn with powers alone (especially since the cobra was made all but inert )

My other go to Adepts were the Asari Adept, since it was somewhat reminiscent of my N7 Fury , but without Adrenaline... ehh.. it wasn't the same. Still it was solid play.

While I was playing my Kineticist never made it past level 1, but even then playing in Gold with her wasn't a problem, I just had to be cautious. I'd love another character like this, it was really unique feeling to me.

I never enjoyed platinum in either game.

I like that you called my statement false. I provide a full write up and now you can't actually respond to it. Thank you for agreeing that I am right.

Eh, the biotic explosions just don't do enough damage to be considered a slaughtering machine IMO. Its been a while but it felt like I needed 3-4 biotic explosions to kill one thing. Just gunning things down felt faster in most cases and I didn't have great guns. Maybe there is some armor gear or something you can eventually unlock that makes biotic explosions effective enough to feel like a slaughtering machine, but I never unlocked it.

I mean part of that is git gud. I had crap gear and played a variety of classes and I could solo in MEA silver. It involved a lot of cover shooting and a lot of running, but it was doable. I could in gold in ME3, but I had geared up a lot further.

like don't get me wrong I want my ME3 combos, but I killed plenty. personally I accepted a small drop in recharge time for a good gun when playing something like an adept, due to how unsatisfying I found the explosions. But I didn't have your apparent lag issues.

Ohh... it doesnt work like that, but do answer to @grinch 's post please

Oh and also I get every 5s biotic & tech & biotic combos happen without any boosters..

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