Mass Effect Andromeda Multiplayer - General Discussion

There are at least 2 unknown assault rifles, the one that shots a beam and another one at 4:12 and 4:25 that reminds me slightly of the Adas.

Also, it seems to me that shieldgate is gone or is not as noticeable as it is on ME3.

There's also a Predator Pistol Icon on the image, so I suppose it will be on Andromeda too.

Ammo system looks interesting.

You better feckin' believe it buddy! 

My take on the gameplay is that they will want the differences between SP and MP to be much smaller than in ME3, in an attempt to attract more SP players to the MP, which is where the potential for big revenue really lies. No pause wheel in SP will make the transition much easier for those types of players who couldn't cope with the difficulty spike of ME3 MP, while those of us used to the more frantic nature of MP should manage the faster SP relatively easily.

They have to be teasing us by not revealing a Claymore yet, and the presence of the Reegar would suggest that they must surely be planning to bring some Quarians too. There is already no justification for Quarians not being in the game, but bringing a Reegar without its inventors would be beyond rude.

I mentioned this in another thread but I feel that it would be better asked/speculated here:

Does anyone else wonder what the jetpack mechanic is going to be like in MP? Is it something that should be available to all 'kits' across the board?

It's a very cool feature, don't get me wrong, but I personally would find it a bit ridiculous if your Krogan characters could be zipping around the map like we saw Ryder doing (even ignoring the whole vanguard charging thing). I mean a typical krogan weighs about a ton, that little dinky jetpack isn't going to do much for him like it would for your humans and asari. Now if that's the case, and your choice of species effects more than just your base health and melee power but your movement potential as well then I can see lots of potential for really diversifying the myriad species you could play as. The question though, is would BioWare offer something different yet compelling enough to want to make us try out those different races?

This has probably been mentioned, but dedicated serves.

Holy sweet mother of robo jesus above, it would be so nice to have a steady connection to matches every once in a while. I don't really play the multiplayer of ME3 anymore because I'm sick of all the people hosting from the edges of Pluto with a busted dialup router.

Looking at some of the screenshots, it appears that the 3 powers will be tied to the shoulder buttons with a combination of  LB and RB needing to be pressed for one power on consoles.  Given the issues we all have had with the D-pad functionality using the wrong item at the wrong time, I wonder if this will become a problem over time with the wrong power firing a times.

And no Drell. Let's not forget no fucking Drell yet.

No Drell, no Claymore, no Wraith, no Black Widow, no Javelin yet... just no-aiming-skill-required weapons like Reegar, automatic Piranha shotgun with 10 shot-barrel and some beam-weapon. Also: no awesome looking visuals from a high end PC but console gameplay with funny controls/hotkeys instead. I won't be surprised if we get another "one key to rule control 'em all" - think ME3 spacebar but with even more additional actions; for jetpacking and other stuff. I'm worried...

There's a Black Widow in the trailer, you Pyjak.

This looks like a great list to me, except for the bolded line. It seems to me there's much less point to collecting new equipment (particularly rare equipment) if it's basically comparable to my starting Avenger. What's to get me excited about that new ultra-rare gun if it's barely better than the common ones? Interested to hear the reasoning for this.

Air strikes in multiplayer,Also placeable turrets,and mic chat enabled as a few recent games are not having mic chat?

Rare and Ultra-Rares have to perform somewhat better than starting equipment, it is only fair. Plus as your progress into the game, you should unlock mods, upgrades and consumables to make the weapons more potent overall. Veterans ought to have some advantage over the starting Joe, but that advantaged that to be within reason.

Between ME3MP and DAI:MP I invested about 6,000 hours. I have been venturing in a few other Multiplayer games since those two sorta died out. Two major issues I've come to realize with Bioware immense loot gap system are: a) loot grind ends up becoming the factor most hardcore persistent players keep playing the game, more so than fun and game quality; it promotes a huge power gap between veterans and newcomers, so much so that at times you might avoid playing with newcomers - unless they accept the fact they are likely to be carried.
Both issues themselves contribute to the discouragement of newcomers (since they know they have to grind hard to get to play on the higher difficulty settings) as well as casual players.

Cooperative team effort, communication, strategy and individual player skills have to outweigh better loot, pretty much at all instances. Otherwise we are playing a Diablo game.