Mass Effect Andromeda Multiplayer - General Discussion

It all depends on how long the individual cooldowns will be and whether some powers like TC or Flamer can be canceled for faster CD.

In ME3MP you could have three powers on a 2.5s global cooldown each for example. Rotating through them still required you to use your weapons in between. If you were running around the map killing stuff, using combos and waiting for CDs would slow you down sometimes (unless you were a lolfury or a grenade-spamming scrub).

Let's say they give us three powers on a 9s CD each, you could still use one power every 3s and fire your gun in between. But the MEAMP is apparently going for a more fast-paced style, so you can also run towards a group of enemies, blow through your powers in two seconds and mop up the survivors with your gun before moving on. This would actually be great for most ME3MP veterans who know how to play.

In the beginning of the new multiplayer, guns are going to be shit unless you drop real money on the store. So power classes are going to be the go-to kits, it was the same in ME3. Soldiers and Infiltrators will become better once you unlock some good weapons.

The only thing that might suffer is team combos, since you won't be able to generate as many detonations with two players alternating the same powers.

And regarding the prestige system: I guess we're all going to become 'Prestige Lords' just by playing the game a lot. At least they'll have to create difficulties similar to Annomander's husk mode in response to players becoming invincible. That'll be fun.

From what I read, we earn prestige experience just by playing certain classes, thereby raising the prestige level for those classes and getting bonuses for all classes. They never wrote anything about promoting. Do I have to explain to you what that means, you pasta-munching scrub?

If there is a cap to the prestige system I'm not worried (for instance +100% base shield or +30% power damage bonus max). Actually I would have liked to get rid of any points I put in Fitness; the idea of having more health, shield or power damage (the equivalent of a free Cyclo III or Power Damage III) from the start seems good to me, and not particulary broken/unfun.

If I understood correctly, it will be possible to have score modifiers like in the ME3 Arena. Maybe we will be able to play characters without powers, without weapons, at level 1, with no medigels, and/or without prestige bonuses.

Of course, if there is no cap, it makes no sense.

In any case I would have an opinion on this issue once I know if there is a prestige cap and if there is more interesting consumables to use.

Give Phantrolls with increased DR (full immunity to all projectile weapons) and ranged sync kills!

World boss though is normally taken by a (relatively) unlimited number of players.

I would absolutely dig an area in MP that works like a 24M dungeon in BnS, with people coming and going killing the bosses, causing the spawn of the world bosses eventually, after murdering the prerequisite amounts of the mini-bosses. I would not even mind it being a timed event occurring 4 or so times a day over the weekend, etc. I do have a certain amount of (I am sure unwarranted) doubts about the servers however.

I am sure there are other cool beans folk saw in the other games they'd love to see in the Mass Effect verse.

I understand. It's just for me, the attraction is in a large part thanks to the fairly flexible group size and scale of the large scale battle. There are some things I do like about MMOs, just not enough to continue to play them. I honestly don't see why not for the WBs in ME:A, if it does not break the set-up of the mode, particularly if you said they already had it in DA.

Uhm, I think it is classified as a B2P, rather than P2P. I have played a B2P, a P2P and a F2P games, and I am yet to encounter a game that did not have complaints about its servers, hamsters and potatoes. Maybe I am just that unlucky, but I am starting to have an inkling of suspicion that it might be just a thing about the servers, and not my experience of exactly 4 on-line games.

Cool, something new every day  Gotcha, it's about host vs server

Just looking on my keyboard now, there are at least 25 keys you can bind controls to and still be able to use only the left hand to get to all of them.



This is not such a bad idea. If we consider reload cancel being different in ME3SP and ME3MP, also there are squadmate powers instead of match consumables. I like it



Not a Razer, or any other fancy gaming equipment, fanboy here... but, I to cannot believe my mouse is lasting as much as it is. (when you mention tech in the last 6-7 years).

I am using Bloody V7 mouse, saw it in the shop, bought it, liked it, went back to buy one more in case this one breaks. Still using the first mouse, the second one is sitting somewhere on the shelves still unpacked. Same with the keyboard, tried many keyboards, but my old Logitech K200 is what served me best (I am currently on my second one). Right now it is dying, but I love it nevertheless. When it finally dies, I will be going back to my Microsoft Arc keyboard which I like too but is a bit too small for my hands.

Hmmm ..... yes, I can see why you have an issue with keeping attention.

Heh, apologies, I've meant to say 'the surroundings'.

I didn't expect sync-kills to come back. I think that's unfortunate.

Now I was another fear: off-host biotic charge (powers in general). Hope they did it correctly.