MEA combat looks like a massive improvement over ME3.

Hmm, it's telling me it can't find the Playstation profile with the name Pax_Augusta01, but the 360 and PC add up to 40 hours.

Perhaps the Playstation name is a fake!  What say you, Senator Vreenak?

this has been enjoyable troll bait to read, but I do really wish to see video of someone completely avoiding RHA on Platinum and the ridiculousness that would ensue from their many demises.

BioWare's intention is to provide challenge for the player as well as risk when the player decides to move out of hard cover (the only intentional safe zone). By creating soft cover and outwitting the programming of the AI, you circumvent the entire challenge rendering it largely pointless. That is not intentional.

Listing bugs and flaws in enemy design in no way justifies the use of exploits to "get even."

My problem is that the AI cannot adapt and compensate for RHA. If this was a PvP scenario, it would be different, because players can fight fire with fire. AI is incapable of adapting and thus will always lose.

Whether you like it or not, it is cheating and exploiting. You are doing something that was never intended for your personal gain. Whether BioWare cares or not is something only they know. Given that we are only killing waves of NPCs and not other players, it's obviously not a high priority for them to try and resolve. All it means is BioWare needs more adaptive AI to try and discourage those kinds of tactics from being used.

So he has like 40 hours. In those 40 hours he has never once used warp and incendiary ammo together? Double hit Atlas with piercing? What about standing in a spawn point to control enemy spawns? Is that cheating too?

yep, you called it bud   typical eh

There's nothing fun about using hard cover in multiplayer and there are many ways you can increase the game's challenge while using soft cover. On one hand you complain about players camping in PuGs and on the other you criticize us for utilizing a fast-paced playstyle that allows us to aggressively go after the enemies, even with squishy chars on the highest difficulty.

You haven't answered my question regarding platinum solos and your N7HQ profiles seem to disprove your claim of having hundreds of hours of experience. 42 plat games with 29 of them on Rio? Until you provide video evidence of yourself crushing platinum using hard cover and no RHA, I'll consider you a worthless PuG who needs to L2P.

Is it?  I just had a customer service issue one week ago.  I needed to make some changes to my Origin profile, but it wasn't accepting my answer to my secret question.  I filed a ticket, and 3 minutes later a guy CALLED ME ON MY CELL PHONE and got the issue resolved lickity-split.

As a matter of fact, I have.  It was done through a chatroom with one of their guys, who was extremely helpful and stuck through the entire process.

I can't hear you over the sound of you weaseling out of proving that you're anything more than a scrub.

Let's see some gameplay of how to play this game the "right way". But no Rio please.

Who are you to say what BioWare's intention on soft cover was? Just because the game has hard cover doesn't mean they never intended for you to use soft cover to your advantage.

Also to say "you circumvent the entire challenge rendering it largely pointless" is to massively overstate how useful RHA is. If that were even remotely true, people wouldn't be struggling with Platinum as they were. The reality is that RHA provides good survivability benefits, but in order to beat Gold/Plat you still have to be a decent player or be getting carried by one.

Also a number of enemy designs do actually compensate for RHA, such as anything that throws grenades or enemies like Banshees that will rush you and force you to move. Enemy AI is also generally capable of using RHA itself, it's just not coded to specifically try to use it all the time.

People tried to argue that reload cancelling was cheating because BioWare didn't intend for that to happen but as it turns out, one of the BioWare employees posted on old BSN to confirm that actually yes, that was an intended thing. People just assumed reload cancelling wasn't intended because it "didn't seem like an intended thing".

I agree with better AI in general, but you're assuming a lot about BioWare's intentions.

That would take one incredibly well played vanguard and a bunch of luck. I think only a very small handful of players I've ever met would have a chance.

Consider yourself fortunate. I have no idea when you merged your account, but it was a hassle for me and it was surprising EA didn't seem to have a policy in place at the time to deal with these kinds of situations. Lets just say I won't be merging accounts again to see if my experience is better this time around.

Exploiting a flaw in AI mechanics should be a given that such behavior is unintentional. Cheating is cheating whether or not BioWare decides to do anything about it or not. Taking my words out of context and trying to morph them into something else also doesn't help your case.

The AI have limitations that cannot adapt to your behavior. That is the problem. Everything else is speculation on your part.

No offense, but do I seem like the kind of person who cares whether you think I'm a "scrub" or not? Again, I'm not going to slap you on the wrist for exploiting flaws in AI mechanics. That doesn't mean I want to play with you either, as you are defeating the whole purpose and challenge of platinum.

The only reason I believe that soft cover is unintended is because enemy AI cannot account for it. That may be different in MEA if BioWare provides enemy AI with more tools to adapt to player behavior, but we'll have to wait and see.

I'm not suggesting that RHA is a "I win" button. What I am suggesting is that it largely undercuts the challenge and difficulty of those modes by using those exploits. Obviously, to be successful it would be in your best interest to still be a competent player.

Given that this is a PvE wave-killing experience, the issue is only minor at best and not game-breaking for the purposes of what BioWare is doing. I would just like for AI to have more methods of counteracting such strategies. A more varied and dynamic style of gameplay will, in my opinion, lead to an overall better and more engaging experience.