Some thoughts on the (bad) enemy design.

'Oh look, a room full of Geth'
*space magic*
'Oh look, a room full of flying, helpless Geth'

'Oh look, a room full of Geth'
*space magic*
'Oh look, a room full of flying, helpless Geth'

Enemy design is indeed disappointing. From their attacks to their AI. None of them look any way near threatening. they just stand there like idiots, like target practice. They don't seem alive or like they are aware of their surroundings. That fiend especially is a sad thing to watch. You seee a big monster and you think alright that's a special enemy, gonna be a fun fight, just to realise that it's specialty is to be the dumbest of them all. It walks in slow motion, unable to reach you in time because its' extremely sad and poor pathfinding is terrible, so it gives up and stands there and probably praying so you put it out of it's misery as you shoot it.

While Ryder gets all these cool OP stuff in comparison to Shepard (access of gazilion of skills of all kinds to jet pack that can get you out of danger any time), enemies get dumbed down and look absolutely ridiculous. And don't tell me it was easy difficulty, because we all know AI won't get more intelligent on higher difficulties, they will just get shields, armour, more HP and will deal more damage. This is how whole trilogy worked.

AI in ME3, while not perfect, knew how to take cover, knew how to dodge your biotics, knew how to flank, knew how to flush you out of cover with grenades and they didn't look like freaking idiots without a brain. Go play me3 mp on bronze and you'll see AI behaves the same, it's just not so tough and aggressive as on higher difficulty. Their moves, however, are the same, they know how to take cover, keep distance, flank etc.
If you were running towards your target to melee them, they didn't stand like an idiot, doing nothing. They fought back. Assault trooper smaked you with shock baton, Marauder, protheans, geth and others elbowed you etc.

I'm not saying the game will be bad, I'm just trying to point these things out and say that I agree with OP that concerns are justified. You can't just fix stuff like this with a quick patch. And also top kek for people who say it's not a big deal because combat is not what's Mass effect is all about, while there is combat in majority of missions and pretty good big part of that is combat , which is in most cases unavoidable. If you wanted to advance the story in trilogy, you had to do a lot of combat. It won't be any different now. Also, multiplayer is all about combat. So skip the BS that combat is not important. Yes, it's not the main focus, but it's very important part of the game. And if someone is passionate about it and voices their concerns, you don't get to call them a troll and hater, just because they donn't share the same opinion as you and because you play game for the story. Guess, what? People are different and play the game for different aspects. If story would suck, you bet your ass you would not be happy and would probably want to give your negative feedback to Bioware. Let others do the same.

You're extrapolating weak enemy design in the whole game from limited data. To me it isn't, for instance, fair to yell about enemies having just one weak spot when the previous game had enemies with several. So I will say that probably the remnant drones weren't representative of all enemies in the game.

however, don't remember anything sophisticated about DAI enemies. Care to explain it?

As you read through the thread, it becomes obvious that most posters/biodrones immediately look for a way to shut down any sort of criticism (without discussing about it) then proceed to their usual circle-jerk.

The points you've made are good; to reiterate,

- Gazilion of gameplay choices/mobility (12 abilities + infinite jet-pack for ridiculous amounts of vertical+horizontal mobility) - yet the enemy design doesn't take that into account.
- Enemy AI - what goes on top of the underlying enemy design - is basically complete garbage.

The whole enemy package is lackluster. For biodrones reading this, please try to refute this. Protip: you can't.

I've yet encountered any valid argument proving my claims to be wrong. The typical "ME3 did it, so MEA doesn't need to improve" has been thrown around so many times I've lost count. If you're really comparing MEA to a game from 2012, which arguably does things even better, then you're a very sad person. I've also seen more of the "gameplay doesn't matter, what matters is the story!" bullshit. That kingjuly post that everyone agrees with? Just bashes the OP and misses the entire point of my complaint.

As you read through the thread, it becomes obvious that most posters/biodrones immediately look for a way to shut down any sort of criticism (without discussing about it) then proceed to their usual circle-jerk.

The points you've made are good; to reiterate,

- Gazilion of gameplay choices/mobility (12 abilities + infinite jet-pack for ridiculous amounts of vertical+horizontal mobility) - yet the enemy design doesn't take that into account.
- Enemy AI - what goes on top of the underlying enemy design - is basically complete garbage.

The whole enemy package is lackluster. For biodrones reading this, please try to refute this. Protip: you can't.

I've yet encountered any valid argument proving my claims to be wrong. The typical "ME3 did it, so MEA doesn't need to improve" has been thrown around so many times I've lost count. If you're really comparing MEA to a game from 2012, which arguably does things even better, then you're a very sad person. I've also seen more of the "gameplay doesn't matter, what matters is the story!" bullshit. That kingjuly post that everyone agrees with? Just bashes the OP and misses the entire point of my complaint.

The enemy design isn't a big deal for me. Bioware games, from my perspective, focus on story and relationships first and then the other stuff.

If what this game will lack (assuming like most game, this one will have its flaws) is imnportant to a player - then I assume the player wont buy or play this particular game.

You seem to be ignoring all of the people saying that it's not a release build, and the one playing wasn't properly controlling the squad. And the AI is not garbage by any means. It's no Alien from Alien Isolation, but the enemies and your squad seem competent enough to get you through the mission without problems. Your trying to make mountains out of molehills.

When did people start playing bioware games for the combat?

People still say ME1 is a classic. The combat in that was largely bobbins.