Multiplayer Technical and Bug Feedback ~ Structured feedback

And as a general request from me -

Please note that this thread is for actual, serious bug reports and buff/nerf recommendations. Not for generic shenanigans like "biower pls buff asari ass" or "biower why u no include gigavorcha???" and similar posts.

As such, I expect you guys to PLEASE be serious in this one (set of two) thread and also not to attack each other or be generally hostile to BioWare - particularly since I intend to point a few devs in this direction so that they can see community feedback that is not limited to social media and/or 140-character limits. But if people are being complete and utter douchebags about them here, then I suspect any good and useful feedback would fall on deaf ears. 

Let's not be that way. Or if you really feel the need for "MP sucks" to get out of your system, make a different thread for it. Basically, "take it outside".

The Krogan's Blood Rage visual effect needs to be toned down or disabled entirely. This was an issue in ME3MP as well as the art team went crazy with overlays and the community criticized them for it. It's good to see that they are back to their old habits again as the Blood Rage visual is giving me a headache. Seriously, the game looks great don't cheapen it with too many unnecessary visual effects.

Bug feedback: Host Crashing at the start of a Multiplayer Match

This bug happened to me: Going into the Origin Early Access with two friends, the three of us created a custom lobby with myself as host. Within a few seconds of the game starting, my character suddenly froze and was unable to move. The screen appeared to freeze, though I could still hear sound from the game. My friends observed I appeared to be "running in place" while this was occurring. Eventually I was forced to AltCtrlDel out of the game to force crash it and relaunch. We attempted to make another game, but the same thing happened.

Next, I joined a quick match to determine if it was something my PC was causing. I joined and played the match just fine, no problems whatsoever. Meanwhile my two friends attempted to host another match to test it. My friend who hosted also froze as I had, and my other friend had observed him running in place as I had. They then swapped who was hosting, and again the host was frozen.

So far, because of this, we've been unable to play together.


The exact thing I was doing when it happened was: As a host, attempting to move away from the spawn point immediately after the match began.

Welcome to network stability issues that would cancel a beta.

Bug feedback

This bug happened to me (be specific): Disables Logitech G9X mouse profile(s).
I am on: PC
The exact thing I was doing when it happened was: Starting the game.

Not a good start.

Can confirm - exact same issue - three friends trying to play a custom private multiplayer match together. Right as we load in the host would freeze and have to close out of the game via task manager, the two remaining would be able to play fine. Upon the third trying to rejoin the new host would end up freezing and having to close out etc.

Very disappointing as we don't want to waste our trial time beta testing and bug reporting. We intended to play MP as a group, and are currently unable to after ~2 hours of trial and error.

General Multiplayer feedback:

Please make the push-to-talk VoIP the default setting on PC.

Alot of people for some reason are not aware that their speakers are causing direct sound loops into the game, that will cause the Hosts to quit and/or cause them to migrate to random people.

And before you note that we have the option of muting these persons, please note that it cannot happen in a fast enough to avoid either getting your ears blown out, or cause the Host to freeze due to the load which will then start a chain of Host migration processes.

How I would improve it:

Turn Push to talk to the default setting.

With the day one patch still pending this might be resolved already but my computer just did a hard reset (screen went black and a couple seconds later I was greeted with the Windows start screen) when I tried to change the mouse sensitivity while in the tutorial.

Graphics driver is a month old or something.

Quick question - Was there a Human Soldier on your team at any stage?

My brother and I encountered the same technical issue - I would host, screen would freeze, he would be disconnected and made the new host and then also freeze. Same chain of events if he hosted and I joined. I noticed however that the crash occurred during the tutorial also. The common theme being that I was playing as a human soldier.

So we tried various combinations of classes. All worked fine. Asari Adept. Krogan Vanguard. Human Infiltrator. Turian Soldier. All fine. As soon as we entered a Human Soldier into the mix - crash. We tried it on all maps and against all enemy factions and this seemed to be the only repeatable way we saw this issue. Whether it's the class itself or something else, the weapon combinations or power set, I'm not completely sure yet.

Let me know if this helps in any way.

I just tried this as a human soldier, and this is the result.  

I monitored with Afterburner trying to figure out what was wrong, but except 100% GPU usage I have not found anything wrong. And in other parts of the game I've reached 100% and didnt' freeze.
i5-6600l/GTX980ti/16GB/SSD. We have shared this with bioware, and hopefully they can figure out what is wrong.

I'm curious, have you tested this as both a male and female human soldier? I relayed to my friends what Axialbloom said, and went to test it out ourselves. Apparently, from what we can figure out, games are only completely locking up at the start when a male soldier is present, or when a male soldier joins. Female soldiers don't seem to suffer the same fate,

(Also, Axialbloom, nice observation! gold star for you.)

General Multiplayer feedback:





MP Skill/Power feedback:

I like / or did not like this Skill/Power, and why:
I did not like how one must press and hold for Cyrobeam and Flamethrower on the PC. Pressing and holding the Number 2 or 3 key, while moving/using jump jet etc just caused me to sit up and angle my left hand in a very strange manner. It would be very nice to go back to the ME3 system, meaning it is a beam and press the key just once. One can stop using that skill/ability by firing the weapon or weapon swapping.

I also do not understand the reason behind leveling up two of the same characters. Meaning a male and a female soldier, both same skills and abilities, both need to be leveled up. Unlike ME3 MP where the male and female charcters of the same class (adepts, engineers, infiltrators etc) where one would level up one character (male for example) and the female will be leveled up as well. This made sense since the only difference is the gender. I am the type of person who likes to have all the characters at max level, but the grind of male and female of the same class with the same skills/abilities is adding more to this (this is my opinion).



Bug feedback:

This bug happened to me (be specific):
A few audio issues, where i would hear an enemy (lets say a fiend) behind me, yet that enemy is directly infrom of me. The same applies from enemy fire or friendly fire. At time it sounds near me, despite then not being there.

I am on PC, windows 10 64 bit, i5 7600K 4.2Ghz, MSI Z270 Gaming M5 motherboard, 16GB 2,100 Mhz Corsair ram, Nvidia GTX 1070 (all latest drivers, bios etc).