Multiplayer Technical and Bug Feedback ~ Structured feedback

So far I've been having these issues. Mind, I'm playing on a stable internet connection.

- Lots of rubberbanding (not host)
- Getting booted to title screen with a network error in-match (not host)
- Getting booted to title screen with a network error while opening/buying packs
- Getting booted to title screen with a network error while doing anything, really
- Game crashing to desktop in-match (not host)
- Audio for the game completely turning off in-match and persists after the match (host or not)
- Not being able to move after revived, can only move after using Charge (for classes with Charge skill, I'm assuming)
- Not receiving Mission Funds for playing strike team mission Drack's Missing Scouts (host or not)

I'm gonna have to set multiplayer aside until most of these are fixed. I don't want to punish myself by playing anymore.

So far I've been having these issues. Mind, I'm playing on a stable internet connection.

- Not being able to move after revived, can only move after using Charge (for classes with Charge skill, I'm assuming)

I'm gonna have to set multiplayer aside until most of these are fixed. I don't want to punish myself by playing anymore.

My thoughts so far:

General Multiplayer feedback: Its quite a lot of fun! Not as good as ME3MP in my opinion, but with some changes/dlcs it could be nearly there.
(I missed the other 2 sections out so I can say my thoughts below )

MP kit feedback:
I liked / or did not like this MP kit, and why: My favorite kit so far is the Asari Sentinel, shes amazing havent tried many so far though
How I would buff/nerf it or improve it: I probably wouldnt

MP Weapon feedback: In my opinion, the guns ive used so far have been very weak... Im not expecting much from level 1 weapons, but theyve been weak across the board, and it makes them very disappointing... the melee is great though
I like / or did not like this MP weapon, and why: my current favorite weapon (and the only one I own beyond the standard) is the sweeper
How I would buff/nerf it or improve it: Increase the damage of weapons, but Ill say more about weapons when I get to my feelings about the store

MP Skill/Power feedback: Good so far, but they lack the... feeling of the ones in ME3MP, although this is more about the whole combat system. Its hard to describe, but in ME3 when I used a power it felt like I was using a power, in MEA... not so much, theres a lack of... some kind of connection between the player and the character in terms of weapons and powers in my opinion
I like / or did not like this Skill/Power, and why: I love Backlash... its so perfect, energy drain seems nice too... the powers on soldier classes Ive used so far havent been great though
How I would buff/nerf it or improve it: I dont know, sorry But there is something Id like to see about levelling up which should be improved in my opinion... levelling up feels very slow, which is fine, but Id like to progress further in the game and Im stuck on bronze (and will probably be there for a good while yet) because my characters dont feel to level up as fast as they used to. I also think that not having a level up apply to other characters in the class is not so great... having different levelling up for different characters AND slow levelling ups will just mean that people will focus on 1 character instead of levelling up all of them and being able to use all of them on different difficulties, Id like to see an infiltrator levelling up apply to all other infiltrators, and other sentinels levelling up other sentinels, and I think that should be changed in the game for sure... because to earn a good amount of credits to buy things like weapons, Im gonna have to basically focus on 1 class, because Im never gonna reach silver or gold if I focus on 5... I want to be able to try all of them, but I dont feel as if the game is gonna let me for a long time

MP Map feedback: The maps Ive tried so far have been pretty much the same, just with an altered color scheme/environment, and theyve been very forgettable... in some areas of the map they feel VERY cramped, and the open areas are pretty small, and the maps as a whole are tiny... I think Firebase Glacier from ME3MP genuinely feels bigger than some of the MEAMP maps, I dont know if its about angle of the camera or the view or whatever, but some places in the map are way too small for my taste, and there are too many enemies in such a small space... I think the jump booster things work best in open areas, but ive been disappointed so far in the size and the amount of room in quite a few maps.
How I would improve them: Have more open areas and larger maps. Go for ones different in design to suit different styles of play instead of having every map be basically cramped and close-quartersy.
Also, the objectives arent great in my opinion. Because of the cramped maps and some of the multiple target objectives (a hack-style one specifically with lots of devices) are very badly designed, and its basically impossible to complete them sometimes without being horribly overwhelmed by the amount of enemies in such a small space
I also dont like the fact I can fall out of the map... it seems to always happen to me. I keep boosting away to try and get away from enemies, just to fall out of the map and reappear directly in the middle of them all. I think there could be a system where the game places you in a emptier part of the map instead of right beside a lot of enemies. I wouldnt mind it so much then

Bug feedback:
This bug happened to me (be specific): Ive had a few instances where my game has closed due to an error when playing MP
I am on [your platform/spec]: PS4


(and a few extra sections because I think they might be needed)


MP store feedback: I dont know if Im the only one who thinks this, but Ive been buying quite a lot of basic packs and... Im not really sure what Im getting. Im kinda expecting common weapons and characters to be able to max those out first, but I feel to be buying a lot of packs and getting nothing. I dont think I have anything at all beyond level 2, and I dont even have many things at level 2... Im definitely not getting many characters or weapons because I dont have many of them, and im not getting consumables either, I dont have many of them... Id like to see an improved drop rate for characters and weapons, 100%... it doesnt feel like Ive unlocked anything at all since the free reward packs I had when I first started MP, and thats the truth.
I also dont like the "flip over the cards" thing... its pretty pointless in my opinion
Theres also no way Im getting away from bronze for a looooonnnggg time with the weapons I have and also what I was saying about levelling up


Enemy faction feedback: The standard soldiers are mostly fine... I dont like the enemies which can turn invisible. At least in ME3MP you could see a kind of shimmer when they were around, but in MEA you cant and it makes shooting them very difficult. I also dont like the huge armored units (the Hydra mech, the Fiend and the Destroyer). Theyre way too strong and deal too much damage, and are too big for lots of the maps in my opinion. Im not expecting enemies like ME3MP where you get a few brutes in a round and it isnt toooooooo hard to kill them, but there needs to be some changes with them to make them viable especially on bronze, they are way too strong to be a bronze enemy.
There are a few things Id tweak with the ordinary enemy soldiers, like reducing the damage they deal sliiigghhhtttlyyyy and increasing the amount of damage they take (probably would go under my suggestions about weapons though).
And I just want to mention the Ascendant, I think the hitbox for their bubble/shield thing should be applied all across the bubble/shield instead of just that one orb


General combat feedback: I like the jump boosters and the more vertical gameplay, but when youre not jumping and dodging the characters feel very slow and sluggish somehow, like the movement speed could be increased a little. I think the new camera-angle or whatever makes enemies very hard to hit at close range, and as I mentioned in the part about the powers... there doesnt feel to be the same connection between player and character that there was in ME3MP, I feel disconnected from the game. I think the game would have been better if it drew inspiration from ME2 and ME3 in terms of gameplay instead of ME1, when it had easily the worst gameplay in the series but its obviously what MEA tried to go for. It doesnt feel as fluid, and it can be hard to aim/hit enemies a lot of the time. Everything feels generally smaller than it did in ME3MP somehow, the enemies, the maps... it might be a camera issue or a field-of-view (not sure about that, Im no expert) but headshots are basically impossible for me, when I could do them in ME3MP, I think its an issue of perspective rather than anything else, and if its possible to change it Id like to see some improvements there.
Other than that (which is just my general problem with the combat), there are 2 things Id improve: One is the swap shoulder/side button... Ive noticed a few times when Im doing something else I cant swap shoulders at the same time, and then I have to mess around with the button after which is generally a dangerous thing to do in the middle of mp, but it could be solved if the cover system was a little different (more like ME3, or even if it adjusted directions automatically), or if changing shoulders would be available to happen all of the time so there wouldnt be the moments Ive had where I want to change shoulders in the middle of another action and nothing happens.
The second is: ease up on the difficulty, bronze is very hard... it says its for level 1 and above but its wayyyyy too hard sometimes, its for new players to MEA after all but it doesnt feel that way, I think it could do with some easing up, and I think the combat as a whole could be, not slowed down necessarily, but not be so busy and frantic all of the time. Bigger maps would help, maybe fewer enemies too, but there doesnt feel to be time to experiment or explore or to try different things. Everything feels very fast and busy all of the time, the multiplayer as a whole kinda feels like short, quick bursts of frantic business. In ME3MP I used snipers quite a bit, but MEAMP feels the wrong type of game for sniping somehow, and I think the franticness of the combat could be improved quite a bit. I have no idea what higher difficulties will be like, but bronze is already too busy in my opinion.

Those are my thoughts so far. I AM mostly enjoying it, but there are quite a lot of things Id like to see improved, even if some of them are probably unrealistic expectations and might involve an overhaul of a lot of core game mechanics. I think more could have been similar to ME3MP because it worked very well. I think the menus could also be different on the multiplayer screens because I find everything very hard to find, whereas in ME3MP everything was clearly laid out and you could access basically every option you wanted in a matter of seconds.

As I said though, Im enjoying it I think. Its just nowhere near as good as ME3MP in my opinion, and thats down to some of the changes which arent improvements so much as a step back. I definitely wouldnt spend any real life money in the multiplayer store, but Im looking forward to the changes theyll make and the dlcs they will hopefully add Id give the multiplayer as a whole a 7/10

Has anyone had any matched where you are instant killed with no chance of being raised? Had a game yesterday vs remnants As soon as anyone in our team went down they were dead dead, no rez wheel nothing. It happened to the whole team. Played Remnants today and no issue was just that one game.