Multiplayer Feedback ~ General discussion

Disagree heavily with comments that it's like ME3MP. It is very much not similar, but this isn't necessarily a bad thing.

I experienced some laggier moments, but I would say you can cope with the lag somewhat better. I don't know about cross-ocean connections though. I have to echo the "guns are weak" sentiment. They should be expectedly weak since we're all low level. It feels as though it will be more difficult to level 1 higher difficulties than in ME3MP - but it's early to confirm this.

It doesn't have the same feel as ME3MP. Your actions don't have the feeling of weight both literal and figurative. Hits lack follow through, nothing feels like it lands even when it does. When you're hacking or disabling a device, it doesn't feel like you are doing anything. Cues that you've accomplished something are small to non-existent.

I have to stress again that its early on and I may simply just be so used to ME3MP. It's worth putting some more time in to be sure.

Didn't play DAI:MP, the single player was dull enough that I knew I wouldn't enjoy it. My own personal bias though, prefer sci-fi to elven-style fantasy. As such, I can't state how similar the MP is.

I can comment on the differences to ME3MP, after putting nearly 2000 hours in across two platforms.

+Powers and movement are more responsive. Off-host vanguarding is not as perilous.
+Weapon fire sounds great, at least milky way weapons anyway. I was concerned it wouldn't.
+Gameplay is a little more frenetic, but this could be due to lack of spawn control. Seems like spawns split 100% of the time.
+Concussive shot detonates biotic combos, lot more room for teamwork this way.

-Even though movement is more responsive, there is a trailing "swimminess" where all movements slide a bit after input.
-Nothing feels as deliberate, no weight to actions.
-Mobility in combat is overblown. Yes you're more mobile with the jetpack, but it doesn't really translate to more tactical gameplay.
-Cover isn't as effective, but I guess that's the point.
-Game crashed mid-match twice. When I reconnected, my points were still there, but medals weren't.

+But you know, jetpack...

Still need to try it more.

the character is too close to the screen :s
there should be a field of view slider, and beeing able to "separate" the character from the screen, more space
it seems the camera is on the character's ear

I'm in North America as well, the U.S to be exact  and the first four games lagged like hell. I couldn't move, every time I moved I ended up back in the same spot, same thing with jumping. It crashed 3 times back to main menu.

Perhaps I worded it incorrectly...

I mean that the mobility that you're supposedly afforded (that has been praised) isn't necessarily as useful as it should be. In many cases, hovering and firing down just makes you a target, etc. 

Oh, well the thruster is just essentially the dodge from 3 but a little faster so not much different. But that jump allows you to hop up and down levels which is huge for breaking contact an getting new sight lines. Jumping from rooftop to rooftop or down to the ground is a great tactic

On my PC I did have a field of view option but I couldn't tell if it helped. My character was way too large and needed to be smaller and give me a lot more field of vision. That was my biggest concern aside from the two times my game completely froze and I had to crash it. I don't think it was my computer or internet as I have been playing an MMO for the last year and don't have any issues unless there is some issue going on that everyone has.

Sometimes I cant tell if I am more excited for the game, or the threads online of people bitching to get me through my day at work.

The multiplayer felt fun, but had some issues. (on a rating of 1 to 5 + and minus)

The bad first.
(---)Bullet spongy enemies. As mentioned above, on bronze, enemies just take far too much, or its the issue next.

(----)Guns are very weak for some, outside a few.
I tried an m-8 rank 5-6 i think, to a silver smg 1, that has the innate recharge. Former modded for accuracy/stability, while the other was just any old mod, melee, and scope. the silver 1 just destroyed faster against everything despite lower stats. I could 1-3 clip anything, while id take 3-6 for an m8, or just not bother. The early shotgun sniper feels the same way, even against armor, which the shotgun could excel at, and should. The sniper felt inconsistent for headshots.

(-----)Please for the love of all, p2p (peer to peer) isnt a good choice for things. There's been games ive joined that I couldnt do anything in, and it was distressingly common on some games.

(---)Power Recharge, Power Synergy. I get the idea of team play, but when you play randomly, you arent going to get that. I love love love the huntress, but lacking a primer, that means throw gets done only one way, for priming folks for lance or an ammo booster. I get with the independent recharge, you doubled the recharge on many things to compensate for the same effective me3mp focus. But well, with some powers at 12-15+ seconds, is it really any reason to go powers outside of focusing more on the guns? This should be an option for folks, and to help as well with wanting a power focused character. As it is, guns are going to be a better option once you get them, and powers, meh for most. The other is that with armor, many biotic abilities just suffer as they will not linger on a target for biotic combos despite affecting the target.

(-) The manual aim side. I just dont get this. What reason for that, over being able to pan the mouse/controller to the side you want to fire from if in cover?

The good.

(++++) The dodge and jetpack. Both of these really are nice, though the jetpack can be inconsistent at times. The dodges each are different, and cater to the play style as well. I can do crap with the huntress (Cloak dodge) for example I cant with anyone else like the many engineers, or the soldiers.

(+++) (--) Level Design. The focus on verticality here works well for making firefights something very different, and with certain factions very rough or scary. But i've also caught on to some clever cheesing of some units too by getting them into a jump up/jump down loop.

(++) (--) The UI out of game. I get the feeling we are getting the port from a console like skyrim. I don't care for the sticky clicks on the ui, or the heavy influence of submenus. That just reminds me of what skyrim did, and poorly. You can do better on making it much more mouse and keyboard friendly. The audio for microphones, and others like the mouse sensitivity should be in numbers, not a vague slider. PC players like their settings for a reason, and vague guesses lead to unhappy folks making more folks unhappy.

It's got potential. Can it be better? Yes, very much so. You have the ability to make it that way bioware.

Why choose? You can have both!

I am a fan of ME3 MP with more than 3000 h under the belt. Naturally, I was extremely eager to try MEA MP, preordered the most expensive edition and early 10 h... And it is impossible to express how disappointed I am - the MP is totally broken. What did they do to Asari adept, where are warp, stasis...

I am seriously considering returning this abomination back