Multiplayer Feedback ~ General discussion

Got the same issue here. Australia also. I keep getting dc'ed from server even though it says I'm 'online'.

Same here, Australia too. I probably got disconnected over 20 times, 10-15 times from level 5-7 as well, very frustrating to say the least.
You do all that work and receive nothing, I did manage to get a few games in though but you just never know when it is going to happen and crash back to the menu or dashboard 
Needs fixing, very soon.

I got to the point where I just soloed bronze, was hard at the beginning but I can do it well now for a guaranteed win.

Same here.


My two gaming buddies and I, all on the US east coast, had three games in a row last night all of which ended in one or more of us getting disconnected during a match and losing all of our consumables. We even tried mixing up who was hosting between each match, and all that did was give us varying amounts of lag prior to the disconnect. 

I was so frustrated with the state of the connectivity, that I actually went and started a SP campaign. That's right, the MP is so bad it's driving me to the SP. 

Tried today to farm (in)famous gold/outlaw/sandstorm. Yeah, its pretty much the easiest way to farm credits right now

I think the biggest issue is the restriction of character skill points to RNG unlocks. For anybody that doesn't know, you can only get to about ME3's level 16 by leveling up alone, and the rest of the skill points have to come through RNG character card unlocks. If we can assume that most classes are relatively balanced when compared at the highest level (20-X), then that means rarer classes will be gimped compared to common classes for a loooong time. Your level X human infiltrator will be better than a level 1 Angarian avenger. And getting your AA up to X will probably take 100s of hours or 100s of dollars.

The devs have said that this change was made to more closely align character progression with weapon progression (translation - make them both RNG based). The problem with this is that rarer weapons are MUCH better. Black widow 1 is better than viper X. But that isn't necessarily true for character classes. I played ME3 MP a good amount, but I never got a UR or rarer higher than a 4. If character classes were like that, then I never would have been viable in Gold or Plat with a rarer character! And it makes it doubly as frustrating - you have to hope for the gun you want AND the character that you want. I think there is a good chance that this will hurt player retention.

Its a ton of fun. Really enjoying it. Here are some changes/feedback I'd make.

Disconnects. This is really out of hand. It's borderline game breaking. It's especially crippling to be going through harder difficulties with a team of friends, and one gets disconnected.. because help isn't on the way. A good, solid challenge is now a borderline unmanageable shit storm. Please, PLEASE get this under control. It's not our internet either.. it's on your end, because it's happening to everyone.

Character leveling: This simply takes way, way too long. It takes a grindy environment and makes it even more grindy. Character advancement should realistically sped up by about 20% IMO. You end up getting put in the awful predicament of: Do I keep playing my 1-2 high level characters to earn credits and advance my manifest, or do I play my low level characters on lower difficulty to get them a few skill points PER GAME. Playing low level characters on high difficulty gets you kicked, or you become an anchor to your team.. causing uneeded difficulty on wave 6/extraction, potentially costing others credits.. which is not cool.

The flying Remnant, the shielded one with the laser (forget the name) feels a bit overpowered IMO, especially if it gets over the top of you on an open map. It's especially punishing if you're using a close range weapon.

Been playing a few hours of non-stop multiplayer on my friend's Xbone...

No lag, but two crashes to desktop and a complete freeze.

Aside from that it's fun, but either I'm way too used to ME3MP, or I still have to get used to the new stuff.

It's like I'm missing cues.

I was playing the Asari adept, who has Annihilation (Field), Throw and Lance. It's just weird. When you walk around with Annihilation on, there's simply this huge blue disc under your feet all the time. It doesn't seem as cool and organic as in ME3. Then when enemies get inside the field, I can't tell if they're primed by looking at them, all I can see is that they're standing on the blue disc. There seems to be no accompanying effect on the actual enemies like in ME3. Or if there is, it's too subtle because I didn't notice it. This is especially uncool when you're doing a hack objective, because you'll be standing in yet another circle of coloured light which makes it almost impossible to see the Annihilation Field, and with no obvious signs of whether an enemy is primed, it becomes a guessing game. And then when you Throw them, or Lance them, yeah it has an effect, but I can't really tell whether they're being detonated because the audiovisual clues feel very understated to me. I really miss the unmistakable awesomeness of the ME3 biotic detonation. Also, I can't really tell when I lost my shields, there's no shattering. I just hear my character saying he's lost his shields, but AFAIK it could just as well be a teammate's character saying that.

I have no definitive opinion on the verticality and the jetpacks yet. It's cool, but hectic. Takes some getting used to.

All in all I was having fun, but I'm still warming up to it.

I feel like levelling up a character takes forever, and who knew bronze games could be so hard? Although, with a low level character and shitty commons for weapons, yeah.I guess ME3 was similar.

Haha! EXACTLY!!! I was seriously confused by that.

my first impressions so far:

- thankfully "only" one crash to desktop so far but the stability issues others mentioned should definitely be looked at ASAP
- leveling takes a little too long imo
- NO sound when reviving someone
- too few (significant) sounds in general
- The UI is questionable at best - not really simple/intuitive like ME3MP
- no STASIS (almost cancelled my pre-order )
- no ARC PISTOL (see Stasis)

+ fast paced and fun imo
+ female Novaguard finally without the screaming-moaning-Monica-Seles-noises - THANK YOU!
+ APEX app (really starting to like it)

the MP seems like fun but every now and then the same things happen and there all mostly related to lag, the sodding insta gib ascendant has to be the worst since wave 6 every game I play I get it teleport to me and insta killed except for when I host (I swear it must love vanguards, I don't even see the damn thing coming and it teleports through walls to get me)

I don't like hosting because when everyone's home there thrashing the connection without me abusing others like that .....

I'm unsure if it's tied to the gladiator patch that was released, but last night I found that my disconnect and crash rate skyrocketed. I had at least 5 different instances of sudden disconnect or crash events last night, all on different hosts. I lost tons of consumables and time as most of the disconnects happened on Silver, waves 4-6. Anyone else notice a similar spike in disconnects yesterday?