Multiplayer Feedback ~ General discussion

Negative. I'm on Centurylink in the midwest.

I never have disconnects (except host migration) but otherwise have lag always.

I played ONE lag free MEA round in my life so far with a German guy. But I don't think its related to the distance. I often hosted ME3 for American friends and they never encountered any lag, over 20000 KM.

Is there a way to see the actual cooldown times of my powers? No matter how i equip guns, i see the same cooldown numbers by my powers. Quite frustrating.

Combo detonations feel very underwhelming so far.

I'm enjoying it overall, but I can do without the jetpack feature. After hearing the feedback about most weapons being underwhelming I most likely won't be pursuing a max manifest. But I'll definitely play until I unlock all the characters and get them to level 20.

I don't understand a lot of bad decisions of design in MP.
Removing the over cover grab and the way that cloak works now.
I don't know yet because I didn't reach level 20, but, all the powers are so week!
Those things that are the most annoying for me so far.

I dont think I like the multiplayer... not 100% sure, but I dont think I do. I might give it a complete skip for a few months and see if theyll change things, but I dont think its for me at the moment i think my first impression was better than how I feel after playing it for a while, and it isnt even because of bugs or lag or anything so much as the design of the whole thing

Most of my thoughts I already mentioned in the structured feedback thread, so I wont repeat myself, but I dont find it fun... I think the maximum amount of games I can have without needing a break is 2 or 3, after that I need to stop playing entirely for quite a while, to calm down and recharge I guess, I think the combat has ruined the multiplayer for me haha

Seeing as I just died in my first round of multiplayer because I couldn't use my equipment due to the fact that duplicate keybinds get removed, multiplayer keybinds should be separated from single players.

I remapped the favorites keys to 1-4 since I have an MMO mouse and there's no reason for me to have them mapped to the top of my keyboard where my fingers have to leave WSAD--and I'd have to look at the keyboard, but that's another matter entirely--and 30 hours into single player without touching strike team multiplayer stuff, I went into my first match not knowing that my keybinds were removed for multiplayer items.

Team died, I was solo with a level 1 character with underpowered weapons, and of course I died because I couldn't spam healing items or the RPG. And of course, I can't address this in the menu because keybinding them to functions just removes my single player stuff. I have 19 buttons on my mouse, and damn near everything but scan, movement, and interact is on my mouse.

There should be a way to change multiplayer keybinds without altering single player keybinds so I can map equipment to 4-7 without changing my favorites.

I would like to see more maps that is also more geared towards sniping 5 maps is just to low.

Bring back Geth in particular GI, GE, Juggy i know about the ending in ME3 and yet some links actually tell us there may be room for a return of the Quarians and thus Geth read about settlements and geth towers found in Andromeda. Right now MP feels empty without my favourite class the Geth and i consider them classic. Bioware realize very well there is a fanbase around Geth, Quarians and other races not listed in the game as of yet. But did gave the fans of Salarians, Asari, Crogan, Turian a good time....lucky them.

An enemy faction (human in nature) that is tactical in nature just like Cerberus was and i loved fighting Cerberus it was a professional group of soldiers i miss that in MEA MP we had regular soldiers and elite soldiers Dragoons and Phantoms. It would be great to see a form of "Cerberus clone" enemy faction and not a band of renegades but professional army with solid tactics, snipers, storm troopers, heavy units and deadly sync kill elite troopers.

Maybe add new maps with natural surroundings ie fighting in forest, mountains?

A Platinum mode and even a diamond mode later on for the hardcore players hopefully not a Boss party this is just artificial difficulty but actual a boost in the A.I. of the enemy.

And for God sake bring back "reload cancel" it takes ages to reload in this game such a PITA!

The weather hazard modifier from me3 needs a comeback.

Gameplay is a blast. Love it.

Do I think balance changes would make it better? Yep.

I think it is more "fun" than ME3.

There seriously needs to be a damage immunity for people arriving late to a game without a full group... I have survived maybe 10% of the encounters I have when spawning into an in progress game. You're probably worried people will take advantage of this but that is just a small player base. It really defeats the purpose of having reinforcements for a team and have that player DOA immediately.