Multiplayer Feedback ~ General discussion

The problem with muting people is that after you mute someone you don't hear the announcer anymore telling you when there's an objective wave or extraction. I tried telling people they have an open mic since you can hear sometimes personal discussions that are surely not meant for everyone, but most people don't even realize after that, they are transmitting. Had one who had a fire-alarm going off, very annoying. The standard setting should be push-to-talk and not voice activated, many people play with a microphone on and don't realize it.

After some 50+ hours of MP I feel like it could have used more polish, even compared to the first ME3 MP days (I played the ME3 MP demo back then and gotten over 1000h of MP after that).

-The 3 factions don't feel balanced, Kett have two enemies that can sync-kill, the other factions none, most lobbies I join have the enemy set to outlaw since they are easiest, everyone knows their weakpoints, they only have Berserkers and Adhis to drive you out of cover and both are rather easy to deal with and the Hydra is - even compared to the good old Atlas - a pushover that can't even sync-kill - at least it never did anyone and I punched it in the face enough times. Remnant feel the most balanced, the Nullifier can be a tad bit too annoying as he fires a bit too frequently with his cover-penetrating shot and can track you through solid walls. Other than that I like the enemy. Kett feel a bit like Reapers in the early days or Collectors (although not quite as obnoxious) which is fine I guess, but there's some bugs making them more annoying than need be, Fiends insta-killing you from two levels below you for instance. The Ascendent I quite like with the orb mechanic, although he shouldn't be able to sync kill right after teleporting through solid walls, should be some kind of cooldown imho. 

-The crashes need to be addressed, how this did not show while play-testing is beyond me. At least I don't have the memory leak problem like in single player where after a while you get the infamous DirectX out of memory bug, but the Crashes to Desktop are even more annoying since you don't know what causes them. At least give me the cash I earned in the objective rounds until the crash (had so many crashes in Extraction waves...)

-Movement feels a bit clunky, since many times you jump somewhere and only after the third try your character grabs the ledge. And when landing your character first does a recovery animation which stops the flow. Destiny was much more fluent gameplay wise. There you couldn't grab onto ledges. Either you jumped high enough and landed right away or not, not something in between that stops movement.

-Reload animations get interrupted by way to many things, even lag sometimes. You have to mash the button sometimes just to keep your character from interrupting the reload. Only specific instances should interrupt reload, like firing or switching guns, but not sprinting, jumping or lag.

-Cobra animations have the same problem, when I press the cobra button you can be damn sure I want to use it, not change it to a gun by any small interruption.

-Timer on devices is a bit to harsh, you practically have to be right next to the next device in order to get a gold rating. And it gets interrupted by lag as well, I've had to press the button like 10 times sometimes just to finish disabling it.

-We need to see the Ping to the host in the lobby, right now it's a coin-toss to get in a lobby with someone that's not severely lagging. I'd host myself, but it appears when I host (50/5Mbit stable cable connection) no one joins. Same problem when I have a friend in the lobby, the other two spots never fill.

-When I select to join a strike team mission in Multiplayer, I only want to play that mission, nothing else. It's annoying to select an APEX mission just to have to try 10 times to join a lobby that actually has that mission and not a custom match with some of the parameters of the mission. In the beginning I joined those matches not knowing I wouldn't get the Mission Funds or bonuses of the mission.

-There's already cheaters, I joined a game with infinite ammo, no need for reloads and instant power recharge. Was a pretty dull match.

-Last but not least - Weapon and Power balancing need to be looked at. Right now you either need to wield a sniper (Vanquisher) or be a Melee Vanguard in order to be able to compete. While using other characters and guns, especially on gold can also be fun, they don't feel like you make any kind of impact. If I land a headshot with my Carnifex a basic mook should die with 1-2 shots, not tank more for instance. Biotics and Tech-characters felt like a real alternative in ME3 MP, you could even forego playing with any weapon in favor of a recharge-optimited build. Not only did they take away the possibility to get 200% recharge rate (which would have been fine if the recharge rates would have been normalized with the new 100%) but they do way less damage. When I do a biotic explosion with two rank 6 primers/detonators and passives skilled for biotic explosions, basic grunts should die. Period.