Multiplayer Balance Changes ~ General discussion

Pariah bounced my singularity back at me and killed me in 1 hit lmao.

Also got a Vanquisher out of a silver pack buuuuuttttttt I like the Black widow more I said it.

To give a few thoughts of my own after about 30 hours into the game, I would like to see:

Cryo Beam - freeze unshielded target time reduced by 50%. Damage increase by 30%.
Sentry Turret - Cooldown reduced to 8s. Damage increase - substantial.
Singularity - cooldown reduced from 24s to 18s
Combo damage increased by 25%. Radius increased by 50%
overload charge time reduced by 30%
Lance headshot multiplier increase to 300%

Annihilation - base power recharge penalty increased from 60 to 90

I won't get into weapon balance yet, as I still need more time with the weapons, but these are a few items I feel should be considered. The human engineer is woefully incompetent comparatively to the other humans right now, which makes me sad.

Geth Bombers and Cerberus Dragoons were added entirely to put more pressure on people casually picking everything off at a safe distance or camping areas. No one can really argue the enemies in Andromeda MP don't apply pressure... The AI in MEAMP is far more pushy except maybe the outlaw sharpshooters... I've seen them hunker down and camp once they find cover with at least a few good sightlines. 

i like some of these, but I don't see any reason to change Annihilation or not to just fix combo scaling. Singularity does need help though, and why does adept not have more detonators?

How about this instead:
Cryo Beam - immune to stagger during cast
Flamethrower - immune to stagger during cast
Turrets -  Reduce cooldown by 200% if self-destructed within 5m of the player (as if you picked it up)
Lance - +50% base damage, +150% impact radius. Shield-Powered consumes 25% of shields and gives +50% damage vs armor (then kits not named asari adept would have a reason to use it)

Does that little drone which sticks to your face count as a melee unit?

Also,Assembler can execute you,so maybe when he executes you ,you are done for the whole match (ok,that was a joke)

It deeply deeply concerns me for the future of this game that they "took a look" at assault rifles all they did was pretty much nerf the mattock. They still have less than half the DPS of sniper rifles and the equalizer/hurricane. Absolutely no point in using an AR not named the falcon

60% of the players are melee builds it seems. Vaguards or Duelists. 30% are Infiltrators with Vanquishers. The rest are a mish-mash.

And yes, I'm pulling numbers out of my ass. Lol. But wouldn't be surprised if I was close. Most people seem to agree the most fun classes to play are the Vanguards, Kroguards and Duelist.

I would personally love to play the Krogan Engineer, but with power and combo damage being garbage, turrets being poor and Rage not synergizing well with the character while being the only survivability upgrade, he's sitting on the sidelines until they fix it

I refuse to play him until they make him sound like a Krogan...or until they add "Cowabunga Dudes!" as hls battle cry. Or maybe "Schwing!".  Because that's what he reminds me of.

My quad itches

Started MEAMP playing post 1.05 about a week ago, after finishing the SP campaign. I had some hope that, seeing as ME3MP was a lot of fun, MEAMP would be on-par. I have many hundreds of hours invested in ME3MP, most of it on Silver, some on Gold. The thing that strikes the hardest after a week of playing is that where I found ME3MP to be fun and exciting, MEAMP feels more like a burden; I can't bring myself to start the game to play MP anymore. The reward doesn't match the effort. ME3MP always left me wanting more. Not so much in MEAMP.

My intent is to provide constructive criticism. I want this to be a worthy successor to ME3MP. I want to feel like MEAMP is fun and rewarding, and that there is some semblance of progression. I want it to be not only good, but great.

First off, like many others, I'm running around with a Vanquisher, for multiple reasons. It's one of the few weapons that can actually kill enemies consistently. It has accuracy, range, and enough damage do to more than a dent. However, the biggest advantage is its speed. Because it deals a lot of damage, it can kill enemies quickly. If you can't kill quickly, you're dead. Assault rifles, shotguns, pistols and SMGs are slow and inaccurate. Enemies move around a lot, so you need to deal as much damage as possible as quickly as possible as accurately as possible. Hence, sniper rifles. My Charger X might not be the best weapon in the game (hence its common rarity), but having to empty an entire magazine at point blank to just kill a single unshielded, unarmored, regular enemy is just... crazy. Most weapons in ME3MP could kill quickly enough. If an enemy entered melee range you could always punch it in the face (looking at you, Drell Adept. Man that was awesome).

Powers need some kind of overhaul. In my opinion, a fully charged Overload with +300% damage to shields should remove the shields on a Kett Destined or Anointed on Silver - it barely removes half of it. Add to that a cooldown of 15 seconds. I know that individual cooldowns requires them to be longer, but that much longer? Wouldn't 8 seconds be enough for most powers?
Speaking of powers, as others have mentioned, power combos are too weak by far. A tech combo should decimate shields (for regular enemies). A biotic combo should (if anything) kill regular grunts or at least leave them with a sliver of health. What are the devs idea here? Are combos more for crowd control in MEAMP than damage?

I understand that melee damage was nerfed in 1.05, but... even with the Juggernaught Shield's +75% melee damage (unless it's a tooltip typo and it should be 7.5%), it takes 3-5 melee strikes to kill a single Wraith. Add to that that you're flushed out of cover and also take weapons fire while trying to kill it. To stand a fair chance, those enemies should be relatively easy to kill seeing as they can make themselves invisible. Maybe it's just them, maybe it's an overall issue. It shouldn't take me 3-5 hits to stab a Raider to death.

Enemy factions are unbalanced. I feel like Remnant and Outlaws are somewhat fine. Kett, on the other hand...

* Two invisible enemies, one of which also have shields and a shotgun
* Two instakill heavy enemies
* Two shielded enemies

Fiends are fine. You just need to avoid them and whittle them down. I have some suggestions for Ascendants and Destined, though.

* Ascendants might either lose their abilities and shield permanently when the orb is shot down (with more HP on the orb), or the downtime between orbs need to be longer. Invulnerable enemies are never fun.
* Destined should either consume their shields when cloaking, or break cloak when attacking. It's not fair that an Infiltrator loses their cloak when they fire and Destined doesn't.

Other issues/suggestions

* If would be nice to be able to reload while jumping/evading. Probably not going to happen but I'll throw it in there anywway. Trying to stay alive is hard enough, having to move slowly while in a crossfire to reload hurts.
* It's hard to move around while having a held power active, like Backlash or Cryo Beam (one only has so many fingers...). The toggle option is nice, but annoying - you have to manually turn it off to do something else. The streamlined option here would be to automatically deactivate such powers off when firing or reloading guns, evading, jumping, or using another power. That way, you could press 1 to activate Cryo Beam, move around a little to dodge enemy fire, and when you see that a target is frozen solid, hit 2 to detonate it with Overload.
* Weapon/crosshair climb should reset upon cease fire and between bursts. My wrist hurt like crazy trying to keep the crosshair centered by constantly having to move the mouse down. Might be less annoying with a controller, but I haven't tried it.
* Melee target locking. ME3MP had this. If you have a target highlighted when you press melee, you should hit it. Missing every other time just because the targeting is finicky is really annoying.
* Prestige bonus stats. I mean... 1%? Per rank? Sure, they affect all characters on my account, but one percent is not even noticable. Why not 5% per rank?

All in all, these issues just kills the experience for me. It's simply not fun.

To finish up, I'll share my SP playthrough experience. I went for Insanity from the beginning. After trying out some stuff I ended up with the Sentinel profile, Energy Drain, Shockwave (with Lifting SW), Charge and the Remnant cryo gauntlet for melee. Charge into a bunch of enemies, Shockwave to send them flying, Energy Drain to get a Biotic Combo and to get them back on the ground, Charge again for a Tech Combo, hit one of them with melee to freeze them, Shockwave again for a Cryo combo. Rinse and repeat if necessary.

Now that is fun.

You know what's fun for me?  Shooting stuff.  I LOVE shooting stuff.  But when nothing happens, it's NOT fun.  And when I'm not shooting stuff, I want to beat on stuff with the butt of my rifle. And when I can't do that, I want to give it a good, long roundhouse punch, surfing across the map if needed to connect.

I could do all those things in ME3 MP.  I can do none of them in MEA MP.  I'm assuming when the LOLRNG store graces me with the Vanquisher, I'll at least be able to do one of them...assuming I'm still around then.