Multiplayer Balance Changes ~ General discussion

Dont know if anyone has said this but the hesh and the phalanx stutters a lot, both need to get the predator treatment where you can tap the trigger as fast as you can.

Also Remant breachers on gold need to have some sort of timer. Unfair that they can just chase you forever until they reach you. Its so unbelievably cheap feeling, there is no escape.

If anything, they need bigger explosions, making them the new Aboms.

That's what happens when you hire people on the basis of racial diversity and political agendas rather than job qualifications

If you look at the team pics for MEA, there are literally six brown people in the entire group. Contrast this with twitter feeds and you'll find 'multiracial' diversity at BW is more of a wishful thinking type of deal than actual reality, which makes the political rhetoric that much more absurd, unless you consider overworked and underpaid Romanians 'people of other'.




as someone of mutt flavored heritage, I think I can speak for myself as an individual first and [insert political thing here] much much farther down the chain of priorities.

I haven't played ME3MP is a long time, but I'm wondering... Did enemies have 100% accuracy clear across the map like they do in MEA? I swear I get dropped more from some basic mook hitting me from 1000 yards than I do any big enemy like a Berserker. Or an Anointed with ridiculous accuracy on his chaingun.

Yep, MEA enemies seem to have much greater accuracy over most of the ME3 enemies, with a few notable exceptions.  Make liberal use of the jetpack dash/dodge and you'll have a better time dodging enemy fire.  I've noticed simply running or jumping between cover leaves me way more vulnerable than dashing with the jets.

this may be true on console but not on pc.
ME3s multiplayer was somewhat bugged due to 60 fps on pc and enemies had better accuracy (example: while sprinting diagonally, ravagers couldnt hit you on console, but on pc).
not to mention collector captains that onehtited you if you were out of cover for 1 second.

so yes and no to the accuracy question

Still no real balance patch. What an embarrasmsnt for bioware

I've already been math crunching...about how bad most of these weapons are. And powers/passives.

So as I noticed they have a ISSUE with Mattock Series of weapons Mattock/Halbred and even the Zalkin/Sandstorm

The predator is outdoing them.......let me repeat...the PREDATOR
The Avenger...is one of the top automatics for rifles...weirdly only out paced by the Rev but not in accuracy. (Now as much as it is it's out done by the Charger)

Why is the Charger already a top notch gun even on ...gold?

I been playing for a bit and honestly looks like they need to do a hard evaluation of some of the guns notch their damage by 25%. (Not the Vanquisher it's fine)(There might be a few okay at their damage spots but I don't own them all at X grade)

Then adjust some of their "reloads" and adjust some of their general fire rates which hold some back pretty hard.

Some guns really are headshot dependent. Sadly this games headshot shit is cruddy unlike ME3s variant.

Many powers need touch ups in trees. Like duration of priming...(shockwave rank 6 primer) and combos need to be only up maybe about 10% more to 20% more damage output. As they are strong but arnt....holding up unless your team understands how to use full planned team.

Many powers arnt holding up like Pull/Shockwave/REMNANT VI (it's buggy)/TUrret (needs a bit of touch up)/Overload (yep it's not holding up well for charge ups)/Nova (it's just okay but not holding it's own all the time)/Incinerate (yeah ...it's kinda weakish)/Energy Drain (needs a tad more umph not much)/even Cryo beam/Flamethrower are a bit on the weaker sides.

These power though I don't think need super tunes of omg levels...they do need some like 10-20% damage boosts naturally and adjustments to how much damage they honestly do as a whole just a tad.

Or their utilites need a strict look over for better choice foundations

Passives are a bit iffy but most are fine

Nerf Barrier with shield steal...it's 10% is fairly large prob prune it to 5% not 10%.
Some passives weapon trees need more weapon or dmg upping...only a tad though...

That they're apparently using shields restored on Biotic Kill rather than Saving Barrier would lead me to believe Bronze.  Particularly that they think the biotic kill evolution is the over powered one. 

Most of the balance changes are probably nothing more than numbers on a spreadsheet or config file. Those things can be changed in minutes and tested in a day.  Solving hard crashes and unexplained random disconnects is something else entirely. In every software project I've been on, there's at least one person, usually a lower level code monkey, who takes on the "low hanging fruit" so that it can be pushed out fast to appease the peasants while the folks who make the big bucks can solve the hard stuff. Hell, I bet a couple of quality play testers could take a copy of the weapon/powers damage numbers, play for a day and pencil in changes that would improve the players experience by a good margin.

That's nice but I play on Gold and Silver.

The issue is I'm sadly experienced enough from ME3 from using crappy shit so long I grew used to it.

Most of my things DID denote a 20 and 25% damage buffs.

When I say mostly fine means that they don't ALL have worthless evelutions

The ones I'm finding issues for are Shockwave, Pull for example.

Yes I know issues are here and there. But you really think instantly every key thing is trashy shit 100%? I don't care about your opinions and feelings that you need to 100% plow through gold. Yeah I know there is shitty powers. But our powers have to balance to the guns and sadly both are diminished. I agree they need buffs. But we don't need them on the level of say "Incendiary Rounds + Flamethrower"