MP Impressions

I played 3 bronze matches,1 successful, other 2 were wipe on 6th wave.
Revenant feels like a peashooter, Krogan headbutt seems pretty powerful,Flamer has only short burst.
Also,good to see pugs are same as in ME3-ignoring objectives is a thing.

MP is fine / fun but there should be a kill switch for mic input from other players.

I'm really unimpressed. I was kind of excited to play a new mass effect mp like back on the days of the old BSN. But I just got heavy negative vibes from this game. The main one is the UI is just terrible, and the player cues are sorely lacking. I can't tell by audio anyone is being revived, I can't tell it's an objective from the music, it's hard to tell what's going on with the billions of particle effects (it's like zombie mod all the time), and the menu system is very unintuitive - and that's on a controller.

The gameplay HUD is incredibly irritating. Everything is way too small, and your friend indicators override objective indicators. In ME3 you only had downed and objective point targets, which was simple but very effective.

The gameplay was so so. It felt very generic to me - it didn't have the iconic Cerberus enemies screaming - in fact, at no point do I recall enemies screaming at all. There is no emotion in the announcers voice.

The character selection screen... Ooooohhhh boy. I don't know what they were thinking but hot damn is that a mess. Nothing seems categorized and seeing 30 humans with helmets on does nothing to help me pick a character fast. The biggest issue I think is they tried to merge both screens of the ME3MP lobby into one, and there's just way too many buttons. On ME3 there was like 5 buttons. On this one there is like... 8 or 9, and then the customizer has lots of unlabeled ones that were very easy to miss.

Another mechanic - the match countdown timer. A cue to say someone is ready and waiting on you? The blinking effect. Worked great in me3, you could tell easy. In Andromeda it seems that it's just red text in a red scrolling background. It's also at the bottom of the screen - if you look at how web pages are read, it's top to bottom left to right. I don't look at the bottom for important info like the match timer.


There's just a lot of small gameplay mechanics that don't seem to be here that you never noticed in me3, but work great together. I had some serious framerate issues - but instead of low fps, the game took the time to render each one - as host - which effectively slowed down game time. Extraction is 2 minutes, but for me it took over 3. It also caused audio issues, and even in host I had enemy rubber banding.

Sad to say I won't be picking this game up. Not until it gets a significant​ price slash. I don't have any interest in SP, the trailers have voice actors I really don't like. I kind of felt this was coming though...

I don't know what enemy has the gold shield that can sync kill but that is some serious bullshit. It's far worse than magnet hands - Out of 6 games against that enemy not once did anyone do any damage to the guy to break the victim free. After all the backlash they got about sync kills I can't believe they have an enemy that is essentially invincible while sync killing. It's unbelievably stupid. One enemy killed our entire team over the course of two minutes.

Oh and voice detection on PC is on by default. Don't know why that's a feature, because I really didn't like listening to user speaker echo cause they didnt the change their settings.

I eventually got so pissed at all these things I gave up and played some ME3 mods. On a menu that has text lined up and not curved.

I am not a mass effect fanboi that is like OMG NEW GSMES!!! I took ME3 apart like Humpty Dumpty and I don't get how some of the basic mechanics are missing.

I do appreciate not having to sit through 12 loading screens to join a lobby. The jetpack is an interesting concept but I don't think it is used to it's fullest potential as it mainly consists of standing on rooftops now.

Day 1: I haven't yet unlocked a Turian. I do have a Krogan Engineer and an Asari Sentinel so far. I guess that's okay. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I saw a Turian enemy unit called an Anarchist, clearly a man after my own heart. I didn't want to fight that Turian. I wanted to possibly get married. He didn't.

I shot that Turian dead. RIP 

I have to agree with Mgamerz.I do miss run function (or maybe didn't find it).
Announcer was much better in ME3,also enemies are pretty small.I don't know why, but I am getting kinda CoD wibe,which is funny.





But, maybe I am just salty, because have to go to work 😀

Damn,I was pressing F for heavy melee.
I don't want Banshee level of screaming,but yeah.

This sounds like an awful decision from Bioware.

UI design has become a lost art lately.



So you opted to add omnibutton in deliberately again? I knew it wasn't that bad...



Haha, it's demon commander lord all over again?

- Everything's so different than in previous Mass Effect games. The flow, the graphics, the menus. It still feels like Mass Effect, just... really different. Also yeah there are a lot of menus.

- Bronze is friggin hard without a good team, where's this Wood difficulty I've been hearing about for so long?

- Unlocking new stuff is really fun. Using new stuff is really fun.

- Jetpacks and verticality are fun, but at the same time it feels harder to keep out of the line of fire anywhere.

- Speaking of using new stuff, all the new commands are making my fingers have to relearn how to use the controls.

- Power cooldowns feel pretty long. Power spamming builds seem to be a thing of the past. RIP Cryo Soldier and double-tap Soldier builds.

- Sounds are weird. I've got the hear-everything-everywhere effect sometimes. Had to disable my mic at first because of feedback loops. I found the push-to-talk option but haven't tested it out yet.

- Origin in game is busted, even though it works in ME3 for me. Whatev.

- I'm having a really good time scrubbing it up, can't wait to git gud someday.

Yeah,in ME3 lv 20 kit can max out 4/5 fields.
So,if this character cards allow you to complete all the skills,I am fine with that.

Seriously, you can't. Who thought this was a good idea?

There are was pretty huge amount of free packs in the store, even some for ME3 veterans.