MP Impressions

Nah, devs said on the stream yesterday that you will have 2 more points than in ME3MP overall.

Phew, my heart was racing for a moment :DD: . If the only way to level up characters was through character cards, that could have potentially killed all my hype for multiplayer.

This! Auto cover is absolutely garbage! Also on xbone.

Haven't logged in yet today but woke up with another thought.

In ME3MP you have 4 Equipment Slots: Weapon Amp, Ammo, Armor, and Package.

I *THINK* there's a Package in MEAMP, on the submenu submenu submenu with your weapons.

The other 3 types, no longer exist. Instead you get two generic "Booster" slots, that you can fill with any of these types. Meaning that you can no longer have a Weapon Amp, AND an Ammo, AND a Power Amplifier/Cyclonic/Adreneline/Etc. If you take a Weapon Amp and an Ammo, you can't have a Power Amplifier. Or you could take an Ammo and a Cyclonic, but then you don't get a Weapon Amp.

I guess this is fine, since now you can't turn every single kit into a murder machine. Takes a bit more consideration what you want your kit to be really good at.

I love the MP. It's so much fun! They characters and powers are great. I blew through my 10 hours just in mp and I want more, More, MOAR!!!!!

Off host kroguard was noticably serviceable. I did not feel the super rubber band you do in ME3 for that power.

I find that running is much more difficult in MEA than ME3 as it's either on or off rather than quickly switchable like the A button did in 3. I think A and left stick click could be switched and it'd be easier to use.

there are only players/characters running and shooting, like an idiotic generic "shoot 'em up"

where is cooperation!?



in ME3MP we had lots of skills and powes to chare, and interact and cooperate with teammates, like the map hack/ reveal enemies behind walls, the juggernaut shield, the N7 engineer's backpack-turrent to recharge shields or deploy ammo, the recharging shield volus, the N7 sentinel's shield

the geth engineer's turret to attack enemies or recharge shields, the quarian turret,



the asari justicar's biotic bubble, etc, all of them useful to protect fallen teammates until revive or protect teammates when activating/deactivating devices,



where is all of that or similar in MEAMP!?

Oh thank you for sharing that!

That's a relief, I was thinking I'd have to unlock a kineticist card multiple times to access all the skills. Good to know we can just level them up as normal.

Sound like the few negatives there are, are very glaring. It's disappointing to hear, especially since I recall one of the devs saying how it was going to be pretty much the same as ME3. No running/sprinting? I don't get that at all.

Someone mentioned earlier that spamming powers takes much longer than in ME3. How much of a difference is it?

Is it the same dynamic as it was in AAIMP where you have to hold down one of the bumpers to run it on or off?

The one thing I noticed that I didn't mention was the gameplay felt kind of generic - I did not need to put brains into it. It's kinda like zombie mod after a while, I could just point my gun at things that moved. I didn't need to think about it, and I definitely didnt feel like I needed to cooperate.

I think it’s too early to say, but like many I also had a more negative impression and agree with the issues stated so far. As a comparison, I found ME3 to have a good balance to immediately connect a new player to the game and provide the incentive to grind over the long-term while having fun doing so. I didn’t get that immediately connection from MEA. In ME3, I remember starting with a Human Adept and after a few minutes of play and some leveled powers had a character that was very good, and is still good so many years later. This game feels more like DAIMP to me, that is, the initial characters are very weak and require a long time to gain levels.

I also see this structure as a potential issue as new player come in playing with long-time players. In ME3 it was easy for a new player, using powers to do just as well as veteran players. In DAIMP, I started later and when I began playing in Routine and found that other players had gear that would basically one-shot everything, making it difficult to contribute at all. I recall in DAIMP there would challenges that in order to get the credit you had had to land the killing blow which for a new player, playing with others that have OSK gear, made it next to impossible.

I also experience several game crashing bugs when a friend joined my game or I joined his. In this case, the host was the person who always crashed. It was odd since I also played several public games and several private and mixed private/public games without issue. We tried several times and the lobby join was fine but once we started the map, the game crashed within a few seconds. So, some game crashing bugs too!