MP Impressions

• Progression is much slower. I think it's a good thing when you factor in Prestige and such, but after putting in over 1,500 hrs in ME3 multiplayer, feels a little weird.
  
  
• Combos are a necessity. Teams seem to struggle when they don't have kits that can prime targets, especially with the long cooldowns of detonators. Maybe this will change when more players start using Ammo consumables.
  
  
• I actually like the shorter wave lengths. Matches don't seem to drag on like in ME3 and no more Wave 10 pizza bullcrap.
  
  
• Lag, Lag, Lag. Unexplained host migration, and usually when a host is migrated, players are stuck at spawn. I even got lag on the tutorial mission...hosted by me...as the only player. W.T.F.
  
  
• (PC) Buggy - Audio vanishes entirely, CTDs (I had about 6 or 7), invisible objectives (mainly the missing assassination marker), invisible teammates, the press "E" to activate button getting stuck in the crosshair for the whole match, ammo resupply bug (where you can only refill your current mag, not your reserve)etc. Nothing nearly as bad as falling through maps or glitchy vanguards from ME3, but still annoying since I came across these bugs in just a few hrs, and I know Bioware played/had people playing this shit way longer than that. Inexcusable, really.
  
  
• The game is responsive as hell. Powers are instant, no more off-host delay bullshit where your survival ops pack would activate AFTER you went down, etc. The new controls are fantastic and the lack of an omni-button to do everything is a very welcome change.
  
  
• I can already see a large degree of character kit ranking growing to become problematic. With the emphasis on combos and direct power damage being relatively weaker than in previous games, kits without the ability to prime targets will suffer. There are kits that have 3 detonating powers, that are all very weak, but not a single priming ability. Unless Bioware manages to get ahead of this with some creative balance changes, I fear it's only a matter of time where we end up like ME3 where even with the dozens of kits, players tended to stick with 1/4 of them.
  
  
• EA needs to make their Early Access Trials longer for people who already bought the game.   10-hr for everyone in the Access program, and 15 hrs for people in the access program who also bought the game already. Crack addicts need their fix!

• Obviously, the guns are shit. Which is fine, I'm not expecting an Avenger IV to be a murder machine, and I'm OK if they want to increase the TTK a little. But what's really annoying is that reloading your weapon takes ages, can't be cancelled, and is interrupted by pretty much every single action. Especially with all the jetpacking around - you'll dodge away from something and have to start your reload all over again. TLDR I'm fine with no reload cancel if I can reload while sprinting or jetpacking.
• Which leads to my next point, this vaunted mobility. It's kinda fun...but at the same time feels kinda pointless. All the routes seem easily traversable. And while there's some fun moments dodging away from grenades/charging Krogan/whatever, I don't feel like I'm doing anything that much different from combat roll spamming.
• Powers: I'll say it once - cooldowns feel too damn high. Which might be fine, except combos feel really unsatisfying - they're harder to see amongst the barrage of particle effects, and they don't sound as good. And they don't seem to do all that much damage either, which is weird. All this means that it feels like caster classes have really been shafted.

EDIT: Oh and enemies dodging powers is still a thing. Kinda sucks when I have to wait like 10 seconds for throw to come off cooldown.