MP will not last.

Cancelception!

I'm going to wait until the game comes out before forming impressions. No offense but half of BSN is a bunch of damn whiny douches. I'll wait until I play it extensively or wait until someone I trust plays it and gives me an opinion.

Balance is going to happen and the learning curve also will change the player base opinion. Remember when the venom sucked, the drell vanguard was too weak, etc?

Well, here's a thing or two I have considered about the MP, and why I will be waiting to play it, if I play it at all, since I have cancelled my Amazon order and will wait for the deep sale that will be coming sooner than anyone expected...

There are no N7 weapons this time around. This removes any extra incentive that you might have had to participate in weekend MP events, since in the beginning that was the only way to level up your N7 guns... It was awesome, we all came out, and win or lose we tried and had fun. We won most of them. But I digress.

This also means that even though I will be "falling behind" the regular MP crowd as far as manifest building goes, there won't be anything "special" I missed out on that I can't replicate by playing Gold with my friends list. In short, a good player can "catch up" to an extent, which is cool.... but means a value-minded consumer like myself is not significantly penalized for waiting for a price drop. Poor marketing/strategy again.

ME3MP has been a hit-or-miss lagfest, and if you really cannot PuG in MEAMP with any real hope of good connectivity for all involved, that greatly limits the amount of time anyone will spend playing the MP. Yes, it is fun to play with friends, but we don't all have the same time free, and if the lobby server cannot make good matches for ping and quality of connection - I just see this as something that would hinder my ability to enjoy the game a great deal. Even when MP was going strong, I still enjoyed pugging a lot and found more good matches than bad. Maybe this is still a premature concern, but looking at the DAIMP and what we have going on so far, I am skeptical.

So, will it last? Sure, it will last at least as long as DAIMP. Will it last as long as ME3MP? I highly doubt it, but it seems like the potential is there to at least keep our interest for a little while. However, with each cancelled pre-order, there is that small percentage tick towards less MP DLC, shorter support life, etc. In the end, this thing has to sell well, or none of it will last.

Or ME3MP. Which is exactly what I'm going to do :smiles:

My assessment is that it feels like ME3MP when it first came out.

Lots of quirks, goofy bugs (think Banshees hung up on counters on FB White), etc.

If you were looking for something BRAND NEW, this won't be it.

If you wanted more of the same, then it will be close to what you want to see.

I think it might not have the same staying powerbdue to the aforementioned line. But time will tell.

I played my first MP match tonight on Bronze (after the tutorial). I never played ME3MP, but I played DAIMP quite a bit. My goal was to go in, kill stuff, do my best to achieve the objectives, support my teammates, and win.

All were accomplished, full extraction, and I had a blast! I was quite surprised that in my first public match how well the team of strangers did in terms of sticking together and helping each other. I think MP, not just based on my 1 and only match, is a better experience than the SP. The MP was the primary reason why I pre-ordered...as I had a feeling that MP would turn out alright. I feel the community will regulate itself and things will fall into place over time.

While I think we can all sit here and bash the inexcusable issues with SP, I think the MP side is pretty decent. Sure, there are a few things to be ironed out, but overall, I think it will be an enjoyable experience. Get friends, get good, and have fun.

You need to make a full fledged account so that you can tell us that you told us so.

Oh I get it, so it is basicaly the same, there's just not a guaranteed drop in challenge packs this time around. You could still get N7 weapons in ME3 just as any other in the spectre packs, they shared the same drop rate (proof).

Technically, N7 = ultra rare in ME3MP store, they all have N7 designations.




So, saying that there is no N7 weapons this time around sounds a bit like spreading misinformation. There just isn't any challenges to get a free weekly N7 drop, if I'm correct. Everything else still is exactly the same.

I think they were added to the drop pool after the events stopped happening, I'm about 90% sure on that.

So, following on my post above, at the moment it is technically exactly the same as if you would start a fresh ME3MP account, both N7 and UR share the same drop rates, N7 is just part of a name nothing else. Unless they still plan to add weekly challenges for rewards (I think there was something like that in DAI, too?), we will see. It would be really nice, it gave you a lot of reason to play a least a bit of ME3MP at the time, and that reward was really, really something special.

And to be honest, they didn't even follow the naming convention with any logic whatsoever, like for example why the Typhoon an N7 weapon, but it was never in a weekly challenge pack, it was just added later as a regular UR drop.

Initially, you could only get N7 upgrades from getting Victory packs for winning the weekend challenges. They were only added to the UR pool after the final DLC and end of support.

Preorders have nothing to do with mp dlc being developed. As long as people keep paying microtransactions, it's a lucrative business. And lucrative businesses don't shut down because there were fewer people at launch.