Fiend's sync kill. :o

I meant the fiend. Direct hit won't always kill it, and I've had floor shots take less than half of its health bar. Same with Hydras.

Cobra is crap now. How the hell am I supposed to scorewhore on extraction wave, biower pls.

Yep, this seems to be how they do it. Spawn either right behind you or beneath you. You'd think something that big (Fiend) would at least make a noise before it reached up through the floor to sync you.

Gaming developers like to prove they can be A-holes on a pretty regular basis. One of the ways Bioware does this with mass effect 3 and unfortunately now also 4, are sync kills.

In ME3 you have many bosses and a mini boss(phantom). And what does bioware do with their infinite "wisdom"? They not only add a ridiculously overpowered and mega annoying(not fun, not challenging, just freeking annoying) boss move to the game, sync kills, but they give this idiotically overpowered move to ALL bosses in game except one...awesome. And now they seem to have added our much 'loved' sync kills right back into ME4, they just cant help themselves.

Another way they prove being A-holes, is the ultra annoying RNG BS involved in the pack system which I was hoping would be gone in ME4, so much for that. There should be merchant access of some type in multiplayer just as there is in single player, so we can actually buy the EXACT equipment or weapons we WANT instead of playing the idiotic spin the bottle/timesync crap-o-la feast that is the current piece of junk pack system.
It also seems they got more into micro transaction BS in ME4 too, and why are items like the juggernaut shield and that holo blade melee enhancement disposable? What the hell..

Annoying things like sync kills are what devs do when they are too lazy and or goofy to think of anything less 'cheap arse'. There should at least be a way to mash some buttons, or do some quick time event to have a chance of breaking free, other then getting lucky that a teammate might possibly stagger the boss sync killing you. This has been mentioned on the ME3 forums, but of course bioware didnt listen. Maybe a teammate could run up and grab you and try to pull you out of the bosses grasp, and they would do the quick time event. Also as mentioned here, someone already talked about some of the bosses also having ridiculous ranges on their cheap arse sync kill moves, as if its magnetic hands happening all over again only worse because evidently it was intentionally made this way this time, despite ALL of the complaints about it!?!...GG devs, another big ol' helping of craptastic!

Yet another way bioware likes to be A-holes in ME4, is instead of krogans sounding like...you know...KROGANS, they now seem to have wimpy sounding human voices. Im not talking about the female krogan you meet in the single player, she is ok. Im talking in multiplayer the male krogan vanguard and especially the male krogan engineer...who almost sounds like a damn teenage kid or something last time I played him...what the actual hell.

And now our cobra missiles have been wimpOfied so they dont always pack enough punch to kill what you are shooting with them...wow, really? So our emergency oh crap button, kind of sucks now. Again, awesome!

The good thing is the gameplay(minus cheap arse sync kills), graphics, world design of both single and multi in ME4 I think are pretty darn good. Jetpacks also add an entirely new dimension to the game that is pretty fun. Plenty of times on ME3 I wished I had a jetpack to explore other parts of the map, now we can in Andromeda. Also we still have good old ME3 multiplayer with its AWESOME sounding/playing krogans, awesome and sometimes funny sounding enemies when you destroy them(cerberus anyone?) heavy melee(epic krogan B slap FTW), and REAL un-nerfed cobra missiles that are actually as powerful as they should be for a o crap button type of item etc etc.

Rant over, let the fanbois flaming begin.

Sorry trying to condense my ranting wall of text a bit hehe

I also forgot to mention that I cant seem to host any MP games, no matter if its set to random or a specific mission to get mission funds. The matchmaking just never works when I try to host for some reason, and Ive read others are having the same issue. I contacted support and they gave me some tests to do to check my connection to try and figure it out. Everything works great though if I just join a game, and runs fantastic 90% of the time. Once in a while I will join a host and there is some lag, but that could be maybe they have a weaker connection and or a far location from me etc etc. But every time I try to host anything in ME4 the matchmaking doesnt seem to work, at all. But I can host just fine on ME3 and have for years on the same exact PC/connection. I cant understand how this wasnt tested better, one of the main ways to get mission funds seems to be in doing the custom multiplayer missions yet the matchmaking system is janky? O.o

Wait, seriously? Holy Bleeeping fuzznuts batman. That needs fixing asap. I know sometimes spawning in, that well, you can get them locked onto you and it auto-unhooks them when you load in.

But I wish there was an option to set or aim for in boxes by rarity for what you want. (Take some of the randomness out. I never got my geth juggie in me3..) So say, if you wanted mods, if you didn't get it out of the pack, you got a special credit type, x number of credits, you can turn it in for a dedicated what you want. Higher rarities take more of the particular. So if you wanted say a pistol, and got ammo+shotguns, you would get a credit. I guess to prevent bronze quickie farming, to have each tier reward the respective bit. So bronze could give you a bronze thing, like a character card, or a pistol. The silver you set for sniper, and the gold is set for say, a shotgun. Each pack offers a chance for progression more refined than what you normally get. You'd likely need to pay for that, but at a far discounted rate.

I had a fiend flying macho man randy savage me today a few times. And yeesh, with some map designs, and how big that range is, the fiends just plain unfun if the game tries to spawn it near you.. Heck, most of the kett are compared to playing a remnant or outlaw faction. (And outlaw can be bullet spongy compared to remnant on higher difficulties.)

So welcome now the fun of Gold Ice Base Remnant, because really, its size and roofs let you funnel the machines down the drain.

I got sync killed and next wave spawned under stage, I almost didn't make extraction. Had to run off the stage in order to be dropped back in. He snatched me out of the air mid dash it was rough.

I think sync kills would be perfectly acceptable if they required the boss to successfully hit you with a regular melee attack before the sync could be initiated.

The Krogan engineer I have in multiplayer is male, his voice is male(although a young sounding human instead of an awesome sounding krogan like in ME3) and he is way too big to be female. I had him in a game or two with female krogans the size difference is very noticeable.

As far as not being able to break free when those damn alien dog things chomp down on ya? I had the same issue, but I fixed it! I use my space bar for my use key, and somehow I accidently had it also bound to another key setting. ME4 will actually let you bind a key to two different settings, which is nice for sprint and mantle to be the same key. But for use, be sure and ONLY have one key bound for use, and dont bind that key for anything else. I had to reset my keys to default then set them again how I want just to figure it all out. Its nice being able to break free quickly from those damn things now hehe, hope this helps you too.

Now if I can just figure out why my ME4 keeps randomly crashing on multiplayer, I run tons of games and none do that.

Ran through the options and saw that Display Current Objective was the same button as Interact.  Must be some singleplayer bullshit.  Hopefully that'll fix it.

I Run MEA as Administrator, set Task Manager > Details > Priority to High, and play in Borderless Window, and I've never crashed yet.  Maybe that will fix it for you.

Yup. This guy found a solution, though. Can confirm that it works:

You're wrong, Cobras are designed to instantly kill any enemy. We have extensively tested them on bronze difficulty.

Well I can confirm this works.  You can even set it to your Melee button instead of Interact button.  Just search for the string:

0
GstKeyBinding.Keybindings.Concept_Melee.1.button 48

(LEAVE THE 0 ALONE IN NOTEPAD IT IS ALL ON THE SAME LINE BUT WHEN I COPYPASTE IT HERE IT GOES ON A SEPARATE LINE SO THERE IS DEFINITELY SOME WEIRD SPACE MAGIC GOING ON WITH THAT 0 AND IF YOU TOUCH IT I CANNOT GUARANTEE THAT YOU CAN UNTOUCH IT)

In this example, 48 is my B Key for Melee.  So don't search for the 48, that number will be whatever you use for Melee.  Then put that number into

GstKeyBinding.Keybindings.Concept_ButtonMashActive.1.button 255

instead of the 255

Now watch my Interact button be broken LOL