Anyone else having thoughts about going back to ME3MP?

I've put 1700+ hrs into ME3. Not because its that great, buti have many friends that i can play this game with. I'm really bored with it by now, so no way i'm going back to me3. maybe occasionally for 1-2 hours to uninstall it for another half a year or more.

I just simply doesn't see myself putting much time into ME:A multi unless it receives huge improvements from the devs.

No, not unless I get hit by a major nostalgia bug, or I have specific reason to play with old friends. Or if my Claymore-withdrawal anxiety continues to grow.

I'm on XB1 and have been playing mostly SP (and enjoying it) but I finally dipped my toe in the MP waters yesterday. My honest opinion is that even in this early state it's a step up from ME3 MP (which I put 3k hours into across multiple accounts and platforms and is undoubtedly the most fun I've had in more than 30 years of gaming), but it's still raw and needs some polish. I've only pugged 10 Bronze games with a Krogan Engineer so far, but I've extracted 9 times and have barely touched a consumable because the co-op aspect has worked pretty well. It's fun, and that's what matters. Frankly, it's incomprehensible to me that anyone who genuinely enjoyed ME3 MP wouldn't get some similar enjoyment from MEA MP. They're not the same, but they're similar enough. That will probably apply to 'The Grind' as well, but I never gave a crap about that first time round either (1690 hours to max my first manifest). If I'm enjoying something there is no grind involved.

I'm not competitive in any way as a person, so most of the woes expressed by the mustard race players are irrelevant to me because they're often about performance issues. I couldn't care less. The performance is intergalactic light years ahead of ME3 on PS3, that's for sure. Matchmaking is instantaneous, loading screens quicker, and there are consistent frames to see what's actually going on. I've had one crash to main menu from SP and one lost connection after setting off from the MP lobby. And that's it. No lag issues or weirdness of any kind. (Yet!)

Basically I just like headbutting things,and the new Rage graphics are hilariously retro. I went toe-to-toe with a number of Krogan Outlaws and came out on top, still laughing, at least in my own head

Andromeda is a good evolution of ME3MP, with the jump pack and adding a new dimension to combat.
It needs to balancing and changes just as 3 did, and they will get tweaked and adjusted as well.
The strike team portion adds a nice angle for them being able to set up events ext.
I am enjoying it a lot, and I will be here for the haul.

With that said, ME3MP character kit appearance and base concepts are far far cooler than what we have in Andromeda.
-MEAMP seems to have taken a step back on the cool badass concepts and looks for a lot of kits. I mean no real N7 earth kits like Slayer, Shadow, Fury ext, even the basic Adept looked cool compared to joe average we got now, and Andromeda it feels like a lot of the feel is we are more weekend warrior types than badass military guys. You know, like they forgot to bring military core and instead we have homesteaders who brought their grand pappy's ol boom stick.
Why the ell do Adepts and Sentinels not allowed helmets?

So I'm sure guns will get balanced, but I have to wonder why so many of the UR's are crappy and so far most of the best guns are Rare.

Though I really wish my fave guns (Disciple and Acolyte, which would be great if the second is added) were higher rarity and better rarity.

I don't know what it is exactly but the Turians in MEA just don't seem right (appearance wise) as they look to twiggy and not thick enough. They look they are all anorexic as if the trip over to Andromeda their cryo sleep they waste away more and become husk like in appearance.

For the love of god, give that damn Turians a cheeseburger or 50.

I certainly will play a few matches of ME3, just for the nostalgia. But the 1500 hours I spend playing it are probably good enough

At launch, ME3MP worked as well as it was ever gonna work, for the most part, with the exception of the Vanguard Glitch. When they fixed that, it did increase the amount of errors and rubber-banding for almost everyone. My memory isn't broken, the game is far from perfect and worth all the lulz we have thrown at it.

MEAMP is a broken fledgling that obviously was not given the love and attention that ME3MP was. You are welcome to disagree, and once I get the game for less than 50% off I will either agree with you or LOL even louder and then the shitposting will really begin.

Head Knowledge©?

MEA MP will be better in the end. The mobility is too nice, Bioware just needs to learn from the same mistakes they made previously in regards to balance and bugs. I will miss reload cancel though, especially with the Claymore.

Dragon Age multiplayer was straight up AIDS. It was indefensibly awful.

Prior to the recent xmas sale, I didn't have ME3 on the PC, so there was never any chance of going back, not to mention the need to go through ME1 and ME2 + DLC to get my chracter history back. Thankfully I got that sorted in the end and things took off, and I eventually touched on ME3:MP. And because I'm a purist (I use a controller ala ME1 back from the X360), I used that for play.

And then I was reminded why I hated ME2 and ME3 controls. It wasn't I was a bad player (although there is some debate on this ), it was because the controls were badly designed for the function in play. PC players can split the Unikey up so you can do separate things with different buttons, you don't jump in and out of cover constantly as you are trying to disable a device, or revive a team mate. But on a controller, it was ALL button A (Or Y in MEA), that was all you had, and I simply felt the same frustration I did back when ME2 and ME3 came out. I died from controller issues, even on very easy settings because they didn't perform as required. Although I will admit, when MEA came about I had trouble initially as well with cover (in SP, but not MP), largely because the unikey now only has two uses; revive and disarm/pickup. So use of cover (and survivability) was not impacted as it was in ME3:MP.

As of such, I have very little reason or incentive to "go back" to ME3 other than for the SP campaign. Because despite everyones praise for the MP (content wise), for me, MEA:MPs controls are far superior for a controller user like me (once you get used to them; you can't really on a controller in ME3:MP because the core issues surrounding the Unikey remain; players on PC need only rebind it to the same key to experience what we control users experience). And had EA/Bioware not abandoned MEA so early, it could easily have had as much content on the MP side. But, alas, here we are.

I have gone back to mass effect as i love the game, I play andromeda multiplayer sometimes, I don't really bother with challenges anymore simply because my manifest is maxed out :-( if they added more stuff that would be cool but I know it wont happen lol.