Video: ME:A Multiplayer Problems: Weapon Balance

Some snipers are slightly overtuned at the moment and most other weapon are massively underperforming. I like talon a lot, probably because it actually does about the same damage it did in me3. For some reason it escaped the nerf hammer while most other shotguns and automatic weapons got absolutely battered.

Many of the n7 weapons are so bad, it's a real shame. Eagle, Valkyrie, Soned, Ushior, Rozerad and Naladen are all pointless at the moment. Dhan isn't worth using over talon either. Same damage basically but 2 shots, why would I pick it over talon? And no I don't think talon is op, the other shotguns need serious buffing.

yea. or use cryo explosions..... but then the video could never be finished

biotic explosions have lost a lot, but they are still OP compared to cryo.

All I want is one raptor.
But these fking advance packs give me asari adept or sentinel all day. When I was going for a vanquisher, i kept getting sniper rifle barrel mods. This is killing me

Even though snipers have been given a buff compared to ME3, I still feel that they are lacking besides the raptor and vanquisher. The main reason is that there are more enemies and we can't reload cancel.

It's the most infuriating thing when you try to reload a widow and then an adhi bites you, and then try to reload again and then a krogan blasts you with explosives. One shot snipers really need a reload buff because of the lack of reload cancelling.

Thanks for the video, the balance of this game is depressingly bad.

I's also quite funny how snipers got a double-buff: increased damage and removal of shield-gate. And STILL one shot sniper rifles are painful to use due to the horrendously long reload times, which can also be interrupted by being staggered, sprinting, lag, ec..

This!  Gah!  Why do away with reload canceling?  It's not like it required skill, just good timing, and the satisfaction of it during hectic, intense scenarios is something game is lacking.  1 Berserkcan keep you perma-stunlocked, absolutely unable to reload unless you run away with your tail tucked between your legs, which is absolutely ridiculous, ESPECIALLY WHEN I'M ALSO PLAYING A KROGAN.  But of course I'm usually using a shotgun in this scenario.  That's what annoys me the most.  I'm using a weapon that is meant to be up close and personal, but if I am, I can't reload it due to perma stagger.  

And the real kicker... the animation finishes before the clip is inserted LOL  You have no idea how long it took me to get used to that.  After playing ME3 for so long, where the animation continues PAST the clip being loaded.  Ugh.   As you said... infuriating.  

I hear ya on the vanquisher. Its a fantatic weapon, way ahead of the rest. If this is intended power level of gun play other guns need like 30-50% buffs

I cannot reproduce your results with the raptor however. Scoping requirement, small clip size and recoil dramatically reduces the actual performance for me. Basically (for me) vanquisher = I top the score board. Raptor = rock bottom on the score board.

These threads are just as annoying now as they were in the old bioware forum. This game is already too easy. Gold games ending in 20mins or less with random pugs with nearly 100% success rate in the first week of the game. The ai is much dumber in this game. They're already going down like paper tigers with the guns we have. Do we really need to make it any easier? I bet gold speed runs would take 10mins tops right now. Buy basic packs till you get level x of the common guns. If the game was any easier, we might as well play tic tac toe. The main people who are complaining are completionists who want to get everything asap instead of enjoying the game for the fun. The completionists ruined me3. Once they got everything, they started missile spamming every game. Fun was never their goal.

ME:A right now is onlyUSEmeVANQUISHER.

Not that I'm complaining, it's gotten me some sick credits

Yep, this is why the MP is getting boring for me. I'm sick of using only 2 or 3 weapons otherwise willfully gimping myself. The weapons are almost universally horrible save a small handful.

 I wanted to start my reply whit something else but your post just made me cringe.

 Game been easy and been fun are two different thing. ME3 plat was easy but also fun. Playing ME:A is tedious and boring and every character and weapon feels weak and annoying.

 I like how players like you try and fail to paint the current situation as an improvement. "But but it makes it so you have to be flixible" - no its not. Having to flee in terror from the most basic mooks due to not picking the one weapon that can do more then scratch them or the one kit that can maybe disable them - is not a fun thing to do for 7 waves. ME3 mooks were also swarming you and forcing you to move but not due to your weapon been squirt gun but buy using "skills" or overwhelming you whit the few elite troops at the front.

 Right now after maxing most of my uncommon ( and still not having any uncommon mods ) and having quite a few rare and ultra rare guns i can say this - the game is already boring for me. I just dont get exited for anything in my boxes at all - latest disapointment for me was getting the P.A.W ultra rare rifle - you need full clip just to strip 90% of the Observer shields - WHAT FUN RIGHT ?
 Each match i will attempt to bring weapon different then the Vanquisher or Talon and will dread my choice. Having to fire two full clips just to kill enemy most basic trooper is a joke. And even worst god forbid you want to switch from biotics and mele to lets say tech - GOOD FUCKING LUCK whit that. My Krogan Engineer cant take 1/4th of the enemy hp whit tech combo ....

 So no they didnt make it to take more skill or more cooperation. They made it a slog where very few weapons and kits perform on a normal level - and everything else may as well not be there. If they wanted to increase dificulty they choice the wrong path. They could have swarmed us whit basic troops and elits amids them forcing us to move and kite and "control" but instead they gave us shite kits and shite guns and told us to go have fun.

 Well im just not having fun. My characters dont feel like some elite troops and my weapons feel like a plastic toys. So i will skip on the multiplayer for now ( after getting to 7k apex rating ) and go play something else.

I don't need everything asap. I want to play and have fun. I'm just not having the maximum amount of fun if I need to empty a full clip from a talon point blank into a basic red bar mook... its not fun, its tedious af. And talon is actually one of the few ok guns. We have way too many shitty guns atm and its a fact. Now all my builds focus around melee because it makes gold pug games doable. No variety, one of the things I loved in me3, especially when I was playing gold.