Video: ME:A Multiplayer Problems: Weapon Balance

"In theory" tells me you haven't actually done it.

So go ahead, try it. Host a pub kett/Gold/Icebreaker lobby until you get a W6 Upload. And then try "kiting" the kett around the objectives for long enough to let someone else complete the upload. This ain't the reapers anymore where you only really had to worry about Banshees and a nuke took care of that anyway.

Here, if you cannot clear them quickly, you will fail the objective even if you don't die, because groups of 2-3 Anointed bullet sponges and their Destined pals literally run towards you from the nearest spawn point. Run. A lone guy simply cannot hold his ground against that (and the Wraiths, and the Fiend...) with the DPS we are currently capable of putting out. A single Wraith inside the circle stops the upload, and leaving it loses progress. Rocketing is useless, because they'll respawn and be there again before the objective is done. "Crowd control" does zippo because shields/armor. Cycling A-B-C while kiting is not a valid tactic either. This leaves only raw damage, which sadly is the one thing we are sorely lacking.

+1

The speed of the enemies, their AI, spawn system, changes to missiles, powers, combos, weapons, cover, map design: it all feels like Bioware looked at what we used to clear platinum, and designed against it.

I'm kinda enjoying MEAMP, but I also used to like soloing. Trying to solo Gold with a biotic-spec human adept is an exercise in frustration. Compared that to ME3MP where it was genuinely fun, and you felt powerful but fragile.

For me the variety is just lacking.

I suspect it has something to do with the level they have mobs set to. Playing NG+ in single player in the mid 60 range on insanity a overload+energy+drain+tech combo with all the SP bonuses won't strip off shields off things like sharpshooters. Meanwhile a single sniper rifle shot will definitely strip shields if not 1 shot the mob entirely.

So does the patch balances it a bi hardcoresalmon?
People complain a lot about the patch, but ... it s a sport here
For a quick glance at the values, looked like 20% increase on a lot of guns, or did i miss something?

Excellent job OP.

Dear lord someone please put one together for combos now in comparison to ME3. I realize they've shortened the game but damn make powers actually do some damage. Increase the wave budget if they're worried about the clearance times generating more credits and interfering with their micro transactions.

As someone who played ME3 for just a tiny bit. Probably 50 hours or less.

Gold in MEA seems easier than ME3...

I didn't have rank 10 weapons ect...

ME3 gold>MEA gold. Fun/variety>tedious/no variety shitfest

I wonder if anyone at Bioware looks at the graphical UI, sees an AR damage bar, "Hmmm, it's 3% filled in". "looks about right"

I was planning on making a video like that, just don't have many classes adept or engineer classes leveled up to show them.

Combos don't seem to scale with rank or difficulty but it requires quite a lot of testing.