Real reasons MP sukcs

I often wonder if, in my case, I really liked me3mp, first online game and many great friends were made, in my opinion MEA doesn't hold a candle to ME3. I hated jet packs when I started, still do not like that I can not run, a few of us old guys were in chat the other night trying to put a finger on why this game does not have the draw we experienced before, no conclusive answer, the weapons are for the most part frustrating but the group has a few of the better ones, bio and the ch explosions are better, vanguard off host actually works but something is missing, at least to me.

It`s similar but also very different.

Firstly I wanted to see MEAMP as a continuation of ME3MP... but more I play more I realize that they are simply two different games.


To make things short, 
MEAMP can never replace ME3MP.
Jetpack, Melee, Power Synergy, Weapons, Character function, Enemy behavior.... totally different. 

I had full manifest + nearly unlimited consumables in ME3MP but stopped playing sometime in year 2013. 

I am going to play it again starting this weekend. I am gonna try bronze first. 



..holy shit these things are still alive? I thought they were gone with old forum. lol

I agree.

That said, I'd like to see some really alien faction in future DLC, though. You know, an alien queen that gives birth to huge sticky blobs that crawl along the ceilings and transform into creepy crawlies than shoot biotic beams out of their body orifices and metamorphose into psionic nightmare butterflies when critically wounded which then try to attach themselves into your elbow in order to suck your lymphatic fluids.

Something like that. 

Geth Infiltrator was a 'god sent' in ME3MP.  Would love to see any geth again in MEAMP.

Anyway, I am really curious if EA will push for non-free DLCs for SP after receiving so much criticism on the game quality.

They made it more like an actual shooter which is a good thing. When I played it on PS3, I always wanted to click it in like most games.

Enemy AI is remarkably similar actually. Play with some friends and save one enemy that burst fires in attacks. The first two attack iterations are easy to evade the third is going to be dead on if the enemy is still aggroing to the same target. The thing you're feeling is a greater number of active enemies on the map so more are achieving lock on.

Sweet, man. Glad I could help your cardio routine.

There should be an option for autorun, though.

It's the wrong kind of toggle, sadly.

No, I am not talking about jump, I meant just continuously sliding.
I am sure Sliding is just as fast as running and much much safer. haha

Nope. Distance has nothing to do with it. Because I play melee a lot, I am right up in most enemies faces for much of the time. It doesn't matter if my pea shooter hits them at point blink or not...its still a pea shooter. And the cooldowns on combos seriously damper this game. What is Mass Effect without its cool powers? Another XYZ cover based shooter, that's what. Give us our powers back Bioware. I actually do like the jetpacking and dashing, and the vertical elements of these maps is more interesting and logical as a space combat game. Not having any dash on large characters in ME3 annoyed me so much. But I do agree they need to have more differences from each other in this game. Every character dashes and jetpacks in the exact same way. That's lame.

It has been proven that most guns do less damage than they did in ME3MP.  Some guns actually do less than 50% of the damage they did in ME3. Now people might say, "hey, we don't know how many hit points the enemies yet have to properly compare that stat!" Perhaps, but this idea doesn't hold very well when you see than most of the sniper rifles are still doing the same damage they did in ME3. So that doesn't make sense. And of course, its hard to ignore how most shots take only a tiny sliver of health off the health bars. When you factor it all, it becomes clear that the weapons do much less damage than before. Gamers don't like bullet sponges as being the deciding factor in difficulty. Biotic powers feel extra weak, too. You have to take every possible boost in your attributes to make them do more than tickle the enemies in this game, and that's on top of the extra long cooldowns that Bioware seems to think we should have. There are a few exceptions, yes, like the Asari Adept. And hey look, the Asari Adept also happens to be one of the most fun classes to play...imagine that! Its almost like being able to use powers frequently is somehow fun! Its only a matter of time before BW nerfs the hell out her somehow. I just know it is going to happen. Instead of making other classes more fun, they'll kill the Asari Adept. And then look at the Vanguards, another class people still enjoy. It just so happens that Charge has a rank 6 option for 75% faster cooldowns, which is massive. I don't think any other power has this kind of reduction aside from powers tied to shields. And thus, Vanguards are also one of the most fun classes to play...again, this ties DIRECTLY to the fact they have the ability to have one of the fastest cooldowns in the game.

Their balancing decisions have been so horrible in this game. Whoever decides this game's balance needs to be removed and replaced, because they are helping kill Mass Effect's chance at multiplayer. There is no middle ground here, this is not excusable. This game's MP is going to fade so fast unless drastic changes happen very fast.

And this is all very sad. Because I can see that this multiplayer has the potential to be SO damn good. The base is there, it can be done! I actually do have fun playing this, but I know it can be so much better. Like the rest of the game, it still feels like a beta rather than a finished product. Perhaps that can change with time if Bioware continues to work on the game. But I fear the damage has been done. Even if BW manages to salvage this game and make it great, it will still not sell very well because of all the negative problems this game has endured and the stigma against it. Unless something incredible happens and FAST, this game is doomed to be a running joke and a bargain bin title. And I hate thinking this way because I how much I love the Mass Effect universe. Hot damn, I am not really that hard to impress. I wasn't even that bothered by ME3's ending! But this, THIS...*sigh*