I figured out why the guns are so bad.

I've actually grown quite fond of the sweeper. Not as a big damage dealer or anything, but as a midrange caster weapon. No ammo worries, and with my Human adept's debuffs and pull I can kill trash mobs in a decent time midrange.

I put off finding and watching this stream out of a combination of laziness and fear but decided to give it a shot since you kindly linked it.  Oh. My. God!  The lead multiplayer designer Bastiaan Frank referred to the Hesh as a "Kett built rifle from the Heleus Cluster race" and said that it is "pretty brutal".  In addition to the other guy's (Billy Buskell, also a mp designer) quote about the Sweeper being one of the best, Bastiaan said of the Sweeper "that is my favorite machine gun".  Since this is the first I have heard of the guy, I'll chock some of this up to nerves and possibly a language issue if he is multilingual...but damn.

At 28:50 Bastiaan, tried to headbutt his krogan teammate in between waves, some faith restored. It also seemed like the Hesh was killing observers in about 6+ shots on Bronze, brutal!

50:40 They open a premium pack and unlock the PAW and Billy, good old Billy, said that he seriously thinks "the PAW is one of the strongest assault rifles they have in the entire game".   Bastiaan, "with the extended clip on it, it is absolutely amazing".  56:20 Bastiaan, "as you can see this gun is really powerful, you don't have to run to the ammo boxes".

1:02:50 They discuss weapon weight and cooldowns.   Basically they say that they didn't like how people min/maxed for low casting times by using just one weapon, so they took the recharge bonuses out so you can carry a pistol as a back-up.

1:06:50 They took out heavy melee because it's too risky to be tied down to an action that long in MEAMP.

That is all.

I am legitimately sad now.

If the quotes are anything to go by, it's proof positive these motherfuckers don't even play their own game.

This.
This is what made me start looking at other games on steam now.
Motherfucker..

My biggest beef with the guns is not necessarily them being under powered but the play dynamics are not fun. My fav gun is still the dang smg you get early on, it is auto fire and accurate. I finally find an auto fire assault rifle other than the avenger and it either has a pathetically small clip or it is wildy inaccurate.

I would love to see the comparison of how many are playing this still compared to ME3 at this point.

Charger is so freaking good.

If I hadn't loved me3mp so much i would have quit by now, I get some enjoyment out of the game but mostly playing in the hopes of a better future at this point :/

It's like they have a different version of the game than the one we got, I don't pissing know.

It makes me sad that they are so clueless and will probably never fix this.

I'm still having fun playing the game though.

I just finished tonight getting all commons/uncommons/rares to X.

So its only a matter of getting the Ultra rares now.

I'm doing the weapon challenges to get them out of the way and never have to use those crap weapons again.

With the double boosters its not so bad even on gold but its consuming a lot of boosters.

I've been leveling each character at the same time and switching to another one after gaining a level.

Most are now level 17 with a few 16.

So it takes longer to level all characters to 20 than it does to get everything to X except ultra rares.