I figured out why the guns are so bad.

The devs have been wrong about a lot of stuff, but they're not wrong about melee. Seriously, how many legit heavy melee builds were viable? Krogans, because rage. Batarians, because insane damage. Melee GI, because of insane kit synergy, and then Juggernaut as a special case.

Making the animation faster has opened melee up to everyone.

I used a melee vorcha, melee volus vanguard, shadow and melee asari huntress. They weren't the most viable builds but they were fun.

Removing heavy melee entirely is not the solution to that. Basically every class has a copy and paste melee now and there is nothing that can distinguish them. Melee in me3 was extremely limited but it at least had variety, somehow they have made it even more limited in ME:A with no variety.

Who cares how viable it is, give us the option and make the melee of different races feel unique.

You can sum up melee in this game like this:

Krogan: headbutt
biotic: biotic punch
angara: dagger swipe
Anything else: omni blade stab

Copy and paste, so boring...

I like challenge, I really do.

Just not as much as I like my power fantasy.

Ive been running golds with my usual team, but sometimes I just play a game for fun on silver or even bronze. When I do this, im not after credits or unlocks - just a gameplay environment where I should be able to relax more and use different weapons and characters.

Unfortunately, the best weapons are more effective on gold, than the worst ones are on bronze - seriously.

They forgot what was the core of the weapon to begin with. A slow RoF semi auto rifle, very powerful and with a somewhat strong kick. ME2 did it right of course.
Now they expect us to click as fast as possible to achieve a dps not much higher than the Avenger and with worse accuracy and mag capacity.
Why they think semi autos are spammy guns? the RoF is irrelevant, they are supposed to deliver very high damage per shot, not allow players to fire as fast as they can click the mouse.

I didn't know about him. It would have been interesting to see how things might have been balanced if they would have listened to him.

Did two people write this? Let's point out the contradictions!

"#1 Looks like a l2p problem to me. Git gud you scrubs! The game is fine as it is, if you don't like it, do not play it."
Literally the next sentence is "To be honest, this new MP is definetely worse than the previous one."

#2 Next point: "Maybe they are not all morons who don't know what they're doing. I think we'll have a lot of good balance changes in upcoming weeks. Be patient "
Followed swiftly by "It's a mess. But I don't have high hopes for them to fix all major problems."

#3 Next "I don't even own the game. I came here just to laugh at you all. 60$ well spent! lel" 
$60 well spent to lel at posters but you just said you didn't buy the game. Are we leling at people who did spend the $60? If so, why should we being patient for balance changes?

"Well I know that what I'm going to say is controversial and unpopular but hear me out. It kinda makes sense that all of the weapons are weak as crap. AS YOU KNOW, Nexus and Arks left Milky Way before ME 3, so many weapons from then weren't available yet. So there's a reason that all of the Geth weapons didn't make to Andromeda, or many N7 weapons were developed and IMPROVED specifically to fight the Reaper forces. So there's a reason IN LORE for absence (shittyness) of specific guns. Also yes, you can say that they had their prototypes for sure. You may be right but often prototypes sucks a**. But I agree, Mattock, Widow, Claymore(!), Revenant were in ME 2 as well and they were awesome. Well here I admit that BioWare dropped the ball. Maybe they release those missing guns with upcoming DLCs "

.......you're from the SP forums aren't you. 

That's a shame. Oh well, what's done is done now.

To some extent, the enthusiasm on display can be written off as a livestream where they're expected to be positive and enthusiastic about the game that they worked on and are promoting.

But still, the comments on why heavy melee were removed are very disappointing.

You are an evil man...but observant, I can live with that.  Anyway on that topic, I've thought about it and while I was a bit stupefied that they didn't include the Claymore...I'm kind of glad.  I would hate to see what they would have done to it.

I saw what you did and thought you covered pretty much every standard view point.  Well done.

A great deal about this is all wrong, because the people in charge have zero experience with co-op mixed genre meta.

If I was Bastiaan or Buskell, I would be making some long ass phone calls and intercompany skypes to Corey and even Eric off the books right now, in a very concerted effort to shore this trainwreck up to something that will help and maintain lifetime sales.

Instead what we see is half ass marketed drip feed while everyone makes twitchy faces at dropping population stats because no one can be assed to ask the userbase what the issues of prevalence are.

and just like DAI, it won't be anyone's (the userbase) fault that it implodes, and everyone can safely add "successfully launched and maintained an integrated multiplayer portion inline with single player SKU" to their resumes when EA shithammers the studio for spending more than it makes in a couple of years.