Mass Effect Multiplayer patch stream

#QualityBiowareProduct

Balanced for lolBronze confirmed

They followed the patch stream with a girl "starbuck" hosting a match playing.
Guess what happened?

GAME CRASHED

ROFL!

I feel a little bad (just a little) as the patch actually sounds promising and they look to be addressing most of the issues.

PATCH NOTES
INCLUDING:
fixing crash and latency issues
powers buff
fix power combos scaling as it doesn't work (as testers here have posted)
buff weapons excluding snipers (I smell a Vanquisher nerf coming)
buff ultra rare weapons to feel like ultra rare weapons
better weapon rarity scaling
shotgun accuracy boost out of cover
cobra buff
buff outlaws, nerf kett
new mission fund item coming (my guess would be XP boosters)

surprisingly match breakdown played is:
bronze 62%
silver 26%
gold 13%

Details?

Not true - I saw a spam of thank yous and similar messages at the end of the stream.

And we still don't know when it's coming out.

It's friday, and console patch cert takes ~5 days if I'm not mistaken. I'm not holding my breath for a patch next week, especially if they are still testing internally.

You just gotta believe...

Am I going crazy or was there no mention of how the jetpacks affected game balance. I thought that was why the guns/powers sucked.

Bioware...................................

www.reddit.com/r/MECoOp/comments/69g41d/multiplayer_livestream_summary_5_may_2017/

Billy and Bastion hosting the stream today

Rerunning These Beautiful Killer Bots right now, and some older gear is available once again

Balance changes are coming in the next patch which is 'finished', but no date yet when it'll be able to drop. It'll have a similarly detailed set of patch notes as 1.05, and will also include more stability improvements.

"We've worked on the powers, power combos, weapon damage values... and various enemy factions"

Reduction in survivability to the Kett. "People like playing Kett on gold", but that was probably sarcastic

Once again mentioned crashes, stability, and latency / lag as things they're aware of

Discussed their process for developing balance changes. Telemetry, data, the passing from one team to another, etc

Player distribution: 62% bronze, 26% silver, 13% gold. Bioware always gives 101%.

Joked about the previous complaints about Billy playing with the controller. No gameplay at all this week, so he's downgraded to a simple clicker to control their slideshow

Design team wanted combos to be easier to do, hence the change to universal detonation. To counteract that, nerfed the damage. Changing away from universal cooldown was also a factor.

Base damage of powers were "leveled up" to stay in line with other gun changes. Power evolutions were bumped, as was combo damage for gold. Several times... which showed them that

Combo damage scaling between difficulties was bugged and is being addressed in the patch

On the subject of weapons: "'Maybe' people like the Vanquisher". They're buffing non-snipers, and Ultra-Rares. URs weren't feeling different enough from more common weapons.

"We can look at win-rates... the score you can get with different guns... is it interesting to shoot..."

Acknowledged that some URs might not be showing as much usage just because of availability

"URs should be better"

Commented about the Mattock. Did some buffs, but also reiterated that it's only an Uncommon and therefore shouldn't be the best gun in the game

TTK on Bronze with a Common vs Gold with an UR should be about the same

Focused mostly on weapon damage increases. Bloom will be addressed down the line

Pointed out that they could've just buffed the outliers, but instead went for more sweeping buffs to the rest of the arsenal

Sweeping buffs to shotguns, slightly less broad for ARs and Pistols

Shotgun was designed for primarily in-cover use. That hasn't been reflected in play, so they're lowering the in-cover accuracy bonus and instead pumping up the standard accuracy.

I asked DiscoBabaloo to repeat questions that he's answering in chat, but the speed he needs to answer means he wasn't able to do that very much. I'm sure someone else will be able to copy/paste his questions and answers into the comments here

"We want every faction to be equally challenging, but in a different way... it shouldn't be 'This is the easy one, this is the hard one.'"

Outlaw Bumped up health on some of the medium units, as well as their lethality. Snipers are more efficient on higher difficulty, for instance.

Kett: Decreased survivability for some units. Decreased the chance for sync kills on higher difficulties. For example, the Cobra will hit the Ascendant through its Orb. Still not a one-shot kill, though!

"It's important to remember that this is a first step." They're still looking into a number of things, crashes and such included. Reminder to continue reporting those on AnswersHQthanks /u/Matobar

The Fiend teleporting is tied to how he moves and jumps. He's not supposed to be a Vanguard, they continue to look into it.

Recap: looking at feedback. Making a patch, but no hard numbers to give for it. Look for it on blog.bioware.com/ . Power base damage and difficulty scaling have been improved. Assault Rifles and Ultra Rares, as well as some other guns

Thanks to everyone submitting feedback

What about mission funds? They wanted to be liberal with how many players are accumulating. There will be "something new" to spend them on in the next patch "to help with leveling speed"

Once again, provide feedback on AnswersHQ when you can. A lot of talk about balance changes, but stability improvements too!