ANDROMEDA Multiplayer Patch

THEY MADE THE MULTIPLAYER EVEN WORSE WITH THIS PATCH!!!!!!!I do not think they have played the multiplayer at all for mass effect 3 or mass effect andromeda.  They see that people are spamming the punch button and so they decide to nerf it.  People were not spamming it because it was overpowered,THEY SPAMMED IT BECAUSE NONE OF THE OTHER OPTIONS ARE VERY EFFECTIVE.  NOTHING SHOULD HAVE BEEN NERFED.  And why are they buffing lower tier guns only when only a handful of the top tier weapons are useful?  Are they under the impression that most rare guns are where they should be as far as damage output? Tell me one of their developers fired the scattershot point blank at an adhi or raider, saw there was a tiny sliver of health removed and decided that is where the weapon should be.   We are talking about a RARE SHOTGUN.  Cooldowns are far too long on abilities, and the combo damage is not enough to take down basic enemies on gold most the time.  Is 20 seconds to take down the raider, one of the weakest enemies in multiplayer with abilities only what they are aiming for?  And there is no room for casual multiplayer like there was in mass effect 3.  Bronze in andromeda is harder than silver in mass effect 3. I think they should have stuck with the four difficulty levels as mass effect 3 and kept them comparable.  Weapon damage, enemy damage, power damage and cooldown(trickier with a system change but still WAY OFF the old mark currently.)  You had a dedicated fan base in multiplayer for mass effect 3 because it was so well balanced and chucked that formula in the trash for this game.  Please bring back reduced recharge for infiltrators that break cloak to attack shortly after deploying,  Otherwise it is only fun to use to run away from enemies or revive your teammates.

it's balanced on bronze. 

Not on Silver or Gold. 

I'd go so far as to say the weapons and powers are all tuned specifically for bronze.

I've just hit 8000 Apex rating and it's very clear to me that this is the case. The update did not address Assault Rifles in any meaningful way for difficulties higher than bronze. 

Every Semi-Auto AR is useless on Gold, with a level 20 character. 

Every Full Auto and Burst fire AR is the same with varying degrees - takes at least an entire clip to kill one unshielded unarmoured mob.

Every Pistol the same.

Not sure about Shotguns. 

At the moment i'm using the raptor Sniper rifle as an assault rifle. And it's adequate. 

being able to use all of the weapons or basically, having a choice of them on gold would be great, but right now, that's not how it's working. Which is kind of depressing, and frustrating given how much obvious work has gone into the multiplayer.

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@Noob88Ball wrote:
Agreed, ultra rare weapons like n7 crusader, n7 valkyrie, Soned, Dhan... Are just underwhelming when compared to vanquisher, black widow, raptor and melee. It would get boring fast with only a few viable weapons on Gold. N7 piranha, in my opinion is the only decent shotgun on Gold, still too weak tho.

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At this point,  I'd expect them to nerf Sniper rifles next rather than make anything else viable. 

They also really need to patch Data Transfer.   It seems to be literally impossible when soloing.  It's hard enough just to survive trying to transfer,  but they just had to make it pause when an enemy is nearby?   Then drain at twice the rate it increases when you step away?   AND give you a time limit?    It looks like it'd take around 30+ seconds just to finish one transfer at least,  if uninterrupted.  I'm not sure there's even enough time on the clock to do it let alone with all the other bs.    Am I doing something wrong here or what I could have sworn I watched a video with someone doing data transfer solo on gold,   where as I just lost because of Data Transfer in the last wave before extraction (I think extraction was next at least).  Making me waste 30 minutes.  I couldn't make any progress at all.  It's absolutely ridiculous.