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ME3: Why are Collectors so overpowered in multiplayer?
Having just, for the lack of a better term, 'enjoyed' a gold multiplayer match with Collectors, featuring a team that would've cake walked any other opponent on gold, I went searching for whether the...
While they're definitely more powerful than other races, I don't think they're overpowered.
I agree with David's speculation that they're harder because they were added later. In fact, around the same time they buffed the geth and Cerberus by adding geth bombers and dragoons.
I think the difficulty of the races is in part determined by your play style. I think the best characters to use against collectors are the heavy hitters. A salarian infiltrator with a Widow sniper rifle seems an ideal counter against praetorians and possessed abominations.
