theres like very few guns that are decent enoughIts super painful being big fan of me3 multiplayer and coming to andromeda seeing everything is nerfed to the ground200%-cooldowns gonemassive power damage with right builds goneawesome weapon based builds gonesuperb weapon balance goneI hate to say it but this game is like a half as*ed version of me3:mp atmI hope Bioware can improve this experiencemy suggestion:buff everything...funny as it sounds Im seriousfor compensation put more enemies in the mapand maybe extend waves to 8-10 rounds (this also means you have to buff credit rewards)

@SofaJockeyUK The problem with this statement is that ME3 also got progressively more difficult over time. New enemies were added (geth pyro, dragoons, etc.) And even if that wasn't true, ME3 NEVER had bullet sponge problems. Sure if you were using an un-upgraded avenger without mods/weapon damage on gold you weren't gonna kill things fast, but now unless you use a select few setups, you're *. The commons in ME3 were easily silver viable, now they aren't, which makes getting to a decent power level insanely tedious. Powers are just *, gimped versions of that they used to be with triple and sometimes quad times higher cooldowns (rip singularity) and less damage. Yeah, things weren't as easy in ME3 as they are now, but it 100 percent wasn't nearly as bad as this, coming from a ME3 veteran with a near maxed out manifest.

I made a post on this last week.. I agree that most weapons are pea shooters and only a few characters that I've personally used seem viable for gold. I miss the whole -200% cooldown and random/random exp and credit bonuses.. there's more emphasis on combos but from what I've seen a lot of powers just don't hit hard enough with a power build, me3 was an almost flawless multiplayer so they should that some try to go back to their roots.

People built up their ME3 weapons and skills over time. Essentially starting again means everything is weak, which is largely down to being 'reset' to noob weapons and skills. If weapons were stronger folk would be complaining about how easy it all was, once they levelled up their weapons and skills. TL;DR: It's because you are restarting and it's ok.

You should give the asari adept a go with pistols only, currently she's so much fun to use on almost all enemies and is also a XP farm god (35k against the kett on gold is my record). 😉

I tried multiplayer early on before the nerfs and honestly I was disappointed at how quickly you could get killed in one hit without knowing what hit you. It's like CoD all over again getting sniped by campers 5 seconds after spawning over and over. The nerf to me was a necessary evil: -it balanced out powers vs bullets -You now have to aim and shoot more than once to kill someone, which means you have to have some actual SKILL. -The battles go longer, more bullets fired, more action. Realistically the less powerful the attacks are, the more game you get to play. If you enjoy camping then too bad, learn to play! No longer will a team win with one awesome sniper and a bunch of newbs; now teams are better balanced requiring skilled players. If there's a real negative to this change I'd be interested in hearing and discussing it, but logically this change simply extended the length of each battle.

mp:why are most of the guns and powers so weak!?

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ensiform
9 years ago
@IIIPripyaTIII wrote:

Powers are weak but still useful in staggering an enemy and teamplay. I like the gold difficulty as it is now and I frequently use powers. I'm okay if it takes one throw and one or two shots of a pistol to kill primed* armored enemies (except for mini bosses).

The problem is they only stagger Red Bar Heath Enemies. Observers, Anointed, Destined, Anarchists, Saboteurs, Berserkers almost never flinch unless its a very strong heavy damage power hit Or its one of these that doesn't have their shields up. IMHO some power hits should still cause knockback to shields.
Anonymous
9 years ago
Most do. Overload for instance stuns anything smaller than a Berserker. Anything that sets enemies on fire causes them to panic, and Biotic stagger is based on how much "force" your powers have.
Anonymous
9 years ago
I'm going to call total bull on there only being 3 viable weapons to use. There are a few that are under powered and a few that are OP but the vast majority are totally usable. My favorite build is running around with the soned as the turian soldier and I wreck just about everything.

Viable and overpowered are not the same thing.
Smokem32
9 years ago
I tried multiplayer early on before the nerfs and honestly I was disappointed at how quickly you could get killed in one hit without knowing what hit you. It's like CoD all over again getting sniped by campers 5 seconds after spawning over and over.

The nerf to me was a necessary evil:

-it balanced out powers vs bullets

-You now have to aim and shoot more than once to kill someone, which means you have to have some actual SKILL.

-The battles go longer, more bullets fired, more action.

Realistically the less powerful the attacks are, the more game you get to play. If you enjoy camping then too bad, learn to play! No longer will a team win with one awesome sniper and a bunch of newbs; now teams are better balanced requiring skilled players.

If there's a real negative to this change I'd be interested in hearing and discussing it, but logically this change simply extended the length of each battle.

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