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Anonymous
13 years ago
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Simple and Fair Idea to fix annoying and undeserved instant kills in multiplayer.

since the beginning of me3 there has been alot of problems with the ai for certain enemies that allows them to perform instant kills on players at seemingly random intervals even if the player is vis...
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    1ago
    13 years ago

    I think it's best you post this over at the BioWare Social Network in the Gameplay or Multiplayer forum.

    But to be honest - with your suggestions, insta-kills would effectively be negated. They are meant to be a punishement for getting too close to the bosses. Since the Banshee magnet hand got mostly fixed I've never been grabbed when I didn't deserve it. As for the vanguard - you should get punished for charging into a Banshee, plain and simple. As for Phantoms - especially on higher difficulties the force of your charge is important, so you'd better spec into the power/force bonus tree of your passive skill-set. This way they can get staggered when you charge them and their insta-kill is disabled for this time.

    Especially the quicktime event would make an insta-"kill" an insta-"laugh". When did you last fail the quicktime-event from a Husk-attack? Plus, this would need considerable development effort. With the last DLC coming out tomorrow, I don't think they'll change parts of the game this drastically anymore, you're 1 year too late for that.

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Anonymous
13 years ago
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actually i forgot to mention this but if your character is in the middle of a instant death and succeeds at a quick time it would still incapacitate you you just wouldn't instantly die. so if you are in a deep cluster**bleep** and your teammates cant get to you are still open to bleeding out or being executed.

the thing that always pissed me off is that in 90% of games most of the mobs will have a tell and slight delay to dodge. mass effect has no indication of a instant kill attempt. it has no quick time. it has no method of evading. and yes it would make the game god forbid a bit easier but when your talking in platinum the biggest issue is spawn management and lets face it the game is so badly stacked against players it is not even funny. nerfing instant kills is not really unballancing the game but finally bringing ballance to a completely arbitrary and rediculous mechanic that was not clearly thought out this isn;t mario where if you die you have 3 lives if you die your teammates are **bleep**ed and allowing a random mob to just say i think ill just rape this guy for no reason. if a creature has that ability they need something like a warning or a way out.

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1ago
13 years ago

Yeah, this isn't Mario - you don't have three lives, you have unlimited. After each wave you spawn again. And Platinum is the highest difficulty level, of course it's hard, it should be! People are soloing platinum, hell, even I did, so it can't be impossible like you describe. Many enemies have a tell by the way - the Atlas and Brute do a melee before they grab you.

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