Thoughts on Mass Effect Andromeda multiplayer balance and UX issues.

I can't upvote multiplayer posts enough! The team in charge of multiplayer needs to take good long ganders at the forums, everyone says the same thing and if you play it we are right! Bronze isn't TOO bad with high level characters and weapons, but it still feels like a majority of stuff is a bit too weak in bronze. My cyclone rank 2 would take half a mag (25 bullets) to kill an assembler. That is just way too long, should be 10-15 at most. The enemies act like they are really strong (because they are) but they aren't designed to be, especially not your basic enemies. A 1v1 with a raider in silver can be pretty intense without an insanely op sniper. I think balancing is a huge problem, but so is the way you get xp compared to ME3. In ME3 you ranked up CLASSES, not characters. This led to less focus on characters and more on how you would adjust your points. XP in andromeda is PAINFULLY slow! 8 bronze matches and ONE character is barely level 9, where as in 3 you could be around level 13 with the entire class. I think xp needs to be dramatically increased (same with credits, way too slow compared to 3) and a vast majority of guns/powers need sizable buffs to most stats. Good post

I would say that bronze is too hard for total noobs, and I am a fairly decent player having issues in current bronze. Well, lets wait for tomorrow, current multiplayer could be easily corrected.

+XP for that post OP. Same identical issues all across the board here. 

As i've said on other threads - the rank 1 weapons should be good to begin with, and further ranks should be (like in ME3MP) making it feel better, not just barely making it feel viable at rank 10.

Cheating is also an issue on gold atm which needs to be addressed.

Kudos on having the self restraint to post so eloquently 🙂  

Add to this.

XP progression is way too slow. If classes worked the same as ME3 and all characters of that class leveled up at the same time this slower progression would be fine. Since they don't and you have to level each character independently even a person like me that wants to play all the time, it takes too long to level up a character above 12. (Add the connection issues here causing the loss of XP to make it worse.)

Combo explosions are almost not worth it. If I cannot kill the lowest level units that are damaged with one explosion what good are they?

Ascendants sync kills are too hard to disrupt. Having to break an orb to stop the kill is just not reliably possible with lower level characters in Bronze. It does not change much for high level characters in silver or gold.

Lastly the guns just do not feel different. Charger and Scorpion are the only pistols that has any noticable TTK difference and a grenade launcher should feel different.

I fear they are going to take WAY too long to make any meaningful changes to multiplayer which is a shame. Atleast ME3 multiplayer is decently active on PC so I can play that and still support Bioware until they eventually get around to fixing Andromeda. 

😬I have been playing for several days in multiplayer matches and noticed the AI enemies tend to always know where you are on the map even when you hide its like they see you through walls and will auto seek on you like heat seeking missiles no matter your position.

If i am hiding behind a wall its like they have X-ray vision  and will auto zone on me  , for example if i decide to hide right around a wall to try to flank them they will turn around and head that way even though they did not see me. Same things when you try to snipe or you in a cover position , enemies AI are spawned literally right behind you or on top of you. WTf is that about?

I did some test and was hidding behind a wall and watched the enemy literally track me through the walls.

I am sure some of you have noticed the same thing as i have while you engaging a group of enemies , you suddenly get a new group that spawns right next to u especially those stupid wraith....

I understand Bioware tried to make the multiplayer challenging but this is AI is overkill and senseless and not fair. You can make a game challenging but turning the AI into a GOD that is something else.

Another thing i noticed The enemy AI's seem to never miss their shot always hit you with accuracy its inhuman.,,,,. They need to tone down the AI cause right now it feels like you playing against an opponent that can see you everywhere on the map and can spawn enemies 2meter right behind you.... 

The map are way too small, its impossible to snipe. At stage 4 the AI turns into a zerg you have like 5-10 different type of enemies all clunked  together , as soon as you barely manage to kill that group with your team there is already 2 more spawns of enemies within your vicinity, they auto track you its unreal... Coming from every-side and corner of the map like rats...

In summary current issues:

-Enemy AI see you through walls

-Enemy AI track you through walls

-Enemy AI never miss their shot

-Enemy AI spawning right next to you

- Stage 5 Enemy AI Zergging the whole map 

This is a great read thanks for taking the time to post. To give you an idea of my player ability, I was a fairly usefull ME3 silver player (that was about as much stress as I cant handle). I'm really enjoying MEA multiplayer presently. I wasn't initially though, way to hard. Now in bronze usually only the Kett generally get the better of teams I'm part of, 1 or 2 low level players go down and its hard to come back from that especially if they box you in.

If I was to be perfectly honest, I really miss the variety and scope of ME3 multiplayer, and am desperately hoping they make a few changes to MEA - bigger maps, move to a class system, more varied abilities/weapons, more variety in teams tasks, even toning down the enemies per round and increase number of rounds would be good.

Bioware messed up star wars i remember back then they ignored the community when people were giving them feedback due to their arrogance they ignored them... , if they repeat the same mistake here and do not fix the multiplayer balance i won't ever touch any of their game ever again.

Do they think its normal one scrub enemy unit can literally hit you twice and your whole shield is gone? not to mention they never miss a shot they bullets always hit you.

I am in a stage right now i do not even want to play multiplayer matches in this game its overkill and not fun , feels like my team is playing against an opponent that literally has no handicap while my team weapons are nerfed and barely do any damage , 2 hits and your shield is gone, enemies spawning right next to u.... Its a mess...

i hate to say it but you guys sound like you are just never going to get good enough at this game. yea lifes rough upto around 5k apex.. by 9k though gold is only slightly stressful. the single biggest problems i see (having played alot.. asin im top 100 on leaderboards) is people are stupid enough to do gold either without any missiles or they are afraid to actually use them (asif you get bonus points for stashing them all till christmas..). when you see those big mobs appear blast them BEFORE they one shot you! they are worth nice exp and the sooner you take them out the less damage they will do to your team! secondly people dont seem to move like they should, i cant even tell you how many times i have watched fools get MOWED DOWN trying to back away around a corner from enemies. you have a dash button so use it! keep running and even use a heal kit if you need to until you are in cover. dont just stand there catching bullets in your teeth like a chump!

bonus hint: melee is the only power that has specific armor for it at this point, so why everyone isnt playing melee classes is beyond me. how are so many people crying about melee needing a nerf without all the armors being out!? so bioware is supposed to nerf melee now and then make biotics completely OP in a couple days? SENSELESS!

The Cooldowns for the abilities are too damn long, especially when the combo detonations are so... meh...

Why have a weight system when we cant take a pistol and ability spam like in ME3.

I got the 140K challenges on all 5 Bronze weapons and i have found that they out perform alot of Silver and even Gold weapons.

For example the Zalkin is *. Weak damage, delayed firing means I cant spam it, the 3-shot burst is *. Why would i ever use this weapon? Outside of the 140K challenge, this weapon will never be used.

If you are going to have options then every option has to bring something to the table. As it is right now, 3/4th of the weapons are useless.

Shotguns should be doing 4X the damage at point blank, with being almost useless at range. They practically tickle the enemy as is...

Make equipment upgrade able, at lvl 10 it is 2X what lvl 1 is.