UPDATE: Mass Effect 3's Multiplayer is incredible. (Added my refletions and a quick guide)

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ScaryAlmond

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Love the skill required for the multiplayer not a fan of the boxes (I want to be a krogan)
really hoping they add the reaper opponents or geth etc soon but overall my experience was very positive.
 

Drakulea

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Elamdri said:
What I really found myself enjoying about it is that you need a healthy mix of Damage Dealing, Crowd Control, and Debuffing to be really successful. It's not just a matter of "Pew Pew Pew, yay we win!"
My experience is similar. In fact, it kind of reminded me of World of Warcraft dungeons, in a good way. You need various roles filling various niches to get through the Cerberus salad of Centurions,Phantoms and Atlases being thrown at you.
 

BarbaricGoose

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I actually thought it was pretty mediocre. And I say this as an avid ME fan. I hope it'll grow on me...
 

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Zeel said:
Nope. played it. Didn't find it entertaining at all. It was kind of easy and boring. Maybe my squadmates were just good, but it was terribly too easy. And terribly generic.
No surprises.
Really? It pretty much kicked my arse. I can't seem to last longer than about 30 seconds. Although I really struggled to get a game with four people last night. Guess I just need to slow down or something.
 

LawlessSquirrel

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I must agree that it was better than expected. Incredible is going a bit far, but it's far above average at least. I really need to ramp up the difficulty though, bronze is a cake-walk.

I don't think it'll be too long-lived though. Hopefully they'll slow the experience gain down to about a quarter of what it is at now, and make better use of the store (which is essentially a gum-ball machine right now). Those arguments aside, it's undeniably fun and does show that there's potential for the full thing.
 

Zhukov

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Well, I wouldn't call it "incredible", but it's certainly better than I expected. I've been enjoying it.

Granted, it would be hard for me not to enjoy a game that allows me to play as a big pink-clad Krogan who roars with laughter as he wallops his enemies across the room.
 

hazabaza1

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It is very fun.
I just wish that the matchmaking was better, and that I could choose what to unlock.
EDIT: Also, for fuck's sake, level 1's need to stick to bronze and stop messing up my silver rounds.
 

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Loop Stricken said:
What the fuck was that? Why the hell did they just randomly start dancing?
OT: I still have to try it out. I've only heard great things about it though.
 

TheProffesor

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I think that the gameplay is well designed. It almost reminds me of an MMO setup where you need the right team to succeed. Map design could be better, but it's not too horrible.

Has anyone noticed how awesome cryo ammo is for crowd control?
 

Zhukov

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Zeel said:
The posters here are generally Bioware fanboys. Your opinion is not to be trusted when it comes to Bioware. When I play the multiplayer, then we'll see how 'good' it is.
Considering that since joining this forum you have done little besides rant about the evils of Bioware and behave in a generally obnoxious manner toward anyone who engaged you, do you really think your opinion is to be trusted any more than that of the dreaded "fanboys".

Also, it can't have escaped your notice that a great many people here have mixed or negative opinions of Bioware.
 

PaganAxe

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I guess the only thing that annoys me is that I've had no luck unlocking non-human characters. All I got was a Quarian Engineer from that free pack and even then, I think the human one is more useful for having overload.
 

woodaba

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It was good fun, but standing up against Syndicate's vastly superior Co-op, it felt a bit weak.

That said, I like it, which is one hell if an achievement.
 

natster43

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The Wykydtron said:
Loop Stricken said:
it is quite good, isn't it? I might have to buy a month or two of Gold when the game comes out proper.
The Wykydtron said:
Fuck this i'm going to sleep gonna watch moar anime, so there's like a ghost girl wearing a cool eyepatch who isn't really a ghost apparently... and people are randomly dying an- AHH off topic!
Watch out, I may have to break out the unironic brofist just for you XD... Just finished watching that episode actually (woo i'm up to date), unexpected dancing is the best kind of dancing!

Not even sure how they managed to pull off that scene without ruining the horror/dark mystery thing they've got going on. Freakin' A
Okay, what anime is this? I am intrigued.

OT:Sounds interesting, I should try it out later.
 

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"Incredible" may not be the word I'd use. That being said, I did think it was pretty good. I was playing mainly with only one other teammate, so I found it a little tough, but there were some genuinely tense-feeling moments, and I was always motivated to go another round once I'd failed. I'd hope that in the finished product we'll see high levels of variation between enemies. By which I mean, when fighting off husks, there are differences to when you're fighting off cerberus minions, besides the skin of whatever you're shooting at.

I think the important thing to remember with the multiplayer, is that while it may not measure up to something like COD multiplayer (even though I found the little time playing me3 much better than the last time I played cod, despite the fact it's a demo. But I'm biased.), it comes with a lengthy (and hopefully brilliant) singleplayer as well.
 

Frostbite3789

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I've found it's fun when you play with randoms. Especially if you can get those randoms to work together.

But it really hits it's stride when you have 2-3 friends with you, and you're in some manner of voice chat. Then the game becomes truly epic. Communication ramps up not only how easy it is to coordinate, but also the Funny As Hell factor.

In the LZ, teammates getting gunned down, with 10 seconds left I got surrounded by Shield Dudes. They couldn't match the prowess of my diving and rolling Quarian Engi. Many good laughs were had.
 

Thanatos5150

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Draech said:
Also that spacebar does to many different things, making sprint when I want to go to cover or the other way around.
I never understood this complaint. Everything works fine on the 360 controller with "A" mapped to ALL THOSE SAME ACTIONS. ME2 was the same way, even.
Why the complaints?