Szuli wrote...
Yes, he explicitly said that all content will be accessible to SP players and it's not true. And there's still no official acknowledgement of this, let alone any hint that they are going to fix the issue. All we've gotten so far was:
- first they insisted that it was possible to get 4000+ EMS in SP alone
- then it turned out that the dev who actually worked on the war assets acknowledged that it was impossible (IIRC it was all through PMs or tweets, never an official acknowledgement)
- then again just a post from Priestly referring to some tweet that they are looking into it, as if everybody was on Twitter, following their every word
- locking down threads about it (until now - I guess we can be eternally grateful that they graciously let this thread exist at all).
I think it's foot-dragging. The fix seemingly would be simple, but it won't be universal. In fact, some of the people that it would help the most are the people that couldn't get such a fix. I think it's a zero sum game here. It is used to force people to think they need to play MP to force people to think they need to get medi-gel and great characters to level up to promote to SP so they don't need to play MP. And then along the way to force people to think they need to buy the packs to get the stuff to do well in MP to promote teams to SP fast, so they don't need to play MP. And everything in MP is geared toward convincing the player they need to buy the Spectre and other packs. It just all feels like someone's forcing this stuff on you.
Figure that the recruit packs are not great-play a winning bronze level mission you can get 2 of them with credits-mostly not quite enough to get 3 of them. The consumables in them get used up. It takes 2 winning missions to get a Veteran's pack. However, the game works against you. People quit or get kicked by the server-game freezes up until somebody leaves. Most often this might mean you are alone in the game. What it always means is that the game doesn't then give you full credit for the whole mission even if you are there from beginning to end. Once it kicks someone out, it's like you started the game from the point where that person left. This is really aggravating. I've ended up in more silver missions where I've only gotten 7k credits and 80k xp because of this-somebody getting dumped at level 7 or so.
MP is fun enough, but I get so sick of some of the crap from other players as well. There are far too many games where I'm the only one doing the missions-I do all the retrievals, all the hacking (alone), and the rest other than the target elimination ones. And then, I revive who I can, even run from one side of a map to the other to revive someone or back someone up who is doing the reviving, but then I lay there dying with a teammate sitting almost right on top of me. Or, I have to listen to the crap people like to share through their mics. Why the hell have on a mic just so someone can hear you chew or hear the music you love or the tv shows you are watching? Or, your good use of kleenex? One guy recently just constantly yelled idiotic comments through the whole mission. Another guy kept telling people to do stupid things or kept telling people they didn't know what they were doing. He wouldn't finish missions because he thought you got bigger bonuses by waiting till the last second to finish them.
MP gets old very quickly.