I just spent a little over two hours with it and I have to say it's flippity ****ing awesome.
I shared the concerns of some people regarding it's "consolization" but the alterations and additions to the suit abilities only make it easier to pull off awesome moves. Although I feel like there's much less need to manage suit energy. You can pretty much turn on cloak, speed-sprint across a clearing then super-jump up a ledge and still have enough energy left to stay cloaked long enough to sneak up on someone. But it still keeps everything nicely balanced, so even when you're power-boosting around like a boss it doesn't feel like easy-mode.
Other things to note:
Four pre-set loadouts to play in MP. Assault, Scout, Sniper and whatever they called the equivalent of Heavy. No specific class types. Can build custom mix-and-match loadouts (stealth perks + heavy machine gun is kind of game breaking, yes.)
Health bar is gone, replaced with COD-style blood-splattered HUD and regenerating health.
Visuals look positively fantastic and it runs really well.
Movement is fluid and using the suit powers is super easy.
HUD bobs around a hellova lot, but I think I saw something in the options to adjust this (slide-bar control.)
Team balancing seems broken (as in, it never seemed to balance any matches ever.)
There is a 'Kill Replay' each time you die, showing the last few seconds before your demise (really cool for "How the **** did that happen?" moments.)
All things considered I think the multiplayer is solid and I'm looking forward to release day.
I shared the concerns of some people regarding it's "consolization" but the alterations and additions to the suit abilities only make it easier to pull off awesome moves. Although I feel like there's much less need to manage suit energy. You can pretty much turn on cloak, speed-sprint across a clearing then super-jump up a ledge and still have enough energy left to stay cloaked long enough to sneak up on someone. But it still keeps everything nicely balanced, so even when you're power-boosting around like a boss it doesn't feel like easy-mode.
Other things to note:
Four pre-set loadouts to play in MP. Assault, Scout, Sniper and whatever they called the equivalent of Heavy. No specific class types. Can build custom mix-and-match loadouts (stealth perks + heavy machine gun is kind of game breaking, yes.)
Health bar is gone, replaced with COD-style blood-splattered HUD and regenerating health.
Visuals look positively fantastic and it runs really well.
Movement is fluid and using the suit powers is super easy.
HUD bobs around a hellova lot, but I think I saw something in the options to adjust this (slide-bar control.)
Team balancing seems broken (as in, it never seemed to balance any matches ever.)
There is a 'Kill Replay' each time you die, showing the last few seconds before your demise (really cool for "How the **** did that happen?" moments.)
All things considered I think the multiplayer is solid and I'm looking forward to release day.