What about player control character growth with the stats, abilities and gear? Are they going with the horrible DA:i or ME2 style? Are they going to put an effort into the role playing this time?

I thought the way DA: Inquisition handled level design was perfect; not necessarily open world, but a bunch of well-designed sandboxes to play in. So you had that freedom to do a bunch of side quests, explore, but there was quite a bit of focus in design that can only be had from a more linear approach. It was a perfect blend of both approaches, and I would like to see that in ME: Andromeda.

Space battles would be fun, but I am afraid it would be a token gesture at this point, something tacked on. Still, it'd be kind of cool to have "random encounters" in space and you take your ship (or maybe you deploy fighters? I don't know...) to take on space pirates, enemies, and so forth.

More space stations. Planets are cool, but I kind of liked the idea of escaping space stations (like in ME2) or storming them (like in ME3 with the biotic academy). Andromeda takes place 1000 years after ME3, yeah? I don't see why we couldn't have space stations that wrap around planets, are miles upon miles large, etc.

More in-depth weapon customization and crafting.

To not have the Andromeda series conclude in the way ME3 did for starters. And not have ME2 level design. Where everything was practically a straight line.

About time they bring back the Mako for select missions too. We do want to feel like were exploring space, instead of just sticking to the mission at all times.

I loved it.

Honestly didn't find snipers over powered. I was only ever killed by them when I was out in the open or in a stupid position asking to be shot.

However on the other side of that I did find the sniping to be a little easier than in BF3 or BF4.

I think in all the matches I played I only got taken out by a tank twice. I like the fact a headshot from a sniper rifle is a 1 shot kill, not to mention if you take the time to sneak around and take us on in close combat there's a 95% chance we get destroyed. It's not like CoD where you can quick scope to kill someone regardless of range.

I think you severely underestimate how difficult it is to pull off a headshot on an enemy who is at times 200-300 yards away and moving. It's not like Call of Duty where you line the crosshairs over someones head and get a headshot, you have to adjust for bullet drop, while also considering that the elevation difference between you and your target may change how you line up that shot for the bullet drop, while also calculating how far ahead of the enemy you have to shoot so the bullet arrives at the same time the enemy does.

Some examples:

Notice how I have to aim several feet in front of the enemy and well over his head just to get a connection with his torso. I was actually trying for a headshot on both attempts.

Not nearly as far for this shot, but notice because my elevation is about 30-50 ft higher I don't have to aim so high to get a headshot, though I still have to shoot about 2-3 feet in front of the player to make the shot.

Different console(previous 2 were PS4, this is on Xbox). Unlike the other two I am now much higher than the enemy, so I have to aim for their mid-section and about a foot ahead of them to get the headshot.

So yeah, the sniper can take out an enemy in one shot and make things difficult for you, but the amount of work and level of challenge for us is much greater than it would be to rush in with an SMG or LMG. I'll have 10 bullets and only shoot one at a time, all the targets are fairly far away, and the amount of adjustments you have to make on a moving target can be incredibly challenging. Also keep in mind all of my matches Monday & Tuesday combined I had about 30 kills and only 6 deaths across 6 matches, most of the machine gunners get 15-20 kills per match if their half decent.

Genuine curiosity: What platform did you play on and what made you feel that the snipers are too powerful? Reason is that I did not notice this at all in the Beta (played on PC). And maybe I got lucky. That is totally possible. The matches never revolved around the mountains for me.

I really liked the Beta. And have no complaints aside from technical ones: The weather effect not being applied to all players and the hard freezes I got, and having some difficulties logging in to EA. I expect these things to get fixed before launch.

Oh actually I do have a legit complaint. Yes... and this was a problem before Battlefield 1. I really want to know whether you noticed this as well: When someone shoots behind you, you barely hear it. Or you don't hear it. So many times did someone shoot me point blank in a house and my teammate was standing close to us in that same house -in the same room, sometimes. I've had people emptying full clips into me where I stood so close to my teammate that I could poke him with a stick and yet they did not notice the epic firefight going on behind their back, at all. I understand that war is loud, but I do consider this a fault of the game. It would be much easier for squads to co-operate (and I think even more realistic?) if they could hear more clearly the things happening in close proximity. I imagine that even in WW1 the soldiers would notice a loud gun going off several times behind their back especially in an enclosed space.

I have to admit I did not change the audio format much. I tried Home Cinema and Hi Fi. They both had that problem.

On a positive note: The Beta ran beautifully on my 780Ti and it was a lot of fun.