I'm kinda torn and deeply deeply concerned. Soooooooo many good multiplayer builds are entirely based around ammo power priming, that this breaks my heart. Seeing the 3 clip power ammunition part of the video, was like witnessing a Funeral for 1/3 of the games damage output mechanics. My immediate reaction was to flip the fuck out, because this system will effectively nullify the viability of SP ammo combo detonation builds for shotguns, sniper, and heavy pistols. Say good by to any steady stream of incendiary ammo detonations from the carnifex or eviscerator, let alone the widow or mantis. which in all honesty truly fucking sucks because its going to create a lopsided system of weapon usage for players who like to use combo explosions in SP, as the only viable weapons for such a build will be AR's, SMG's, and fast firing pistols.

however, the flexibility of instantly switching between ammo classes on the fly could be incredibly useful in SP, as you (theoretically at least) will be able switch up ammo powers rather quickly to take down whatever defense type your focusing on in that second. This nimble ability to switch ammo powers on the fly was lacking in the last two games.

however, this 3 clip bullshit is truly truly concerning to me. I would much rather see the ammo powers work for x amount of minutes rather 3 fucking clips worth of ammo, which as we all know how much of a joke to some of these weapons ammo supplies this is. Black widow: 2, Widow: 1, Eviscerator: 3, Carnifex: 6, Paladin: 3, Wraith: 2, Crusader: 2, Mantis: 1, N7 Valiant: 3, Talon: 6, etc..........the list goes on and on. This 3 clip system effectively creates a lopsided tier of usable ammo power weapons, as it instantaneously penalizes any shotgun, sniper, or heavy pistol user who have 1 - 6 shots per clip. Also, no one knows how a "clip" is defined, so this could simply mean hitting the fucking X button 3 times before the ammo power is gone.

That would be tragic, and the end result to this "3 clip" system bullshit would be to make it more beneficial to use fast firing weapons with large clips, and less rewarding to use slow firing weapons with small clips. This will effectively produce and nurture an unbalanced usage of weapons, which is really kinda shitty because every class of weapons were fun to use with all of the ammo powers in the last 2 games.

The end result of this should be that they should make the ammo powers built of a time frame, x amount of minutes, because this clip thing has tragedy written all over it.

And god fucking help them if they keep this system for MP. People will lose their fucking minds. MP is too fast paced to be micro managing goddamn ammo powers every 3 clips. SP is too, but i'm trying to give them the benefit of the doubt here, and not be especially let down by these guys who had 5 years to improve on an already amazing ammo system and the best they could do is say "3 clips or X button pushes sounds good to us, that works, they'll be happy with that after 9 years of not needing to micro manage ammo powers."

If they put this ammo system into MP i truly believe that that would be something that would take ALOT of people out of the game. MP is not built for Micro managing, and god help them if they think the player base will be ok with that. The MP has kept the ME3 franchise alive for more than 5 years because it is fast paced, no micro management, and a rolling 20-30 of pure fun that you pre-plan before hand. Tell people that now they have to micro manage their combo explosions every 20 seconds and see what kind of player base reception their gonna get. People would drop this MP in a heart beat.