BioWare details Mass Effect 3 multiplayer changes

BioWare has posted a list of changes made yesterday to Mass Effect 3 multiplayer.

The alterations look to be server side, and tend to only insignificantly tweak damage/shield/health. But there are some meatier changes to class abilities.

The first Mass Effect 3 update was 6th March, then on 13th March, then on 20th March.

Keep an eye on the BioWare forum thread for future changes.

20th March

Phaeston Assault Rifle

• Damage increased from [29.7-37.2] to [34.7-42.2]

Revenant Assault Rifle

• Damage increased from [52.9-66.2] to [57.9-71.2]

Claymore Shotgun

• Damage increased from [152.8-191.0] to [167.8-206.0]

Falcon Assault Rifle

• Increased refire time on the Falcon to 0.65 seconds
• Decreased rate of fire from 125 to 50
• Decreased max spare ammo from [24-34] to [18-28]

Sentry Turret Power

• Increased base shields from 500 to 1000
• Increased base damage from 25 to 30
• Evolve 5 Rocket upgrade damage increased from 150 to 250
• Evolve 5 Rocket upgrade radius increased from 1.5 meters to 2.0 meters

Combat Drone Power

• Evolve 5 Rocket upgrade damage increased from 150 to 250
• Evolve 5 Rocket upgrade radius increased from 1.5 meters to 2.0 meters

Ops Survival Pack Consumable

Increased amount of bonus shields given from 1000 to 1500

Atlas

• (Silver) Armor increased from 11250 to 12940
• (Silver) Shields increased from 11250 to 12940ó
• (Gold) Armor increased from 16875 to 21094
• (Gold) Shields increased from 16875 to 21094

13th March

Tempest SMG

• Damage increased from [35.7-44.6] to [41.1-53.5]

Locust SMG

• Damage increased from [26.2-32.8] to [30.1-39.3]

Shuriken SMG

• Damage increased from [29.3-36.6] to [33.6-42.1]

Mattock Assault Rifle

• Damage increased from [83.7-104.7] to [94.2-117.8]

Vindicator Assault Rifle

• Damage decreased from [68.6-85.8] to [62.4-78.0]
• Encumbrance increased from [1.0-0.5] to [1.25-0.7]

Sabotage Power

• Damage from weapon backfire increased from 150 to 200
• Rank 4 weapon backfire damage bonus increased from 30% to 50%
• Maximum number of simultaneous hacked robots reduced from 2 to 1
• Base cooldown increased from 8 to 14 seconds
• Rank 5 cooldown bonus increased from 25% to 35%
• Base hack duration reduced from 12 to 10 seconds
• Rank 6 Berserk upgrade damage bonus reduced from 100% to 50%
• Delay before enemies can attack hacked robots increased from 2 to 8 seconds

Geth Trooper

• Weapon damage increased from 30 to 35
• (Bronze) Health increased from 750 to 825
• (Silver) Health increased from 1125 to 1238
• (Gold) Health increased from 1688 to 1856

Geth Pyro

• Damage of flamethrower increased from 50 to 65
• (Bronze) Shields increased from 750 to 1170
• (Silver) Shields increased from 1125 to 1755
• (Gold) Shields increased from 1688 to 2633
• (Silver & Gold) Evades less frequently from weapon damage
• (Silver & Gold) Evades less frequently from projectile powers

Geth Hunter

• Fixed a bug where Hunters would never re-cloak after decloaking to fire on Gold
• (Bronze) Health increased from 750 to 900
• (Bronze) Shields increased from 675 to 1013
• (Silver) Health increased from 1125 to 1350
• (Silver) Shields increased from 1013 to 1519
• (Silver) Movement speed modifier while cloaked increased from 75% to 90%
• (Gold) Health increased from 1688 to 2025
• (Gold) Shields increased from 1519 to 2278
• (Gold) Movement speed modifier while cloaked increased from 80% to 110%
• (Gold) Aim delay before firing decreased from 0.5 to 0.25 seconds

Geth Prime

• (Silver) Reduced chance to play hit reactions from 35% to 27.5%
• (Gold) Reduced chance to play hit reactions from 30% to 15%

6th March

Tech Armor Power

• Base detonation damage increased from 200 to 400
• Base cooldown decreased from 12 to 8 seconds

Stasis

• Base cooldown increased from 8 to 12 seconds

Adrenaline Rush Power

• Base weapon damage bonus increased from 35% to 45%
• Rank 4 weapon damage bonus increased from 15% to 20%

Cluster Grenade Power

• Base damage increased from 450 to 500

Proximity Mine Power

• Evolve 3 "increase damage by X% to impacted targets" value changed from 25% to 20%

Energy Drain Power

• Evolve 6 now gives you a 40% damage reduction effect instead of 15%

Drell Adept

• Starting encumbrance capacity increased from 30% to 45%

Drell Vanguard

• Starting encumbrance capacity increased from 30% to 45%

Drell Fitness Power

• Base health/shield bonus increased from 10% to 20%
• Rank 2 health/shield bonus increased from 10% to 15%
• Rank 4 health/shield bonus increased from 15% to 20%
• Rank 6 health/shield bonus increased from 20% to 25%
• Rank 6 movement speed bonus increased from 5% to 10%
• Base regular melee damage increased from 150 to 225
• Base heavy melee damage increased from 500 to 600

Mattock Assault Rifle

• Damage increased from [76.1-95.2] to [83.7-104.7]

Revenant Assault Rifle

• Damage increased from [47.6-59.6] to [52.9-66.2]

Carnifex Heavy Pistol

• Encumbrance increased from [0.75-0.35] to [1.0-0.5]

Paladin Heavy Pistol

• Encumbrance increased from [0.75-0.35] to [1.0-0.5]