new info from Aaryn Flynn interview - PlayStation Blogcast 237

The interview starts at 16 mins and goes on until 30 minutes.

“It’s actually a story of optimism and hope, it’s not the story of trying to fight for a home and do these things it’s actually a story of potential and of reason to go explore…”

MEA embraces that combat of ME2 and 3 but with some definite improvements. They wanted to bring back something they lose from ME1 which is some of those ways to choose to play in that combat system. So there’s more choices than ever.

Switching profiles has a story tie in as to how that happens. It’s your father actually, Alec Ryder, who helps you in the early part of the game. He shows you this thing he’s worked on to do that. It’s a nice little tie in to the evolution of the gameplay.

Tactical choices all through the game. Using your squadmates as well is still an important staple to the game. Giving them things to do and having them play a certain way. Whether you want them to be in the background just providing cover fire for you or whether you want them to take more of a front and centre approach charging out there and doing things.

There are casual and narrative difficulty settings.

Cover can be destroyed. There are more physics based powers: you can pick up people and throw them at other people. You can freeze people, you can shatter them. It’s the most dynamic combat system we’ve ever had in a Bioware game.

The infiltrator profile does give you the cloak. Aaryn’s personal favourite is to play a sniper. Hanging back and plugging people from a distance.

Aaryn is a fan of scanning in ME games. It was taken away in ME3 and now they’ve brought it back again.

There are dimensions to resource management. In addition to finding resources to upgrade weapons and armour, the pathfinder must choose how you colonize. You could choose to make a planet a Science planet or put down a military outpost and you get different benefits or consequences from each choice for the overall Andromeda Initiative.