Scrapped scanner/omini-tool navigation

Because it sounds like a good idea and BioWare can't wrap their heads around good ideas.

My thoughts too. To me the omni-tool represents some cool tech. It should be a mobile way of scanning, emails, vidcon, strike team management, and perhaps managing ongoing missions/tasks. They missed out on making it cool and useful from what it could be/have been. Having to return to Tempest or hubs is a time filler/waster.

It certainly sounds like a neat idea, but I'd have to see an interface in practice before I could really decide if it really solves any apparent problems navigating and pursuing quest markers.

So basically a Pip-boy.

Depends on if the game paused while using it.  If it didn't pause during use you could end up getting attacked or lose the timer on your environmental shields while looking at the map which people would complain about saying it isn't fair for this to happen while looking at the map/inventory etc.

If it did pause the game while looking at the omni tool the people who complain about lack of realism would get on them saying that this isn't a proper representation as you should be attacked and time should flow while using it.

The going to another screen seems to be a decent compromise.

Not to mention that putting it in a game has been done for years in Fallout with, as mentioned in a post above, a pip boy.

I think the simplest explanation is that it was cut due to time constraints. The Journal and the Map are probably the last systems to be finalised, and given that ME:A had more significant issues prior to launch this just got left by the wayside. It's clear little thought is put into it; quest tracking is the largest barrier to narrative coherence this game has

The scanner is a crucial addition, as it represents the survey and exploration aspect of the game's premise. It just seems under-developed as a game system given the amount of narrative it has to shoulder. Someone wrote all those scan entries, after all. It would have been nice to archive them so we could re-read them.

And it may be a case of just re-organising stuff that's in the pause menu, but if it does it in a way that enhances immersion, that's a good thing.

That's definitely it's official name from now on as far as i'm concerned.  And yeah it was great.

For me, the problems with navigating maps in andromeda start and end in one place - The decision to move to the compass.

After looking at the designers ArtStation site it's clear that was all concept art, probably never intended for release.

Up until Fallout 4. Try that now unmodded. It no longer stops time. It just slows it down a little. And it's implementation is pretty bad when you have several targets overlapping each other in the distance. I can't get my head shot in because the mutant that's 20 feet in front of me is dominating my mouse pointer instead of clicking on the target that is much more dangerous and about 60 feet away. Close quarter combat, VATS is impractical unless you're playing ninja-style.

It appeared he was working on UI which probably got subsumed by UX. You see it concept cars all the time; looks cool as fuck but it's impractical as hell from a practical design and user experience perspective.

I will say that I really liked the female preset appearances he has on his page. Fucking gorgeous.

Tarn Vedra, was that mean to be an easter egg based on the Andromeda TV Series?