ME:A Which would you prefer?

Well, If they all do the same thing (kill everything in 1 hit) then it's not that interesting. 

Looks like everyone loves dem Cobra's or BSN is infested with Striker Destroyers

I'd rather have a Cobra/Cain, than a gimmick ult. Why debuff when you can nuke?

It kinda of is yeah  Something like that: 

Why not both?

Create a bunch of"supers", some tech based, some biotic based, and add a bunch of big guns and let everyone pick one and only one before each mission like they do their normal guns.

Adepts get to chose from the entire list of biotic supers.
Vanguards get to choose from half of the list of biotic supers and half of the big guns.
Soldiers get to chose from the entire list of big guns.
infiltrators get to choose from half of the list of tech supers and half of the big guns.
Engineers get to chose from the entire list of tech supers.
Sentinels get to choose from half of the list of biotic supers and half of the list of tech supers.

Ammo for the big guns would be earned in the same manner as charge for supers.


A bit like how each class had different but balanced options for unlocking new firepower on the collector ship in ME2.

The "supers" would have to be less absurd than the "supers" in games like overwatch though, no god mode powers.

I would like the missiles to remain. I don't know if they have Banshees or Pretorians in ME:A (I'd be surprised if they do) but to be able to save a teammate in a pinch that should stay.

On the other side remember the Racial Characteristics in the Elder Scrolls (like Adrenaline Rush for the Redguard or Nordic Frost for the Nord)? Why not give them something like that? 

This actually sounds kinda interesting, which is how I know that Bioware will do nothing of the sort

I got what you said, I said I'd rather use a missile or a readily available high powered gun. Especially vs a Possessed Preatorian, never knowing if your gonna get your head bit off mid-animation for the 1KO hammer swing.

You could maybe call down an airstrike instead of using a missile...

And a ship could fly over and blow lots of enemies up

I´m not a huge fan of the Cobra Missiles as they are, though they do offer good additional tactical options - for stuff like saving teammates from sync kills and wave 10 targets they are quite useful.

So I´m not against keeping them, but I´d like it if they could come up with a way to make them more of a truly "last resort" weapon that players will be more selective employing. That may help making the gameplay more enjoyable (as in "less idiots nuking spawns away from the objective"). Maybe making them a more rare drop vs. other consumables or limiting the number you can take into a match (like 4 instead of 6 and no AC5 gear) could help here.

I like that they are easy to use, so if they decide to diversify or remodel them as character- or class-specific effects, I´d be all for seeing new effects and animations, but I would hope that the basic mechanics would stay as simple as they are now.