New characters from datamine

Just because a thing never has been does not mean it cannot be.

Or whatever.

Gotta be practical/balance-related. If the system can handle a second player detonating a first's matching ability, there's no reason outside of an intentional limitation the same couldn't be achieved by a single player.

I don't expect it'll have that kind of novel attribute either, just pointing out that a lack of precedent doesn't equate to impossibility.

Prior to MEA, we'd never had vertical mobility (ladders notwithstanding);

Prior to the Architect, we'd never had a melee that primed;

Prior to the Exemplar, we'd never had an evo that slashed cooldowns globally upon a detonation (that I can recall anyway); and, most importantly

Prior to the Pwnytail we never had a character with realistic hurr fiziks.


ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE!

Biotic Bomb from Mass Effect 2 was self-detonating, making Insanity feel like Narrative.

Maybe he's talking about the 'warp bomb' as it used to be called

It was before combo detonations were a thing so it was the term coined.

It was just blowing up biotically primed lifted targets with warp.


This reminds me of how much more satisfying power-use was in ME2/ME3. I'm not necessarily talking about damage, either. You felt the impact. Go back and use warp in ME2, or incinerate in either game. The sound FX are just not as good, I think. I used to love the sound of getting hit with incinerate in ME2 and the sound it made as it you flailed about. 

It's the small things, I guess. ME:A does some things better, but for every step forward there's two steps back.

compare ME:A soundFX to these... there's no contest