Stasis: new bugs?

You must have modded to get stasis.  It's not unlocking as a bonus power at all in my game.  Speculation is that they intentionally removed it because of the previous bugs... so why would they fix it and introduce new bugs if they intended to pull it from the game completely?

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Happened to me in ME3LE a lot.

Killed Tela Vasir last night with this problem - after being entrapped in Stasis, she would lay on the ground for so long that I would have to run up to her and shoot her at near point blank range. But then when she would eventually pop up, yikes, she would biotic charge right through my sorry ass. It was an entirely different fight to the original one in the OT.

Not sure.  I gave up waiting and used a saved game editor to give Shep Stasis + 1 TP.  Hopefully their solution to these bugs is not to leave it broken and officially exclude it.  

Not sure what others think, but my personal preference would be to allow all bonus powers (including stasis) and advanced weapon training from beginning of the game. Shotgun adepts should not have to wait until mid game to get their shotgun!    

Not sure how you could handle the advanced weapon training at the beginning of the game. An extra screen during the character creation process? You would need to do that for all classes, meaning other classes can get the Claymore, Revenant, or Widow early as well.

I am not against that idea, but that means you are getting some extra/bonus weapons early and it may not mean as much when getting it early game. Although it would mean you would no longer need to make a beeline for the Collector Ship to get your bonus weapon as early as possible.

I honestly do not know what to think of that idea. It provides some benefits but also some problems. Namely, Widow is clearly an upgrade of the Mantis. Revenant also feels like an upgraded Avenger. Claymore is the only bonus weapon that actually feels different than other weapons of its type (shotguns).

Having the Widow early would be good for Infiltrators on Insanity early. Maybe too good? Having the Claymore early for Vanguards would certainly be something.

What's even wierder... Flashbang Grenade is there for me when I start a new character in ME2LE.  Other than stasis, inferno grenade is the only bonus power I'm missing when I start a character.  Inferno grenade does show up on the terminal after I get Mordin, but stasis (of course) does not.  So, it is something that doesn't seem to be completely consistent.  Are you playing on the Xbox still, Red, or have you moved over to the PC.  Maybe the difference is still platform related?

Maybe they could separate weapons training from advanced weapons?  i.e. Widow, Claymore & Revenant would still come later (on DCC mission), but players could use an additional weapon class from the start (as in ME1 and ME3).  Katana is fine by me.

Weapons training at the start would be more in line with the changes made in ME1 (i.e. allowing all classes to use all weapons types); but I have to believe that Bioware must have considered it and then decided not to make such a change since ME2 is the only one of the three games that now doesn't allow the player to use all weapons types regardless of class.  It would be nice if ME2 was like ME3, but without considering the "weight" of the heavy weapons that are usable by all classes in ME2... but I just don't see them doing that sort of thing with it now.  I also don't see them moving the advance weapons to be accessible at the start of the game since they made a conscious decision to make some of the DLC weapons (that were previously accessible at the start of the game) now not accessible until you can get to Illium and Tuchanka to purchase them. 

Hypothesis confirmed. I was able to create a saved game (as early as the start of Lazarus Station) with shotgun training flagged on an Adept. Beginning at Freedom's Progress, Shep can select a Katana. So it seems weapon training vs. unlocking of particular weapons are governed by separate flags.

In my opinion having some of better DLC weapons unavailable until later in game actually helps with balance, making earlier weapon training on Adepts, Engineers and Sentinels more feasible from a balance perspective.  

But I agree that Bioware is unlikely to change anything further now.  It's a SP game, so if players use save editors to customize according to their particular headcanon, it's not really much different than Bioware officially adjusting the game balance.

All this discussion has inspired me to try a Shotgun Adept playthrough with SG and Stasis from the beginning!  (I am guessing it will be much easier going at early levels!)