will there be class interupts like in omega dlc with engineers

I've never played an engineer, just a thousand Vanguard runs lol... what's this class interrupt you speak of?

Sounds tasty as a Presidium fish.

Bad ass....didn't even know class interrupts were a thing: wish Vanguard had one (like a cheeky biotic push or something).

Since we don't have distinct classes for Ryder, the answer is pretty much no. Though I can see them having things like that if you have certain skills unlocked. Dragon Age: Inquisition had something like that where depending on unlocked you would have more options.

Anything that makes me feel more immersed in the style I'm playing is good.

Gosh, I'd pay a premium for good biotic jokes...

I do wish our class could give us some unique interrupts or cut scenes. I'm currently doing an ME run as a pure biotic for the first time, and was struck how, on the one hand, Liara and Jack and Samara have these cool scenes where they get to show off their biotics, while my Shepard is still punching people and waving her gun around when she's being threatening or whatever. It's also mentioned very rarely in dialogue. One cool thing they could take from Inquisition is those extra dialogue options you got from playing a mage or elf, etc. Though they didn't really have a huge impact on the story, it was still a nice touch.

I don't really have anything to add except: yes, please! I actually asked Ian Frazier about this on Twitter a while back, but he couldn't say anything, sadly:



Obviously, with the new flexible class system they'd have to use some other criteria to determine which moves we'd use, which adds an extra wrinkle. Maybe they could have some low-level biotic stuff for all Ryders - since we're almost certainly default-biotic, unless the weird stuff they've been hinting at with regards to the Pathfinder's skills is extra-weird - with the rest being determined by your specialisation/whether you've mostly specced towards tech, biotic, or just plain combat skills?

As BansheeOwnage said, my fondest hope is that my Vanguard Ryder'll get to !!Biotic Charge!! in a cutscene! I've been wanting to pull that trick since ME2. To quote from that earlier conversation, here's how I envision such a scene playing out, based on your class/skills:

Hmph, such threads were made every few months. The common consensus was usually "yeah, would be cool", but you can guess that Bioware's consensus was more like "maybe, but ain't nobody got time for that".
They did this in Omega and Citadel, but Citadel was a fanservice in more ways than one.


Not quite. Everyone was able to carry a rifle, but even soldiers didn't have to, so they would be watching the same magic rifle as Adept players for example.

Awesome gif, thanks! Apparently biotics also flatten hair, not only make it stick up, Kaidan (Strange glitch)

A bit odd the tweet referred to interrupts (and cines, cinematics?) specifically, since these actions needn't be interrupts at all.

As I mentioned before, I agree they could simply use the specialization-classes for determination, but I'd also be fine with using low-level abilities of all kinds where appropriate (grenades, overload, throw, etc.). I'm also wondering exactly what this thing that lets Ryder respec is. Shepard could do the same, not that it made sense for biotics, so I guess there's a lore reason this time. Remnant tech? Or maybe it's overblown and not really all that interesting after all.

Concussive shot, yay! Sentinels could also take a page out of the batarians' playbook and use Submission Net. Since it's basically tech Stasis, it wouldn't be that hard to do as a variation.

It's also painful for a soldier, since they could use Concussive Shot to break the glass, or omni-stab it, or just shoot it. Something I like to emphasize is that the cutscenes weren't made with a Soldier in mind (they have powers too ), they were made with no class in mind, so Shepard almost always looks silly.

As for varying outcomes, that would certainly be interesting (Engineer interrupt), but most of the time there wouldn't even need to be that, it would just be a flavour/class-recognition thing. So still resources being used, but not nearly as many.

Murder Carnifex? ME3 had sort of had the Murder Predator, but Carnifex is awesome.

What weapon(s) Ryder is carrying is certainly an issue. I'm not sure how I'd deal with it if I was a developer, besides the ideal of tailoring scenes for every weapon (or similar weapon - automatics could all perform the same, bursts the same, semi-auto's the same etc.). That actually might be doable, and would at least avoid the oddities like firing an Avenger at an absurdly low rate of fire while James fires a Raider shotgun (with 2 rounds) on full-auto Some manner of improvement would be appreciated.

With any luck they've taken cues from this in ME:A and dependent on your loadout, you can use that talent to interrupt in unique ways (kind of like Fallout's Perk conversation options).

Without formal classes anymore, I think class-based interrupts are going to be "problematic." They may insert a single power-based interrupt in at one or two points, which the player could simply not use if their Ryder does not possess that particular power. In a different place a different single power-based interrupt would appear and eventually all available powers would get their interrupt. A clear icon or text cue would let the player know which power would be displayed with that interrupt. So, unlike the Omega engineer interrupt which became available only if one was an engineer, I think players regardless of what powers their Ryders have would see the interrupt cue, but the cue would tell them what specific power would be displayed and the player would have to decide for themselves whether or not they wanted to trigger the cutscene.  Hopefully, this won't mean that they'll be a lot fewer general interrupts (not power based ones) that all Ryders could logically use in the game.