Automatic vs Manual cover

That sounds fantastic. I will use the appropriate term now and refer to Dynamic rather than automatic cover.

If they have aiming down sights (a la BF1 or TF2 or CoD) I really will cancel my pre-order. And then wonder what other games I can play and wonder WTF I just did with the previous years of my life.

Wait, you mean first person ADS, right? Because Mass Effect has always had ADS. It's that button that makes your reticle get smaller. In fact, scoped weapons have always had first person ADS as well.

But also... what? How could first person aiming be so utterly repulsive a mechanic that it not only ruins Andromeda but also retroactively every other Mass Effect game?

I hope that auto cover is not going to be our only option.
Auto cover never works out well for me I always get or take myself out of cover but never on purpose.
Don't know or care if anyone remembers that mess of a game Quantum Break but that is one of the absolute WORST auto cover system in gaming.

So IF they make ME:A have Quantum Break auto cover they had better give the option of manual in the options or I will not be playing (till at least can mod it in).

The problem you had with Qauntum Break is it's not a cover shooter. It has some semblance of a dynamic cover system but it's designed for you to be running around using powers. Anyone who tried to just hunker down anywhere was going to die rather quickly. Especially considering a LOT of 'cover' wasn't really cover, it just broke or got shot through and none of the enemies sat around hiding.

Either way it's not automatic cover. Can read my other replies as to why its not.

Ye, but why would they change from TPS to FPS in the first place?

Isn't this already present in Mass Effect? You can shoot normally of pulling a trigger to get a closer look as you aim.

I know that. I didn't know the name of the feature, but the description is basically what happens in the trilogy when using the various weapons.
I was just making sure it was the same thing people were talking about in the last posts.

Well, we have more actions to account for as well, e.g. jetpack and scan actions, so we might not actually have a new power slot. I think the jetpack is taking the combat roll slot, but scanning could be using that newly freed button.

I'm strictly a console player so I unfortunately don't know much about how ME plays on PC. I was just assuming keybinding is similar to abilities being mapped to a button! Sorry, that what happens when you assume! I also haven't played TLoU yet so I'm not familiar with it's cover system. It's on my backlog along with the entire UC series... 

And like RoboticWater said, the cover button could be used for the new jetpack mechanic. I'm interested/anxious to see how the gameplay is tonight. Could be a make or break moment for the March release date. Hopefully, it doesn't get pushed back.

Yeah, it's been in all of them. It's one of those things that's not a new feature, but some thirst person games have added a 'first person' view (always optional in every game I've seen so far) when ADS'ing. So while it's not even a remotely new feature for Mass Effect (getting better aim with a button for slower movement) some people will freak out at the idea they might do it differently.

I can't really see that happening outside of maybe low power scopes being added to items with out scopes by default like in ME3. The weapon designs don't really lend them selves to first person view. Which, I dunno, maybe having the option (not forced) would cause them to actually make their guns function in a manner that would let people actually aim with them. Who knows...

Back to the original topic though about cover. One thing I'd like to point out is i think the last of us doesn't duck for you like tomb raider does. Which is where my only question actually comes in. I'm pretty confident we're getting a button to swap shoulders but we might be getting a button to crouch. And if we're getting a button to crouch we may have to manually crouch our selves to take advantage of low cover.

Personally, i think Tomb Raiders system of no crouch and her getting low to the ground when combat starts (she takes a different, hunched stance when in combat) is the faster paced one. Last of Us is a pretty slow game in that regard, but it's designed as a stealth survival game. Erm, I guess so is Tomb Raider lol. It's just I dunno, faster passed, she doesn't actually get any slower when shes crouched. Also always liked her dodge where she scampers with on all 4's to get really low with out rolling.

So yeah, very curious where they actually go with that exactly. My guess is closer to Tomb Raider, but maybe we actually have a crouch button now.

Cover looks dynamic from the very brief snippets I caught. There's an indicator for when you slip into cover -- the little shield that pops up at the center of the UI in between the squadmates' icons. Apologies for the poor gif quality in advance.