Active abilities in ME:A (Updated)

TBH I'm not a big fan of individual cooldowns anyway. Why can you fire off pull + throw in rapid succession as a biotic, but not throw + throw? Given a choice between more powers on a global cooldown vs fewer powers on individual cooldowns, I'd take more powers any day.

I'm hoping that the back/select button will have a similar function to that in DAI.

...God of War? Are your sure you don't mean Gears?
Even then, regardless of the possible power limit, I doubt it'll play like that.

I'm saying on the hotkeyed press a button on controller then BOOM.  I ignored most of my powers if they weren't hot keyed in ME even going as far as to not level them up. 

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I've had a thought to about how they can give you access to more powers.  In DA O you could have different abilities tied to what weapon you would be using.  So, in this case, you might want Biotic Charge for a shotgun or Adrenaline Rush for a Sniper Rifle.  I doubt this will happen but could be nice. 

Fair enough, though for a lot of people it didn't work like that.
One way or another, I hope they'll confirm how the system works soon.

When could you have six active powers at one time? Oh wait did you play on computer with a KB &M? For definition sake I consider an 'active power' one that has been mapped to a hotkey. Now, I would hope/ assume that BioWare does not repeat the same mistake with ME A as they did with DA I and allow more abilities to be hotkeyed for PC users who want it but since I play on PS4 that is not an issue for me.

Regardless though, it all depends on implementation. When DA I removed the ability to have your abilities activated through the combat wheel I was not exactly happy with the descision, especially later on, but I still enjoyed the combat system and didn't really feel like, except a rare few instances in my 5 playthroughs of the game, that I had to sacrifice a good power that I liked for a better one.

On console you had the radial menu for the ME trilogy. There you just opened it up, aimed at your target and released the power.

Just like in DA:O for example ...

If you are content with THREE mapped powers WITHOUT having the ability to use the other eight ... Well, wait until release and ask yourself if the game is poorer for it! Yo uwill change your mind soon enough, I believe!

I loved to play as Vanghuard, Sentinel, Engineer and Adept. Sometimes Infiltrator. Not a single playthrough as Soldier!
If you reduce all classes to Soldiers ... IT IS NOT MASS EFFECT ANY LONGER!!! Wouldn't you agree ?!?

I would not like that. That's way too much limitation on how you can play your character. I still don't like the way they did that in Dragon Age after Origins.

Though mentioning Charge, I'm really worried about a vanguard-style character if this restriction turns out to be true. Vanguard was easily my favorite trilogy class, and you can bet I'll be charging all over ME:A. But if you have a character with Charge and Nova, which already go together so closely, that only leaves you with one additional power slot. And that's really disappointing. How boring will it be to have a character with just a charge combo and one other ability and no opportunity for more variety? Even with Nova-guard I liked to mix things up with some Pulls and Energy Drains, and I wouldn't even have the slots for that.

With the classless character building they're talking about, it's even worse. So many options for interesting combinations... except you'd only have 3 power slots. It's like putting a kid in a toy store, but only letting them explore a couple of aisles. So I'm really hoping this is not the case. Please let us explore the whole toy store BioWare.



EDIT: Could someone ask about this for clarification on Twitter? They might actually tell us if there is a limit now that they've shown the gameplay trailer.

Sadly this is one of the things I'm not very optimistic about. Like op said, Bioware seems to be streamlining their games a lot, which personally I don't like, but eh, it is what it is.
I do hope for a bit more than just 3 powers though... that sounds awfully restricting. If it's like DAI (was it 8?) it's ok. At least not a downgrade lol.

Keep h(y/o)pe alive!!!

Yah, well ... Now you have complete freedom of choice - BUT YOU CANNOT MAP SHIT!

And what class you or I like is completely unimportant in any regard.
If you did not like the powers in the other classes than Soldier - fine. Great that you like Soldier


BUT WHY ON EARTH ARE OTHER PEOPLES PREFERENCES OBSOLETE ...
... JUST BECAUSE YOU NEVER USED THE POWERS OTHER PEOPLE USED ???

Again ...
Your reasoning does not make any sense to me - AT ALL.

Didn't really to me.  The squad portrait pictures looked very...barebones...to me for instance.  

That is exactly what I am thinking, too.
Also, they are talking about not making things public, which they are not confident about and such ...
... which means they are confident about what they show here!

I wonder if they have absolutely no concers about loosing customers? I mean, I switched from PC to consoles years ago. But all these past BioWare titles, make me think of switching back and play C-RPG's again. I cannot take this shit!