Active abilities in ME:A (Updated)

I agree on this. I just meant that the powers/talents were never a problem for the porting since their games always had the feature to use every skill you gained with the wheel. 

It depends. DAI was kind in the middle since there is the tac cam, but it was still limited to those you can map on the controller, and they actually improved on that compared to DAO and DA2.  That's why people after the reveal of the lack of power usage on pause thought they went to the DAI route and map 6-8 powers.

I hope as well our concerns will vanish once they reveal how it works.

They said they were thinking of implementing the tac cam in MEA?

Ah, understood.
Yeah, I know that.  That was what I meant in my previous post. Hopefully it didn't lead to a limitation of powers at 3.

Even if we are limited to 3 powers, that really doesn't mean anything. You can't take one aspect of an entire combat system and judge it in a vacuum.

So far as I know, the mapping is limited because of multiplayer.
Because controllers have a very limited number of key bindings, you must limit the computer users as well IF you intend multiplayer to be cross-platform.
Otherwise computer users will have an advantage over their console multiplayer counterparts.

The limiting of powers in Inquisition was annoying, but here in Andromeda I think I can see it working. Both in ME2 and 3 I personally only used up to 2 powers with Vanguard. Charge and shockwave. I would also use pull every so often, but 2 powers was enough for me. The previous games didn't have the wide range of powers like in Inquisition. Every class had about three main powers anyway. Plus it seems weapon ammo types are going back into the mod category, and are limited within combat, we see this in the gameplay trailer. The only classes I'd say this may hurt is the Sentinel, and Engineer classes because they are the only classes with actual variety of abilities, but because there are no classes this may not be a huge problem. The only worries I have is no squadmate commands and AI will be doing the majority of work for your companions. But let's really look at the classes from the previous games and see if we can simplify them using only three abilities.

Soldier Main abilities: Adrenaline rush, concussive shot, and frag grenade. Their other abilities consist of ammo powers which are now weapon mods in Andromeda.

Vanguard main abilities: Charge, Nova, and shockwave or pull (player's preference)

Adept main abilities: Singularity, warp, throw or pull (player's preference)

Infiltrator main abilities: Tactical cloak, sticky grenade, incinerate or sabotage (player preference)

Engineer main abilities: Overload, sabotage, combat drone or sentry turret (player's preference) Engineer, like sentinel would be a little more harder to simplify because they are a power based class with more unique abilities like the ones I left out; Incinerate and Cryo blast.

Sentinel main abilities: Tech armor, warp, and throw. Sentinel is way to hard to simplify. They have both biotic and tech abilities and 3 power slots for them is meaningless. I'm sorry to those who'd like to play a true Sentinel build in Andromeda, I can't see it with only three abilities at one time

I would think this 3 power limitation is due to the fact there is not a class system in Andromeda. If players could pick as many abilities as we had in the previous games, with all powers available to them, I don't think they could balance gameplay. God like builds could be created easy with access to all powers. This is one reason why I personally think they should have kept classes. But the community didn't want classes so BW went that route and needed a way to balance gameplay, without restricting powers the player could pick and this is what I think they ultimately came up with. You can chose any power, but only pick three to use at one time. Well on the good side, we can say BW listened to the community

What's this "or" thingy? I always play infiltrator and use both sabotage and incinerate A LOT, and often at the same time (i.e. one right after the other).

Well I hope they allow at least 4-5, maybe even 8 like in DA:I

Fans who have played houndreds or even thousands of hours in 3 Mass Effect Games ...

... CAN!

I agree with you that there is much more to it. And that the new changes will have "weight" too. Of course. But that is another story.
But cutting out beloved mechanics and stuff that is just great and fans wished for years to be expanded and throw it out the window ...
... to favor the multiplayer - IN A SINGLE PLAYER RPG GAMING SERIES ??!?!

!R"$%U"$%/ ... Not funny!

(Edit: ... well of course  nobody needs a certain amount of hours to judge this. You just need to look at it and understand it ...)

Yes, looking at one feature without the context of how the whole system around it works is the definition of looking at it in a vacuum. None of what you said is material to the issue at all.

And since you asked, I only buy games outright if the developer has a good track record. Otherwise, I wait for an informed opinion from various sources whose tastes align with mine and have actually played the game before I buy anything.