Active abilities in ME:A (Updated)

And yet I don't. It's almost as though your premise is a subjective opinion that you're presenting as a fact.

As I said, I look critically at features once I can see them in context. I don't know what you think you're proving by acting like I said something else.

Yep. I noticed this just now myself and edited my original post. Thanks.

There are no class in MEA, you have builts and every built gets the same limitations. They counted as active powers in ME2/ME3 for the classes that had them. They count as active powers in MEA for everyone even if you can't map them. That means a potential of 8 active abilities might I add (I'm pretty sure all 5 ammo powers are back going by the wheel).

And again, the max amount of active in ME3 for any class was 6 and that included ammo powers and grenades. Being able to map 6 powers in MEA + unlocking all ammo powers would mean basically double what you could have in previous games.

Fair enough, I think the problem I am having is that we don't know anything and yes BioWare could show us more, but if anything changed people would be scream "why show us then, showing us means you promised".

While going back and playing the first game again with plans to continue through to the end of the third, BioWare has always restricted our abilities even with the first game for we could only pick a single bonus power and only gave us eight quick slots for skills and one of those slots was always used as a rez button, in the first game it was for the Spectre ability to resurrect and in Mass Effect 2 & 3 it was for medi-gel.

I get the appeal of being able to pick everything, but they do have to make some limits on the game as well.  They might have even tested it at one point and found everyone was gravitating to the exact same abilities.

I'm not sure but in some of the skill icons it seems like there are two icons stacked, so maybe you can switch the set?

It seems to me the reason 3 works fine for MP is that there is a natural pause/waiting period before starting a map/match in which to spec yourself optimally for that particular engagement. This is however a detriment to the SP game. Such will slow down the pacing of the game if each time you're about to enter an encounter you have to swap out your powers to prepare...or worse have to replay an encounter because you were improperly spec'ed and got smacked down. If this is actually true, this is but another example of poor decision making on the part of Bioware. So far the negative aspects about the game far outweigh the positives. My hype level is very low.

Look, it doesn't help your case to label people as "fanboys". Notice how at no point in this conversation did I label you as a "hater".

Here's where I'm coming from: people panicked about the ability limit in DA:I, but in practice I never was in a situation where I thought to myself, "Man, I wish I had a different ability I could use from the ones I already have mapped". For me, that means the system worked as intended, which is why it's good that I didn't judge the ability limit on its own, because I would have formed an inaccurate opinion.

As far as ME goes, I don't remember off the top of my head how many powers were readily available at any given moment in ME3, but my recollection is that I didn't use a large variety of them anyway, so it's possible that in actual gameplay you just won't need a large variety of different abilities available. It's impossible to know until someone takes a more thorough look at the whole combat system, which will start to happen as we get closer to release.

In the meantime, there's nothing forcing you to pay for the game until you know the answer, so just hold your damn horses.

Edit: Updated this post to better present my thought process.

I'd put Sentinel on par of them as well.
Really though, the only build that might not be that affected by this possible outcome is the Soldier class.

I still think there's the chance the system won't limit us to three powers, given they didn't outright state it's like that. Maybe they're still working on the system, I don't know.

I'm really hoping that somehow we'll be able to use around 6 powers, for me that'll be enough, a defence power, a couple of support & 3 offensive & I'll be good to go, but assigning powers to the shoulder buttons, to me is a really strange decision, particularly when you have to mash 2 simultaneously for one of the powers, get your timing off slightly & you can cock-up what you were trying to do.
Here's hoping that it is possible to customise the controls & map powers to different buttons, but for now, we'll just have to wait & see, I'm sure more info is on the way...hopefully.

Just my thoughts.

Who actually played an Adept and did more than spam Singularity+Wrap with an occasional throw/pull? Or played an Engineer that didn't rely 90% of the time on Cryo Blast, Incinerate and Overload? Having more powers, doesn't mean you used more of them.

Going by how you found DAI actives limit very annoying, I'm wondering if you could even like the previous ME games considering they had a max of 6 actives ability (7 with a bonus power).

What does it matter why we need it? Apparently it's designed like that.