Powers, Skill Trees and Active Abilities (Official Thread)

With any luck you can use voice commands via Kinect to cast powers like you could in previous games. That might remove any limit!

Cool, thanks. Heh, I feel that there are a lot of things we do not know.

No, I have not played Witcher series. I have played basically all Bio/Obsi games save for DA and a couple of Eastern MMOs. I am just hoping it is not really overly complicated, and leaves you with an amoeba of a character like in DnD or locks away skills like in the Oriental games. I prefer trying out the classes and picking the one I like than to create my own tbh, and I am afraid of complexity. I am always afraid I won't be able to play a game because the rule set is too much for me. As long as it does not require reading pages and pages of manuals and unlocks to get something functional that can get you through the game, I will be Okay with it. Maybe they will for once have a decent auto-build option too?

I have a feeling people will gravitate towards classes in any case if we are restricted to 3 powers or what it is going to be. In many cases you are going to want at least two powers that complement each other for combos. In any case this is a good thing for most players, more freedom.

No one knows.  We'll find out sooner or later I would assume.

Dunno, replayability? It depends on how many ways there are to do missions/approach open world objectives, ie. frontal assault, stealth, sniping,... the way skills seam to level up with usage indicates that there will be more then one viable way to take on quests.

Possible... that could only be the case when a battle has already broken out/you are discovered by the enemy. There was this one scene where a cloaked sisRyeder did snipe a guard without altering any of the other enemies.

By "drop aggro", I assume you mean "get them to stop shooting at you"? If you're looking for something to accomplish that, you want Infiltrator style skills. We know about Tactical Cloak, but there has also been mention of a smoke bomb skill. Sounds like you might be looking for a stealthy character, initially.

Your incentive to diversify will be in wanting to overcome a variety of challenges. You'll want your omnitool to be up to snuff. You'll want your Nomad to move faster. You'll want your jetpack to be optimal. None of these have even mentioned combat, yet.

Your combat skills won't be as hard to choose as you might think. We have a lot of experience from the previous games as a guide. We also get to respec our Pathfinder in Tempest's galley whenever we want to try something different, so we don't need to worry about messing up our build. Likewise, this frees us up to continue trying new things.

Do you want to stay stealthy and shoot from Cloak or through smoke? Pick some Infiltrator type shooter skills. Having trouble with enemy shields? Maybe a tech power to drop those shields would help. Want to be more "in your face"? Maybe a shield power and a flame thrower skill is more your cup of tea.

I always thought a biotic Infiltrator would be cool, personally. We'll see what I can do with the idea.

Ultimately, by the end of the game, we will have enough points to have invested heavily in a number of things.

It does seem that the companions will still be more simply built, as in ME2/3; and that they'll be support-savvy. They intentionally chose to quasi-solo those fights in the gameplay trailer, since they weren't yet wanting to emphasize companion combat roles. Still, you could see Liam throwing up shields and setting up combos.

I'd bet they have synergistic support powers of which we haven't  yet learned. One of Cora's first, long ago "leaked" powers was a biotic shield. It's still unconfirmed, but it wouldn't be surprising, given what we've seen.

Let them support. Let us kick ass!

They said the squadmates will be more important, even vital, this time, so I expect them to be more efficient and supportive.

Ha-ha, so long as they are not like in swtor after they rebuild them. It was like playing with a World Boss as your 'side-kick'.