Powers, Skill Trees and Active Abilities (Official Thread)

If it's just a random trailer and turrets weren't already shown in the first gameplay, it could be that. But the only purpose here is to familiarize the player with the favorite system. It's just dumb how the guy there is explaining how being infiltrator isn't enough, so he deploys a turret and then breaks it.

No restrictions.

Cool that Singularity has an anti-shield evolution

If anyone has played Elementalist in guild wars 2, the Profile design in MEA reminds me exactly of attunement swapping on the ele.

There you have 4 elements (earth, air, fire, water) each granting access to a different set of active skills (based on your weapon choice). The whole gaameplay method of most ele builds revolves around playing a few skills from one element, swapping to the next, playing a few skills there, swapping to the next and so on - kind of piano playing the build or finger gymnastics.

The only differences are the skills are predefined based on weapon loadout, and attunement swapping has a cooldown timer.

MEA profiles look like they can be instantly toggles with no cooldown - so on a keyboard you should be able to swap profile at the press of a button. Assuming the number s 1-4 can be mapped for each Profile, it could play in a way that you use a couple of skills from one profile, swap to another and use skills from there, swap to another (or back to the first) and so on...

If this is how it can work then there should be a huge amount of variety and customisation possible with builds in MEA, far more than previous games or even most rpgs I can think of.

This of course assumes you can hotkey profile swapping at least on the PC so you don't have to pause and enter a menu.

All, if you play long enough. 

Isn't that only with a newgame+ thought? 

Nope! Someone who played the game asked the devs if you could do it on a single playthrough and they said you could.

In one playthrough it should be difficult, although based on what Ian said, I think you can go rather high. I think at least 20 skills should be fully maxed out at the end of one run.



On the topic, I'll post the squad abilities we know:
Cora: Charge, Nova, Shield Boost, Asari Commando, Defensive training.
Drack: Blood Rage, Incinerate, Flak Cannon, Krogan warrior, grizzled veteran.
Liam: Havok Strike, Overload, Frag Grenade.
Vetra: Power Armour.
Peebee: Throw/Pull (don't recall which one), Shockwave, Invasion.

Blood rage looks insane, by the stats mentioned.

Does that mean no on cryo beam?

Wait.. Liam with Havoc strike? That guy doesn't look equipped at all for a havoc strike. 

I think he means that cryo, biotic, flame and debuff effects that have a limited duration would linger after switching profiles, but sustained powers like turret and annihilation would automatically end.

Wouldn't you want your detonators to be your quick cooldown loadout? That way you could initiate a primer, change to your quick-cooldown detonators and detonate the effect before it timed out.