Powers, Skill Trees and Active Abilities (Official Thread)

It has a pause function, just it is limited to weapon / ammo wheel.

BTW i'm wondering if the weapon wheel is the only option to pause the game to bring up the wheel then companions will use 1 type of weapons only.

Do we know anything about how to command squad members to take cover or use powers?

I empathise with your disability, but - to speak frankly - it's not bioware's obligation nor company goal to create games for people who can not properly input all button combinations. When you start a project such as this, you have to take certain things - like the end user being able to work a xbox or PS4 or whatever controller - for granted. Otherwise,t here's no end to your initial product requirements. 

Now, it's absolutely fantastic that the intial trilogy had the pause system. I used it myself a lot too. But this is a new game by a new team. And they have the right to form their vision in any way they please. The end user can only make their voice known by one thing, and that is the purchase. If you boycot the choice for yourself by pre-ordering it, you don't have the right to complain afterwards that the final product did not meet all your criteria. And you definetely don't have the right to do it in advance.

I don't mean to sound harsh, but it's just reality. After every game I play, I also used to have ideas about "how they could have done this better" or "that would have been a lot smarter". But honestly, after having voiced an opinion about so many games and seeing little to no return on it, it just gets tiring. And you realise the futility. Myself, on principle I no longer pre-order. And once I decided to no longer do that, I just learned to accept the games for what they are, and enjoy them how they were created. I no loner pine for 'how awesome my version would have been'. 

In any case. Would it be nice if they held everyone's opinion in mind? Sure. Is it in any way their obligation to their customers? Heck no. 

Nicely put.

My bad, first time seeing it for me.

It probably won't. According to Shinobi, it will feature no gameplay at all. 

Invasion is prolly going to be SOOO useful. Has that been in a ME game before?

I suspect that the 'beam' bit is where you hold it down, so you should still be able to do short bursts. They're probably giving us the beam as a replacement for both cryo blast and snap freeze.

An upgrade that broadened the blast radius would be cool tho.

Yep, although there are no doubt more powers we haven't seen yet (e.g. overload, warp, throw, drone).

If we can only have 3 active powers (and assuming we don't respec during a playthrough) then even with just these 20 you would need 7 playthroughs to try everything. I like having access to different classes of powers but I'm still annoyed about the idea of only 3 powers, if true.

I loved sentinel in the trilogy but I would need at least 4 powers to replicate that play style here, assuming they exist - tech shield, overload, warp and throw. We'll just have to wait and see what further info we get.

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Confirmed more than three active abilities in SP!