Please bioware let me have my nova power like in ME3. Anyone else want a specific power. Edited

Most old powers should be in the new game...

With no classes and potential to mix and match, powers need to go back to being relatively more specialized, as per ME1 and ME2. Not ME3 "do everything" powers, which will make the classless system pointless to an extent.

Adrenaline Rush / Immunity - or some sort of active damage reduction power. Indifferent to time dilation, although movement / animation speed buff instead might be cool.

Marksman - Sort of a given most likely, although probably shouldn't give much accuracy boost.

Lift / Pull - Part of my thinks biotics should just go back to being instacast. Regardless this is simple bread and butter stuff.

ME2 Tech Armor - would rather it auto-detonate on shield break, and also be a shield buff rather than DR (assumes other changes to combat system).

Overload - should, you know, overload shields and synthetics.

ME1 Sabotage - disables enemy weapons. Alternatively low tier gives large accuracy penalty, higher tier disables completely.

Hacking - low tier may be indiscriminate targeting (can target player), high tier targets other enemies only.

Warp - debuff power and sole detonator

Singularity - because we need a biotic power that can stick elites

Charge - Almost didn't put this since it makes no sense when you can pick whatever other powers you want, but whatever it is fun.

Cloak - Invisibility... and that's about it. If it has any damage buff, using said buff needs to give max cooldown regardless of time in cloak. Arguably it shouldn't have scaled cooldown anyway. Also needs to not allow other power usage at least at low tier, maybe at high tier.

Incinerate - burns things

I really want the missle launcher the N7 Destroyer had to be an ability. It was so badass.

I disagree. People got bent out of shape because cloak essentially made infiltrators ignore cooldown by making the early break cooldown the only one applied. With individual cooldowns, this is no longer a thing. Max cooldown for breaking cloak is entirely over the top the other way.

Oh I agree, I would love for stealth to be a full on viable option. Silent takedowns, CQC.

I just really doubt it, especially given the gameplay we've seen is more of the same ME3 style. Not to say that isn't fun.

On the other hand, thinking back to the AVP games, those weren't really "stealth" either. As the Predator though you could still cloak and do silent kills but there weren't really many mechanics apart from "spotted" and "not spotted". And once you were spotted they could usually still fire at you. They'd miss most of the time, but it was serviceable.



Oh the good old days

It isn't over the top whatsoever, just as it wouldn't have been overthetop in ME3 if it worked that way.  If the primary benefit of cloak is a weapon damage boost (which is what it really was in ME3) it should not give you minimum cooldown if you break cloak right away firing a weapon.  That is poor design and poor balance.

If you are in fact using it simply for invisibility, then by all means scale it based on invisible duration.

Individual vs shared cooldown doesn't really matter since any power damage is still on that power's timer.  Whether or not it should give a power damage bonus, and how much, will depend on if they allow power use under cloak to begin with.

Its weird seeing all the mentions of OP classes and classes that unbaance the game, and as someone who has played every class minus the Engineer (though I did not play Infiltrator in ME 3) the only class I felt was particularly OP was the ME 2 Sentinel. That guy just wrecked shit up.

Its possible I wasn't using him right but I ultimatly changed my Vanguard in ME 3 to a Sentinel when ME 1 was released on the PS3.  In part because it was the better role play.  In part because I just did not like him being one and found he died far more often then my Soldier did. 

First PT likely all tech.

Second pt: combat with tactical cloak.

If we're really going to be limited to three active powers at once, isn't that an argument to avoid making powers too specialised/niche? e.g. If overload loses its stun ability against organics then there's no point taking it unless you know you'll be facing shielded and/or synthetic enemies.

I think a three power limitation will already force people to pick and choose and potentially make a sacrifice in one area or another, particularly if they want to be able to set off their own biotic combos (that's two slots gone already). We won't really have room for 'just in case' powers.

I think the most likely method they will use to balance the individual cooldowns is to make cooldowns longer. That's what it looks like they've done from the trailer.

Am I the only one who really liked Slam?? Like it was my bonus bower as a biotic even though throw and pull made it kind of obsolete haha

Btw, does anyone know if biotics in ME:A will affect shielded enemies again like they did in ME? Idk if this is a spoiler, but

for the MP i'd like the old coop powers, like the quarian scanning, and llowing tem mates to see through walls , the big asari justicar bubble, the geth turet to recharge shields, the geth dreadnought shield, the volus recharging shields, or something new but similar