MEA producers talk about final boss and scanning

Well i would hope that being a super boss, if it kills you on first contact despite your best efforts then clearly your not yet equipped to deal with it, any thing else is a waste of time.

They'll have Red Skull above them. Innovation of the year.


Wouldn't worry about it. With traditional ME difficulty you'll be able to own anyone with starting weapons on level 6.

I'm guessing like Inquisition ME:A story quests will have recommended skill/gear level requirements and if you don't constantly keep your gear up-to date by proactively scavenging resources for upgrades and schematics you're going to fall behind the difficulty curve and the game will become a lot more challenging which is a more effective way of encouraging exploration and users to undertake side-questing to level/gear-up then strictly enforcing level requirements imo.

I really do hope story level/gear requirements are suggestions and not mandatory like DAI... if some people are not having fun and want to speedrun the critical path or enjoy the story first even with s****y gear then the game should let them otherwise they will just put the game down.

Having played DAI again recently I hope ME:A does not attempt to block progress by forcing arbitrary systems e.g. power requirements in the late game to pad out the run time and force users to complete tons repetitive filler they are obviously trying to avoid in the first place. There is definitely a point in D:AI where the fun stops and you have to post-pone Armageddon to do enough menial tasks to reach the power count. Having used up all my power right at the end by the time I attained 40 power again I'd almost forgot what I was fighting for. I hope the key thing BioWare learned from D:AI is that you can't punish people for not enjoying your tedious filler content because it compounds bad game-design with bad storytelling.

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About S-Bosses
Guess the HUD information tells the player if totally outmatched. The PAUSE may allow us to switch weapon+ammo hardware for another lookee see and hopefully one can  vanish the scene if necessary. Better than dying and waiting for the long savegame file load times.

My second guess is that S-Bosses are Remnant Vault Guardians... like that Big metal snake thing

About Scanning
Well, ME2 planet scanning was and still is a horrible mechanic (imo). My question with ME:A scanning is how critical is it? 

We know that resources are scarce (from Dec 1 video). Some questions:
1- Does this mean the Golden Worlds are not Golden?
2- Did we arrive in an area of the cluster that we now must search for them?
3- Why don't we know their locations and go there directly upon arrival?
4- The ".. find clues which might... access to crafting pieces.." is not reassuring.
5- Where is the impetus for exploration? Is it the resources needed to complete the Nexus for the final Boss fight (ie: to to so we must also defeat planetary S-Bosses which requires  both XP and weapon levels)?

Why level 6?

Ok, that would really, really suck, if I'm understanding right. One thing is having a harder fight, but if you can't actually damage enemies, they might as well use power requirements again

Not saying it wouldn't suck... just saying that's how Borderlands did it.  When you hit an enemy you couldn't damage, you knew you had to back off and do some side missions or find another way to level up before proceeding to fight that boss.  In Borderlands, they also give you a recommended level number in your journal for each quest as you receive it.

The other choice is insta-kill or blocking access until you get specific skills.

Although, if those bosses are like the huge thing in the N7 day trailer. I'm so going to nope-out the moment I spot it personally. Did you look at that thing? You need a spaceship to take that out.

I loved ME2 scanning in the first playthrough. Would be nice if mechanic has something added to make it more replayable.

i really hope scaning is not as boring as exploring in DA:I walking acrosss huge maps to gather material, please not again
scanning must be fast and get lots of crafting resourses

Indeed and I thought the thresher maws were scary but yeah I'd run like hell as well even a Krogan would have to think twice about taking on something like that. Sounds like DAI a little bi tin that case in som areas of the mapyour going to run into enemies that'll kick your ass if you attempt to deal with them too soon. Like for example you attempt to taske on the Fif you try to take the Fereldan Frostback as soon as you unlock the Hinterlands whereas it's smarter and wiser to build up your equipment and skills until your at least around his level.