GamePlanet Interview with Mike Gamble Dec 22'16

I don't mind a bit of hand-wavium myself so long as it's not too outrageous, is deployed swiftly at an early point in the game and not mentioned again. I like to approach these things with a little bit of goodwill and acceptance that sometimes you have to roll with things that are a bit implausible so long as you are swiftly distracted from it and it leads to an interesting game. God knows I rolled with the start of Mass Effect 2 for the sake of a good game and that was a lot more than a bit implausible!

You could easily explain it by saying you need special training and outfitting you with the tech essential for this takes time.
Shepard already has her own training and the war has already come so she doesn't have time to be outfitted with tech (or maybe it conflicts with her cerberus implants) and that's why you don't see it in use during ME3.

Now I agree those two things are both implausible nonesense, but the key difference is the first one they deployed at the start of the game, shut up about and proceeded to build a lot of goodwill with the player after by giving them a fun game. And the second they put at the end, rolled credits and left you to think about. So long as they stick with option A, a hand wavium refit of the combat model is no problem.

yet Ryder uses it straight out of cryosleep and no one in ME3, years after the Hyperion left, knows it exists


Sounds legit

Most powers aren't about training, though. I dare say you need training to use them effectively but abilities like Tactical Cloak or Inferno aren't just built into your armour or your omni-tool they're built into you. Otherwise anyone could just put on your armour or omni-tool and do the same thing. Biotics are similar. You need a natural talent for biotics but you need specific implants to interface with a biotic amp which enables you to focus that power.

Hacking isn't about you typing furiously at a keyboard using your hacking knowledge it is about accessing a hacking computer inside your omni-tool

I think it makes sense that your implants, or some new-fangled equivalent, can be made to be reconfigurable so that, depending on the configuration, you can acess different abilities. There's only limited resources so you can't just configure them to do everything at once. You have to choose the configuration to determine what powers you can access at any given time.

That would be my theory anyway.

Sooooo the explanation is that they are special snowflakes?

At least Shepard was a talented, incredibly talented operative WITHIN his field and he was so recognized by the characters (alenko recognizing he was a stronger biotic for instance) in the game...Maybe with indomitable willpower and a crapton of luck but that is it

But the Ryders are basically Legion (marvel character) within Mass Effect?

Sigh....why?

sure, for tech powers they are about experience and learning to use your tools


Now go ahead and try to say the same about Biotics

Go on...

Every biotic has the potential to use any biotic power with more or less difficulty, it's just difference in how you use mass effect fields you generate (with different amps helping create different fields, adept uses different configuration than vanguard, so let's say SAM helps you reconfigure your amp on the run)

with the MASSIVE difference that it takes amps and YEARS of training to master (Grissom academy) since the user has to learn how to reach and properly stimulate the nervous clusters in his or her body which contain the eezo tumors hence why biotics MOVE in specific and unique ways when they use their powers

How exactly is SAM imparting that knowledge that UNIQUE to an individual to Ryder? How is Ryder mastering it instantaneously? How is he "forgetting it all" when using a combat drone?

why connect two unrelated devices that can run separately at the same time (sentinels) and make them into one device that can only use one set of abilities at one time? How does that MAKE ANY SENSE???????

Also, don't forget...   The biotic implants are always changing, but the way up to them might be slow building.  Look at 4K TV's and how many people have them right now, or even 4K monitors.   The rest of the galaxy has been one thing for all of their lives, now all of a sudden they can anything they want?  While it might sound exciting, most prolly don't see that the investment's worth it.  This will prolly only be for Pathfinder and their underlings, if not only for themselves.