Roy's French Interview (Thanks Scarlett)

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No, he didn't say that. However, Roy's "add a chaotic element" to combat can be anything. I just asked the question as a possibility.

The gist of that conversation was that ME:A brought elements from past ME games such as its combat.  However, ME:A's combat is more intense
and then he used the word chaotic. This is where speculation comes in as to what he means by chaotic. One interpretation is that in addition
to ME1-3 type combat, the game may throw at us environmental chaos (ie: dust storms). I added the possibility of an external player coming into
the fight and choosing a side, as a "chaotic element".

Now, that last bit of speculation is interesting to me.

Sartoz do you have a link for the interview?

Well, if he really does mean PvP, or if it has you competing with other teams, I'm prolly gonna dabble in it but not play too long. If he means that you can drop in and drop out, without a person knowing that they are entering a MP match and thus increasing the size of the MP. Then yeah. I'm all for it.

In terms of planets, I'd expect for them to be all the same. For example, you know how long it took to make it on foot down to the dragon's lair in Storm Coast. Took you fifteen minutes - half an hour, starting at your first discovered location in the upper right. I expect for this game to be no different, except that we'll have the mako, but it sounds as though we're gonna be on some long desolate planets.  Also, the environments in DA:I were no different.  And that was entirely on one world.  

About the leveling, I'd hope that there would be something there that we could pick our class, rather than choose our abilities, and have the game pick our class for us. Choose Reave and Singularity, you're an adept. Choose Adrenaline Rush and Armor Piercing Ammo, you're a soldier. Choose Reave and Armor Piercing Ammo, you're a Sentinel. That kind'a thing.  I am a little bit conflicted over this though.  While it does sound good on paper, I've rarely seen it go down well.   The last time it went down well was Dungeon Siege 1.  And if you got to the upper levels in that game, you saw that most of the builds were useless.

It's possible, but harder.  For example, how would you differentiate soldier from engineer based solely on how you carried a rifle?  Adept from Sentinel based on how you carried a pistol?   You can see my point, hopefully.

I do, but I think you might be overthinking it.

It might just be a simple thing like at a certain point you get a "promotion" and you pick your new class. IF they retain the Mass Effect 3 weapon/power/weight system I think that will make it work.

Being able to include a friend to accompany you on an away mission sounds cool.

Maybe they've done away with classes altogether, as the game proceeds you get choices of what powers and ammo you get access to...

I second this notion.

Thanks Scarlett!


Huh. Guess our Ryder will have ownership of the Tempest after all. Cool!

More Prothean info? This oughta be interesting.

This is more than i was expecting from the other thread. Thought i had already read it. Whoops. 

I would be absolutely shocked if we got a PvP mode. The balancing for PvP is so much more important than PvE (bots don't complain). They could never balance things like Stasis.. even Overload would be really broken in PvP unless they give us regenerating health. So.. worry not little single player snowflakes..