ME:A - Nvidia CES 2017 Trailer (Now HQ!)

LOL I call those convenient excuses. Inexperienced Ryder who's not supposed to be a war soldier and in his mid to late 20s has the ability to specialize in all classes and wield every power available to him. This guy puts Shepard to shame. He should've been spearheading the reaper war. Yes lore break for sure.

You are looking at it wrong...Ryder has basic training with combat, biotic and tech abilities. Then, as you play Andromeda, Ryder is gaining experience (level ups) with abilites they use (profiles/skills you invest skill points in).

Edit: As Shepard, you chose your specialization at the beginning of the game (Shepard already had history)
As Ryder, you specialize as you play (Ryder is freshly trained and specializes through their adventures)

Scott and Sara aren't war vets and don't specialize in anything. Just because you can do multiple things doesn't mean you're better than someone because you can do multiple things.



No one in Mass Effect has switched through different classes because there aren't classes in Mass Effect; Classes are a gameplay mechanic and a byproduct of the genre that Mass Effect exists in. As a tech expert, realistically, Tali should be able to do everything the Engineer, Sentinel, and infiltrator can do because she's a tech expert. Gameplay wise, she doesn't due to balance.

A Biotic Shepard would be able to Charge, Nova, Singularity, Warp, Reave, Shockwave, and whatever. But they don't because the gameplay is balanced for it.

Not to mention the very excellent point directly below this sentence.





Bioware has already stated that you get bonuses and benefits for sticking to a more traditional class structure, which goes along with the rationale of them being cross trained and them gaining experience in-game would be representative of them growing in their various skillsets narratively versus Shepard, who'd already carved out their niche and combat style prior to their debut in Mass 1.

The Ryder's have a cleaner slate because they are green. And just like every person who's new, they try a bunch of different things until they settle and get good at whatever they focus on. A Scott and Sara Ryder who swap through biotics, tech, and soldier skills aren't going to get the same experience as a Scott and Sara who focused purely on tech or a tech/soldier balance, represented in-game by players getting bonuses for sticking to a traditional class set for powers.

If past experience is taken into account, I would guess they are being 'mum' on the characters and story because as soon as that happens the entire internet will explode into a shitstorm of complaints about everything imaginable.

If I were them I'd talk about the characters and story the day before release and no sooner! 

Well, that was a bit of a letdown, wasn't it.

Meh on having to go through the main menu to switch profiles.

The combat looked like a very generic spark-fest. Some robot things that make geth/reaper sounds and who despite having a big advantage in numbers seemed like a pushover. That fight was just going through the motions, free of any exciting element. There was one dodge, no use of cover and the enemies remained mostly stationary. Something to get over with, not to look forward to. 

I'm still interested in seeing what story they came up with (and whether they fixed the stuff from previous trailers), but this sure doesn't look like preorder material to me.

Except you missed the fact that bonus powers, or indeed classes as a whole, where obviously products of gameplay/story segregation. We know for a fact that biotic abilities aren't learned by pushing a few buttons on a terminal, instead they are learned through extensive physical and mental training, none of which was present in the games proper. For all intents and purposes there were always two kinds of biotis: 'Lore Biotics' are what we're told through dialogue and the codex and 'Gameplay Biotics' are the powers you actually used in combat. The two did move farther apart as the series went along, culminating with powers specifically designed for multiplayer combat in ME3 which had nothing to do with the orginal lore.

Why would they show THIS on a 'technology convention'? No realistic hair, no complex weather effects, no destructable environments, no badass-looking blasts.
Nvidia can render asteroids and static sand in 2016? Yay! A flamethrower? Nothing spectacular about it, and I'd rather have my old 'omnifireball' to be honest.

Also, I hope that I'm getting it all wrong, because switching from tech to biotic 'on-fly' makes zero sense.

I wonder, how many ME:A trailers were followed by a "this is just a tease, more soon"?

Fine by me. As long as they keep it within the 'basic' range...which is very unlikely, you know.

E.g. I'm a housewife. I have 'basic training' in cooking and gardening. It does not mean that I can switch between being a chef and a cultivator.

You start out with basic. Leveling up and investing skill point in skills is pretty much Ryder getting more experienced with their skills and specializing in skills they like.
Using your example, you have basic training with cooking and gardening, you can invest skill point in either one or both, turning you into master chef but meh gardener, or great cultivator but meh cook, or decent cook while also decent gardener.

Yep, but the game is designed with a controller in mind. So the safe bet is that whatever restriction will be on consoles will be on the pc as well because the gameplay will be designed around those.