Cover vs mobility

P.s. Didn't one of the demos have a pop-up tip that told you to take cover?  I think it was the first demo, where we see Drack and Vetra in.

Is it a thing from the past ?

In the last gameplay videos, it seems to me that the character never stops moving in the vast environment, always being an easy target without any cover to help him, taking damage or doing damage as a bullet sponge, it seems a bit messy. I prefer organized, structured, combined actions, careful but intelligent movements to trap and surprise the enemy, ( as a soldier as well ) where my shield is hardly touched, where I hardly take damage, my companions playing a real role, and where I crush my ennemy thanks to, tactics, patience and absolute efficiency, not speed and audacity as a lonewolf. 

Will it be possible to play that way ? So far I've hardly seen the character hiding behind a cover, it's all run and fire in vast places where it seems difficult to find a cover. As a vanguard okay, but as a soldier, this is a bit suicidal. Unless the enemies are very bad at targetting their preys while they have accurate weapons and the difficulty in Mass effet Andromeda is really that bad. I would think that with the hardest difficulty, it couldn't be that easy to play that way without difficulty... It still remain a bit an FPS. 

I'm really hoping that the enemies in Mass effect Andromeda will be offensive, intelligent, disruptive, will take advantage of stupid movements, and it will very hard for us if we commit dumb mistakes on the ground. This isn't funny at all to me to be able to do a lot of things against my enemies without feeling that I have to be careful about how I'm going to kill them.....

Yeah, it's also in the CES trailer, but in that case all it said was "Find Cover!" in the center of the screen, and only after his shield was completely gone; looks like a regular thing.

Whereas in the video you showed it looked more like a "tips and hints" popup, which may be a one-time or occasionally thing.

I rarely use cover in ME3.
Now soft cover, that's an entirely different matter...

Are you kidding me? Most distances you would conceivably travel while sprinting would be trivial for an N7 operative, or even a grunt with genetic augments, power armour etc. that's standard in ME.

Are you expecting crates and walls to be littered everywhere?

We witnessed combat out in the wilderness twice and on some prefab platform where Sara Ryder was a Vanguard and blasting things to hell. And when she Charged up to the upper level, she went into cover for a split second before jumping back down into the fight. Cover is there.

Shield and health gating is irrelevant and unnecessary in a two minute snippet showing off some of the combat mechanics. Nothing in the trailers resemble shield and health gating because:

1. They're not showing everything, evident by how every time they showed off the main menu and tabs within the main menu, they cut out significant chunks of it.

2. No one is going to die in the footage. It wasn't a live playthrough; it was a fast and loud teaser to drum up interest in the gameplay mechanics. Every game does it, every Mass Effect game previous has done it. Watch gameplay demos at E3 and you'll see characters eat attacks left and right, screen flash red, and the character run around, mowing down everything in sight after taking damage well beyond what actually kills them in the final build that we end up playing because they're showing off the flashiness of their combat and mechanics.

They're not showing balance, they're not showing enemy variety and what they do when you do X or what they do to curb you doing Y, they're showing you how cool everything looks while you do it. Consequence of your gameplay actions isn't what these trailers are for, either in Andromeda's case or any game, from Call of Duty to Tekken to Star Ocean to Grand Theft Auto, that's not the point of what they're showing off.

And as it's been the case with every single one of the game franchises I just mentioned, as they do more media and show off more of the gameplay in actual sitdowns of moderate to significant length, they start showing off the enemy tactics and give hints to how people will likely end up playing when God mode isn't enabled so that they can show off some stuff for a trailer that is largely targeted to newcomers to their respective franchises versus diehards who were locked into the purchase the moment the game logo came out.

You don't have to like what you've seen so far, just like you probably didn't like this:



Or this:



Or this:



Everything we've seen so far of Andromeda amounts to what we saw of those games via these trailers.

Are you kidding me? What is most distances?

I meant ingame, by the way, and in that case you almost never go more than 100 meters at a time, which would be nothing for a soldier in the ME verse.

While some character builds are less reliant on cover, for the most part you need to use cover to stay alive in MEA--it's still a core component of our combat design. We've greatly expanded the mobility of the character from ME3, but for most character builds that mobility is intended to help you get from cover to cover more effectively and to have more fun doing it, not to avoid cover completely.

Playing a pure run-and-gun character who's frequently on the move (and/or often airborne) is certainly possible, but you need to specifically build your character for that playstyle if you want it to be effective. And particularly on the higher difficulty modes, it requires a great deal of skill to pull that off.

Hope that helps!