Will the squadmates actually have brains this time.

Did you play Inquisition? It had the worst AI in any EAware game I've played. Varric makes an awful tank BTW lol. But yeah, stupid AI will remain stupid.

If the difficulty level is comparable to the other games, I don't really care too much if the AI is terrible because I don't need companions for the most part. The one thing I hope they are better at in this game is rudimentary trash crowd control. I was in the Collector Ship in ME2 last night at the part where a Praetorian shows up. It is accompanied by like 2 husks and a couple of standard collectors. I died twice in a row because I made the mistake of thinking "okay, I can focus on this Praetorian and surely my squad members can handle 2 husks and 2 collectors." No, no, they can't. They somehow managed to let a husk and both collectors pass both of them and get behind me. Had to manually tell them to mop up the trash with abilities. All I ask is that the AI is not so dumb that it can't handle 2 husks and 2 collectors on its own.

 I use the cain for that part

Also, for people having trouble with Varric, I'm assuming people are giving him stealth abilities, like *lots* of stealth abilities? This doesn't make the AI suddenly brilliant but it does make him much less of a pincushion. My SO was having issues with Varric getting pummeled a lot and I wasn't so much and the only notable difference was he wasn't really building Varric for stealth.

I don't care if you're casual or hardcore, everyone would love to control their squadmates powers. This is a dumb decision. Dumb.

Future Soldier would like to have a word with you.

Lol! I had a different problem but it also included Varric. We would get in a combat situation and Varric would just take off running! It was so frustrating because sometimes enemies would chase after him and there would just be this line of people running and fighting. Thankfully it only happened a few times. Looking back on it always makes me laugh though.

If I wanted to nitpick, I'd say that the enemy shouldn't have moved almost at all, since the weapons in ME are extremely high-velocity railguns with tiny projectiles. The shot should have passed clean-through the target and had them promptly slump to the ground.

On that note, did you know that squadmates in ME3 (and presumably other ME games) have their damage output lowered by a significant amount compared to what the player's is? I hate that kind of thing. It makes them mostly useless. Halo: Reach, and to a lesser extent 5, was also frustrating since you had a team of supersoldiers with you who were artificially gimped by having lower rates of fire and less damage output.

Supersoldiers We have dismissed that claim.

PSA: If you manually give a target to squadmates in ME3, it'll up their damage... for some reason. So if you want your squad at full strength, you have to micromanage them by constantly assigning them targets...  or set their damage to 100% at all times on the PC version

Generally, my approach in games is to take out the least-threatening/easiest-to-kill enemies first, because they can overwhelm you if left unchecked, while the more-threatening/harder-to-kill enemies are much easier to take on one-on-one. For instance, in Halo I'll quickly take out all the grunts, then go for the elite.

Exactly. Removing the option helps no one, while if they left it in, people could always choose to ignore it if they wished. Options are optional after all. It's just like removing tactics in Dragon Age. It doesn't affect people who didn't use them, but it's annoying for people who did. That's a net-loss. I don't get it

Goddamn, I know. That was far and away the most useful team, even without rezzing you.

That game blew my mind then... I've been afraid to go back to it in case it hasn't aged well.

The only downside is the graphics, but mechanically the game is still outstanding. give it a shot