Mass Effect Andromeda Skepticism thread

I'll say this much: It certainly removed a good chunk of my skepticism because the gameplay didn't look rough and strange like in the TGA trailer, which is a sign they either listened or had the extra amount of polish coming anyway. It looks pretty great now. Only a few things left that probably won't change like the rather flat-looking lighting in places and some really awfully warped textures during biotic abilities.

But even the UI looks smooth as it should now.

I couldn't resist it. 
Skepticism is a legitimate position to hold, sorry for the derail. 

Not many, I think.  Most of them are working on the third IP

This is true. CDPR have created a perfect public image and many fans think they're really for the fans and being super generous with free DLC because they're that good as human beings. I admire them because they're a smart company with a total iron-grip CEO who knows what he's doing with his company... but that's where the good news stop becuase there was an anonymous disgruntled employee who posted in the NeoGAF Witcher 3 topic about some supposedly downgraded graphics that people were complaining about, and he basically slandered CDPR's management for extreme and unacceptable work ethics.

People were being put into extreme overtime crunch to deliver on "an overblown vision created by CDPR marketing that did not exist".

In fact, Witcher 3 was cutting it real close. The game was supposed to come out Feb 24 in 2015 but was pushed very late to May instead because basically the game was not testing well in the final months when everything was coming together. The little treasure hunts and minute things you can do in the open-world that isn't story-related is something they added in the last month becuase the game wasn't delivering as an open-world game and they also overhauled the visuals in incredibly short time.

People were whipped on their backisdes in the last months of making that product.

I think BioWare's problems are slightly different since it sounds like it's more keeping employees in check and upper management communicating that seems to be the problem whereas CDPR just has a really inhumane upper management that knows they're basically paying people to be developer-slaves.

Profiles appear to be passive bonuses.

I'm talking about active powers, like cloak, singularity, overload, etc.  

How easy are those to switch out?

Yes, they switch out, but how quick/easy is it to do so? Can you do it in combat? If so, does the game pause while you do so? Does it mess with cooldowns? Does switching powers itself have a cooldown?  Can you use a primer power, then switch out to a detonator?

"in the field" =/= "in combat"  I can swap and remap active powers in the field in DAI, but if I want to switch out a power in the middle of a fight, I'm SOL.

So yeah, I'm waiting until the next video and they SHOW US what's possible before I say anything.  "Trust us, it'll be awesome" hold no water for me.

You can set up loadptus of powers to be saved though. The system seems to be based on the fact of swapping powers in combat.
I do think it's fine to wait until a complete confirmation. I just think it's clear based on this and the recent tweets on the topic.

Just saw the 5 min gameplay vid. The graphics look really good, combat is familiar. Skill trees look interesting too. Story wise, nothing on that of course. Impression : looks good. That's all at the moment.

CD had to get their product out as quickly as possible for monetary reasons. Otherwise the game needed an extra year. You realize how much story and side content they cut out because the game was getting to big? They cut out iroveth who originally had a role similar to Roche and loads of side quests involving him. Roche also had quests that were cut and the political storyline was halved hence why it's the weakest narrative in the game.

Certainly makes the Andromeda Initiative people seem incompetent for allowing these kinds of people along in the first place.

Wild hunt invading novigrad was rewritten to the skellige final assault because of weak consoles not being able handle the taxing requiment of the whole city going up in flames. I don't think the console can even handle novigrad all to well at a stable 30fps.