Control All Party Members thread

One thing I love about DA series is you can play as anyone in your party. Its a right Godsend.

AI in ME games has been... lacking. If they could simply make it like DA where you can play as anyone in your party this will give a ton of control for mistakes in AI. Example: Teammate fights out in the open. Control character put them behind cover. Hold position. The AI sees they are behind cover and adjust to make them actually take cover and play like a normal person would in combat.

I get that you can direct where the teammates go, but that is both tedious (because its hard to get it right while you are trying not to get shot) and doesn't allow them to hold position (as far as I am aware) And if it automatically makes them hold position they you have to constantly reposition them based on where the enemies are. I say this based on the trailers we have seen where its not so much bad guys on one side and your team on another.

Also, you could use one character to revive another (Like PC). Mass Effect does the whole "if main character dies, its game over" and I don't like that, its not realistic or immersive. Battle should go one as long as you have someone alive IMO.

I'd like to at least see improved AI if not making it like DA.

Agree or Disagree?

P.S. I think they handled AI in DA:I quite well so IDEK if its going to be an issue.

Really?!?

I'm genuinely curious as to why.  It's never been forced on anyone - you could always ignore it if you wanted to and play entirely in real time, a la MP.  All removing it does is force the 'other half' into a different playstyle.

Honestly, the apparent lack of tactical pause is the gameplay issue I am most concerned about.  To my knowledge this is the first ever Bioware RPG without it.

I don't care for it. In Mass Effect, I got to BE Commander Shepard because Shepard was the only one I controlled. I like that style. I don't actually want to play as other party members. I only found it useful in DA:I when a glitch could be solved by switching to a character who could shoot energy to kill an enemy that fell between cracks and prevented me from moving onward. That could also be dealt with by allowing a console command to cause an enemy to die, like in Skyrim and Fallout.