Omni Tool - What Functions and Features Do You Want to See/Add (update)

It is an established aspect of lore and you are missing something concerning the way it's supposed to work. Like with the Tech Armor, the hologram is just a safety precaution to alert the user and those around him.

"Largely unused prior to the Reaper invasion" is the only point you can argue. Their justification for the omni-blade in MEA is probably that the tech is already there and it looks cool.

I realise it could potentially be super clunky depending on implementation, but I wish more of the UI/menus were based on the in-game omni-tool, like with the Pip-Boy in Fallout/the holo-displays in Dead Space. So, when you open up your inventory or whatever, the camera zooms in on Ryder's omni-tool, which then displays everything that'd generally be in the out-of-game UI.

Give me some sensors for movement, heat signatures, live-signs etc. (to display in a mini-map but also in the tool for a larger radius, so I can plan my approach before rushing in guns blazing!)

Let me monitor character health

Give me night-vision, infrared and radar/sonar (also to be projected in the helmets hut)

Let me call "home" (the nexus, the ship etc.) via the omni-tool (with the ship as a relay if you are calling the nexus!)

Give me a decoy-hologram (or one that attacks - Fallout: New Vegas (Dead Money!) style!)

greetings LAX

PermTrouble Cirvante lance "Ryder" Wilson : I thought that the lore was the omnitool did fabricate a blade and suspended it using mass effect fields, i thought i remember reading it was even monomolecular, and that the omnitool could be "overclocked" by engineers/sentinels/etc to do different things, some prefering to suspend fuel in the mass effect field to burn things on contact, others used electricity to damage shields overcharge style.

here from the same wiki article quated earlier (http://masseffect.wikia.com/wiki/Omni-tools): The most common melee design is the "omni-blade," a disposable silicon-carbide weapon flash-forged by the tool's mini-fabricator. The transparent, nearly diamond-hard blade is created and suspended in a mass effect field safely away from the user's skin. Warning lights illuminate the field so the searing-hot blade only burns what it is intended to: the opponent.

More technically adept soldiers frequently modify their omni-tools to maximize stopping power through electrical, kinetic, or thermal energy. Some troops integrate their weapon with their kinetic barriers, transforming the omni-tool into a wrist-mounted bludgeon; others fabricate flammable gases, held in place by a mass effect field and ignited upon impact. All prove deadly surprises for opponents who expect a disarmed Alliance warrior.

to the OP: if the omnitool can do this, it should also be capable of launching the blades or otherwise spikes, or molotov fuel packs, or maybe disruptor-tech blasts similar to geth colossus siege pulses but less powerful. id also like to see a holo-armor buckler shield. i think i remember seeing all of these things in the trailers. i dont care for the scanning thing it looks really tedious, but worse it really annoys me when they give you tech that only works for certain missions and doesnt work otherwise it kind of takes me out of the game... like the footprint scanning thing, if i was unable to see my own footprints or scan enemy footprints later in the game that would annoy me.

I'm familiar with how it was written off, my point is that the art of the weapon itself makes it look as if its actual hologram instead of a fabricated material

Omni-tatto amp
Omni-Camera amp
Omni-toothbrush amp
Omni-bypod for my Omni-knife

It'd be nice if it could record video of events, so that when you encounter something like, oh say a sapient Spaceship or an ancient VI, a video recording could be used to convince the rest of the galaxy.

When ME1 was released, it might have made sense that Shepard didn't have a video recorder with him at all times. Would be a lot harder to convince people of that now in 2017, since most gamers now carry a video recorder with us at all times.

i'd like an omni shield.

Ah ok.
So I take it you mean something akin to Fallout 4 radio stations?
Also to note that spotify thing is easier with any PC's media player: VLC, Real, Winamp, MPC Black Edition, ect.
All of these can be used to play your own music files while a game is running.

Mini-games are confirmed?
Ok.
That is it.
Good-bye.
...Ok not going yet... if as you say they not that intrusive... or at least we do not want them to be.

That game you link no offense but looks like a form of mah-jong -a game I personally never really got into.
If they are going to include a card game I would prefer something simple like maybe Uno or even Solitare.

His sigh is perfect.