MASS EFFECT™: ANDROMEDA – Gameplay Series #1: Combat

Singularity and Flamer is something I didn't know I needed.

Is it 23/3 yet?

damnit having to wait 2 extra days just because I live in sodding Blighty *grumble*

Just amazing, everything look great.

We have swords.

Cause we are hardcore. Like Eezo baby.

Damn, this was actually amazing.

The only thing that disappoints me are the skills; to clarify, the apparent lack of powers like Reave, or Decoy, or Fortification, Sabotage, Carnage, etc... That really dealt a blow to me, emotionally speaking.

The presence of Annihilation helps alleviate the pain, though.

They had me hooked when Sara used an enemy as a projectile weapon

So much good stuff in that video.

yeah it looks fast and fluid as well so like that and yeah that's why I love playing with biotics mostin the trilogy.It's like I don't need a gun to kill you I can just toss you head first into a bulkhead. Not playing a biotic atm but it's one of the things I love abou tthem an dkind of why I was planning to make my first Ryder one.

I'm definitely content so far. Looks like there's a lot of opportunity for flanking, the jet pack-hovering looks horrifying, yet good for getting around cover.

It's very fast-paced, but, I play Sentinel, so, I force combat to slow down by sheer will and armor. The biotic-people-shield combined with tech armor could be super fun to play around with, keeping my shields up forever and ever.

I'll need to see how to give orders to my companions, though. That's a huge part of how I played in the trilogy.

Good;

-Seems like we'll have a lot of options. At least ten guns per category, a comprehensive amount of skills both old and new, and several armor types as we saw. That's great.

-Plasma weaponry? Unlimited beam weaponry? Class Milky Way weapons (mah Crusader!)? Sign me up, son. Also, Krogan Hammer.

-Biotics and tech skills look awesome. I can't wait to try the Flamer and see what I can make it work with. Combat skills are slightly less flashy, but the deployable cover seems pretty handy. But throwing people around with biotics just seems sooo tempting, too.

-Fluid! Even moreso than ME3 it seems. Stafe, jump, hover, this almost looks like Doom in its movement scheme. Highly pleased.

-Enemy variety seems there; robots, footsoldiers, snipers, mechs and big evil beasties.

The less good;

-AI. Both allies and enemies seemed fairly braindead to be quite honest. Core and Liam standing out in the open looked a bit silly near the end.

-Only 3 skills at once, booo. I assume the Favorites tab will allow us to swap loadouts on the fly, but not in combat. So it's not a dealbreaker, but they could have allowed more than 3. And are passive skills such as weapon damage included in the limit? I sure hope not.

Overall, highly impressed with this. Seems they took ME3's combat and turned it up to 11, which can only mean good things in my books.

Am I imagining thing, or did it look like you could command your squadmates to attack a specific target?

Reposting what I said in the twitter topic:
I was expecting that they would spent more time in the profiles, the most foreign part to the trilogy players. I still have some questions about that.
But, oh man! The biotics are so cool. Pull went from the most boring skill to the one that I'll use most of the time.
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Maybe they'll explain more about the profiles usage in the next trailers.