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

No, I think they are just showcasing how dynamic the combat is from previous ME games.

It looks fun to me, but I certainly won't be using it all the time.

For SpecOps, at least. We never really got a look at any other designations. This would be a case of expanding lore, rather than rewriting it.

The Codex tells us. 

Systems Alliance: N7
The Alliance Military Vocational Code system classifies the career path of all serving personnel. The MVC consists of one letter and one number. A soldier's MVC indicates proficiency, not rank. The letter notes career path; the number indicates level of experience, as indicated by service record, technical scores, and commendations. All 26 letters are used, and numbers run from 1 to 7. N is the letter code for Special Forces personnel.

They're probably all burned off by now after Mass Effect 3

I don't know if this has been addressed yet, since I'm playing catch-up...

This is definitely not what the lore says. That's not how the system works.

N7 is a Systems Alliance Military Vocational Code. "N" designates the Special Operations vocation. Different letters designate different vocations. If "C" is also an Alliance vocational code, we'll maybe learn which one it is, soon. The number designation is the proficiency rating. "7" is the highest proficiency rating in the SpecOps vocation. I guess many of us had always assumed that 7 was the highest proficiency rating across all vocations, but that doesn't necessarily have to be true.

Shepard's N7 designation was not his rank. It was his vocation and proficiency rating. He was SpecOps of the highest proficiency rating. (David Anderson had also earned N7 designation, and was the first ever to do so.) Shepard's rank was Commander. Make sense?

Combat and traversal. It may sure look annoying and "show-off" in the videos, but you all will be glad as hell its in the game when actualy playing and having to move around, in or out of combat. Shepard's feet being plastered to the ground was not much fun

Another aspect of the combat gameplay, is to me at least, the replayability factor of it all.

The sheer variety and options to choose from in how we play is wonderful.

Also I know its combat focused, but there isn't near enough praise for the gorgeous looking planets the gameplay is set on

I'm well aware of the codex. Like I said, they can expand the lore in tiny ways without crashing the franchise. A system with nonuniform numbers really doesn't make sense, to be honest, but I'm trying to make it palatable.

It's entirely possible that C8 is not an official Alliance vocational designation. The AI is not Alliance, even if they mimic it in certain ways, methods and structures.

"Expand". At least call it what is: retcon. 

Well, and that pretty much the entirety of its leaders are from the Alliance. And the fact there is an Alliance fleet that guards the Nexus and Arks during construction and while in the Milky Way. Yeah, I'm not sure the Alliance is involved at all in the AI. 

Please dear god someone who goes on twitter ask the staff if they fixed the N7 crusader firing glitch because I saw it right there on the screen and I just vanguard-gasmed all over the place

The problems were on Liam as well though.