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

I'm sorry I may have missed this, why can you only have 3 abilities loaded? That sucks!

Nope. It definitely still plays like the OT in that regard (much to my relief). You should probably review the trailer.

Speaking as somebody who was looking forwards to doing a pure 'adept' play-through first I'm starting to get a little concerned about the seeming lack of variety of biotic powers in single player. I thought I'd be able to construct the kind of character I wanted but that's impossible without Warp, Reave, Dark Channel, Stasis, etc. Not even cluster grenades? No lash or smash. Half the powers are missing, what a gimped selection if this turns out to be the case. What is the point of having a shotgun on an adept build without warp?

(not including Annihilation *Field* as new because it's not new to me) but only 12 in total including 2 passives, 2 vanguard powers and barrier.  I wasn't expecting some of the more outlandish ones like Dark Sphere or Biotic Flare but on first impressions this looks frustrating limiting to me.

BioWare pitching the mix and match approach fine but why would I pick powers from another skill tree if you're going to purposely nerf their effectiveness for me choosing the adept profile. I wouldn't because that would be a waste of time on the higher difficulties.

If this turns out to be the case I think i'll skip biotics in single-player and wait for multiplayer to see if there's more variety there.

Speaking as somebody who was looking forwards to doing a pure 'adept' play-through first I'm starting to get a little concerned about the seeming lack of variety of biotic powers in single player. I thought I'd be able to construct the kind of character I wanted but that's impossible without Warp, Reave, Dark Channel, Stasis, etc. Not even cluster grenades? No lash or smash. Half the powers are missing, what a gimped selection if this turns out to be the case. Any half decent biotic based weapon-build needs Warp imo.

(not including Annihilation *Field* as new because it's not new to me) but only 12 in total including 2 passives, 2 vanguard powers and barrier.  I wasn't expecting some of the more outlandish ones like Dark Sphere or Biotic Flare but on first impressions this looks frustrating limiting to me.

BioWare pitching the mix and match approach fine but why would I pick powers from another skill tree if you're going to purposely nerf their effectiveness for me choosing the adept profile. I wouldn't because that would be a waste of time on the higher difficulties.

If this turns out to be the case I think i'll skip biotics in single-player and wait for multiplayer to see if there's more variety there.

We do it by completing the fetch quest objectives.

You can always just headcanon it that the jetpack has the capacity to detect a world's gravity and adjust power and mass effect fields accordingly.