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

Honestly biotics always get the short end of the stick, most of them just suck.

Like if you play a tech expert you can face anything. Shields? Np, overload! Armor? Incinerate! Health? Cryo! And it doesn't just stop there powers combo with each other, so you can just spam them one after another for additional damage / effects, all of the powers do solid damage even without bonuses and CC targets. 

If you play a biotic character, anything with shields / armor cancels out the majority of your powers, because biotics have subpar damage on their own unless you perform a biotic combo and they are mostly CC, except for Nova which is a nuke that just destroys everything at the cost of barrier, with that +100% damage to all defensive layers upgrade. Also when enemies are left with only health it usually take a couple of shots to finish them, at that point powers are just overkill. 

The only viable biotic power combo imo is going to be Annihilation / Nova / Charge, because Nova damage + biotic explosion is going to be decent AoE clear. Yes you can do Singularity / Lance / Shockwave, but I think the damage will be subpar compared to alternatives. And Throw / Pull are just useless ''for fun'' powers, as Pull only primes on targets that have no defense layers unlike Annihilation and Singularity that prime on all layers, and Lance / Shockwave does more damage than Throw when it comes to detonations. 

Backlash seems interesting but fits more into a shooter loadout, not a ''caster'', you would probably combine it with Turbocharge on soldier profile. 

Yes really. We see Ryder doing things Shepard could only dream of doing, despite them supposedly more experienced than Ryder who is supposed to be a novice. 

You no longer have to tap a button to enter cover if thats what you mean. Think of it like Tomb Raider or TLoU where you simply run up to cover and you character will automatically hide or duck behind it. Makes things move faster and feel more organic

Seems it didn't took long for the whining to start...

*looks at Ryder literally having Force powers* Even Jack, the strongest human biotic ever, couldn't do some of what Ryder can do biotically. And she had the best tech to support that and went through a childhood of terror to reach that point, whereas Ryder is just that good. 

If you're referring to the Pull/Lift thing, that's the improvement of the gameplay. It has nothing to do with him being better then the previous biotics. Not to mention that Lift was able to hit enemies far, far away and manipulate them in ME, so Shepard's biotics were even more impressive. And in cutscene biotics were already shown to be able to pull and toss people. It's nothing new in terms of biotic abilities established in the lore, they just managed to reduce the gap between it and gameplay.

It just really bugs me. They talk about how much greener Ryder is than Shepard, yet the gameplay does the opposite of showing that. 

The way it's worded it actually kind of sounds like Flare on a smaller scale.

Though they did at one point note Sticky Grenades are now an "advanced version" of the Omni-Grenade, suggesting that some of the old ME3 abilities have been folded into being evolution upgrades. We also see "Snap Freeze" as one of the rank 6 evolutions of Cryo Beam, though it's not certain if it actually acts anything like ME3 MP Snap Freeze.

From the looks of things the 12 is what we're getting, as we can see in the tech ability list one of them says "Unknown" suggesting that it's listing all of the abilities to us but hiding the names of the ones we haven't discovered/researched yet.

Not sure on what exactly the different profile/classes do though beyond adding in some passive bonuses we see in the video. I suppose we'll find that out soon enough.

Don't bother. Hanako just wants a excuse to complain again, be it either a gameplay mechanic for something that everyone knows that biotics can do  (like Javik, Liara, Jack etcetera) or even a small typo in the description...

Other then the progression in the builds will reflect a progression in the story, what should they do? Don't improve on their biotic and tech system?

Make the powers weaker or take more energy and/or make all the enemies stronger. 
To use an example, Halo 3: ODST made the game so that the protagonist still seemed good but was not at a Spartan level. I really liked that and was hoping that it would be something similar when they talked about Ryder being more of a novice compared to Shepard.