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

I admit I'm a bit saddened by its removal, but after years of playing multiplayer for this game and Destiny, I'm pretty much conditioned to run through combat completely in real time. 

yeah it's going to be a chasllenge but then I played my first few runs of the trilogy using hotkeys and managed OK. My only issue is can I direct my powers accurately? Hopefully I cvan if not I'll just set myself up with some Vintage Heat sink weapons and see what I can do there. I'm not to woirried and I think I can manage it It'll just mean I'll have to think and act fast. I've got an idea of how I can configuer my keyboard to do it though it's just a case of practice and trying it out. I admit I'd have preferred pause to aim to stay but the fact that there is actually less powers active at one time might in a sense make it easier as well to do it faster as there's less buttons to map. Plus I believe Ian said that powers can work on a toggle or on a hold. If I have it set to toggle I can leave it on until I'm ready to fire or something like that. For example asan Adept I use pull  to grab my enemy leave it toggled on til I'm in position then press the throw button to throw at the bad guys something like that. Interesting idea and a way I think I can play it. Just depensd on how accurate I'd have to be with the usage of those powers.

Trying to force people into a more action-oriented play style by removing a feature is ridiculous reasoning though, in my opinion (I am not claiming they made such an argument).  I'll hold off judgement until playing the game of course, but I see feature removal (or the all too common "clean up" the UI by gutting features nonsense that plagues modern UI design) as a huge problem in modern design.

In particular I recall loving slamming into enemies as a vanguard in ME2 and seeing everything paused in a perfect snapshot of time as I planned my next move. It was an almost turn-based feel, and it fit well to emphasize this is an action RPG series and not a straight up shooter to me.  There is a ton of information I need to read up on, but while I'd be very annoyed if that kind of pausing is gone I think I'll be much more annoyed if commanding the squad is watered down to the point it's impossible to give specific commands. Again I'm not judging in advance, but the worst case scenario for me would be the elimination of the instant snapshot pause and the gutting of squad commands.

If SMGs are now categorized as [machine] pistols can we still carry both an SMG and Pistol (i.e. Acolyte and Hurricane) at the same time?

Is it confirmed that they removed pausing during combat? If so: WHY THE FUCK. Hello? Bioware? It's me. Your friendly neighborhood person with peripheral neuropathy. You know how you like inclusivity, ostensibly? A great way to facilitate that is to NOT REMOVE combat pause during single player.

Stupid.

We can. 2 pistols, or 2 assault rifles too if we want to.

Force was there from ME1. It was used for physics based powers.

For example: Throw - Throws enemies away from the caster with a force of 600 Newtons.

You're right.

I think people should be clearer when they talk about pause. Again, we can pause, and pop pu a weapon/ammo wheel with other features. What we can't do is aim, and use powers. Not sure how squad commands work.
And yeah, I don't like this choice, but you can still pause the game in a non-menu way.

It's possibleI don't remember but I was on the old BSN as well before it shut down. I do have a plan in mind that might help with this more action style anyway. I just use the arrow keys for my movement as normal. the Delete,End and Pg down buttons for the 3 active powers and the Numpad buttons 2,4,6 and 8 to cycle through the 4 favourite sets and I'm done I think. As long as I can configure the buttons into a close proximity to one another I'll be fine as doing this will make it easier. This is what I've got in mind after watching the latest vid. I'm hoping it works but one of the nice things about gaming on PC and why I do mostly game on PC is your pretty much free to set the controls up anyway you want. Which certainly can help to counter things like the no pause to aim. I'm not saying it is going to work but seeing as I do only play on the easier settings there'sa chance I should be OK given that Bioware's games aren't generally super hard.