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

I'm starting to think that the nexus thing is simply a multiplayer score thing based on what you do in MP rather than SP and won't effect SP at all. Especially as Ryder in these vids appears to be higher levelled in order to show off their capabilities and powers. Obviously I could be wrong but that's my feeling atm.

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.

I though it had more to do with the progress in building the Nexus itself. We know it's only half complete, arriving in Andromeda. I woudn't be surprised we have to secure ressources to complete it, sort of like the Keep in DAI.

I'm starting to think that the nexus thing is simply a multiplayer score thing based on what you do in MP rather than SP and won't effect SP at all. Especially as Ryder in these vids appears to be higher levelled in order to show off their capabilities and powers. Obviously I could be wrong but that's my feeling atm.

I really liked what I saw from the combat trailer. It seems to be that the combat fits the whole exploration and more open world feel that they are going for. It seems like they took the ME2 and 3 combat and made it from a more traditional slower paced third person shooter (which fit the linear and confined settings), to being a very fluid and faster paced third person shooter which would fit more. I also like how all the weapons and abilities are open to try (which are fits the more open world vibe), as you can try everything out and change how you want combat to go.

WTF?...
Enemy anarchists (they look like sentinels to me) have not health bars?...only armor?
How is this possible, they're not organic?

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If we look at Mass Effect 3 a lot of the Reaper faction had armour bars and were considered organic. In the MP, Cerberus Dragoons also got armour and were organic.

So armour isn't just for synthetics.

Nice to see enemies using abilities though, even if it's just a passive Tech Armour.

Oh dear god please tell me that weapon upgrade is not based on RNG crap and that we can just buy them


I fucking hate grinding for that kind of shit

It depend whether you speak of SP or MP. I assume MP, of which we know nearly nothing, yet.

For SP, we know that we don't upgrade a IV to a V, but rather purchase or craft a V independently.