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

Which never made much sense to me since by the time the Reapers invaded the Avenger was still predominantly featured with Alliance soldiers, military in general, and even Shepard.  The mere fact the weapon was apart of a pre order bonus, and a part of the DLC expansion Omega, never made much sense in that regard either.  Probably just another one of those pesky errors in gameplay and story segregation.  

And I am one of the weird ones because I tend to play my soldier Shepard (the one who runs around with the Valk) as more of a caster then any of my otherl...erm...profiles .  And she is running around with a Valk, Viper, and Talon with level V, pistol ultralight materials and am running 72 % in the blue for power weight. 

Hopefully we will see, how much we can focus on melee weapons and combat. It would be awesome if going full melee would be a working build for Ryder (and not only for Liam).

So another Scott trailer?

This is what I hope this vid tomorrow or series of vids that start tomorrow will answer. I know I want answers as I need to figure out how to play my Adept and make it work as I was going to make my first Sara an Adept. This is not going to be easy to accomplish if I can only access 3 powers from that class/profile. I know you can switch but that's part of it too how do we switch and use other abilities as well. They have said you can do this in combat but they haven't shown how yet.

From the twitter thread there is again no crouch button.

I really hate that as a design decision, it's so limiting. Couple it with the autocover and I very much have dampened enthusiasm. I disliked the lack of the option in me2, and me3 coupled with the omnibutton made it even worse.

Are you a PC user or a Console user? 

Regardless it does sound like, at least from a controller point of view, you are trying to have your cake and eat it too.  You claim in an above post that the 3 power limit is 'worrying', you want a crouch button, and you do not want a 'one button does everything' approach from ME 2 and ME 3.  There is only so much room on a controller (or a PC for that matter but a PC does have a few more buttons) to put in all these features and since even a lot of PC users use controllers these days it does make sense for BioWare to keep that in mind. 

PC. I am used to using different buttons for actions, as well as the additional buttons on my mouse.
I don't see why you could not have alternate control schemes; or just use the power wheel if you are on a controller (yes I know they have scrapped it).

Does anyone know if we have a holster button again? Or is that still gone.

It's funny how ME1 managed to have all for this.

Just only really checked the first page...19sec vid, or have I missed something...

ME 1, while it had 'room for all of this' was one hell of an awkward control scheme, and for controllers on the console versions it had only one hot keyed power, no button for quick save, and no button for cover, that is something like 4 buttons they saved from ME 1 to ME 2 contoller lay out which for a PS4 contoller is pretty huge. 

I mean don't get me wrong I want a cover button too and I want a button that lets me holster my weapons(I really hope for the last one actually), but I also understand that there are resource limitations and BioWare, I don't think, can make everone one hundred percent happy.  Besides, resource limitations are one of the things that makes games fun because if you had a controller which could do everything it would be boring, fast. 

Weapon holstering confirmed.  I think it's in the 101 questions with Mac Walters by game informer.  The quick save button just dumb.  Do autosave and let us quick save from the start menu.

I agree about the Mattock/Harrier. Between ME2 and 3, the Mattock and then Harrier are pretty much my Shep's exclusive primary weapons and then one of the heavy pistols and that's it. I never really cared for using the shotgun on the Vanguard in ME3.

I'd very much like to know how they're going to explain the Piranha without some serious retcon. In fact I'm predicting retcon.

Like, we have the Reegar and the Falcon, but not the Claymore? no, that's 100% not possible. I think all ME2 weapons will make it, and quite a few ME3 weapons, if not all.