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

Not saying this is you, but here's the situation we're in:

Scott trailers:

"Waaaaaaah they're showing Scott again! They said they'd be fair to both sexes by showing Sara!"


Sara trailers:

"Waaaaaah Sara's face looks weird!"

That is not me for sure, I find Sara quite beautiful, well all the female characters till now seem hot to me so....

I'm still confused everyone is talking about how ugly Sara is instead of admitting it's because the animations in the TGA trailer is what made her look like ass. She looks totally fine, just a bit perky and as if she's got spunk, but any real game footage thus far has showed a woman with soulless eyes and a "Why so serious" grimace and there is something seriously wrong with the mouth animation system they've created in the "All I see are the bodies they left behind" and "Just tell me where I can find him and there won't be any trouble" lines. Also her eye tracking fucks up in one line in the TGA trailer.

They have to have polished and iterated on the entire tech behind the animations as well as improved the animation by hand. It's not good enough when her eyebrows don't even move. There's zero emotion on her face without proper eye-eyebrow movement, and her mouth is too wide whenever she talks. That's what they need to fix.

Not confirmed.  Mostly speculation from watching the gameplay video.  The powers are right as you could see the button allocations.  I'm guess the sprint is L3 because I know the Jet pack is allocated to X or the old sprint button.  Given the combat is in more wide open areas and you need to be able to control the camera (right analog) and sprint to be fluid and accurate.  The ability to take cover is also just by pressing forward on the analog stick so having the movement, sprinting, and cover all in place also makes it more fluid so you can still sprint into cover.  I could be completely wrong but that's my speculation.  

I'm sure they'll have alternate controls.

i live  60km away from Bioware Montreal's offices. 
But i can't see what they're doing . 

I really like the xbox elite for those paddles so I don't have to press in thumbsticks.  Not sure if ps has a similar option available tho

Hells Yeah!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

Well, apparently not since my position has been heavily contested in this thread.
Thanks though.

Of course everyone wants to see those things just quibbling over the specific order.

Agreed. Everyone keeps throwing up disingenuous smoke screens every time it's brought up, though. Someone says the rendering is ass, and they're accused of shallow sexism. It's pretty asinine.

The fact is that BioWare chose to cast a woman most would describe as sexy. This isn't really important. The relevant fact is that their rendering of this model looks nothing like the model, nor very lifelike. Scott looks pretty much like his model, I think, and more lifelike.

Will Sara look terrible in game? I don't know. These pics for character kits, and the like, are terrible. In-game scenes look much better. Either way, it won't matter, since I have the CC to adjust her appearance to my tastes. I've never used the prerendered female lead when offered a CC. I only used Sheploo because his textures were untouchable, and I liked his look.

I hope they switch between Scott and Sara for the combat trailers too.

As for combat mechanics, I'm crossing my fingers that, if you specialized in powers from one profile (like, say, Soldier), that you aren't more limited than someone who goes between multiple profiles. Not eager about being limited to three active abilities (+ the profile special ability), but maybe the different "firing" options they talked about will make it feel less limited.

Then the question is whether or not there are any decent schemes that don't use L3 for sprint... Most games only seem to have a couple of preset layouts that are reasonably intuitive.

L3 will be used for something, regardless of the scheme. If it's an action that only needs to be done out of combat - like scanning or weapon holstering, for instance - then that might work.