Favorites Wheel. The new power wheel for 12 powers.

Mike said this on twitter: 
there are hotkey to access it. Maybe the d pad on console.

It's kinect gestures. Pat your head and rub your tummy for weapons. Downward dog for favorites.

If Jockey is right i wonder what this could mean for game development as a whole that they can add something this major, so late in production.

This is what I think.  I never understood building hype months in advance.  Hype can only get so much and then you are paying to try and maintain hype (impossible, always tapers off to a degree) for a long time.  I think they made very little changes to the game since the fall because the game is ready and have just been polishing.  I believe it was delyaed to get it out of the bloated 2016 holiday season (really good idea considering how everything underperformed) and to get it further away from the bad taste in space exploration gamers mouth caused by No Man's Sky (probably the main, and best reason.  That game has been cited as a large reason in the underperformance of holiday sales due to making gamers more cynical and sharing part of a genre would not help).

I'm glad you provided the pics. [Edit: Shoot. Still missing that skill selection screen. I thought it was here. I know it's in the thread.] It looks to me as if Barrier is a passive upgrade to our existing shields. PCs with this passive might go from having the blue "shields" bar to the purple "barrier" bar. For PCs, there has never been a true distinction, anyway. I believe this is just a way to permanently boost our defenses.

That would beg the question of whether powers like Fortification and Defense Matrix still exist. If so, they could not also be stackable passives, or always-on invincibility would be a legitimate thing. Maybe they go back to being active powers? Perhaps they no longer exist? Maybe I'm wrong about Barrier? (I doubt the latter, given it's clear description and passive status.)

Some stuff likely won't be clear until we get to play.

Cool thread, TaliWhacker , and all who have contributed. This one should be fun to engage in and track.

Yes, you could be right. Although, I think lorewise it would make more sense if it was actually the opposite. (Not that I'm saying it is wrong!!)

See it from this perspective: Biotics spends a lot more energy than a "regular" person.
They have to eat more, sleep more. Using these kind of abilities take a toll on the person long term, so it makes sense to me that maintaining a barrier during combat needs a lot more concentration.

So, for a person that have access to both biotics and tech powers, it would actually make more sense if they utilize protection to the max from tech powers and focus their biotics for damage or other things that are not "permanent". 

At least, that's what I always had in mind for why sentinels in the trilogy used shields instead of barriers. Vanguards and Adepts are talented with biotics, so naturally their barriers would've been a better protection than ordinary shields.
At least, it was what I assumed.

Now, again, I'm not complaining that barriers will be the "upgraded" version of protection, it doesn't go against the lore, it was just more reasonable to me, that the opposite was the better solution.

I guess barriers are indeed that much stronger. And it looks cooler anyway! 

I think they confirmed that you can in fact take more than one of the same weapon type. One of the earlier trailers showed two shotguns in the weapon wheel too!

Yes. They confirmed on twitter as well - you can take 4 assault rifles if you want.

Well that is awesome, especially for a combat focused class. Expect to see the best combat builds having a duplicate of the highest DPS remnant weapons equipped then. Swap on overheat, rinse and repeat.

No problem. You've been right about most things so far it seems, so I wouldn't be shocked if you were right about this too!

*crosses fingers for warp/reave as a bonus power*

Also the issue of weight to consider. 4 of the same gun? Is it worth the ability to swap?