OI! [tactical/combat] PAUSE!

Not sure how serious you're being but there is no way in hell that the next ME game in the Andromeda series will be MP only. I can see them introducing co-op into the SP campaign (which might actually be why the removed tactical pause in this game) but there will still be a story with a branching narrative. I can also see them doing a separate MMORPG set in the MEU, but not as part of this particular series.

No, I hadn't read the entire thread when I posted that but I did read the first few posts and the last few. And after reading the entire thread I still don't see why what I wrote was invalid.

The OP specifically said combat pause to help with "shitty reflexes and response time, not even mentioning people who just like to pause to assess the battlefield. " which the combat pause I mentioned (with the time in video so you can see it demonstrated which no one else had posted) will allow you to do. At a minimum you can casually take a break, switch weapons, ammo, powers etc and you can survey the battlefield thinking about what you will do next. And we don't even know the full extent of what can be done.

Is it exactly the same as ME3? No, because the game has been enhanced. You have powers that have different modes. How would powers like the new (and seriously awesome) Pull with grab and throw mode work in ME3 pause mode? It wouldn't. Any powers that involve holding down keys for periods of time fall over. Basic alternate modes like the new Overload would be an awful clutter. Things like Flamer and Dark Sphere wouldn't work in SPer if they were expected to work at all well with the Pause function. How did charge weapons work for players lining up shots? I don't even know but I suspect it would have been a mess. They left the full pause mode in but the game was never designed to be played like that. It was balanced and designed to be played as an action rpg, without any thought at all given to actually challenging excessive pausers. They should not hold back MEA by trying to cater to this group and turning it into something it isn't.

No one complaining here has played the game. You don't know exactly how they have adjusted the tactical squad elements. I will admit that it became a lot more difficult in ME3 because of the squadmate AI, but in ME2 you could command your squadmates in real time very efficiently without any need to pause. In ME3 I fell back on just hotkeying 1 or 2 powers which worked well enough. You don't know how hard it will be or how satisfying on various levels because you haven't played yet.
We have been assured that no one will find the game too difficult on the easiest level.

Motor issues. In ME3 a quadriplegic player soloed Silver and I think Gold playing with a touchscreen and a stick in his mouth. I don't expect all players to have this level of dedication and determination, but assuming easy is as easy as the devs say, complaining about motor issues just sounds like an excuse for 99.99% of players. Definitely not something to hold back the game for.

I wonder if this is something they can patch back in later if there is enough back lash on this. Think of all the things they added for DA I.

...I don't know *shrug*.  For the record I am in the camp of 'it does not really matter either way if they have the tactical pause or not, I'll deal'.  I rarely used it in the trilogy and think its kind of cheating at times...though it was nice from time to time to look around the battlefield because your squadmates are utter failures of design and let someone literally get within centimeters of you.  

But, for those of us who do not like the new system I wonder if there is enough of a backlash if BioWare will add one in later.  I think it should be fairly easy to do too based on the weapons wheel, but, I do not know for sure. 

It's possible I guess but we'll see. I'm not going to count on it though.

I don't see why it would be null and void since it would be extremely tedious. How would Overload work with 2 different modes?

well that could depend on whic hone you have active.

Well thankfully I'm not too worried yet but if I do somehow find it too hard I can definitely say I won't be touching the DLC's or buying any of the future ones if that's the way it ends up heading but I'll wait till I've had some experience with the game first and take it from there. So if it does end up being to odifficult they will at the very least be losing at least 1 customer but I suspect I wouldn't be the only one.

ME3 had charged weapons, like the Arc Pistol. What's the difference?

Exactly ME3 had charged weapons the only difeerence is they've expanded it to powers this time that's all. Also from what I remember a lot of the heavy ammo typ eweapons like the cain and the black hole gun needed charging as wel befoer they fired and that was in ME2 and it worked fine there as well.

I kinda feel bad for players that are going to have to set it to easy to just get through combat, because they just don't have those kind of natural gaming reflexes and quick decision making skills that other gamers have. Those kinds of players were accommodated in the previous trilogy. They could play on a hard difficulty setting, succeed, and feel good about that. It's not that they didn't have gaming skills. They just didn't have the same ones TPS veterans might have and found success via a different more strategical route. 

And make no mistake those people make up a good portion of the gamers/fans ME was originally marketed to and helped make it what it is today with their support and enthusiasm.

Really can't agree with the "git gud" crowd here even though I personally can play fine on Insanity without pausing in ME2/ME3. Definitely sympathize with the people that may be getting left behind with this new direction.