You can't choose which abilities your squadmates use, only direct who they should attack

I prefer DAO or DA2, where you can specify what conditions a power is used.

Three or more enemies clustered together?  Use an AOE.
Enemy has debuff X on them? use power Y to set off a combo.
If an ally is at X% health, heal them.

And so on.

Thankfully we can order them where to go, but yeah, I hope it'll work better.

I agree.  If Bioware had just stuck with what they've done before... the combat in ME2 and ME3 would have just been a complete repeat of ME1... no combos, no ability to direct your squad mates to separate cover points, no dark channel, no reave, no shadow strike, no sentry turret, etc.  Yes, this game is going to play a lot differently than the Trilogy... and I'm glad for that because... why should I spend $100 to buy a new game that's essentially the same as another one I already have?  If I'm craving any of the old combat ways, I can just pop in one of those older games and play them for a bit instead... and when I'm playing the new one, it's a whole different set of challenges.

I can understand the concerns about accessibility by people with certain disabilities.  I share some of those concerns, but it's not evident yet whether the game will introduce something else that's different that makes the game still accessible.  We won't know until we can see/play the entire package.

this doesn't make sense

if you want a squadmate to use a technical power to destroy shields of an enemy, and you can only give the order to attack him, the squadmate will only shoot or use any other powers and not the necessary one
ridiculous

or you want to use some biotic power, and he/she just shoots :s

Well, you're more dedicated than I.  I've never considered pre-ordering the game.  I'll wait to see what the reviews are after released.  If that's not enough, I'll even watch some YouTubers play bits of it before I decide anything... and yeah, that spoils some of the story (but it beats buying a game I don't like).  For me, this change MIGHT indeed make the combat too difficult or just not very fun... I'm old, my hands have arthritis and my eyesight and refexes are not what they once were.  I'll just have to wait to judge that though... just like I had to judge whether I could play ME1 or whether or not the changes they made in ME2 suited me or the changes in ME3 suited me, etc.  Each one of them has been different... but none of them, so far, at least have been impossible.  I also do play games that don't pause their combat, and I do OK with those.  They usually do other things differently that makes their combat still manageable for me.  I don't know what Bioware has in mind, but I suspect this game will not be impossible for me to play... I might just have to play it at an easier difficulty.

Even so, there is enough of this game that is "Mass Effecty" for them to warrant using the name.  No single feature defines what a Mass Effect game is or is not.. not even the power wheel.  As I said before, if they didn't use the name, then there would be people offended by them not using it and still using a "Mass Effecty" art style, or "Mass Effecty" weapons, or that the nomad and Tempest resemble the mako and Normandy or a myriad of other little details that do make this undeniably a game related to the old Mass Effect Trilogy.  It's just not a sequel and it's not a duplicate/remake of the old games themselves.

Well it was apparently too complicated for you along all of us during the trilogy since they didn't implement it there as well 
ME was always lackluster in certain rpg features compared to DA. It's how they designed the IP from the start, to be more action compared to the latter.
I said before I don't like this choice, but where you seriously expecting them to return the tactics system of DAO/DA2...in a ME game?  I mean, it'd be a nice surprise if they did it, or they'd in a future game, but it's not something I'd bet on.

Ian Frazier on twitter gave some information on loadouts and combos:




This spreads a bit more light on the issue of why control over which powers squadmates use was removed. It definitely sounds like part of it is because they want to keep the flow of combat moving. We've definitely seen so far that combat is even more fast paced and fluid than ME3. I think we'll get some answers with the previews tomorrow, and the next Bioware Gameplay vid on Friday.

I seriously hope the part about more visible squadmates is true, and that it means they're more involved.

On the subject of balance, when trying to balance or re-balance combat the easiest thing to tweak first is the health/defenses of enemies/the player and the amount of damage weapons/skills do. That's all just numbers. It can take some doing to get right, but it's just numbers.

Creating favourites, profiles, and a system without squad commands is one heck of a lot of work. A ridiculous amount of work. It's the entire combat mechanic.

It's far more likely that the decision to drop the power wheel and squad power commands was made very early on when they were deciding exactly what they wanted the feel of combat to be like, and we already know that they took their inspiration from the ME3 multiplayer (and that MP team is the SP team for MEA). Profiles and favourites are significant changes to what we've had before, and it will have been all mapped out early in development and iterated on as time went on.

So it won't just have been "fights will be too easy if people can do squad combos easily" because the easiest way to control whether a fight is too easy is to balance health/defenses, and weapon and skill damage. Rather it would likely be more about a design vision - which is essentially what Ian says above.

Does removal of the "pause" feature make this much less and RPG and much more an Action game? I'm gonna miss it ugh. I'll try to be open to being pleasanty surprised, but, strategy in general is dumbed down if you can't pause.

The first part was a joke.