One month left, still no gameplay demo

True but not the quick orders of squad abilities and nor the ability to set that up tactically in a pause mode. These are the very iconic combat features I've come to know very well from the Mass effect games. It's unfortunate it is no longer a part of it... hope they take the time to really explain the new flashy system in this video, it really looks to me in my opinion that they are trying to draw in a new crowd to the universe. Which is cool and all but with what information we currently have not a direction I imagined mass effect would of gone. Enough with the stream lining

Here's the problem I'm having. ME2 and most especially ME3 were clearly action heavy shooters. We can all agree on that I would think. But we also had the ability to pause, bring up a menu, and issue commands.The more I think about it however, the more open I am to the idea of getting rid of those. The only times I relied on the powers of my Squad, is during the higher difficulties, and when I did, I had to bring up the command menu a lot. So basically the flow of battle would go like this:

5 seconds of shooting
Command menu
3 seconds of shooting
Command menu
0.5 seconds of shooting
Command menu
10 second of shooting
Command menu
0.5 seconds of shooting
Command menu

You get the point.

So even though I did like issuing commands for my squad to use powers, it did break up the flow of combat. The fact is, we won't truly know whether or not we'll like this change, until we get our hands on the game and play for ourselves. I don't think who we choose as our squadmates "won't matter". There will obviously be a difference between Cora and PeeBee, because as a Vanguard, Cora will be charging in a lot, while PeeBee is more likely to keep distance. Drak for example will obviously be a tank that helps draw fire from Ryder. So it's things like this that lead me to believe this probably won't be a detraction.

As far as I know we've yet to learn anything in-depth about just how the squad orders and abilities work, which is what this week's video is supposed to be about(as well as some other things).

Given that combos are making a return, I see no reason why they wouldn't allow us to command squad members to use abilities on the fly.

Just because we haven't seen it yet doesn't mean it's not there.

It's been confirmed we cannot do exactly that

wouldnt expect anything less from the company who made the worst games ever. this is a fitting way for them to promote their garbage game.

bioware

I read these threads for this comment.

I would love some more gameplay. Preferably soon. Very soon. But with some crafting, and dialogue wheel action (so much combat gameplay, and about half a second of the dialogue wheel in total so far).

Just 27 more days and I can just play the whole game through myself. I still find it hard to believe that ME:4 is finally being released...

This is true...I believed the only time i remember issuing commands was in the tutorial stage in the beginning of ME2 with Jacob....I think i might have used the option a few other moments in the game, but it was rare. The characters were pretty capable for the most part. With the way the action looks in Andromeda (more fast paced) hopefully your teammates will be up to the task and capable of using their powers and implementing tactical attacks/schemes without you having to tell them to do anything.

That said, i understand how some would still want this feature, as we all know that while AI in general has come a long way, AI characters can still stink up tha joint royally when you need them to do something specific that is critical in the game itself. 

But only on Twitter.

Most people will miss that crucial information as it get's buried in Twitter feed.

I'm with Dutch on this one.

While I'm not expecting a demo, since those are things of the past, the marketing for this game has been fucking terrible. Even Fallout 4 had more marketing than what we have so far.

Sure, the hardcore fans among us will be content with the gameplay and all those tweets etc.

But the newcomers who Bioware wants to attract with this new title will have barely any idea what is going on or that there is even a new Mass Effect game to begin with.

There is this game magazine website I frequently visit and they have only been able to show like 3 trailers or so?

And the game is one month away from release. The marketing really needs to do something soon.

Just a question: there's a group of people here who really don't seem to even want or like the new ME game.

Why are you here? Isn't there some game you do look forward to?

And if you think Bioware is the worst company ever.... why are you are?

The internet is such a baffling place at times.