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Have we seen a tactical pause yet? Feb 23, 2017 21:03:12 GMT via mobile

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Post by Sylvius the Mad on Feb 23, 2017 21:03:12 GMT

We were explicitly told that there would be a way to pause the action to "survey the battlefield". Have we seen that in any of the gameplay footage?

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Have we seen a tactical pause yet? Feb 23, 2017 21:12:28 GMT

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Post by Cypher on Feb 23, 2017 21:12:28 GMT

The weapon wheel pause that's been in every gameplay video since December will be the way you tactically pause.

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Have we seen a tactical pause yet? Feb 23, 2017 21:13:45 GMT

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Post by Wulfram on Feb 23, 2017 21:13:45 GMT

Feb 23, 2017 21:12:28 GMT Cypher said:

The weapon wheel pause that's been in every gameplay video since December will be the way you tactically pause.

I wonder how that applies to KB/M. We've never had any of these wheel thingummies

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Have we seen a tactical pause yet? Feb 23, 2017 21:19:38 GMT

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Post by Cypher on Feb 23, 2017 21:19:38 GMT

Feb 23, 2017 21:13:45 GMT Wulfram said:

Feb 23, 2017 21:12:28 GMT Cypher said:

The weapon wheel pause that's been in every gameplay video since December will be the way you tactically pause.

I wonder how that applies to KB/M. We've never had any of these wheel thingummies

Yes we did. And it'll likely operate the same.

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Have we seen a tactical pause yet? Feb 23, 2017 21:22:14 GMT

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Post by Cyonan on Feb 23, 2017 21:22:14 GMT

There will be a tactical pause.

My understanding is that unfortunately for you, there will not be a way of actually aiming while paused. Nor can you command squadmates to use a specific ability, but only to attack a target or move to a location.

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Have we seen a tactical pause yet? Feb 23, 2017 21:32:07 GMT via mobile

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Post by ProbeAway on Feb 23, 2017 21:32:07 GMT

In other words, there's a menu pause but not a tactical pause.

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Have we seen a tactical pause yet? Feb 23, 2017 21:35:50 GMT

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Post by Revan Reborn on Feb 23, 2017 21:35:50 GMT

There is no "tactical pause" as you know it from the previous games. That feature was taken out of the game intentionally. BioWare wants players to focus more on the action, themselves, instead of constantly pausing and directing squadmates. You can call that "streamlining" if you'd like.

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Have we seen a tactical pause yet? Feb 27, 2017 20:12:35 GMT via mobile

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Post by Sylvius the Mad on Feb 27, 2017 20:12:35 GMT

Feb 23, 2017 21:35:50 GMT Revan Reborn said:

There is no "tactical pause" as you know it from the previous games. That feature was taken out of the game intentionally. BioWare wants players to focus more on the action, themselves, instead of constantly pausing and directing squadmates. You can call that "streamlining" if you'd like.

I know they've said explicitly we can't aim while paused, but they also said there will be a way to pause and "survey the battlefield". That suggests some sort of camera movement while paused.

Have we seen that?

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Have we seen a tactical pause yet? Feb 27, 2017 20:24:55 GMT

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Post by SofaJockey on Feb 27, 2017 20:24:55 GMT

Feb 27, 2017 20:12:35 GMT Sylvius the Mad said:

Feb 23, 2017 21:35:50 GMT Revan Reborn said:

There is no "tactical pause" as you know it from the previous games. That feature was taken out of the game intentionally. BioWare wants players to focus more on the action, themselves, instead of constantly pausing and directing squadmates. You can call that "streamlining" if you'd like.

I know they've said explicitly we can't aim while paused, but they also said there will be a way to pause and "survey the battlefield". That suggests some sort of camera movement while paused.

Have we seen that?

Haven't seen anything like that.
That may well not be in the game.

On the plus side, the combat is much closer to ME3's multiplayer.

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Have we seen a tactical pause yet? Feb 27, 2017 20:28:27 GMT

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Post by Revan Reborn on Feb 27, 2017 20:28:27 GMT

Feb 27, 2017 20:12:35 GMT Sylvius the Mad said:

Feb 23, 2017 21:35:50 GMT Revan Reborn said:

There is no "tactical pause" as you know it from the previous games. That feature was taken out of the game intentionally. BioWare wants players to focus more on the action, themselves, instead of constantly pausing and directing squadmates. You can call that "streamlining" if you'd like.

I know they've said explicitly we can't aim while paused, but they also said there will be a way to pause and "survey the battlefield". That suggests some sort of camera movement while paused.

Have we seen that?

I definitely have not seen anything like that. The only "pausing" that seems to happen is when switching between favorites profiles or going into the menu, obviously. I don't believe there is any form of "tactical view" in this game whatsoever. As I said, it was intentionally taken out as BioWare wants to keep the pacing and excitement of combat going, rather than players pausing every few minutes.

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Have we seen a tactical pause yet? Feb 27, 2017 20:30:03 GMT

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Post by TaliWhacker on Feb 27, 2017 20:30:03 GMT

They thought it was too redundant to have both tactical pause and casual mode in the same game so they got rid of it.

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Post by bshep on Feb 27, 2017 22:11:14 GMT

Feb 27, 2017 20:12:35 GMT Sylvius the Mad said:

Feb 23, 2017 21:35:50 GMT Revan Reborn said:

There is no "tactical pause" as you know it from the previous games. That feature was taken out of the game intentionally. BioWare wants players to focus more on the action, themselves, instead of constantly pausing and directing squadmates. You can call that "streamlining" if you'd like.

I know they've said explicitly we can't aim while paused, but they also said there will be a way to pause and "survey the battlefield". That suggests some sort of camera movement while paused.

Have we seen that?

Where did they said that? Because i don't remember hearing it. :blink:

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Have we seen a tactical pause yet? Feb 28, 2017 0:32:47 GMT via mobile

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Post by Sylvius the Mad on Feb 28, 2017 0:32:47 GMT

Feb 27, 2017 22:11:14 GMT bshep said:

Feb 27, 2017 20:12:35 GMT Sylvius the Mad said:

I know they've said explicitly we can't aim while paused, but they also said there will be a way to pause and "survey the battlefield". That suggests some sort of camera movement while paused.

Have we seen that?

Where did they said that? Because i don't remember hearing it. :blink:

I thought Frazier said it, sometime last year. But I can't find it now. Detailed searches only turn up me claiming it to be true.

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Have we seen a tactical pause yet? Feb 28, 2017 0:34:40 GMT via mobile

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Feb 27, 2017 20:24:55 GMT SofaJockey said:

On the plus side, the combat is much closer to ME3's multiplayer.

That tells me nothing. I never played the MP (nor will I play Andromeda's MP).

I do not play with others.

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Have we seen a tactical pause yet? Feb 28, 2017 16:47:35 GMT via mobile

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Post by Sylvius the Mad on Feb 28, 2017 16:47:35 GMT

There. That's probably why I thought we could look around while paused. Ian said we could pause to "take a breath" and "see what's going on".

If we can't move the camera while paused, I don't really see how that's an accurate description.

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Have we seen a tactical pause yet? Feb 28, 2017 20:31:23 GMT via mobile

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Post by Sylvius the Mad on Feb 28, 2017 20:31:23 GMT

Feb 28, 2017 19:08:58 GMT @andromedaddyissues said:

I'm calling it now that in the next game, Tactical pause will make a "triumphant" return. Kind of how DA2 didn't have tactical view (on console only maybe?) but it returned in Inquisition.

DA2 didn't have it at all. DAO didn't on console either (because it caused the game to render too large an area) and they said they removed it entirely from DA2 to create parity across all platforms (and probably also to shorten the QA time, given how rushed DA2 was).

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