Team AI is a complete joke. Needs a LOT of polishing before release.

The AI doesn't look any worse than other ME games IMHO. If you want them to live you'll need to order them in cover like it always has been from the looks of it.

The only thing I'm apprehensive about is not being able to command a squaddie to do a particular move when I want/need it.

Not sure how combos with your team will feel...like more reactionary or waiting/hoping that they'll do what you want. That's my -only- concern about the game, since I like to play insanity/nightmare in ME/DA.

You as the PC definitely do the vast majority of the legwork, but you could on demand use your teams abilities to make you more effective when you needed it on a moments notice.

The video? No, the narrator specifically states near the beginning that the difficulty is set to "normal".

Drack's AI seems okay, the way he quickly closes the distance on that sharpshooter at the end is exactly what i would him to do, the way he takes down the destroyer is equally impressive and more impressive is the way he jumps out of the way of imminent explosion there after!
but lets not focus on the positives...

Enemy AI likely will behave no differently

Iron Bull>Sera>Dorian>Varric>Everyone else

I don't see what the big deal is, Destin Legarie did not order his squadmates to take cover,barely told them to attack a target, pretty much sucked at taking down enemies, supporting his squad and navigating the battlefield, and yet PeeBee died only once or twice while Drack bossed the battlefield.

A much more skilled player will have no problem keeping their squad alive

Peebees rival Asari chick wasnt holding the Avenger rifle in her hand, hope they fix

The problem is, you all lost credibility by bitching and moaning about trivial, shallow bullshit like faces. Now it's too late. I've already decided you guys lack the perspective to judge squat.

While I can kinda understand people finding the squad AI to be lacking, there are a couple of points I'd like to raise. First of all, I haven't read through the entire thread, and the first two pages have pretty much been circle-arguments. So if what I'm about to say here has already been said, my apologies.

First and foremost: This was an incomplete build of the game. Having watched some of the development cycles of Star Citizen, I've seen that compiled game builds are a good bit behind the progress already made. Quite often, improving something leads to unintended bugs, so a "stable" build is generally quite some time behind where the game is currently "at." The improvements may or may not have led to bugs, but even if they hadn't, it's still a bit of work to get a build ready for outside viewing. Very likely, the "polishing" the devs mentioned have been worked on for quite some time even before this build was played by IGN. Now, I'm not a programmer, so take this with a grain of salt, but it is undoubtedly certain that SOME work was done on the game between when this build was frozen to release to the media, and the time the media actually played the early build. How much AI has been improved waits to be seen, but if they say they've been working on it, some improvements are to be expected.

Secondly, all Mass Effect squadmates (and generally, all squadmates in ALL BioWare games) have been VERY reliant on player input. The Dragon Age IP has been a bit better in this regard, at least in Origins and DA2, with the tactics menus, but even in DA:I you see fairly weird companion behavior if you're not babysitting them to some degree. On some level, I think BioWare does this on purpose, giving the player more of the responsibility of controlling the squad, not just your player-character. Would I like better companion AI, so I can act like they're independant people in their own right? To some degree, yes. But with AI controlled aim and decision making at the speed of a CPU, if you make the AI for the companions a whole helluva lot better, you'd more or less just be along for the ride while your companions face-rolled the opposition.

You are more than welcome to disagree with me on any or all points. That's my take on the matter, and since I'm a fan of giving the orders, I prefer my squad to be more on the passive side unless I've told them to do something specific. That's the key part we really haven't seen except in short snippets: How the companions react when given orders by the player.

True.  I'd expect more reactivity out of squadmates, and we did see that in the ME Trilogy.  They weren't GREAT by any means, and sometimes their pathing decisions left alot to be desired, but they did have some of that reactivity.  That's a good bit why I think there's a large amount of polishing that has already been done and that we haven't seen, since BW has shown they're capable of that much at least in the past.

To be completely honest, it looks to me like this build of the game was intended to show off the environments and Ryder's abilities, while quite a bit of the "background" stuff was still being worked on.  Just my opinion, no need to go spreading it around.  

This is the same dude who was whinging about Liam having somewhat similar arm waggles to a dwarf dude in DAI, right?

Yeah, that's about all I need to know.