Weapons, Explosive Round? & GA in EAPLAY video

So I'll totally address that stuff in a sec but man the guy you linked LOL. I mean BioWare does have their own channel with these videos. Some of those screen cap for what amount to game trailers are hiiilaarious.

Anyway, the explosion - there is an explosive barrel (glowing red) next to all those space-crates. The big ape thing stomps on as it's running and BOOM. As far as the gun could of easily just been the last shot so who knows. There's no HUD sadly so we can't really tell if it was the last, or just a single shot but it definitely looked like a Carnifex. But who knows.

As far as the lettering on the armor no idea but I would imagine it's the designation of the chest piece he has on (which kinda looks like some kinda polymer battle harness or something).

Srsly though, those thumbnails lol.


edit: While I think the GA is just some designation decal, could be nifty if it's decals we get to pick in the customization. I doubt that's the case but would be nice. And forgot to mention weapons... very curious yeah. Makes me wonder if there keeping old ME-style placement? Left sniper, right AR, butt-shotgun. Nothing like a Shotgun Ass.

Personally though I'm hoping they're doing the Rainbow 6 Vegas thing. 2 'primary weapons' + Sidearm (pistol). Where we pick any 2 main weapons and they just go on left/right regardless of it there assault rifles, SMG's, shotguns, snipers whatever. Either way the thing in the right-shoulder slot is pretty damn big. Could be a Revenant style heavy AR/MG.

*shrug* Could also be a state or a country designation. Who knows?

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Land mine? Good point. Looks like a continuation of current weapon tech.

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Yes it does look like one of them. I original thought it was the single shot Executioner Heavy Pistol. The single shot and reload motion made me lean that way at first but there is one frame that clearly shows is the C or P.

The odds for a Turian squadmate certainly are better than a Volus one. There were all sorts of mines in MP though, Proxy mine, recon mine, Cain trip mine and even sticky grenades that could be essentially used as mines. 

If you guys pause it at 45-ish you can clearly see it's a red glowing barrel (or canister of some kind) that explodes. I don't think it's a mine, I think it's just your bog standard explosive barrel in environment with mass effect visual theme. Explosion looks freakin' awesome though that's for sure.

Not that we wont have proxy-mines or something like that, just I'm pretty sure that's not what your seeing in the video. I 100% pray we get more stuff like that though. The ending aside in ME3 that was the biggest hurdle I had for replaying after playing the MP for so long. Everything I LOVED to do I couldn't do in single player combat wise you know?

Like in MP I could be a Vanguard Krogan? Make massive explosions with the mine, play a vanguard phantom with sword? Paladin? Freakin' loved that Paladin Sentinel class with the frosty hands and snazzy glowing shield? Man if that's what the Sentinels signature power would be I'd be a hell of a lot happier lol.

I pray that the soldier isn't just 5 flavors of ammo powers that should be weapon mods anyone can use for customization. Hopefully after ME3 MP swath of interesting powers they use that instead.

It's going up, yeah. It's not 'directed' at the monster specifically other then him being on it when it detonates. I mean if you play it slow it's going everywhere (well all directions in an upward direction - it's a ground explosion, not air burst) with an extra ground cloud like it's making extra dust and all that. It's what I would expect from an explosion either way.

If you haven't, I'd recommend watching it at .25 speed. It's in the setting options on youtube. Makes it a lot easier to pause/pick things out then trying to go at full speed. They also zoom the camera way in on like the 2nd to 3rd frame of the explosion. I get the feeling they used this both as a showcase for the monster and a snazzy transition.

@chrome: It's the red glowing thing over Ryders right shoulder. It's got a bright red glow to it and it's to tall to be a mine visible on the ground. I'm assuming it's less massive barrel and more large explosive canister.

If it is indeed explosive ammo, we'll be in for a nasty surprise.