So far the biggest tragedy - loss of reload cancel.

first I was in this stage:



now I am in this stage:

If they were gonna take out reload cancelling they should at least have sped up reloads in general (especially on guns like isharay and widow) and made them less easy to interrupt. As it stands they take a long time and seem to get interrupted by an adhi sneezing on you. It just slows down gameplay and is not fun or feel good in any way, it's just hella clunky. Would prefer reload cancelling but if not that they need to tweak the current reload times and interrupt mechanics.

Now imagine missile glitch Andromeda edition having to shoot 3 or so missiles to kill a Hydra.
It is almost faster to play it fair

A shout for reload cancel, y'all
They need to know this has to be fixed.

The widow/isharay wouldn't suck in this game if you could reload cancel them. The widow actually does more damage in this game compared to me3 but it sucks without RC.

Hahaha that's the funniest thing I've read all day! Hahaha and you're probably right about all of that, it would take multiple missiles to take out even berserkers hahaha. Probably won't be worth it! R.I.P. mass effect 3's cobra missile, i miss that thing

make it an hour.

and in case you are playing Andromeda while you are being silent, you can be sure the game will do the same 😂

I think BioWare have implied they want to incentivize the use of side-arms by giving you these horrendous unskippable reload times rather than just by giving us decent side-arms worth using.

Supercharge is an excellent work around. Not having to worry about reloading is great. Why not let vanguards reload automatically upon charging or infiltrators on cloak that would make the game so much better for so many people.

You can reload while jumping.

Now this is the real problem. Gameplay wise reload times are just a form of balancing. You can discuss if reload times are too long, but that has nothing to do with reload canceling. What reload canceling mainly does (apart from generally shorter reload times for the more competitive players) is adding some lenience to reloading when the action is interrupted by a other frequently used actions. If the player is in a tough situation where he has to use an escape action, the reload cancel mechanic does not punish the player for activating the escape action 0.1 seconds too early.

In this game with its faster enemies that swarm the player frequently while having better escape mechanisms this can be especially frustrating, as the player might quite often think from audio cues that the reload cycle finished when it hasn't. Now this means that basically all players not just those that try hard to be as good as possible will frequently have the need for exact timing.

So they could bring back reload canceling or just make more actions (run, dash) not interrupt the reload to make the game easier for the general player base. This does not effect the best players though who would just always time the reload exactly. For those reload canceling would be same as a balancing change shortening specific reload times.

Agreed.

Some reloads are absolutely unbearable. What the hell is up with the game cancelling your reload if knocked or shot? Try using a Ruzad against a Berserker. Hilariously frustrating.

For a game all about fluid movement and frantic pacing some of the most egregious reload times on srs and shotguns stick out like a soar thumb because the frequent need to reload for long periods of time heavily restricts your movement.

You are right on the money with that. The reload mechanic in this game is severely broken. The unability of reload while doing ANYTHING that is not walking,covering or jumping interrupts the flow of combat in all the ways possible. I honestly think they tried so hard to avoid any kind of reload cancel that we ended up with this severely crippled mechanic. Not being able to charge a weapon while running (ie. venom) is obscene and it just makes the venom or any charge weapon a worst weapon, and considering the state in which the weapons are right now... This is also true with the Cobra RPG since you can only pull it out while covering, walking or jumping. Due to this broken mechanic (and the pitiful damage they do) the cobra is no longer worth it in many situations. I'm afraid this won't be fixed since it was purposefully put on there for a reason and making it different might cost money/time that BW is not willing to expend on it, it's similar to the broken UI. We can expect a "faster" reload or even more damage from the Cobra. But that your reload will get interrupt if you run, get stunned, get hit or dodge, will be forever present in this game. We can either get use to it or play another game.