Overpowered biotics [Cora's loyalty mission spoilers]

I think the best evidence of the Ryder Twins being biotic is their mum having a disease caused by exposure to element zero.

Deflecting back the missiles was too op, otherwise it was fine to me. They had practice with similar moves before, there were two of them and I imagine producing a short burst of energy is less taxing than holding that barrier up in the Collector base (constant bombartment from the seeker swarms) while being shot and being hit by husks.

Honestly, I'm still more annoyed by Jack's intro scene versus her performance in actual gameplay...! That's where the rule of cool went wrong.

Hahah yep taking out 3 heavy mechs straight out of cryo and wrecking the whole station with her biotics alone?? And then, especially if one played on hardcore or insanity, she can't take out a single mook alone before being gunned down herself hahah.

Actually, the twin that we don't choose isn't a biotic, I remember one of the devs tweeting about it some time ago.

You're right ofc.

In the soft canon of gameplay as of yet unestablished in a series and without any definitive word of dev Ryder is consistently and inevitably biotic. Whereas Shepard definitively was or was not based off of class choice with past history and present comments and abilities adjusting to reflect that.

Momentum is mass times velocity (that is both speed and the direction of motion). In order to turn object 180 degrees and have it move at the same speed you need to impart twice the momentum on the object (one to stop it and one to make it move with the original speed in the other direction).

Implying that rocket's thrusters did most of the work is also not likely - by the time the rockets approach the Ark they did not appear to be accelerating (and certainly not traveling close enough to relativistic speeds to worry about relativistic correction to Newton's Laws), which implies majority of the thrust was imparted shortly after firing. But even if we assume that it was indeed the thrusters that accelerated the rockets back to the Kett ships, you still had to stop the rockets and turn them around, which would imply conscientious alteration of rocket's motion on case by case basis, which kinda makes no sense with the whole shield thing.

The reason why exploding the rockets or deflecting them would make a lot more sense is that in the first case the majority of the momentum is imparted on the fragments of the rockets (which pose only as much risk as the size of the holes they can make), and in the second the change in momentum of the projectile is minimal.

The only explanation that would make some semi-balance of sense is if the ordnance was guided and the biotics simply messed with IFF making the missiles turn around to acquire the new 'enemy' target. However in this case we don't need to have a bubble, and the scene turns into a biotic remote hacking.

Rule of Cool folks nothing to see here...

Eh, I wouldn't go that far.  There are a few people on here that are so die-hard fans of Bioware that they honestly think the company can do no wrong, but they're actually few and far between.

This scene, and a few other things I've seen in the game, are definite flaws that are worthwhile to point out, like just about every Bioware game ever released.  In my personal opinion, though, even with the flaws and some other things, this is either my favorite Bioware game so far, or tied for first with ME1.  ME1 had a more consistent plot, and a little less "rule of cool" but the gameplay was meh, even for the time, and today...let's just say it hasn't aged well.

There are some issues I have with the overall plot of ME:A, this scene being the biggest culprit by far, but the gameplay is vastly improved.  I tend to prefer plot over gameplay, but when the difference is this large, I'm very tempted to side with ME:A over ME1, but only by a fairly slight margin.  That doesn't mean I won't voice my disapproval with what I feel didn't work!  But I'm solidly on the side of "buy this game.  It's a great one, albeit with some flaws."

It is vacuum, zero-g and the rockets are firing. As long as they are firing the missiles will accelerate.

I really enjoyed that moment when Cora and Sarissa made that giant barrier shield, reminded me a bit of when your biotic expert used their barrier in the Suicide Mission to kill all the seeker swarms.

I guess I'm just one of those people that falls for the "Rule of Cool"...

To be fair reave and dominate never made a damn bit of sense as biotic powers either. At least the backlash shield is somewhat more believable in its functionality.