Mass Effect Andromeda Hand-To-Hand Combat

Hand to hand combat will always exist for all time, until we humans go extinct or evolve into some sort of amorphous balls of pure energy, and even then we'd probably still hit each other with our tendrils, so it doesn't matter what year it is. The trouble is that in a game, it might become really awkward to make all of the controls for these sorts of things work.

No. I guess I'm a ME traditionalist. If I see this going on in ME:A I'll feel that I purchased Splinter Cell by mistake. I'm ready to dance, but not like that.

I completely agree with Addrictress.

Nice comment too. You might be swaying my pov. Melee fighting is not my combat style, so who am I to say what melee-maven players can make their protagonist do when it's up close and personal?

I have supported adding covert attack routes in ME:A (it IS supposed to be a 'more open world', right?) so that 'advancing forward' in combat does not have to be entirely linear - forcing a gamer to go through the same funnel routes in replays. The option of taking more hidden routes and then popping out to melee the enemies (as demonstrated in the OP's video example above) from an unexpected angle of attack makes a for a richer alternate role-play combat option. From what I've only observed in other games, I can see the advantage of CQC as an attack option. When I watched Nathan Drake's covert ground options in the Uncharted series, I thought - I want to be able to do that! At times the character can completely avoid enemy contact when movement is timed correctly. Moving up with stealth to take out an enemy quickly and quietly would be a nice addition to ME:A. It's just that I'm a bit squeamish about watching a character knifing a game enemy in such graphic detail. It's not my idea of fun entertainment when it's this graphic. Seeing complete realism tends to distract me from the fantasy play I'm looking for, so I'm sitting on the fence about this.

Hand-to-Hand combat? What about Headbutt-to-Headbutt combat like how the Krogans do?

Every soldier, spy, assassin, mercenary have to know hand to hand combat not just rely on a gun to do everything for you. What if your gun jams and your opponent came to you in close quarters and foolishly enough to give you an opportunity to disarm his weapon and use it against him?

Idk what the hell BioWare were thinking when they put unrealistic Japanesy ninja classes in a futuristic setting (Don't give me wrong love the Shinobi but I prefer them in the medieval times) It's like they don't know what they're doing it just want to put it in to make more money.

I guess it started with that cutscene from the Kasumi DLC in ME2 - where she's flying around like spiderwoman around Hock's gunship... yeah I found that stupid.

It certainly would have saved us the trouble of the rest of the rinse-repeat boss battle with Hock. The best part of that mission, at least to me, was the party heist stuff anyway. However, a well-placed Cain can do very short work of all that once Kasumi takes the shield down.

Gods yes please. I want a semi-more refined weapon slot system, combo of ME2/3. That is, everyone should always have a sidearm (not an/also SMG - wish SMG's where either in primary or butt-slot). And like, either an evolution of the shield power or something let you walk with, or shoot with it out, or both? Maybe you can always shoot but your stationary (only with sidearm), and one upgrade makes it mildly smaller but your mobile, another makes it larger and you stay stationary?

I dunno, either way I love that shield and I want more of it in MEA. I think A LOT of MP powers in ME3 would make for good candidates as fleshing out the existing classes and bonus powers. My current hope is the whole ammo power thing on soldier gets thrown out the window for actual abilities like mines and other grenade related stuff. Make him a damn Soldier and let everyone have an ammo slot on guns.

Yeah, hopefully with there mocap focus we'll get more fluid animations across the board. Though when it comes to attack animations you have to be careful. While the game wont be melee focused, Witcher 3 has a pretty big issue with attack animation duration with it's fluid combat animations. Since none of them take the same amount of time, and your never sure exactly which one your going to get it can be difficult to time things since it's... all a gamble. Probably my biggest issue with that games combat.

It's one reason will take the heavy charge attack and not charge it. They just hold long enough to trigger it and leg go and immediately follow up again. Boring as hell, but it's a consistent timed attack they can base combat around in away you can't with the absurd randomness of the normal attacks.

So yeah I'm all for fluid animations where how you come at things and what those things are your coming at give you a variation on the animation. But they should make sure they're always the same length. You don't wanna go in for a punch, or a cover slide and find out the animation it picked lasts 30% longer then you where expecting.

Well, I'm sceptic to the melee combat in sci-fi and regard Kai Leng and other space ninjas with katanas as cancerous part of the franchise. Omni-blade is a good compromise in my opinion - but I wouldn't like ME to develop melee/stealth beyond what we have in ME3.