Mass Effect Andromeda Hand-To-Hand Combat

How exaggerating.

I wonder, do you plan to buy the game, or wait to see if there's something that might make you enjoy it.

Personally, I liked how ME3 handled hand-to-hand. Simple and straightforward...and generally a nice way to get out of a tight bind if an enemy swarms you. I wouldn't be opposed to a more sophisticated and intricate system so long as it doesn't come at the expense of the core combat features. I mean anything that provides potential for additional playthroughs is a good thing, regardless of how stupid and unrealistic employing hand-to-hand combat is while engaging in 28th/29th Century warfare. At the end of the day it doesn't really matter to me how others choose to play their game. But again not at the expense of the core combat features. And absolutely if some Khet or whatever starts hoping around while spinning a sword that should be an automatic interrupt prompt to pull off an Indiana Jones.

You're in luck, apparently the GI spread confirmed swords and hammers in ME:A.

bsn.boards.net/thread/2270/gameinformer-article-thread


To step back into this discussion, I honestly don't understand where the "CQC in Mass Effect is unrealistic" crowd are coming from. Several people have already mentioned that barriers that only block high-speed strikes make slower moving attacks like H2H a more valid option. And how modern special forces get H2H training.

But I'd say even more than that, you can't have a universe where vanguards can charge at relativistic velocity and not have a decently developed melee system. It makes no sense to charge up to someone just to pistol whip them or punch them in the face. Anyone who's going to hurl themselves in melee range of an opponent damn well better know how to engage someone in melee. And combined with aforementioned barriers, I'd argue this approach makes at least as much sense as a shotgun blast, and depending on the barrier/shield strength of the opponent, maybe more. Point being, you can't be okay with biotic charge but not a developed melee system without being contradictory. And if you think charge shouldn't exist either, then you're objectively wrong because biotic charge is the most fun ability in the game.

As a tangential last point, gameplay-wise, melee attacks should bypass barriers/shields and do direct damage to armor/health. By ME lore, melee attacks shouldn't interact with kinetic barriers at all. I doubt this will be reflected, but it would be nice.

I disagree on the reboot and I want to see the AI in full before making my judgement, but fair enough. I agree on the last part though.

The two teams are different, and the two series have different concepts in mind regarding gameplay. Regardless if MEA's gameplay will be fun or not, it won't be related to DAI.

Because whats is fun and cool in a game takes precedence over situational realism.

Could use a good duel. Perhaps the aliens are weak when it comes to unarmed combat. Unless they are made of rocks... literally.

That should be for Dragon Age.

Dragon Age lacks the awesomeness factor of wielding a Sharpened Helicopter Blade when you should have no right to use such a tool to inflict harm on people that have guns.

And we know Andromeda will have dedicated melee weapons. That's why I said it's closer to happening. 

But melee in Mass Effect isn't completely obsolete as long as they don't make guns that bypass shields and barriers.

Kinetic shield and biotic barriers actually make melee at least slightly relevant, since shields stop fast moving objects (like bullets) but slow moving objects bypass them, so you can use them as ambush weapons, say for infiltrators with tactical cloak and weapons that don't run out of ammo, for example longer engagements as vanguard.

So in mass effect, that Inidiana Jones situations would look more like, bullet gets absorbed by that arabian guy's shield and Indy gets ran through.

Edit: and another thing, there were always enemies that want to chew your face off, so no difference there

This is the idealistic H2H in a futuristic setting instead of swords and hammers.