Kasumi: Shadow Strike is useful, especially if one can chain Rapid SS's together. It is also nice how she returns to position after the strike. Sort of is a combination between grunt's charge and the combat drone with more survivability. Even when you send her into a group, she rarely takes much damage. When she uses her flashbang she becomes even deadlier being able to instantly CC many enemies in a large group. I suspect she'll be very popular.
The Locust: Its an SMG version of the Collector assault rifle. Someone will have to do some DPS testing to see how powerful or not it is. Seemed quite strong to me, but that may be because headshots are so easy to line up with the weapon. It has no recoil, maintains accuracy on full auto (it makes no difference bursted or not), and has a 20 round magazine with 380 in reserve.
It may have just made the assault rifle choice obsolete for every class.
Flashbang: A combination of Concussive shot with better knockdown, the effects of Overload on all types of weapons and enemies even when shields are up, and a 9 meter aoe. If a target has no shields, they are knocked down for the entire duration of the effect (lvl 4 improved it was 9 seconds). If the target has shields, its still performs a stagger effect on anyone in the 9 foot radius. Considered a tech power (I believe) so it may benefit from cooldowns and damage boosts. Has a decent knockdown but being able to position the grenade to hit units outside of LOS and to disable enemy weapons even with defenses is its strongest perk.
It also insta-kills husks reduced to health. Coupled with a 9 foot radius it is very powerful on Reaper IFF. I think the bonus fits well with any class, but I could see it replacing concussive shot on the soldier. Also makes cryo blast seem much less appealing for the Sentinel and Engineer. The 9 meter radius makes up for the 1.5 second longer cooldown. It also staggers all husks in range. Shepards Grenade plus kasumi's grenade can hold back even the worst husk rushes in reaper IFF without the need of any other squadmates.
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