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[The Hierophant]

I'd like to see either the complete removal of the global cooldown system, or the addition of a system that allows the consecutive use of skills but adds penalties to damage, aoe, and duration for each skill that's used within a certain time frame.

[Zekka]

I'd like to actually make my own Biotic powers. You can make new moves that would allow your character to float or powers that do completely different things. Biotics should be as powerful as they were in ME1.

 

Truthfully I want the whole Biotic powers to be revamped. It should go back to ME1 where all powers didn't have to recharge after you used only one. I'd like if powers either recharged individually or have a power bar that basically filled up if you used your Biotics too much. With the power bar, none of your Biotic powers have to recharge and when you use your power too much the bar fills, once it reaches half way you start losing health and once it fills all the way you will lose most of your health. 

 

Ammo powers should just go away and a true weapon upgrade and customization system should be reimplemented. 

 

Tech armor should have different levels and should look differently each time you upgrade it in it's skill tree.

 

I'd like a biotic attack that just explodes your biotic barrier in every direction. I think there was a power like this in ME3 MP.

[luckyloser_62]

I think basically all of the powers should be revamped as they currently exist. As others have said, I really want a reduction of ME3's emphasis on explosions. I also really want to see a lot more diversity of powers evolutions, for example the option to change Barrier into Annihilation Field. A lot of power redundancy could be cut down with such evolutions as well. Warp and Reave, Overload and Energy Drain, Pull and Slam all spring to mind immediately.

[Broganisity]

I have a lot of issues and not enough time. I'll be back. Until then, here's my newfound seal of approval:



 

[KainD]

I think basically all of the powers should be revamped as they currently exist. As others have said, I really want a reduction of ME3's emphasis on explosions. I also really want to see a lot more diversity of powers evolutions, for example the option to change Barrier into Annihilation Field. A lot of power redundancy could be cut down with such evolutions as well. Warp and Reave, Overload and Energy Drain, Pull and Slam all spring to mind immediately.

 

I completely agree with this, except don't change a power just add to it's effects as an evolution. 

[BiggyDX]

I'd expect everything to be revamped, but if I had to name one off the bat, I'd go with Sabotage. Only because the AI in ME3 was a hit or miss whenever you casted it on a synthetic enemy. After that, it would be Sentry Turret. Most useless pet power in ME3.

[KainD]

BTW 

 

About very similar powers or powers that could be worked into a single power as a single skill tree:

 

Barrier / Biotic focus / Biotic sphere / Annihilation field 

Warp / Biotic orbs / Reave / Dark channel 

Lift / Slam / Lash

Shockwave / Smash / Nova 

Charge / Poison strike 

Singularity / Dark sphere / Flare

Cluster Grenades / Lift Grenade

 

Adrenaline rush / Marksman

Concussive shot / Carnage 

Siege pulse / Hawke missile launcher

Frag grenade / Inferno Grenade / Arc Grenade / Multi Frag grenade / Homing grenade / Sticky Grenade

Fortification / Tech armor / Defense Matrix

Devastator mode / Hunter mode 

 

Overload / Shield Drain

Cryo blast / Snap Freeze

Incinerate / Flamer

Recon mine / Proximity mine / Cain mine

 

 

Probably missed some, and didn't include powers that don't have other powers that are similar to them.

If you think about it we could have fewer base powers but really interesting in-depth skill trees that could combine multiple interesting effects. 

[Killroy]

Until then, here's my newfound seal of approval

Uhhh, have you never seen Terminator 2?

[Sartoz]

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Looking at the list of available Powers/Skills : http://www.narida.py...man/EAEFF//////

 

I'm more interested in what Bio can come up with in ME:A.

 

 

[Ahglock]

Uhhh, have you never seen Terminator 2?

You are showing your age.

[Killroy]

You are showing your age.

1991 wasn't that long ago...

[goishen]

1991 wasn't that long ago...

 

 

Now you're dating yourself.  

 

I mean, I agree.  But that's because I'm old.

[Broganisity]

A weird way to deviate from the topic, but I like it! I call it newfound because I've just recently started abusing the gif. Anyways, back to the topic as I'm back and ready!

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Alright! Here we go:

Power Mutations:

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To increase overall build diversity, each power the player has access to by default should be able to evolve into something else. For example, and as was mentioned above, imagine choosing to either give Barrier an all around boost, or instead mutate it into Annihilation Field. This lets you sacrifice durability for damage potential. Not only that, but powers shared by classes should have different stats and thus mutations. For example, let us assume the following two power options for the Adept and Vanguard (Limited choices to five for simplicity’s sake only):

 

Adept: Singularity (See next Section), Barrier (Annihilation Field), Pull (Lift), Throw (Reave), Warp (Dark Channel).

Vanguard: Biotic Charge (See next Section), Barrier (Biotic Focus), Pull (Lash), Nova (Smash), Shockwave (Slam)

 

You'll notice that, while the classes share some similar abilities, they can mutate into wildly different attacks and maneuvers. This would apply similarly to other classes with shared abilities. Whats more, I imagine these abilities having different stats. For example, The Vanguard's Barrier provides more defense but a larger recharge penalty, while Adept gets a more damaging discharge blast.

 

Class Mutations:

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But we’re not done: Each class has a special trademark skill that we all know and love: Biotic Charge, Adrenaline Rush, Tactical Cloak, Combat Drone, Singularity, and Tech Armor. Each class also has a ‘Class Passive’. These Class Passives would also receive mutations, and if these mutations are chosen they give bonuses to different aspects as well as unlocking their signature class’ mutations.

We will use the Soldier for this example. The soldier can, early on, choose a specialty class passive. There are three total and each are based around a certain aspect pertaining to that class’ skills:

Marksman Training: The Marksman Soldier receives higher bonuses to Stability and headshot damage, making him/her a danger when it comes to landing as many hits as possible onto a target’s weakspot. As one would expect, Marksman is the mutation this class passive unlocks for Adrenaline Rush.

Heavy Weapons Training: The Heavy Soldier receives higher bonuses to carry weight and ammunition capacity, allowing him/her to send a large amount of firepower down range. The Heavy’s mutation for Adrenaline Rush is Fortification, allowing them to survive in combat longer and to dish out hard hitting melee strikes when the opportunity or need arises.

Demolitions Training: As it says on the tin, The Grenadier Soldier specializes in grenades. Grenades do additional damage and the player gains access to a recharging grenade pack (as seen on ME3’s Talon Engineer). The Grenadier passive also unlocks the power mutation Supply Pylon for Adrenaline Rush.

Each of these mutations allow for a different kind of soldier:

The Marksman exploits weaknesses while the Heavy can keep pressure on an enemy. The Grenadier can do massive damage to enemies and also has access to a tool that can keep them in the fight longer than other soldiers (Supply Pylon was moved to a soldier class ability for just this reason: The Soldier should be the king of Guns and Gear, not the tech department.)

Deus Ex: Power Revolution:

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Some of our abilities can do with either a face-lift, or a complete re-model. The prior mentioned Shockwave is a prime example (I for one preferred its ground-based nature in Mass Effect 2. I hope either it returns or becomes something else.), and on the topic of primes: Biotic/Tech/Elemental bursts are cool and all, but I don't think they should be as important to one’s playstyle. Speaking entirely from the Multiplayer perspective (where ME3’s gameplay truly shines) Biotic characters typically come down to ‘how can I churn out as many explosions as possible and nuke those spawn points’ with some exceptions, namely those that can work as durable weapons platforms (EX. Justicar, Shaman, Collector,) or Melee-oriented characters (ALL OF THE VANGUARDS! RAAAAAAAAH! *boom!*).

Gear Revolution, AKA: Improving the Soldier:

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Grenades and Ammo should be allocated back to gear slots like in Mass Effect one. Many classes in the multiplayer were heavily grenade oriented and, while not bad in and of itself, the mad dashes around the map for grenades could also deprive people of ammo they desperately need. Moving Grenades to an equip slot allows for builds to be more diverse, and also helps to give Soldiers an added edge which where I’m going next.

Again, the Soldier is the highlight of this area, for the following reason: Each class has a general specialization that goes along with the power allocations. They are as follows:

Adept (Biotics): Biotic Wrath and Crowd Control.
Engineer (Tech): Fireteam support and enemy harassment.
Soldier (guns. . .?): . . .Shoot things until they die?
Infiltrator (Tech and Guns): Weakness Exploitation and Enemy Culling.
Sentinels (EVERYTHING): Durability and Flexibility at its finest.
Vanguards (Biotics and Guns): Close-Combat and Diversionary tactics. (PUNCH EVERYTHING! RAAAAAAAAH!)

Everything the Soldier does all other classes can do now. Soldiers had ammo powers. . .but then everyone got ammo powers and everyone got access to all guns. . .So any class could do anything a Soldier could do plus whatever fancy abilities their class had access to (You ever player as a Sniper Vanguard? Its hilariously cheesy.).
 

Now, if we made all of the player’s gear important: Gun weight, Armor Weight, Modifications. . .What class should be the one who knows what just how to make their armor and guns shine? Should it be the biotics? The geeks Tech Support?

Or should it be the grizzled warfighter who’s been in the trenches and beaten someone down with their gun and still been able to fire it with pieces of brain matter lodged into its workings? The Soldier should have access to better gear, not to mention being able to use it to the most effective means possible. Their abilities should reflect this (Adrenaline Rush, Marksman, Devastator Mode, Concussive Shot, Carnage. . .these are the only abilities that really do this while everyone else get AAAAALL those other ones!).

 

Imagine this: An adept slings a singularity into the face of some mercenary with a SMG that’s beginning to feel a lot heavier than it should. He is struggling under the weight of his medium armor which draws from his biotic concentration . . .and then a soldier just air-drops out of a goddamn Kodiak and onto the battlefield like it’s nothing. She’s decked out in N7 Destroyer Armor and toting a Geth Spitfire with an Eight-Hundred round clip of incendiary badassery. . .and we aren’t even talking about her backup weapon yet,  a claymore with a bayonet wedged into the bottom. She cranks on Devestator Mode (Thus an even higher clip on that Spitfire!) as rounds deflect off her shields, and she wades in mowing down a group of mercenaries . . . did I mention that she’s still in the positive range for her weight capacity thanks to the servos in her suit and her weapon mods making her gear lighter and more powerful than what a Sentinel or Engineer could get their hands on? Not like she needs to worry about ‘cooldowns’ save for when she fires her guns for so long that they overheat . . . but at that point everyone on the battlefield will be dead besides her so who cares?

 

Now, an Infiltrator and Vanguard might know how to put their sniper rifles and shotguns to good use (They are, after all, the combat-hybrid classes), but the Soldier? The Soldier is the king/queen of the battlefield and acts like a kid in a candy store when it comes to a new shipment of gun parts. . . And you better damn well remember that.

[Guanxii]

[BEs = Biotic Explosions]

 

Barrier: The purging/detonating effect on Barrier being a primer for BEs and not a detonator feels counterintuitive and unnatural. It should instead be a break glass in case of emergency button which detonates close range BEs for you without you having to worry about a previous cooldown which would be much preferable to the present incarnation in sp/mp. In addition it should initially boost your Barrier when activated as it did in ME2 which was so damn useful I was annoyed when they removed it in ME3 because I always pick barrier on biotic classes as they look naked without it and having to use Defense Matrix or Energy Drain on Biotic classes instead to get your barrier back up is just wrong.

 

Tech Armor: TA should be the tech version of Barrier and do the same thing for tech classes (tech combo detonator when purged, initial shield boost when activated). Defense Matrix meanwhile could be the inverse of both but I would prefer it to just give you a constant boost to shields but require grenade charges (consumable/equipment) as it does in me3mp.

 

Slam: It also makes no sense that Slam doesn't work on shielded targets - should be the vertical alternative to Lash which would give it a benefit (reason to use it) over throw.

 

Annihilation Field: The Drain effect should only work on Barrier not Shields (makes no sense) and given it's primary focus is priming for BEs it should be the opposite offensive primer counterpart to Barrier the protective detonator giving you a reason to have both. Purging Barrier to detonate Annihilation Field's BEs would be a really cool combination/synergy for cqc in a tight spot and combined with the extra damage reduction of Barrier would make AF a lot more viable on higher difficulties if balanced correctly.

[Ahglock]

1991 wasn't that long ago...

24 years and I think a R rating. Just saying. Sure I saw it but that was the year I graduated from high school. I suspect I'm older than most people here. But hey someone referenced the d6 version of D&d and that predates my gaming having started with BECMI.

[Ahglock]

Slam: It also makes no sense that Slam doesn't work on shielded targets - should be the vertical alternative to Lash which would give it a benefit (reason to use it) over throw.

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I have no issue with either not getting through shield. But I'll agree if there is a balance reason for lash to pull it off slam seems like a good choice for shield penetration as well.

Conceptually I'd prefer armor penetration but I get why with how shields fall first. But on the other hand too many enemies have no health meaning you can't use your powers on then. Add a freaking health bar or make biotics pierce armor. I want to lift that mech or whatever.

[WillieStyle]

As much as I loved combos, they were far too powerful and easy to pull off in ME3. They trivialized the Single player campaign. I suggest toning down the damage and force they apply on higher difficulty levels.

In multiplayer, I suppose they were somewhat balanced.

[Ahglock]

As much as I loved combos, they were far too powerful and easy to pull off in ME3. They trivialized the Single player campaign. I suggest toning down the damage and force they apply on higher difficulty levels.

In multiplayer, I suppose they were somewhat balanced.

Yeah they were way too easy and I still hate the everything is an explosion model. Have the combo make some kind of sense based on what powers are interacting. Like if you throw someone who is on fire they light everyone on fire who is in their path or something.

[Killroy]

24 years and I think a R rating. Just saying. Sure I saw it but that was the year I graduated from high school. I suspect I'm older than most people here. But hey someone referenced the d6 version of D&d and that predates my gaming having started with BECMI.

I was watching R-rated movies when I was a baby so the rating really has no bearing on my age. My favorite movie was Predator before I was able to say the word predator.

[capn233]

I honestly don't know how someone can be old enough to play ME but young enough so that they can't watch T2 or Die Hard or classics like that.  It isn't like they only showed these movies once and locked them away forever.