Profiles | Did Alec meant them only for Combat?

The Seer profile reminds me of Adrenalin rush power in the original ME.  I miss the infiltrator time dilation ability, whilst aiming with a sniper rifle time slows for a second allowing you to aim.  That would be my pick if I get to pick a power for my infiltrator.

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@VladVonCastein wrote:

The Seer profile reminds me of Adrenalin rush power in the original ME.  I miss the infiltrator time dilation ability, whilst aiming with a sniper rifle time slows for a second allowing you to aim.  That would be my pick if I get to pick a power for my infiltrator.

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Yeah, but that's still thinking on battle parameters. What I have meant with that example was something that would prompt us into investigation. You see, the game revolves on that, but most of time, we are instructed to scan things, as if our scanning would do all the work itself, and we simply divine its use, or we are prompted with that "G" on the corner of the screen. This example would make us able to get some evidence out of our enhanced senses, maybe including the conclusion of having something to scan in that location as well.

There would have, of course, combat profiles. But I think profiles for all other tasks are missing, something like a SAM mode, were you would also experience the world following SAM's perceptions. That part is hazy, albeit interesting to explore.

Complementing the initial post, it could also help with abilities allotted to certain combat profiles. For example, for a Soldier or a Vanguard, you could assign up to 5-6 abilities instead of 3 (console port, you would assign 2 buttons pressed together to trigger a response). Whilst some other non-combat profiles would allow only 1 or 2 abilities allotted, given they weren't supposed to be supportive to battles.

I play as an egineer, but somehow your skills and your profiles only impact combat. This is sad I would love for skills and profiles to have an impact on the non combat exploration part as well and maybe even on business

Possible applications could be

* Trade Performance

* Agility while running/walking/jumping

* Different visions (Thermal, Nightvision, etc...)

* Hidden Dialogue Options 

* Puzzles 

* Crafting

Of course most of that would require a change in Level Design and Game design, so this is probably too big, but for ME:A2 ..... DO IT!

As another has pointed out, some of your ideas do seem combat based, but I like where your heart was at.

Non-combat abilities would have been great.  Still would be, but I do think it might be a bit much to add at this point without pretty much starting over.

The reason I say that is because as the game is set up now, anything outside of combat is already pretty easy to do/obtain so being bale to enhance them any further would just cause this to get to that point even sooner.

I definitely like this idea however and I think combined with the idea of being able to have more than one way to accomplish something, I think it would make things amazing.  This would be especially true if the way you accomplished something actually mattered in some way.

Exactly the point.

I'm mostly presenting the ideas, but I'm pretty aware that they cannot be really implemented at this stage, unless if the whole game would be reworked, aside the fact that they also would need to read this and agree with me. ^_^