jorj

We switched to dropped ammo for gameplay reasons. In ME1 there wasn't a lot of reason to move around during combat because you had infinite ammo. This makes cover based com at design a lot less interesting. Dropped ammo creates a reason to move around. This means level designers can design combat around this movement.

That was my team that fixed it. Shooter players pretty much universally hated the gunplay in me1 (it was improved for legendary edition). We felt like we really let them down. Mass effect looked like a shooter but didn't play like one. So we played a tonne of halo, gears, and for months we played mass effect 2 with only guns. We brought in shooter players who had never played an rpg and asked their feedback until the guns felt great. We didn't forget the rpg players. We kept pause at any time. Many people on the team were not shooter players and we listened to them as well. Still this was a contentious change and I know some rpg players still preferred the original combat. Also... Hi Brian! Brian is another BioWare vet from the dragon age team :)