bad cover system

[☜☆☞ Saren * SteelSeries]

i love this game :) but in mass effect is terrible covering system... sometimes my character is covered when i run and then i get to nearest wall... sometimes not and enemies are shooting to me. when i press ctrl my char sometimes get covered and sometimes just crouch... in ME2 covering works perfect, but in ME not... i die rly a lot coz of this :) still one of the best games ever :)

[MaximumEffort]

Because its an old game. cover mode was in infancy back then.

[DocStrangelove]

In ME1 there's no button or anything for taking cover, it's moving against the wall or back from it.

In ME2 everything "works" better, although for my taste it was a bit over-simplified there. It's all about cover combat there with very little variation. In ME1 you also have open spaces, freighters full of crates, close combat, long-range combat. Go too far to the edge of the cover and risk being hit. More realistic. There was different cover, some of it not good at all, which forced another approach.

Yes, it's a bit clunky, but also more "organic" (or less "digital") and varied, and I like that.

[Viper]

This was one of the first games to even have cover mode. The game was made almost 10 years ago.

[Peasant]

Don't forget enemy fire passing through walls.