The cover should make sense for the environment. In the area with the mech there is plenty of cover, the player just didnt use it because they were playing as a vanguard, the class that is designed to be in the enemies face. An engineer wouldnt have the same play style as a vanguard. The area with the monster didnt have cover because it was an open field! It was wack how in the later games you would be travelling through what seemed like a sensible environment and then you look ahead and its a hallway or room with nothing but thigh high walls. That right there let you know its time for the enemies to show up and it happened over and over again.
Mass Effect should be more than just a hallway shooter, its also a space exploration game. People wanted the exploration from the first game improved, not outright removed. All they had to improve from ME1 is the mako and reduce the generic enemy camps and make them more of a unique encounter. It looks as if they have done that here. As far as the barren planet goes, well two things the point of the game is to find a new home for the species in the Milky Way, which requires going to unexplored planets and finding out if they are habitable. And secondly, there are plenty of places on Earth where if i dropped your ass off you would think its just a barren, empty, repetitive environment.
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seeing these posts about class selection. started playing 2 made a Sentinel. 
still escaping the ship
