User blog comment:FirstDrellSpectre/My wishlist about Mass Effect: Next/@comment-173.58.251.107-20141229044311

Actually, Grunt/Ashley/James/Zaeed while playing as a Soldier does have some use, if you specialize them in different aspects, like, if Shepard is all about damage, you could have someone set up to be a Tank character, so they aren't useless.

Hostile environment, yeah, that sounds like a good idea, to a reasonable extent, something like "gas tank goes up, leaves fire for a bit of time" not "gas tank goes up, wildfire that kills everyone spreads and the mission goes from fight to objective to run to objective or be incinerated".