: You can see from the prototype that they were actually a lot like the Flood
: initially, in that you could shoot off their limbs to alter how they
: attack you. Shoot of the projectile or the melee limb and you have a
: significantly different gameplay scenario on-hand. I agree it would have
: been really cool to retain that.

I was jotting down some ideas for how to make the Prometheans a robot race that's fun to fight, and shooting/blowing off limbs was going to be one of the main features. Kind of like the Loki mechs from ME2, only smarter.

Great minds think alike!