Equipping your teammates?

It seems odd. There is such a focus on crafting and loot.

That was my take as well.   On the flip side,  unlike ME1 your team doesn't all look the same.

The new Bioware team decided that its an useless feature and homosexual romance needs more dialogue

Yeah, I think I gave the chief engineer the wrong impression... There were talks of getting naked... oops.

You flirted with him... Twice.

I think it's for several reasons:

1) Squad AI is on shaky enough ground with the faster combat that Bioware needed to optimize each squaddie's AI for one loadout. Otherwise everyone who equipped Liam with a thong and a hammer would complain that combat didn't work.

2) People complained that Shepard always carried a Predator pistol or avenger in cutscenes even if all she had on her was a Black Widow. Having to take into account what each squadmate is equipped with for cutscenes is not something they wanted to deal with, I think.

3) The research and crafting menus are unwieldy as they are. Having to research, develop and collect up to 6X more stuff to outfit 6 more people makes me want to . I barely craft or buy anything for Ryder. 6X more of it? No thanks.

Don't get me wrong, I like dressing up my toons too, but I think there would be more bitter complaining if they had tried to implement this feature with the rest of the game the way it is now. If they still had tactical pause and less involved crafting it would have been more feasible, but with the game as it is it wouldn't work well IMO.

Well with that being said, in some cut scenes a weapon I never equipped would magically appear in my hands, namely this one.


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