Weapons and weapon customization (Official Thread)

600 years old weapons? unlikely
anyway i like the cerberus harrier, the claymore shotgun and the turian machine gun i dont remember its name

The Phaeston assault rifle? I like the Phaeston's look and sound. It was fun finding it on my first playthrough, seeing an alien rifle finally, and upgrading the Avenger with something completely new.

No that looks very much like it, I just missed the graphic in the bottom left hand corner the ten or so times I have watched the trailer so far. 

Yeah, same. I was like "woooohh" the first time I saw it on the ground. It's a shame how they didn't even give the gun to turians in the campaign, they were all using the crappy Avenger.

Mattock.  Loved that rifle.  Never used any other assault rifle once I got it.  Yes, love the Widow, the Phlanax and Locust...but the Mattock was my go to for my Soldier.  I only switched when I ran out of thermal clips, and switched back the second I had more.  It was awesome.

You know I completely forgot about the Vindicator but it'd be a nice addition too for my Ryder's.

I loved how they added visual weapon customization in ME3, but I haven't seen any concrete evidence that it's making a return in ME Andromeda. So I'm just wondering if anyone knows.

I really like the Executioner and hope someone brought it to Andromeda.

CHRrOME already mentioned it posted it , but here's a screenshot of the Black Widow:

I'm assuming it's a Black Widow and not a Widow, since it has 2 rounds left (probably fired 1 already), with a nice 12 reserve, a multiple of 3.

And you're right that the Carnifex had variants, but we know it's in the game itself thanks to the orientation video:

It remains to be seen if the one Ryder grabbed in the gameplay video is the vanilla Carnifex, but I think it is and just has a new paint-scheme. Remember, the Paladin is smaller, for one thing.

Actually, the Geth Plasma Shotgun could easily fit the timeline, since it was usable in ME2 (and presumably existed in ME1), before the Arks leave.

The Arc Pistol was made by Daro'Xen, but it doesn't say when it was designed. Since the Reegar Carbine is in, and it was an iteration of the Arc Pistol design (apparently), it would actually make sense to show up.

I agree that some weapons should not feature thermal clips! The Prothean Particle Rifle was one of my favourite weapons... though partly because I just love beam weapons

1. Actually, the ME3 Widow is a new variant designed specifically to be able to be used by non-synthetics, and the Black Widow is yet another attempt at improvement by the Alliance, so I'd figure those are the ones Ryder and co. would be using in ME:A, not the ME2 original variant.

2. But I agree they shouldn't break lore, much as I like all the weapons. However, after going through the descriptions of all the weapons I was concerned about, they should all fit. The Kyrsae was my biggest worry, since I remembered it being designed during the Reaper War, but I remembered wrong; only the specific variant of Krysae in ME3 was, it was a Turian anti-matériel rifle before. Some of the others don't list specific invention dates, so they're good too, like the Quarian anti-synthetic weapons.

Also, I remembered this from the Krysae's description:

"In a desperate move, the turians released its specifications over the extranet so that nearly anyone with a fabricator could manufacture this weapon to help the war effort."
So they should also keep up with the lore because it's often either interesting or amusing.

I agree on the Piranha, was never a fan of its design... at least for a shotgun. I feel like it was designed as a grenade launcher and was changed partway through development for whatever reason. Or at least, it looks like it

The Eagle is underrated, and quite unique, being fully-automatic. And it's a variant of the Phalanx (also underrated)! It has an interesting firing sound, too, even if not overly threatening. It's great with Marksman Also, I was amused at its description, which is also one of the few real-life references in ME lore:

"The Eagle is named after the Desert Eagle, a classic handgun which gained a romantic reputation among gun collectors, thanks to its popularity in 20th- and 21st-century Earth action movies."


To answer the thread question: I want all of them!

ME3's weapon diversity, combined with mods and powers, made its combat very fun with a lot of variety in how all those things acted together. But special mention goes to the Chakram Launcher, simply because I never got to use it, being an exclusive cross-over with Kingdoms of Amalur: Recoking


See, this is why I don't like exclusives! If they release it months later, or even as paid DLC, whatever, but when I can never get it, like the Blackstorm in ME2, Banshee is

Uh... you know the crews are in cryostasis during the journey, right? Not doing R&D. So they're going to be using the gear they brought with them. And "600 years old" is fairly meaningless in this case, since they're going to be the only Milky Wayers in Andromeda, so you can't really compare their tech to native Andromedans' by that scale no matter how old it is by MW standards.

Add me to the list of being very interested by the Phaeston and liking its immediately-alien design in my first playthrough, though my wonder came from the weapon ads throughout the Citadel instead, and I kept wondering when/if I'd actually find one! It has a cool name, too. Wish we got to see the alien militaries use their own weapons in ME3, though many of them were DLC.

The Saber is a blast! If you're patient and precise. I have fond memories of sitting on the ramp on Tuchanka in MP popping Cerberus goons in one hit each as they came around the far corner The firing sound is awesome, too, including the mechanical whirring between shots:

I don't think we saw weapons, but from the gameplay trailer armor certainly looks customizable in a DAI-ish way: separate head, chest, arms, and legs, and each of those has slots inside of it that change its properties and appearance. I'd say it's pretty likely weapons have something similar (if it wasn't blatantly shown and I'm missing it).

Yeah, I wouldn't be surprised if you can craft the mods like in DAI and then install them on the weapons bench like in ME3.