The Tempest thread (confirmed 100% weaponry free)

The point I was trying to make is that at this point, leaving the Nomad and the Tempest both weapon less, seems even more silly.

Any ship can lose any other ship in FTL, because the sensors only work at light speed.  It doesn't really say anything about the speed.

Though really I don't see how a top speed makes sense given the mechanics of Mass Effect space flight.  We should have a maximum acceleration instead.

Yeah, but tracking it's still possible even at FTL speed.
I know when and where you jumped, I extrapolate a route based on last known position and I intercept you at the exit point, If I'm faster than you.
On short distances jump, it is possible to set up ambushes.
This at least is my explanation for why in game we needed to exit a system to effectively lose the reapers in ME3.

No i think it's a far bigger thing that the tempest is a completely defenseless lamb. The Normandy did use its weapons across the trilogy & more importantly there was the potential for it to use its weapons. The rover being defenseless is odd but at least while probably just a gameplay decision there are ground forces which can defend a defenceless rover. However the tempest can neither defend itself or defend any assets it has on the ground aerially.

Of course it doesn't make sense. I already said it doesn't make sense. But the Nomad's weaponry wouldn't be conspicuous by its absence, so none of the conversation leading up to this thread would have happened.

I wouldn't be so quick to jump to this conclusion either: this is sci fi we are talkin about, after all. The realm of the possible and the far fetched plausible, but still grounded in reality and a quantifiable logic. 
Otherwise just strap Drack on the roof of the Nomad and makes him belch "Shoop da Whoop" to emit a wave motion gun to destroy our enemies.
At least, my two cents on the matter.

MirandaLawsonromance cough cough... 

    No, see, again, I think you've confused the issue. Hypothetically, even if we get all the info and play the game and both vehicles have no weapons and there is no in-game reason, codex or otherwise, to justify such a design, it still wouldn't be a plot hole.

    This is a problem I'm seeing all over the forum with people claiming that issues they have with the Initiative are plot holes. They are not. A plot hole is a logical inconsistency with a story that cannot be true given earlier, established conditions of characters or events. Now, if the Tempest is said to have no guns for the entire game then at the climax blow something up with a cannon that magically appears beneath its nose, then that's a plot hole. Once again, you interpreting the lack of guns as problematic is not a plot hole. It cannot be. It will never be. I can not have played the game and know that.

I agree that the lack of guns on either the Nomad class or the Tempest class vessels cannot be, in and of itself, a plot hole, since neither class of vessel was revealed in the ME Trilogy, so there is no lore established specifically regarding those vessels and there is actually no lore that has been really established in the Trilogy regarding the deep-space exploration practices undertaken by private companies.

The Enterprise. Wasn't their whole mission about exploration and finding/making contact with new species. To boldly go where no one has gone before? (Kinda like what the species from the Milky Way are doing when going to Andromeda...)

They had phaser banks and photon torpedoes. 

Hmm... I don't believe I've said anywhere that the "Tempest is designed as a scout only vessel."  I've only said previously that Bioware's decision to make it unarmed could be a plot device with some sort of reasoning behind it... i.e. some way in which the absence of those weapons advances their story direction (for better or worse).  In the above post, I was only agreeing with the semantics... it's not a plot hole because no lore in the ME universe regarding such classes of vessels has, to the best of my knowledge, ever been introduced by Bioware.  Perhaps is it that Bioware have said that Tempest is designed as a scout only vessel?

Like many others, I think it's possible that we might be able to upgrade the Nomad and Tempest with weapons at some point... if not in this game, perhaps in a future installment.  I don't have a crystal ball, though.  It's also possible that we won't.  I don't think anyone here has a monopoly on crystal balls either... So, other than that, I've only said that I'm going to just wait to find out from them before deciding about it either way.

EDIT:  What many people seem to be doing here is attempting to apply "logic" to the situation.  As a plot device (regardless of whether it is a bad plot device or a good one), the decision may be meant to be intentionally illogical and that illogic used somehow within the plot to advance the story itself.  However, we just won't know until after we know the plot.