The Tempest thread (confirmed 100% weaponry free)

Even if there aren't true warships, they cant slap some guns on civilian craft?

And the whole unarmed ship and rover is ON THE FREAKING ORIENTATION!

Who wouldn't go "F*ck that noise" when hearing that in a galaxy that has thresher maws!?

The funny thing is that the Milk Way is so fearful of hostile alien races that they don't even let you activate Relays. But going to Andromeda is less risky it seems.

Yes they did. 
1) The Normandy was in stealth mode. We hear Pressly say that in the opening cutscene after they drop out of FTL. The stealth system only hides heat emissions, not the actual ship. You can still see it visually, but as Adams put it "You have to be pretty close to see something in space". As for traveling at sub-light speed, they were investigating the system because of reported Geth activity in the area. 
2) Most likely, a couple of things. First, they have Reaper tech so who knows what the Reapers can detect. It seems apparent that the stealth systems alone aren't enough to hide the Normandy from them. Second, that reported Geth activity was most likely a lie to lure the Normandy to that system. They knew that was the Normandy's mission, so they used that as bait and were expecting them hence pouncing on them almost immediately. 

we have no weapons on our vehicles we come in peace = space hippies

because we only have one star cluter worth of habitable planets, he might not have a choice at all. Have you seen footage of the Fiend? You are telling me you'd not rather take that on on a tank?

How far you have to reach to try and explain this issue alone should tell people how dumb it really is.

"What if they left before they had time to install them"? Yeah, what if they got the shipping address wrong or mixed up and we have 10,000 spare data drives while some intern at the Bumfuck Artificial Research Station is scratching his head and wondering what he's going to do with 12 dreadnaught sized mass accelerator cannons, 500 Javelin Missiles and 50 antipersonnel turrets.

Sounds more like a spoof webcomic than a serious game. What, was the guy in charge of procurement for the AI named Frohman?

You know the one argument that I am surprised has not been advanced (that I have seen anyways) Is if the Tempest did have weapons it would be just asking for trouble. Even the original SR-1 is bigger then it. So even if it did have weapons to defend itself pretty uch everything it would run into would rip it apart limb for limb. Running away is its only option really for survival.

Now the Nomad is a different story, but again, been there.

me included, quite a few people. Because that is what we were told "we come in peace this we need to have weaponless vehicles so we do not antagonize the alien races we come in contact with"

Sounds like hippy bullshit to me. I am all on board with coming in peace but if the races we encounter are not peaceful I want to be able to defend myself. Case in point, the yahg.


Tuchanka is habitable, not optimal but habitable. Point being if a planet like tuchanka is one of the very few we can inhabit and/or it has unique resources that need to be tended to then we might very well need that freaking tank.

I play as paragon as anyone and even I think this is Stupid Good

Generally speaking?  Yes.  They are the modern day equivalent of Phalanx batteries on our Aircraft carriers.  Strictly anti missile or anti fighter defense.  Though there was the GARDIAN ground based system which 'drove off' the Collector ship so...maybe?  

We don't know that we can't.  I mean I doubt we can but we don't know.  All we know is the Tempest does not have arms when we first get our hands on her. 

It should have been the SSV Shitstorm.

No, what people have showed is that there is multiple way it can be viewed. The problem is that there are people that just shrug off any ideas that is not saying that Bioware is stupid.

But we will see when the game is out. i don't worry about it, so no problem for me.