You can't change companion weapons or armour

Yeah I hope that modders will find way to put armor on others with human skeleton....

I'd like to see how this works in practice.

I'll admit I never changed companion weapons in any playthrough.
But I did like varying the companion armor.

We can't change how other players dress in multiplayer so this is just an extension of that:

We can tell our squad where to go and what to attack,
but they are responsible for getting dressed and their equipment.

Then maybe you should play CoD instead

But if you hated changing their gear why did you even bother? Some of us (most?) actually liked that aspect in ME or DA games, even in ME2/3 you had choices to give them different look and weapons, now we will have none.. 

I get that people are excited about new ME game, but believe me it will pass sooner or later..

I agree also I think that is huge mistake that EA/Bioware don't invite ME veterans to help him in choice some things like this in game at least make polls about it and send it on mails of ME veterans (there is easy way to find who is veteran with looking into Origin and see who have big sum of hours in ME games)

I could change my companions armors in Skyrim.. Just had to give them armors with better stats so they changed it to better one automatically, and The Witcher series was never about team play that much so yeah 

E: Did i just replied to wrong post? 

Yes, clearly I'm a CoD guy. That's why I care so much about character agency. 

I did it in ME1 because if I didn't the companions became even more useless in combat than they already were.

I did it in ME2 and ME3 because the outfits were there already and all I had to do was press a button a few times, so I figured why not? It's not something I'll really miss, though.

''I did that because I just had to press a button''

This pretty much concludes 90% of today's gamers and why big companies like Ubi, EA etc. are doing theirs games so casual like they are doing these days

It's just an assumption at this point. We just don't know how it works.

Nothing says that they don't have any preset alternate appearances (DLC and\or plot-related), no one said that we can't mod&customize their preset weapon loadouts.

All we know 100% is that 'dress the doll' is not on the MEA features list, and that (very likely) companions are limited with their choice of weapons.

So...DLC then? I'm sorry but I'm not bringing Peebee to the lava planet like that.

I think with the combat and class profile system, BioWare have added a major shift in the series that moves away from the RPG style of classes. Until I actually use it, it's hard to say if this will be a positive and welcome change, just something different or something I don't like.

I'd have to agree with some of the thoughts on 'streamlining' the system in terms of losing the RPG elements, especially as a long time BioWare fan. But things are always changing. When ME 3 introduced multiplayer, I was against it - thinking that the resources should have been use for the SP. However, MP turned out to add a lot of RPG elements - a wide variety of races, classes, skills to choose and advance in a variety of ways. So the MP portion added a lot of diversity to the game, even if I couldn't access it SP.

In Skyrim modding, there's a huge variety of stand alone followers/companions that can be added to the game (or actually created with the Creation Kit).

If SP Andromeda had a squadmate that's more customizable, or even a new character (or two) that could be created at some point... Say one that you have to 'earn' after the initial play through or even DLC or some game event. Or just a more customizable (unvoiced) companion that you can introduce at some point further in the game without disrupting the game story and game play, it could add a lot of replay value to the game.

Too bad EA keeps ignoring (blocking?) the potential of modding.

Squadmates did fak all in Mass Effect, I mainly used them for abilities. The hardest I went up to was Hardcore.