You can't change companion weapons or armour

Whether or not I expected it doesn't really make it less crappy. Still, it would have been a nice opportunity to design helmets specifically for them, akin to how turians have helmets to accommodate their head spikes. 

I can kinda see it. The Nomad is Ryder's ride (couldn't resist). She owns it, so she gets to determine the paint job.

I'd pick customizing the Nomad over customizing squadmates (assuming we're just talking cosmetics). OTOH, that's a contest between a feature of minimal interest and a feature of zero interest, so nobody should be polling me for my ideas on cosmetics.

Hope, sure. I was talking prediction, not hope.

I found the lack of squad equipment to be a genuine surprise; they're borrowing other stuff from DAI, and I thought they'd borrow that too. But I didn't see any reason to think that adopting the DAI system would have any effect on either the art design or on the art design trumping lore. As it happens, they've kept the awful ME2+ design philosophy and failed to adopt the superior DAI gear approach.

You know what? I always thought that there was a easy way to make the "armor" of the asari (and some of the other Npc) make sense: If they had said that long usage of Biotic made the skin harden or more resistant to damage/environmental dangers.
Of course it would be "magic bs" but it would have been in the lore, something that can be used to explain why some characters don't want to wear armor. Of course, 1 more layer of armor is better, but it shouldn't be breaking the lore.

More money for InXile, Obsidian, and Harebrained Schemes, I guess...

But then again why a tech character would have no tech to protect herself ?
We have fire ammo and cryo ammo, and in some case fire thrower and ice thrower that can come out of the gloves but having the same tech, except less powerful to ensure someone body stability ? Implant to regulate your body temperature or for having a thicker skin. I mean those are already described in core ability of previous mass effect game.
Moreover maybe Asari have a strongest resilience than human to temperature after all they have a strongest cell regeneration process and we saw that Liara did not need a complete mask when in low atmosphere like Palaven moon (but it is more probably bullshit)

As for a radioactive planet i wouldn't bring her.
But if the goal is to colonize the planet I consider the planet is not entirely radioactive, why bother if it was not the case.
And once again on a radioactive planet bring the damn Krogan !!!!!

I was kinda the same way my self, since ME1 I basically gave each squadmate a different weapon as a "personal weapon" for their character 

I wish I could like a few more times.

So I'll just do a QFT

That is not full body protection.
In 3 case out of 4 the face is not protected, it may seem nitpicking but that is the very important point.
Showing a guy with only a mask to protect him is just making my point. the suit he is wearing does not prevent him from instantly dying, the gas mask does that, and Pee Bee wore one. Of course the guy is wearing cloth because we don't wander naked, but that suit does not protect him.

There is a difference between an hostile environment requiring you full body protection because if you don't have that protection you die, and one were you should have one but won't kill you if you don't have it. And once again : Mass Effect => Future tech. And the game had already its lot of implant, special tech, biotic ability and gene manipulation to go around that particular issue. Dammit we can travel to another galaxy but we cannot regulate body temperature...I mean except with cryopod. I'm sure an entire project about colonization would have work on environemental solution to the planet they want to colonize. You think their plan is to have every farmer taking its military grade armor when he wants to go out ?
As for the soldier one you just show a special forces especialy train for close combat and in that case yes : close combat = armor because it can protect you from light weapon. But if you look at a common soldier he does not wear armor except for a small part of the body that are very vulnerable
And we are talking about current war.

But maybe i'm wrong and we are just trying to colonize planet that are totally unfit for life, without taking that particular factor in consideration, they must be really dumb in the AI.
No really showing half protected man in extreme condition during the 21th century to prove that we couldn't do the same with a entire organisation based on that goal with technology waaaaaaaaaaaaay more advanced is not making your point.

In mass effect you have common weapon that can destroy an atlas, I don't see how a standard armor would be mandatory when it is already not the case depending on your unit. Saying that a field scientist should have armor is not a very good point, that like looking at a paper rpg and insult the mage or the rogue for having small armor rating...A soldier going in the front should have protection. Having a shield is already some kind of protection and way more useful than an armor when it comes to preventing a bullet to kill you.

It somewhat did when you look at the armor customization for the Inquisitor 

Small point of order.
How did the mass effect fields covering the massive holes in the Normandy at the end of ME2 protect everyone from those exact same things?

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