You can't change companion weapons or armour

Funny thing...I'm NOT a big micromanagement fan.  But I do like making adjustments to my companions to help them function better and look like a team.  

I like putting IB in proper armor., or adjusting the color of an outfit so we look more like a unit and not like a ragtag bunch of misfits.  I like designing weapons that I think emphasize the strengths of a character, mitigate their weaknesses, and complement my own character.  I don't use a calculator to min/max things.  I just like trying out new things.

Edit:  Even being able to adjust their appearances, without a functional change, would have been SOMETHING

Wow i didnt expect this, i was pretty angry when i heard their was no more squad commands and the use of their powers. But this really? This is one thing that is great about Dragon Age Inquisition. Not having this ability in mass effect especially the weapons wow really dont know what to say except this is really unfortunate. Good thing we get a 10 hour trial, plenty of opportunity to cancel and or not pre order, thankful for that atleast.
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Yeah, I remember seeing Vega bounce grenades all over the place.

Yup.

Yup, and if you bring her to the frosty planet she will die instantly

Attack? Yeah, powers? NOPE! (sadly...hell, there goes my plan of re-tooling the squad, which IMHO is needed because almost off of them favor close range combat (!)...but if they carry certain guns (shotguns especially) then I can't even do that because they'd be useless at range!)

Thanks Bioware, you make something that looks great and then you fuck up a basic RPG-Mechanic...WHY? WHY? WHY? (and don't tell me that that would have taken extremely many resources or time (I might have bought that when you were a small studio not owned by "We make big money" EA!)

greetings LAX
ps: I want them doctors back at the helm

Looks like you're referring to the Venom shotgun.  Don't think I ever downloaded taht DLC so can't comment

They retired and are never coming back, mwhahahahaha! To be honest i have no idea how big their influence was in the later years. I feel the loss of key members like Brent Knowles and Trent Oster has been worse than the Doctors. 

I think they were constantly fighting against marketing meddling from the EA higher ups because they DO, and have been, influencing the design of these games as far back as ME2 (but I actually think it changed after ME3 which was the last Riccitello-led project) and by the time ME3 shipped they were just burned out and not passionate enough to care about what the games were. If you listen to any interview of Ray talking about ME3 you can hear he's barely aware of what is in the game because he keeps going back to the same bulletpoints as ME1 as well as ME3's marketing tagline. I don't think he cared anymore.

I don't see a problem with that. I would like for my Ryder and the other squadmate to laugh at her turning into a popsicle