You can't change companion weapons or armour

Can we atleast customize their avengers? Aka:

Is this some sort of joke? Ok the armour thing I kind of expected, but the guns, really?

I really don't get why this would be done, as all it does is take tactical decisions away from the player even further, by limiting who can be taken on certain missions, like the sniper character? Great, but don't take them into a cqb mission as they don't have a side-arm to make up for it, same with cqb characters, not ideal for long, open spaces. The only characters that seem viable all-rounders are the ones with assault rifles...I wonder how this will affect higher difficulties?

Really stupid decision in my opinion & I'm really hoping that, in a future patch this will be reversed, but I doubt it.

Disappointed.

The sad thing is Bull actually makes sense being dressed like that because his Specialization is based on him taking damage. Something tells me the Andromeda cast won't have the same excuse.

I feel neutral about this design choice. On the one hand I did kind of like changing squads appearance and weapons in other Bioware games, but on the other hand sometimes it just felt like busywork to me. I won't have a definite answer to how I feel about this till I play the game for myself   .

You certainly can't claim Peebee is a 900 year old justicar so she doesn't need armor.

She's a Liara-aged hipster.

A system like DA:I's where armor had different looks based on what was equipped but still maintained a distinct aesthetic for the character would have been fine. Dorian and Bull both have more armored/protective variants of their base outfits as the game went along. I didn't even expect that, but I did hope there would be at least one more 'look' in ME:A for the characters as has been the case for the last 2 games.

Maybe not 90% but close to it. I just don't get it. They finally build an actual economy, crafting and gear progression environment for the first time in the series since ME1 and then... undermine it instantly by reducing the number of characters it will be needed for from 7 to 1? Why even bother?

Well, again, getting armor choices for squadmates doesn't necessarily guarantee that we'd like any of the appearances.

Oh come on, DAI has at least a few good looking armors... still better to have the chance then no option at all. You can slice it which ever way you like, but that's either a decision born of laziness or time constrains... or BW is actually serious in making MEA even more a pure shooter then we thought, but why then have crafting at all?

It will certainly cut down on the time it takes to gather materials and crafting if you only do it for Ryder and the Nomad