Changing your weapons and armor in Mass Effect: Andromeda takes a little more effort than you might think. You can pick weapons and armor up from defeated enemies or find bits and pieces stored away in containers, ripe for the taking. However, unlike most other games that have some sort of loot system, you can't simply equip weapons and armor from the inventory menu. We know, it seems a bit weird.
How to change weapons and armor in Mass Effect: Andromeda
Here's how to switch your Mass Effect: Andromeda equipment out:
Establish a forward base
Essentially, you need to access a loadout screen to swap your gear. The easiest way to access one is to plant a forward base on a planet. Once the little shuttle has come down, you should be able to walk up to it and open the loadout menu through a prompt. You may have to look around each side of the shuttle to find the prompt.
Once on the loadout screen, you can change weapons, mods, armor, and even squadmates.
Or visit the Tempest
Aboard your ship, the Tempest, there's a room right next to the cockpit that has a loadout station in it. Walking away from the galaxy map, it's the first room on your right. Simply go up to it and use the prompt.
You also get an automatic loadout screen when you choose to land on a planet from the galaxy map.
Check out our Mass Effect: Andromeda character builds guide and Mass Effect: Andromeda romance walkthrough. We also show you how to reset skill points in Mass Effect: Andromeda. Finally, if you're struggling with the game, check out our Mass Effect: Andromeda tips and tricks.
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This game is getting way too much hate. It's not perfect by any means but it's far from the crapfest the internet/reviews have made it out to be.
The combat is the best in the series to date.
@Splat
I forgot this is the internet I'm supposed to hate everything.
This is one of the most odd choices I've seen in the game, that I hoped would be fixed from past ME games. I pick up a weapon, my omni tool has the ability to immediately turn it into scrap, but i can't put it in my hands and fire it? Why? Even DAI let you swap things at will.
@Splat
I am really enjoying the game too.
Although the facial animations are a bit iffy the voice acting is generally good, the story got me hooked straight away and so far from only about 5hrs of playtime I would give it a solid 7 or an 8.
I've just finished Horizon which was excellent but this game is very good too.
@Splat
Wholeheartedly agree.
It got mid 70s on Metacritc.
Sure the previous entries got 90s but for all intents and purposes, given this is a new team AND new hardware, its a first in series.
If it was 50s Id say yeah okay its average.
Lower still and yes, a bad game.
But nobody can seriously tell me that just below 80s in a userbase scoring system is a bad game.
@ToOGoodOfAPlaya but this isn't the point.
It's meant to be Mass Effect, cutting edge graphics, world building and game play. which interlockes conversational choices made by your Shephard into a darker take on the reasons for the universe building to a crescendo of alien invasion and the Will to fight back.
Now it's just some badly animated no mark running around with unlimited abilities with the longest list of fetch quests outside of Santa Claus.
It's not the worst game ever, it's probably a 6/10 Imo.
But mass effect last gen was rated as a Star Wars beater. Bioware a stamp of quality. In previous games you rarely felt inundated with mundane things to do. Now it's the whole game! This wasn't meant to be a so so game with even worse scanning than me2, enemies ripped from Halo, weird eyeballs and a lazy B movie Sci-fi plot. That's why a lot of people are annoyed.
Mass Effect Andromeda is basically this generations Alien 3.
Still enjoying it enough so far to keep playing, but damn, do I miss the old battlesystem, ordering my squadmates what to do and make detonation combo's.....(huge) step back imo.
For those having trouble equipping Arms and Legs, note that some chest pieces already include them (you'll see arms/legs already attached in the loadout screen for that chest piece), which means you won't be able to equip any more arms/legs if you have that chest piece equipped.
Also worth noting is Nomad Vehicle upgrades, once you have them in your inventory they'll be automatically equipped the next time you land on a planet and call the Nomad.
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