Am I missing something? Beginning of game question

calcapa posted...

Look everyone, the troll strikes again. Seriously dude stop using this site to irritate Everyone. This is getting old.

Report every one of his posts as trolling, like I do. Eventually, the mods will come around to ban him.
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Scrooge_McDuck posted...

Actually, Shepard and all his squad member can equip any weapon in ME1 (bar the submachine gun, for it didn't exist back then). It's simply wouldn't always be effective due to weapon proficiency stats

It wasn't just the bonuses from the skill, though. If you weren't an Infil or Soldier, you couldn't scope with the sniper rifle, for example. The game just wouldn't let you. Similarly, accuracy was hugely reduced on weapons that you had no training in. As a result, having the weapons at all was pretty pointless. Fortunately, pistols were too good for their own good in ME1.
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JimiMorrison187 posted...

So....where exactly is this info BTW about the lighter weapons and powers?

Explain further please. Played ME2 several times and never saw anything of that sort mentioned. <br />

Your name is familiar... I guess you just finally got around to ME3?

Weapon weights are only in ME3. In ME3, any character can use any weapon and be equally proficient with it. However, each weapon has a certain weight associate with it. That weight is measured in cooldown percentage. If you exceed your weight limit, then the weight of weapons will then cut into your power cooldown bonus.

Basically, it works like this:

Weight limit = core encumbrance + weight capacity bonus

Weapon cooldown bonus = 200% + weight limit - sum of weapon weights

Weapon cooldown bonus has a cap of +200% and a floor of -200%. Your total cooldown time is determined by the following formulae:

For sum of cooldown bonuses > 0,
Cooldown = base cooldown / (1 + sum of cooldown bonuses)

For sum of cooldown bonuses < 0,
Cooldown = base cooldown * (1 - sum of cooldown bonuses)
(Note that the sum is negative here, so the result is a linear increase with cooldown penalty.)

Cooldown bonuses include the weapon cooldown bonus listed above as well as skill upgrades which affect cooldowns and bonuses from equipment and intel (SP only).

In SP, Shepard has a core encumbrance of 75% and capacity bonuses from 50% (Engineer, Adept) to 100% (Soldier). Thus, a Soldier can have a weapon weight limit of up to 175%. Note that some weapons weigh more than this even at level X (e.g. the Widow).

In MP, you have a core encumbrance of 30% for most characters, with Turians at 40% and Krogan at 50% (and I believe the Drellguard is at 60% -- don't quote me on that, though). Max bonuses vary depending on class, but are usually 30% for most (i.e. 60% total), 40% for Turians (80% total), and 50% for Krogans (100% total).

Weapon weights vary, with the absolute lightest weapon (Predator X, unless you include lightweight-modded SMGs) weighing in at 20% and the heaviest weighing in at 300% (Javelin I).

Note that any of these factors can be changed in the Coalesced.bin file. If you want to use a Claymore on a Vanguard, you can always increase Shepard's base encumbrance to 500% or something. Careful messing with things that affect MP, though.
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