June 2021
Look, I'm not lazy. I just think that either the credit rewards for missions and pickups need to be adjusted as well as the pricing of these weapons and armor. It's a tiny bit unrealistic to expect experiencing even a tiny portion of all these weapons and armor in a single diversive playthrough. I'm not complaining (yet) but looking at these prices, I know that I'm either gonna have to penny pinch the entire game to get, like, one cool weapon. That, or spend a LONG time in the citadel DLC Arena, and that sounds like a slog on an insanity playthrough. I'm not saying make them cheap but leaving it as it is seems a bit silly. A good way to lesson the blow is let ME2 imports have a carryover of some creds just to have to experiment on weapons and armor.
June 2021 - last edited June 2021
Agreed, in the original ME3 it usually takes me ~3-4 playthroughs to purchase and upgrade everything. I wouldn't say I mind it terribly as most of the purchases are upgrades I don't need, but the DLC weapons and armor are pretty expensive, so if you want to try everything you'll need a good deal of money.
If anything, it'd be nice if the shooting range on the Citadel gave you access to all the weapons so you could try them all there before purchasing them. I don't think I've used the shooting range since my first playthrough of the original game.
I do have two suggestions: go to the Citadel to purchase items instead of through the Normandy store interface, as the Normandy has a 10% markup, and wait to purchase anything until after you have both of the +5% Store Discount bonuses from the Intel Terminal. The 10% reduction in prices makes a big difference.
Additionally, any weapons and equipment you don't pick up on a mission will show up in-store, so you can avoid some costs by making sure to pick everything up.
June 2021
This was an issue on the original release and there wasn't any credit or equipement transfer (most of the weapons we have to buy or upgrade and even find on the field are some we already got in the previous game).
June 2021 - last edited June 2021
I have to say I agree with this, I mean it's fine for those people that want to grind away in the arena, but as you said, on insanity difficulty it gets very tedious. At this point I have trouble just getting enough credits to buy more than one of the weapons I like to use because they're all 125000 or higher. It just feels as if the amount of money you get from the game if you don't grind for hours on end in the arena, and the price of these weapons and armor are completely unbalanced. I mean this is a single player game, I don't see why they can't balance out the prices a bit better so that people can actually try out multiple spectre weapons in a single playthrough without having to grind forever.
June 2021
I honestly don't mind grinding in the arena, but the prices for the DLC equipment are pretty crazy to not have added any additional credits to the game.
I agree that there should be an import bonus, a reduction in the prices of those items, and/or some additional credit rewards somewhere during the game.
June 2021
I agree with this, i'm in my second playthrough with same character and could barely afford like 2-3 dlc weapons, they're ridiculous overpriced, specially if you won't use them much (would be cool to let at least try them to see if you like it or not before purchase), plus the prices for the upgrades.
June 2021 - last edited June 2021
Yeah, the Arena is fun, but I agree, the DLC stuff seem a bit overpriced.
January 2022 - last edited January 2022
I remember most of dlc on the xbox 360 & PS3 versions weapons and Armor was already added to your inventory. I don't understand why they didn't just do same with the Xbox One Version its kinda a let down not having everything already added pretty much killed the hype with all this damn grinding i want my stuff now. I do get buying weapon upgrades but this is a major step back from the last gen versions. I had access to the N7 weapons after completing the Earth Prelude mission but now I have to buy them whoever made this decision must not value our time.
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