Just got myself into ME3 part of LE and really can't believe what I'm seeing.All DLC stuff has moved into stores. Adding a screenshot to show what I saw (just the very start of the game, Garrus recruited).In the original ME3, all those guns except the three first were available at the game start, but now for some reason we have to buy them. Alright, that's probably a good thing from a gameplay point of view, but now there's no way we could collect all the stuff, because money amount hasn't changed, not to mention money needed to advance guns to level 5.Now that looks like a completely gameplay oversight.Would that thing change in future, or we should wait for mods to bring the stuff back?P.S. Valiant costs how much? Ouch.

I agree with this as before, some people have complained about the overpriced dlc weapons and such, it's frustrating how they haven't done anything regarding this despite multiple post about it.The Arena is not a valid option for those who want to enjoy the game the way it's supposed to (Playing Citadel DLC before Final Mission).And grinding from missions and such its not enough, i also had to do NG+ just to get the mod gun to level 10 for the trophy. It's ridiculous and they have to do something about it.

Well, you can grind it out in the Armex Arsenal Arena, boom, infinite money.But I don't think grinding is a good idea. It doesn't fit the theme of Mass Effect games imo, and the prices for most weapons are simply too high. 250k for the Valiant? biower plsA higher starting bonus, maybe an import bonus capped at 50k from Mass Effect 2 in addition to the 35k from the first mission would help, as well as weapon prices tweaks. Right now these "balanced" prices looks like someone threw darts at random numbers while being blindfolded. Noone should be forced to grind out the arena (even though I like doing it from time to time once available).

Yeah, I'm fine with adding additional money sinks since you can grind for credits in ME3 (unlike ME2), but they went overboard on the prices. It's fine if they don't want you to be able to purchase everything, but with the existing economy, it's really not worth purchasing anything.They should start by dividing them all by 10 and then looking to see if credit awards should be adjusted (import bonus, more from the arena, etc.).

I find this a lot more problematic in ME2.In ME3, it is just frustrating that I am unable to try out a huge percentage of the available arsenal. Still, I don't need more than one armor set to best complement my playstyle & class, and all I need is one decent weapon from each category so I can outfit any squad member in case I am stuck with them (e.g. Tali being locked for two Rannoch missions).In ME2 however, many of the upgrades affecting Shepard and the whole squad are locked behind a huge credit wall. It really sucks playing on Insanity and not being able to buy the tech power upgrades for 75k for example, when my squad's focus is exactly that.It was already bad in OG ME2, but now they've just put even more items to the store to "balance out gameplay"... And they reverted the credit import changes to their original value with one of the updates. It's like they have no idea about their own game's systems.

Agreed completely. ME3 was already bad enough in the original with the amount of funds available to you, but with all the added DLC gear, it's just insane. There definitely needs to be some sort of rebalance. I hope the devs are listening, but seeing as they reduced all the money available in ME2 then I'm not sure.

ME3 financial balance seems to be completely ruined

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draconiam
Seasoned Ace
5 years ago
@Abbyxz In retrospective this was expected as the 3rd game is perfect in any way and form and contradicting that makes you a toxic gamer sorry, got carried a bit there. The third game in the LE is how it should have at least released in the main game with the exception of the Gunsmith Trophy and the lack of import bonus (items like: Shepard Dog Tags, his old helmet, a Prothean Sphere he found with the tank and the funds he managed to save up after Arrival) contrary of ME1-3 (the Matriach writings quest) felt disappointed.
ELevin
5 years ago
More late thoughts to add to my first post.
Money could be grinded at Armax arena, no problem, especially for those who played ME3 mutiplayer.
The problem is, for the best experience, all possible characters should be acquired, meaning Citadel DLC is best played very late in the game, which makes money grind almost pointless - not much missions left to experiment with weapons.
To me, the best option is to increase the amount of money player collects trough the game. In this case it would be possible to collect items steadily, and Citadel shooting range would be useful again.
draconiam
Seasoned Ace
5 years ago
@ELevin That's a good idea, another one would be if Shepard finds an Alliance vault while scanning for War Assets in Arcturus Station called "Shepard Paylod," a collection of Intel and items (Shepard Dog Tags, his old helmet and the Prothean sphere) from ME2 as well the confiscated funds players had up until they imported the saves now, the weapons and armor would be sent to the Galaxy armorers so they could replicate them to better equip their forces and the Research Projects that upped weapons and squad powers would also be sent to the Allied R&D labs adding more War Assets to the overall effort.
Ironbeak95
5 years ago
@ELevinIf you're on PC I'd recommend the save editor of Nexus. I just created a copy of my save, added a few zeroes to the credits and loaded into it and had no issues, got to buy everything I wanted to.
TheRealDaemon
5 years ago
Agreed completely. ME3 was already bad enough in the original with the amount of funds available to you, but with all the added DLC gear, it's just insane. There definitely needs to be some sort of rebalance. I hope the devs are listening, but seeing as they reduced all the money available in ME2 then I'm not sure.
ELevin
5 years ago
@Ironbeak95 , yes, I'm on PC and thanks a lot, I was already thinking on modifying my current savegame.
draconiam
Seasoned Ace
5 years ago
@ELevin If you do keep an eye for this one, I hear it makes the last mission of ME3 similar to the Collector Base Assault from ME2 you know, makes the War Assets more than a number:
https://www.nexusmods.com/masseffect3/mods/766
ELevin
5 years ago
@draconiam , thanks a lot! I'll give it a look 🙂
draconiam
Seasoned Ace
5 years ago
@ELevin Your welcome.

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