Skill issues
The PC edition of Mass Effect back in the day as long as a one-year Side characters had the skills such as high Electronics and you have no skill in electronics as long as they were in your party you...
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You or a teammate need points in decryption to unlock storage crates or lockers etc but need points in electronics to recover stuff found on uncharted planets. Higher difficulty decryption crates/lockers means you or the teammate has to have at least nine points in the skill I think.
