weapon mods bug

Been having this bug as well, reinstalled from scratch seemed to fix it at first, got the first 2 SMG weapon mods, but after relaunching with DLC installed, it wouldn't let me get the Sniper and Shotgun weapon mods later in the very same mission. Going to try repeatedly repairing once it's fully installed all the DLC, otherwise it's a no-DLC playthrough for me, if I can even be bothered with that.

unfortunately.. only solution is no DLC. i called EA to ask for a refund since it's a lot of wasted money for broken DLC.. all they could do was give me 10% off at their online store... it's like a big middle finger for those of us who still support them by buying all the game's DLC. they even lied and told me this bug was fixed a long time ago. i told them that it's become obvious they don't even bother checking their own forums, since they would see people are still having problems and that it's still broken. this bug has been reported since the Bioware technical support forum was still up and doesn't redirect you to this useless site.

You can use weapon mods if you download the SP dlcs, but do not download the patch (for ps3). I suggest deleting the patch, should work but of course you wont get fire explosions etc.

Origin handles the game files differently to the consoles, you can't just delete a patch on PC

does anyone from the company's staff even bother checkin in this forum? at least when the technical issue forum was on Bioware's side.. we at least got mods responding and letting the devs know about the issues. as soon as the forum got transferred to EA's side.. the staff stopped caring. absolutely horrible customer service from EA as expected. horrible company.

So, I had the same issue. Picked up a bunch of mods on Mars and there's not modify button on the weapon bench. However, it just looks like those mods which you get on the mission don't get loaded properly, but if you purchase mods from the store or acquire mods in the field after Mars, they show up and are good to go. Not sure if that'll be the case with everyone, but it was for me. Hope it helps.

It's crazy that this is still an issue after 2+ years of a game breaking bug. Take the money and run I suppose. I thought it would have been fixed in 2015.

Here is the conversation I had with ME3 support:

since EA/Bioware don't care.. i've gone ahead and installed this mod as a last resort that fixes this issue: http://www.moddb.com/mods/mother-of-all-mods

it gives you access to all weapon mods to buy, and it also fixed picking them up during missions. this is only for the singleplayer, so it's safe to have installed for those who also play a lot of multiplayer.

Okay, everyone. I posted a solution on another page related to this bug and it seems to have worked for myself and some others. I'm going to copy my solution to as many of the pages about this bug as I can. More people will see it, and hopefully it will work for them as well. Just so you know, I play ME3 on the PS3. Here is my original reply:


"Everyone, I found a solution to my own issue with this bug earlier tonight and I wanted to share it here. I hope that it may help someone else. I'm not saying that it is a definite fix and I'm not even sure if it would work again, were I to try it a second time, but this is what happened:

I have experienced this bug multiple times during the two(ish) years that I have had ME3. I always worked around it by deleting everything ME3 related from my PS3 and then reinstalling all DLC and patches when I planned to do a Mass Effect playthrough. This particular time, after deleting all save data and game data from my PS3, then reinstalling everything, I still encountered the bug when I tried to pick up the first two SMG mods during Priority: Mars.
I realised that, when I had picked up the first gun I found on Mars (which was the M-4 Shuriken, as an Infiltrator), I had simply pressed circle to continue when, in previous playthroughs, I had always changed my loadout then and there.
I restarted my game, loaded the save I had made at the very beginning of the mission, and played up to where I found the M-4 in the security station. This time, I changed my loadout and cycled through all of the weapons of every category so that none were marked as 'new'. After doing this, I continued on my way and was able to pick up every weapon mod during the rest of that mission.

Now, as I said, I don't know why this worked or if it will work for anyone else. It worked for me this time, and I hope that it works for someone else as well.
This is an incredibly frustrating bug, I know. Good luck."

I just encountered the same issue with my Origin copy. I have all the DLCs installed. I ran a repair on the game from within Origin (right click and Repair Game), and the issue is now resolved. This seems to indicate that the issue is with DLC install order. I hope that this helps anyone with the problem.