Weapons Mods Bug
Hi there, I noticed for a while now that a intermittent problem is happening. Not all mods register when you pick them up, starting from the Mars Mission. Now, I fixed the problem by deleting the ...
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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.
It's the same thing with the PC version. If you've acquired a weapon on a level, take the time to review your loadout, it seems, or you risk losing any mods for that same weapon type you acquire later in the same level.
@AssassinPalooza wrote:...
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.
...I was becoming very frustrated with this bug. I tried your trick and it worked for me too.
Thanks a lot for the tip.
