On the upgrade screen though, all that’s listed is a very generic “improved weapon damage, ammo capacity, and weight”. Elsewhere in the game, players find the ratings for each weapon that indicate how much damage it does, its ammo capacity, and some other useful statistics that help in making a good decision on what to equip. I’m not sure if this screen could possibly be less useful. The weapon upgrade screen in Mass Effect 3 Each weapon in Mass Effect 3 has five different levels, so in the screenshot below I’m looking at upgrading my Scorpion I to the Scorpion II: Towards the end, I realized there was a shop that you could go to for upgrading your weapons.

For most of the game, I ran around and was happy to find weapon upgrades strewn around during missions. So in Mass Effect 3, BioWare got back into the swing of things a little bit with a small amount of weapon customization and upgrading. I’m not sure I ever changed my weapons in the entirety of Mass Effect 2 – that’s how much they got rid of the system. In Mass Effect 2, they solved the problems from the first game by essentially getting rid of the whole thing. The disaster of that game’s inventory is well documented elsewhere (my favorite is at ), but suffice to say it wasn’t good. Not to mention trying to make a well informed decision about what you should be using. In the first game, there were just so many weapons that you picked up along the way, managing them all was ridiculous.

The weapon system has gone through a number of changes in the Mass Effect series.

Mass effect 3 weapon mods