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Nearly Unrestricted Weapons (NUW) allows Shepard to equip any five of the six weapon types available in LE2, regardless of class, by allowing Shepard to unequip weapons. Never reinstall a weapon mod again.
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DropTheSquid's Truly Unrestricted Weapons improves on NUW in every possible way.
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Description
Nearly Unrestricted Weapons (NUW) allows Shepard to equip any weapon type, regardless of class. "Nearly" refers to the hard limit of five equipped weapons imposed by the game engine: go for the full six, and one of them will be inaccessible because it doesn't show up on the tactical pause screen. To account for this, NUW adds the ability to unequip each weapon type. Just pick "Unequip <Weapon Type>" when choosing your loadout at mission start, or when interacting with weapons lockers on the Normandy and elsewhere.
The ability to unequip weapons is restricted to Shepard. In early development of NUW, I found that squadmates struggled to master this potent technique, and unequipped both of their weapons by default. This is particularly noticeable in the prologue, LotSB, and other scenarios where you gain a squad member without the chance to configure their loadout beforehand. Squadmates T-posing around missions, while funny, is not something I'd want to inflict on the Nexus-browsing public.
Why NUW, over similar mods that eliminate weapon restrictions? As near as I can tell, none of the other available options have hit upon allowing you to unequip weapons. Instead, they offer an option on installation to permanently disable a specific weapon type for Shepard (at least, until you uninstall and reinstall the mod with a different weapon type selected). By putting control over what weapons you bring entirely in-game, NUW allows you change your mind on what five weapons to bring on each mission, without needing to restore backups and reinstall mods just because shotguns weren't as good on Horizon as you hoped.
Installation and Removal
Import and install through ME3Tweaks Mod Manager. To uninstall, quit the game, and use ME3Tweaks Mod Manger to remove NUW:
Compatibility
NUW is a collection of Coalesced_INT.bin edits masquerading as a real mod. It doesn't alter any vanilla files and thus is likely to be compatible with anything and everything, except for Coalesced mods that also alter class weapon loadouts (but why would you need those, with NUW in your life?). The text describing the "empty" weapons for each class are only localized in English at present. If there's an urgent need, I'm happy to update NUW with machine-translated versions for LE2's other supported languages.
Credits
Tajfun403: their truly excellent Modern Weapon Pack contains "empty" weapons that formed the basis for NUW's weapon unequipping feature.
The maintainers of the Mass Effect Wiki: the PC Tweaks article explains the necessary edits to Coalesced_INT.bin to eliminate weapon restrictions.
You should use it instead!
Also, give Squid an endorsement or seven. They do amazing work.
Description
Nearly Unrestricted Weapons (NUW) allows Shepard to equip any weapon type, regardless of class. "Nearly" refers to the hard limit of five equipped weapons imposed by the game engine: go for the full six, and one of them will be inaccessible because it doesn't show up on the tactical pause screen. To account for this, NUW adds the ability to unequip each weapon type. Just pick "Unequip <Weapon Type>" when choosing your loadout at mission start, or when interacting with weapons lockers on the Normandy and elsewhere.
The ability to unequip weapons is restricted to Shepard. In early development of NUW, I found that squadmates struggled to master this potent technique, and unequipped both of their weapons by default. This is particularly noticeable in the prologue, LotSB, and other scenarios where you gain a squad member without the chance to configure their loadout beforehand. Squadmates T-posing around missions, while funny, is not something I'd want to inflict on the Nexus-browsing public.
Why NUW, over similar mods that eliminate weapon restrictions? As near as I can tell, none of the other available options have hit upon allowing you to unequip weapons. Instead, they offer an option on installation to permanently disable a specific weapon type for Shepard (at least, until you uninstall and reinstall the mod with a different weapon type selected). By putting control over what weapons you bring entirely in-game, NUW allows you change your mind on what five weapons to bring on each mission, without needing to restore backups and reinstall mods just because shotguns weren't as good on Horizon as you hoped.
Installation and Removal
Import and install through ME3Tweaks Mod Manager. To uninstall, quit the game, and use ME3Tweaks Mod Manger to remove NUW:
- With LE2 selected in the installation dropdown, click on Manage Target.
- Click on the Delete button next to Nearly Unrestricted Weapons.
- Close the window, and try to cope with the prospect of a life without NUW.
Compatibility
NUW is a collection of Coalesced_INT.bin edits masquerading as a real mod. It doesn't alter any vanilla files and thus is likely to be compatible with anything and everything, except for Coalesced mods that also alter class weapon loadouts (but why would you need those, with NUW in your life?). The text describing the "empty" weapons for each class are only localized in English at present. If there's an urgent need, I'm happy to update NUW with machine-translated versions for LE2's other supported languages.
Credits
Tajfun403: their truly excellent Modern Weapon Pack contains "empty" weapons that formed the basis for NUW's weapon unequipping feature.
The maintainers of the Mass Effect Wiki: the PC Tweaks article explains the necessary edits to Coalesced_INT.bin to eliminate weapon restrictions.