[quote=@Leos Klien]

I only say that they're not physically adept as in terms of their prowess in technology, they're more likely to use tech to defeat their foe rather than suit up in armour - a big gun can stop a Krogan but no amount of plating can stop them from tearing your limbs off and beating you to death with them; if you catch my drift.
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[quote=@POOHEAD189]
I suppose the Guild is still messing up? :lol 
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You mean it stopped messing up at some point?

This forum is about as reliable as the Walmart brand volus-made knock off crap of turian made goods.

[quote=@DarkFey]
Always thought it was wierd that Quarian Marines are just wearing plain Quarian Envirosuits. You'd think if anyone would need to be wearing armor, it's a Quarian whose sole job is going into battle.

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I have no idea why the person who mocked that up decided to give the one on the left an FAL and a harness for over-sized rounds that definitely aren't 7.62x51... or why the one on the right has some manner of Glock and what looks like a comically huge revolver on her back.

But yeah, they look cool, but I think they're kind of out of setting. It's like modern tacticool aesthetics meshed with Mass Effect stuff, which is pretty cool, but also doesn't really work once you start peeling back the layers.

Most of what those guys are wearing is just fabric with the one on the left having what I assume is a plate carrier, so it's really not any more protection than they'd be wearing normally. Quarians tend to rely on advanced shielding to protect themselves.

Personally, I think their environmental suits probably have a pretty reasonable amount of durability and protection to it, but they shy away from unnecessary fabrics (save for easily discarded decorative stuff) because if they do get a suit puncture, it's a lot easier to address it and seal it off if you can immediately access it before it contaminates your entire suit. Plus, with those suits above, if they did get shot, there's a chance of getting an infection by tattered fabric getting pulled into the wound.

It's one of those things where even armour for other species doesn't necessarily do much most of the time because we're still talking about projectiles that move a fraction of the speed of light and hit brutally hard thanks to velocity; the rounds are about the size of a grain of sand being launched with the same technology that allowed faster than light travel. It's probably better against stuff like shrapnel and blades than bullets, and playing the game, bad guys die super quickly with just a couple well-placed pistol rounds when their shielding and armour is down. It's kind of like how the kevlar helmets the army wears aren't really designed to stop a rifle round.

Plus, as others mentioned, the quarians are kind of woefully unequipped across the board save for ship numbers... which doesn't mean quality. Basically everything in the entire Flotilla is second hand and in most cases is considered obsolete or useless by other species or corporations; the quarians just make it work.

So really, quarians are kind of the equivalent of space Gypsies with an exceptional ability to fully embody the sentiment that "one man's trash is another man's treasure" and can pull off some incredible technological achievements if they have the resources to do so. Considering their living accommodations are so cramped they basically live in the bastard love child of a tent city and office cubical floor where there's so little space that anything a quarian isn't using gets put out to a community market for someone else to use free of charge, it really isn't surprising that they don't have special uniforms or armour for their marines. They can probably only just afford to give every quarian an environmental suit.

It's basically super sterilized communal poverty.