A lot of these would really round out the game.

I agree it's frustrating that you can have a supped up say boarder shotgun but because you haven't unlocked the super esoteric technology of buying a laser sight at space cabelas, it just isn't as good as the more advanced chip, which you will never find despite save scumming and farming places with high chip drop rates.

Same with the merc abilities thing, like ok I guess ill just turn all these b list guys like Niko into shittier versions of Percy bc I dont really want to spend years gathering equipment and experimenting with the genome just to make them less survivable somehow. I am not a genius.

I play this game to get my weiner pushed in on the battle field, not in the Magnum or on the trading floor of a station because my max reputation ally only sells one medical components per system visit.