N7 Armor is Commander Shepard's default armor set in Mass Effect 2 and Mass Effect 3. This armor is designed to augment tech, biotic and weapons damage as well as provide additional health and shield strength. However, the N7 Armor is also designed to be modular and can be customized with a variety of chestpieces, gauntlets, pauldrons, helmets and leg pieces can be swapped in or out.
In Mass Effect 2, the N7 Armor is the first armor set made available to the player. It is obtained in the mission Prologue: Awakening, where the N7 Armor worn by Commander Shepard during Prologue: Save Joker and before Prologue: Awakening is the heavy model of Mass Effect. The armor has undergone some minor aesthetic changes, most notably a new helmet, a new right arm with a supplementary shoulder on the right clavicle, and a grainy aspect compared to the smooth aspect of the previous game. Although the armor is modular, until the player obtains additional armor parts, it can only be customized cosmetically rather than functionally.
The N7 Armor can be customized by swapping out pieces of the set for pieces purchased from merchants, or made available as downloadable content, in the armor locker aboard the Normandy SR-2.
Dual layer of fabric armor and kinetic padding within a lightweight ablative ceramic shell. Comes standard with a suite of communication, navigation, and battlefield awareness software.
Increases health by 5%
N7 Breather Helmet
Dual layer of fabric armor and kinetic padding within a lightweight ablative ceramic shell. Comes standard with a suite of communication, navigation, and battlefield awareness software. Comes hardsealed to protect wearer from hazardous environmental conditions.
In Mass Effect 3, the N7 Armor is again the first armor set made available to the player. It is obtained in the mission Priority: Mars. Once more, the new N7 Armor has undergone some minor aesthetic changes, most notably: angled shoulder pieces, a new belt, a new right bracer, and the armor regains the smooth aspect of the armor in Mass Effect compared to the grainy aspect of Mass Effect 2's. Like its Mass Effect 2 counterpart, the armor is still customizable and possesses different attributes, with all N7 pieces giving a health bonus.
The N7 Armor can be customized by swapping out pieces of the set for pieces purchased from merchants, found in the battlefield, or made available as downloadable content, in the armor locker aboard the Normandy SR-2.
Dual layer of fabric armor and kinetic padding within a lightweight ablative ceramic shell. Comes standard with a suite of communication, navigation, and battlefield awareness software.
Increases health by 10%
N7 Breather Helmet
Dual layer of fabric armor and kinetic padding within a lightweight ablative ceramic shell. Comes standard with a suite of communication, navigation, and battlefield awareness software. Comes hardsealed to protect wearer from hazardous environmental conditions.
The Mass Effect 2 and 3 incarnations of Shepard's N7 armor are available as Avatar Outfits in the Xbox Marketplace. They cost 320 and 240 Microsoft Points respectively.
N7 Armor can be purchased as a bonus costume for characters Noel and Serah in Final Fantasy XIII-2. They cost 240 Microsoft points on Xbox 360 or $3 on Playstation Network per character.
N7 Armor is also available to be unlocked in Dead Space 3. The only requirement to unlock the armor is to have a save file in both games.
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