Sandstorm/MEASP

Description
A highly accurate rifle, the Sandstorm was developed by exiles from the Nexus after their arrival in Heleus. The design of the semi-automatic weapon has been streamlined and appears to adapt certain non-Initiative technologies.

Features

 * The Sandstorm is the only weapon in the game besides sniper rifles to have a built in scope.
 * Ranks I - IX uses Vanadium for development while Rank X uses Element Zero.

Strategies
The Sandstorm is widely considered one of the best assault rifles in Mass Effect: Andromeda due to its extremely high power and relatively high rate of fire.
 * For a semi-automatic assault rifle, it also has a large clip and a lot of reserve ammo.
 * A common augmentation to use with the Sandstorm is the Beam Emitter. The Beam Emitter essentially converts the weapon to fully automatic, while eliminating any recoil, and makes full use of the weapon's extreme damage per second, which is designed to be limited by its normal semi-automatic rate of fire. The downside of the Beam Emitter, is the high ammunition usage, which the weapon isn't designed for.

Trivia

 * The Sandstorm is one of three weapons developed by the Exiles, the other two are the Sidewinder and the Vanquisher. Interestingly, the Exiles never developed a shotgun.