Can't equip body armors?

[May]

Im near begning and I have 2 legs and 1 arm but I cant equip them, I have managed to later on to equip some parts by the help of the system in safe house but my right leg still remains unequiped beside having a leg and also being unable to craft one from the safe house, What am I missing?

[YamEatsYam]

Do you have enough rig power to equip the armor? All armor parts have a power cost, if your rig doesn't have enough power available, you won't be able to equip it. You can get more power by spending scrap on the Medbay in Operations, you could also unequip some implants (which also require power) to make space for the armor.

To craft anything, you need scrap and components for whatever you want to build. If you use the crafting station you'll be able to see what you need to build something. I'm assuming you're in the first level, so if you want to build a new leg, you'll need scrap and a bunch of 'Pneumatic Helix MK1'. You can get that by severing and picking up enemies' legs, then taking them to the crafting station.

You can also see how many components you have in your inventory

[moshhammer]

You haven't got enough core power. It's the big number in the bottom left of your status screen.
Every piece of armor and most oft the implants "consume" a given amount of core power.
You have to level up at the med bay to increase your maximum. Also, later on there are implants that also increase core power.

[May]

actually I have enough core power, sitting at and only 20's filled.

[ReinChar]

I ran into the same problem. I was so confused. The issue you are having is it looks like you have an arm and leg available for each side at the beginning of the game, but the fact is you only have 1 arm and 1 leg. If you equip it on your right arm, then switch to your left arm, it looks like you can equip it, but its actually unavailable because you just put it on your right arm and you only have 1 total.

Solution:

Go farm enemies arms and legs by targeting them in the fight and then finishing with your "slice" button when the games prompts you just before you kill them, gather that scrap, craft a second leg and arm so you can have one for each of your arms and legs.

This confused me for 2 hours at the start of the game. The developers should have made it more obvious when a piece is unavailable so you dont think you have 2 of each.

Good luck!