Short explanation/advice on hard achievement

ME1 : Story related achievements

Distinguished Service Medal

ME1: Complete Eden Prime

Spectre Inductee

ME1: Become a Spectre

Search and Rescue

ME1: Locate Dr. T’soni in the Artemis Tau cluster

Honorarium of Corporate Service

ME1: Complete Noveria

Medal of Heroism

ME1: Complete Feros

Council Legion of Merit

ME1: Complete Virmire

Meritorious Service Medal

ME1: Complete Ilos

Medal of Honor

ME1: Complete the game on any difficulty

ME1 : Power and teammate related achievements

All power related achievement can be done with teammate power

Most of those achievement need a enemy target/enemy near by to count for the achievement

First Aid Specialist

ME1: Use medi-gel 50 times

Can be restocked anytime on the Normandy infirmary

Neural Shock Specialist

ME1: Use Neural Shock 25 times

Neural Shock can be done by Kaidan or an engineer Shepard

Throw Mastery

ME1: Use biotic Throw 25 times

Throw can be done by Kaidan – Liara – Wrex

Electronics Specialist

ME1: Use Shield Overload 25 times

Shield Overload can be done by Kaidan – Tali – Liara – Garrus

Sabotage Specialist

ME1: Use Sabotage 25 times

Sabotage can be done by Kaidan – Tali – Garrus

Warp Mastery

ME1: Use biotic Warp 25 times

Warp can be done by Liara – Wrex

Barrier Mastery

ME1: Use biotic Barrier 25 times

Barrier can be done by Kaidan – Liara – Wrex

Lift Mastery

ME1: Use biotic Lift 25 times

Lift can be done by Kaidan – Liara

Singularity Mastery

ME1: Use biotic Singularity 25 times

Singularity can be done by Liara – Or a Adept Shepard

Damping Specialist

ME1: Use Damping Field 25 times

Damping can be done by Tali – Garrus

Stasis Mastery

ME1: Use biotic Stasis 25 times

Stasis can be done by Kaidan – Liara – Wrex

AI Hacking Specialist

ME1: Use AI Hacking 25 times

AI Hacking can be done by Tali – Or a Engineer Shepard

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Sentinel Ally

ME1: Complete 5 missions with the Alliance sentinel squad member (Kaidan)

Soldier Ally

ME1: Complete 5 missions with the Alliance soldier squad member (Ashley)

Krogan Ally

ME1: Complete 5 missions with the krogan squad member (Wrex)

Quarian Ally

ME1: Complete 5 missions with the quarian squad member (Tali)

Turian Ally

ME1: Complete 5 missions with the turian squad member (Garrus)

Asari Ally

ME1: Complete 5 missions with the asari squad member (Liara)

ME1 : Missable achievements

Colonial Savior

ME1: Complete the Bring Down the Sky mission. (Asteeroid X57)

Avalaible after Shepard became a Spectre (Not mandatory to complete the main story)

Archivist

ME1: Find all primary Alien: Council Races Extinct Races and Non-Council Races codex entries

• — Prothean : Ask Anderson at the begin of the game when he tell you about the beacon
  
  (Warning – If you missed that, you cannot unlock the achievement later, you will have to redo a character)
• — Geth : Ask Ashley when you met her
• — Elcor and Volus : Both in the office next to you when you first spawn in the presidium
• — Rachni : Ask Avina in front of the Krogan statue in the Presidium
• — Keeper : Ask Avina in front of the Citadel Tower elevator
• — Hanar : Ask the preaching Hanar in the presidium
• — Krogan : Meet Wrex
• — Quarian : Meet Tali
• — Batarian : When you meet Anderson in the docking bay, ask him about Saren (Also automatically unlocked by playing the Bring Down the Sky mission)

Principled

ME1: Accumulate 75% of total possible Paragon or Renegade points

There is 2 glitchs allowing you to do this achievement easely

• —Noveria – Work for both paragon and renegate
   

  https://youtu.be/efukyKzMDLo – [youtu.be]

• — Attican Beta Hercules – Only work for paragon
   

  https://youtu.be/5RoVGaU6ClE – [youtu.be]
   

  Charismatic
  

  ME1: Use Charm or Intimidate to resolve an impossible situation in the game
   

  You need to use a Paragon or Renegate option during an important argument. This can be achieve 2 time in the game
  

   

  – Against Wrex on Virmire (A least 8 points in charm or intimidate talents required)
   

  – Against Saren on the Citadel (Maximun charm or intimidate talents required)
   

  Completionist
  

  ME1: Complete the majority of the game
   

  This achievement sound hard, but its actually easy, you only need to do around 55-60% of the game, 100% is not necessary
  

   

  If you still want to do 100% of the game, I advice you to dowload something called “”ME1 Checklist”” on Nexusmods. This is not a mod, its a google sheets checklist that help you to do every quest/collectibles in the game
   

  Screenshots :
   

  
   

  
   

  By doing this achievement you should also get “Medal of Exploration” 1 – 3
   

  Medal of Exploration I
  

  ME1: Land on an uncharted world
   

  Medal of Exploration II
  

  ME1: Land on 4 uncharted worlds
   

  Medal of Exploration III
  

  ME1: Land on 8 uncharted worlds
   

  Paramour I
  

  Establish a romantic relationship in Mass Effect 1, 2 or 3
   

  Male Shepard – Liara or Ashley
   

  Female Shepard – Liara or Kaidan
   

  Insanity I
  

  Complete Mass Effect 1, 2 or 3 on Insanity without changing difficulty
   

  Mass Effect LE 1 in insanity is actually easy, just remember to often upgrade you equipment, and only shot from behind a cover, never against a cover. Also, use teammate as bait
   

  

 

ME2 : Story related achievements

Missing in Action

ME2: Save your crew from an overwhelming attack

Very Elusive

ME2: Return to active duty

The Professor

ME2: Successfully recruit the Professor

The Archangel

ME2: Successfully recruit Archangel

The Convict

ME2: Successfully recruit the biotic Convict

The Krogan

ME2: Successfully recruit the krogan

Colony Defense

ME2: Defend a human colony from attack

The Assassin

ME2: Successfully recruit the Assassin

The Justicar

ME2: Successfully recruit the Justicar

The Quarian

ME2: Successfully recruit the quarian

Ghost Ship

ME2: Complete the investigation of a derelict alien vessel

Friend or Foe

ME2: Obtain geth technology

The Prodigal

ME2: Gain the loyalty of the Cerberus Officer

Ghost of the Father

ME2: Gain the loyalty of the Cerberus Operative

The Cure

ME2: Gain the loyalty of the Professor

Fade Away

ME2: Gain the loyalty of Archangel

Catharsis

ME2: Gain the loyalty of the biotic Convict

Battlemaster

ME2: Gain the loyalty of the krogan

Big Game Hunter

ME2: Thresher Maw defeated

Cat’s in the Cradle

ME2: Gain the loyalty of the Assassin

Doppelganger

ME2: Help the Justicar resolve her mission

Treason

ME2: Gain the loyalty of the quarian

Broke, Blind, and Bedlam

ME2: Gain the loyalty of the thief

Revenge!

ME2: Gain the loyalty of the mercenary

A House Divided

ME2: Hack a geth collective

Suicide Mission

ME2: Use the Omega 4 Relay

Against All Odds

ME2: Survive suicide mission

Mission Accomplished

ME2: Save humanity throughout the galaxy from certain annihilation

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Head Hunter

ME2: Perform 30 headshot kills with any weapon on humanoid targets

Power Full

ME2: Evolve any power

Scientist

ME2: Complete any research project in the Normandy’s laboratory

Scholar

ME2: Unlock 15 new Mass Effect 2 codex entries

ME2 : Power and teammate related achievements

Overload Specialist

ME2: Disrupt the shields of 25 enemies

Overload can be done by Garrus – Kasumi – Miranda

You need to complitely remove the enemy shield (blue), if you have a low level power, shoot the shield first before using overload

Incineration Specialist

ME2: Incinerate the armor of 25 enemies

Incinerate can be done by Mordin or an Engineer/Infiltrator Shepard

You need to complitely remove the enemy armor (yellow), if you have a low level power, shoot the armor first before using incinerate

Warp Specialist

ME2: Warp the barriers of 25 enemies

Warp can be done by Miranda – Thane

You need to complitely remove the enemy barrier (purple), if you have a low level power, shoot the barrier first before using warp

Tactician

ME2: Hit 20 different targets with multiple biotic powers to combine the effects

Simple, use 2 power on the same enemy target, but not a the same time :

• — Pull — Jack – Jacob – Samara
• — Shockwave — Jack
• — Slam — Miranda
• — Throw — Thane
• — Warp — Miranda – Thane

If both power hit at the same time, the achievement will not trigger. Open the power menu, choose a power, close the menu, wait a bit (0.5-1 second), open the menu and choose another

If worked, an biotic explosion should happen

https://youtu.be/nl9ctRIH5qI – [youtu.be]

Merciless

ME2: Make 20 enemies scream as they fall or are set on fire

You should get this achievement by doing the other power related achievement, if not yet, continue to use Throw/Pull/Shockwave

ME2 : Missable achievements

Heart of Darkness

ME2: Confront the Shadow Broker

Avalaible after “Priority: Horizon” (Not mandatory to complete the main story)

Digital Exorcist

ME2: Successfully shut down the rogue VI in Project Overlord

Labelled as “Investigate Project Overlord” (Not mandatory to complete the main story)

Weapon Specialist

ME2: Fully upgrade a weapon

You only need to upgrade any weapon to 5/5, but If you explore every main level + DLC and buy everything, you can easily upgrade a weapon up to 7/7. Remember to use the inferno armor before buying a item to get the 10% discount

Galactic Explorer

ME2: Visit 100% of the planets in an unexplored cluster

Operative

ME2: Complete a mission discovered by scanning an unexplored world

Agent

ME2: Complete 5 missions discovered by scanning unexplored worlds

None of the hidden anomalies missions have impact in ME3

If you play in insanity, some hidden anomalies are really hard/impossible at low level

List of hidden anomalies (Easy to very hard) :

Cluster	Star	Planet	Enemies
Caleston Rift	Solveig	Sinmara	No enemies
Hourglass Nebula	Ploitari	Zanethu	No enemies
Caleston Rift	Talava	Taitus	2 varrens
Hades Nexus	Sheol	Gei Hinnom	Multiple waves of varrens
Pylos Nebula	Nariph	(ship)	Multiple Geth enemies
Pylos Nebula	Dirada	Canalus	Multiple Geth enemies
Crescent Nebula	Zelene	Helyme	Multiple waves of eclipse troopers/heavy
Omega Nebula	Fathar	Lorek	Multiple eclipse troopers
Shrike Abyssal	Xe Cha	Zada Ban	Blood pack vorchas/Krogan Boss
Rosetta Nebula	Enoch	Joab	Blue suns base
Minos Wasteland	Fortis	Aequitas	Huge waves of husk
Crescent Nebula	Lusarn	Tarith	Klixen, Blood pack vorchas/Krogan boss
Hourglass Nebula	Faryar	Daratar	3 YMIR Heavy mechs
Eagle Nebula	Amun	Neith	Almost endless waves of mechs

No One Left Behind

ME2: Keep your team alive through the suicide mission

Sounds hard, but actually really easy, first, you need to have all your crew loyal BEFORE going for the “”Acquire Reaper IFF”” mission.

After the mission, go speak with Legion and immediatly go for Legion loyalty mission. By doing this you avoid the death of the cerberus crew. After that you will be ready for the omega 4 relay

For the collector base, use this :

For the Endgame, every teammate equal a number of points, and you need an average of 2 to avoid casualties

Jack/Kasumi/Tali/Mordin are the weakest members, to avoid death :

—– Put Jack as the escort for the crew/DrChakwas (Or any other weak member)

—– Bring Mordin/Tali with you for the final fight (Or any other weak member)

Doing this will make your team strong with an average of 2,55 = Everyone survives

• Grunt/Zaeed/Garrus ================= ( 4 x 3 )
• Thane/Legion/Samara/Jacob/Miranda === ( 5 x 2 ) / 9 (number of crew holding)
• Kasumi (Or any other weak member) ==== ( 1 )

Paramour II

Establish or rekindle a romantic relationship in two games in Mass Effect Legendary Edition

—– Possible romance for Male Shepard

• Tali
• Miranda
• Jack (Romance is cancelled if you accept to bang)

—– Possible romance for Female Shepard

• Garrus
• Thane
• Jacob

—– Romancing Liara – Samara – Kelly will not count for the achievement

Insanity II

Complete two games in Mass Effect Legendary Edition on Insanity without changing difficulty

One of the hardest achievement to do, ME2 is the hardest game in the trilogy to do in insanity. I advice you to play as a

• — Engineer – For the power “Tech Armor”, which allow you to instantatly have full shield again
• — Infiltrator – For the power “Tactical Cloak” which allow you to move/retreat/have you shield back. Also, after getting Grunt loyalty, go to the laboratory, advanced trainning and take “Fortification”, which allow you to instantatly have full shield again

Another important thing to know about ME2 is that enemy spawn by waves, sometime rushing is a good way to avoid a difficult room

Exemple here :

• — 00:00 – Normal way – Waves of Krogans, lasted for 6 minutes, out of ammo (10 Krogans spawned)
• — 01:05 – Rushing – Use AI as bait, run to the end of the room, use your defensive power when shield are down (fortification used in the video) then kill the last enemies (Only 2 Krogans spawned)
• — 02:02 – Normal way – Waves of Vorchas/Krogans, lasted for 5 minutes
• — 02:52 – Rushing – No Krogan or other pyros spawned
• — 03:46 – Rushing objective – Enemy disappear when objective is completed
   

  https://youtu.be/q3KCK06JbXs – [youtu.be]
   

  Last thing, ME2 Insanity have a game breaking bug, ammos may not spawn/drop from enemies sometime in some level, reload a save/autosave, or restart the game (No other solution available)
  

   

  And don’t forget that you can shoot from behind a wall
   

  

Last thing, ME2 Insanity have a game breaking bug, ammos may not spawn/drop from enemies sometime in some level, reload a save/autosave, or restart the game (No other solution available)

And don’t forget that you can shoot from behind a wall

ME3 : Story related achievements

Driven

ME3: Return to active duty

Bringer of War

ME3: Chase down an assassin

Mobilizer

ME3: Bring a veteran officer aboard

Liberator

ME3: Stop a Cerberus kidnapping

Under Pressure

ME3: Uncover an ancient secret

Giant Killer

ME3: Defeat a harvester

Tunnel Rat

ME3: Survive the swarm

Pathfinder

ME3: Explore a lost city

Arbiter

ME3: Win a political stand-off

Party Crasher

ME3: Sabotage a dreadnought

Problem Solver

ME3: Evacuate a scientific facility

Hard Target

ME3: Call down an orbital strike

Saboteur

ME3: Disable a group of fighter squadrons

Last Witness

ME3: Extract ancient technology

Well Connected

ME3: Send a warning across the galaxy

Executioner

ME3: Defeat an old adversary

Patriot

ME3: Make the final assault

Legend

ME3: Mission accomplished

Long Service Medal

Finish Mass Effect 1, 2 and 3 with the same character

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Shopaholic

ME3: Visit a store in the single-player campaign

Focused

ME3: Evolve any of your powers to rank 6

A Personal Touch

ME3: Modify a weapon

Untouchable

ME3: Escape a Reaper in the galaxy map

Hijacker

ME3: Hijack an Atlas mech

World Shaker

ME3: Destroy an Atlas dropped from orbit

Recruit

Kill 250 enemies in Mass Effect 1, 2 or 3

Soldier

Kill 1,000 enemies in Mass Effect 1, 2 or 3

Veteran

Kill 2,000 enemies in Mass Effect 1, 2 or 3

ME3 : Power related achievements

In ME3, you can not use your teammate to get the power related achievements

Sky High

ME3: Lift 100 enemies off the ground with powers

Shield Breaker

ME3: Overload the shields of 100 enemies

Combined Arms

ME3: Perform any combination of 50 biotic combos or tech bursts

The easiest way to do those 3 achievements is to start a new game as a Sentinel Shepard :

• — For the lift – Spawn Throw (Can also be done with Pull – Shockwave – Singularity if playing another class
• — For Overload – Use Overload anytime you see a shielded enemy, if you have a low level power, shoot the shield first before using overload
• — For the combo – Use Liara singularity and Shepard Throw, If worked, an biotic explosion should happen

https://youtu.be/agaXr-Sd8fo – [youtu.be]

Pyromaniac

ME3: Set 100 enemies on fire with powers

Start a new game as a Soldier or Vanguard Shepard (“action” is Soldier) and switch combat difficulty to narrative. After you reached the gunship radio with Anderson, equip the incendiary ammo power and shoot the enemy (you can kill then with melee to keep ammos). When you are out of ammo or when Joker arrive, load the quicksave and do it again

ME3 : Missable achievements

Last Resort

ME3: Stop an out-of-control scheme before it’s too late

Complete the Citadel DLC (“Personal Apartment” in the Citadel – Available after “Priority: The Citadel II”)

Fact Finder

ME3: Discover an enemy’s monstrous origin

Complete the Leviathan DLC (“Dr. Bryson’s Lab” in the Citadel – Available after “Priority: Palaven”)

Savior

ME3: Free Omega from Cerberus Occupation

Complete the Omega DLC (“Dock 42” in the Citadel – Available after “Priority: Palaven”)

Lost and Found

ME3: Dispatch 10 probes to retrieve people or resources in Reaper territory

Master and Commander

ME3: Deliver most of the Galaxy at War assets to the final conflict

Sound hard but easy to achieve, 2012 Mass Effect 3 needed 4.000 points, ME3:LE have every DLC included which make this achievement easier to unlock, even if you made many wrong decision. Short guide on important desicion to maximase war assets :

• —– If Thane is alive – Speak with him in Huerta Hospital BEFORE doing Priority: Tuchanka
• —– Krogans against Salarians
• – If Wrex is alive – Cure the geneophage
• – If Wrex is dead – Sabotage the geneophage (Yes, kill Mordin)
• —– Aralakh Company
• – If you saved the Rachni queen (ME1) – Save her again
• – If you killed the Rachni queen (ME1) – Let the fake queen die
• —– Quarians against Geths (If you can’t achieve peace)
• – If you choose to rewrite the heretics (ME2) – Save the Geths
• – If you choose to destroy the heretics (ME2) – Save the Quarians
• —– Leviathan DLC (Dr. Bryson’s Lab)
• – Avoid using renegate interruption during the tracing scene – Dr. Ann Bryson (20 points)
• —– Omega DLC – General Oleg Petrovsky
• – Save the general (30 Points in Alien forces)
• – Kill the general (0 Points)
• – If you completed “Omega: Assist the Hacker” – Killing the general still give you war assets (30 Points in Alliance first fleet)

Eye of the Hurricane

ME3: Kill a brute while it’s charging you

If you have trouble with this achievement, switch to normal difficulty, give order to move far away to AI, shoot the brute to low life and wait for him to rush you

Always Prepared

ME3: Obtain two non-customizable suits of armor

Reckoner Knight Armor do no count for this achievement

If you don’t like full set of armor, simply make a save, buy 2 armor, and reload your previous save after you unlocked the achievement to keep your credits

Mail Slot

ME3: Kill 10 guardians with headshots from the front while their shields are raised

Bruiser

Kill 100 enemies with melee attacks in Mass Effect 1, 2 or 3

Paramour III

Establish or rekindle a romantic relationship in all three games in Mass Effect Legendary Edition

—– Possible romance for Male Shepard

• Liara
• Steve Cortez
• Tali (If romanced in ME2)
• Miranda (If romanced in ME2)
• Jack (If romanced in ME2)
• Ashley Williams (If alive)
• Kaidan Alenko (If alive)
• Kelly Chambers (If romanced in ME2 and convinced to change identity)

—– Possible romance for Female Shepard

• Liara
• Samantha Traynor
• Garrus (If romanced in ME2)
• Kaidan Alenko (If alive)
• Kelly Chambers (If romanced in ME2 and convinced to change identity)

—– Romancing Thane – Javik – Samara – James – Diana Allers will not count for the achievement

Insanity III

Complete all three games in Mass Effect Legendary Edition on Insanity without changing difficulty

ME3 is quite easy to do in insanity, teammate are strong, many weapon available, if you did both ME1 and ME2 just before, this should’nt be a challenge for you, I can only recommend you to use the Blood Pack Punisher SMG, available after “Priority: Palaven” in the Citadel, Elkoss Combine Arsenal Store terminal next to Barla Von, awesome gun

And don’t forget that you can shoot from behind a wall

The One and Only

ME3: Defeat a group of Spectre-level opponents on Normal, Hardcore, or Insanity

The easiest way to do this achievement is to switch to narrative difficulty during the match, then right before killing the last enemy, switch back to the previous difficulty then end the match

Gunsmith

ME3: Upgrade any weapon to level 10

To be able to upgrade a weapon to lvl 10, you need a ME3 NG+

• —– List of quick salvage/quest for credits after “Priority: Palaven” :
• — Quest – Prothean Obelisk (Volus in the embassies – Give 20.000 Credits)
• – Place – Shrike Abyssal ==> Urla Rast ==> Talis Fia
• — Quest – Banner of the First Regiment (Turian inside the Purgatory – Give 15.000 credits)
• – Place — Apien Crest ==> Castellus ==> Digeris
• — Quest – Pillars of Strength (Batarian in – Give 15.000 credits)
• – Place — Kite’s Nest ==> Harsa ==> Khar’shan
• — Salvage (Give 10.000 Credits)
• – Sigurd’s Cradle ==> Decoris ==> Laena
• – Shrike Abyssal ==> Xe Cha ==> Zada Ban
• – Minos Wasterland ==> Fortis ==> Pietas

UPDATE 08/23 – I just realise that video integration was not working ! Weeeeeee

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