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
   
   
   
   
   
• — Attican Beta Hercules – Only work for paragon
   
   
   
   
   

   
   
   
  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
   
   
   
   
   
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  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
 
 

 
 
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
   
   
   
   
   

   
   
   
  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

 
 

 
 
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

 
 

 
 
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