Hardcore and Insanity

Hint by oblivionrules on October 05, 2008  |  report this hint

Trying to beat Mass Effect on Hardcore is nearly imposible beating it on Insanity is imposible. To get the achevments and gamer pics for beating the game on hardcore or insanity you cant change the diffaculty level when playing, So when you want to take a shot at hardcore load the save right before your fight with Saren and change the difaculty to hardcore after you beat him and start a new game with that character youll be playing on hardcore so now you can beat the game on hardcore do the same thing with the same character but change the difaculty to insanity. If you start the game with a previous chaeacter without doing this you will have to change the difaculty therefore you will not get the achevement or reward.

easier way to kill people not bosses

Hint by StaticTempest on December 30, 2007  |  report this hint

use lift and let your team do the rest

defeat saren v2

Hint by StaticTempest on December 30, 2007  |  report this hint

the best way to do this is give your team a good hiding place and try to get him to next cutscene and now use lift, warp, and other abilities cause they work

Unlockables

Hint by hey78900 on January 11, 2008  |  report this hint

Successfully complete the indicated task to unlock the corresponding bonus the next time a new game is started. Once the game is completed, the "New Game +" option is also unlocked, which allows you to use your existing character with previously earned equipment and skills.

+10% Damage Reduction: Get the "Soldier Ally" achievement.
+10% Damping and Overload reduced cooldown: Have a 75% game completion with Garrus in your squad.
+10% Experience: Reach level 60.
+10% Hardening: Have a 75% game completion with Ashley in your squad.
+10% Health: Kill 150 Organic enemies.
+10% Lift and Throw reduced cooldown: Have a 75% game completion with Kaiden in your squad.
+10% Sabotage and AI Hacking reduced cooldown: Have a 75% game completion with Tali in your squad.
+10% Shield: Kill 250 Synthetic enemies.
+10% Shield strength: Successfully complete the game with shield damage greater than health damage.
+10% Stasis and Barrier reduced cooldown: Have a 75% game completion with Liara in your squad.
+25% Marksman reduced cooldown: Get 150 kills with the pistol.
+5% Experience: Have a 75% game completion or reach level 50.
+5% weapon damage: Successfully complete the game two times.
Assault Rifle skill for new characters: Get 150 kills with the assault rifle.
Barrier skill for new characters: Use Barrier 75 times.
Decryption skill for new characters: Use Sabotage 75 times.
Electronics skill for new characters: Use Overload 75 times.
First Aid skill for new characters: Use Medi-gel 150 times.
Hacking skill for new characters: Use AI Hacking 75 times.
Medicine Skill for new characters: Use Neural Hacking 75 times.
Stasis skill for new characters: Use Stasis 75 times.
Throw skill for new characters: Use Throw 75 times.
Warp skill for new characters: Use Warp 75 times.
Hardcore difficulty: Successfully complete the game.
Insane difficulty: Successfully complete the game on the Hardcore difficulty.
Level 60 level cap: Successfully complete the game.
Lift skill (for non-Biotics): Use Lift 75 times.
Prestige Class: Reach level 34.
Regenerate 1 health per second: Have a 75% game completion with Wrex in your squad.
Shielding skill for new characters: Use Dampening 75 times.
Shotgun skill for new characters: Get 150 kills with the shotgun.
Singularity skill for new characters: Use "Singularity" 75 times.
Sniper Rifle skill for new characters: Get 150 kills with the sniper rifle.
Spectre grade weapons for purchase: Get 1 million credits. The weapons are available through the Normandy and C-Sec Requisitions Officers.

very nice armor early in game.

Hint by Keep-It-Moving on February 07, 2008  |  report this hint

As soon as you are able to travel the galaxy, goto the system where Feros, at least I think thats the system. In one of the Galaxys there should be a planet that is similar to earth, only there are Parasites in the air. Land on this Planet and you will gain an achievement. Next goto all the hotspots on the map, you will com across a tunnel you can go in, travel inside and you will be able to find the Mantis Armor.

Geth Colosuss Armature

Hint by spiralingzerO on February 21, 2008  |  report this hint

I found these things have an incredible shield regeneration rate, especially once you up the Difficulty to Veteran or higher. Their life regenerates a little slower, but still far faster than your Mako shields which can make fighting one a chore, and several at once very frustrating.
Assuming you can dodge their Pulse blasts work on only one at a time, focus all fire on him, I generally run rings around them which you can do is most places you face them (Virmire is another story...). Alternate between your Machine gun, which is almost useless, and your Cannon. I use the machine to just strafe them, it won't do anything significant damage wise but it will drain any shield power they have and keep them from regenerating it. Every two or seconds or so you can fire the cannon. Use the Cannon to get the job done, the machine gun to keep them from regenerating and I think you'll find like I did, they fall so much easier. Hit and run and hide to recover does not work on these guys. they can regenerate about 3-4 times faster than you and your Mako can. Happy Hunting.

Best Weapons

Hint by churchmeng on May 03, 2008  |  report this hint

The best weapons in the game are the spectre weapons. In order to get these you must fist get the rich achievement. an easy way of doin this is by using the same two allies for each mission. that way you can equip them with your top performance weapons and sell everything else. once you have gotten the rich achievement you can go either to the bottom deck of your ship or to the guy who sells you weapons in C-SEC to purchase the spectre weapons