Mass Effect I Like Mass Effect 1

[Louis_Cypher]

When someone says that "Mass Effect 2 enemies are bullet sponges on insanity", I must beg to differ. It might be the case for some classes' play styles. But for an infiltrator with something like a starter M92 Mantis, a Widow or a Black Widow, a single headshot is usually all you need to take down a single enemy. You need to upgrade certain skill trees and rifles ASAP. The Insanity run is like this *decloak* > *headshot with +40% damage from Tactical Cloak + appropriate ammo with +60% damage + upgrades +50% damage* > *target is dead* > *cloak again*.

Say the M92 Mantis has a clip of 10 shots. You will take down 10 enemies with those ten. Barring bosses. Then pick up a new clip.

You never use it for anything other than headshots.

Your team mates are usually there to support you with a bit of extra anti-shield or anti-armour. A couple, like Garrus, are better than others.

 

[Louis_Cypher]

One shot, one kill, is the appropriate way to play Mass Effect 2 and Mass Effect 3 like a god IMO.

Forgot to mention you can set up combos and trigger them for massive damage in a lot of different playstyles.

There are other viable builds that I use a lot less often. Some of them make use of tech or biotic combos or whatever, different biotic or tech powers, for devastating damage. Lots of them are quite viable, but just not my style. Mass Effect 2 and 3 on Insanity rely on you using the peak damage potential of a given class, so usually you are never using anything much other than their best combos or headshots. Maybe early before you have your powers levelled, you use a secondary gun to whittle health a bit, like on Normal mode, or maybe to get some extra damage on bosses, or if your clip runs low. But you are never playing like a Casual player, like a narrative guy, using guns to chip armour or shields, on Insanity; your guns generally aren't there to chip health or armour, they are backup, or tools, or used between powers, setting things up, before you combo or headshot things.

Also I guess most people probably know this, but there are ways to cheese Mass Effect 3. Basically the N7 Typhoon is broken levels of good. Never mind yourself, Garrus can solo the game on Insanity. It takes the challenge our of ME3's infiltrator Insanity build, but whatever, it's fun to watch:



That's where the 'calibrations' he did went lol.

Some other guns have unique quirks that used to be broken in multiplayer.

 

[undecaf]

Mass Effect was a fine little romp during its time, kinda like Fable: The Lost Chapters.

Play it once, have some lighthearted fun -> never touch it again,

 

[tritosine2k]

fun to watch

Not really...

Cookie cutter stuff somehow even worse than visceral stuff that's "collectors".

At least andromeda tried AoE stuff and levitation. Not that that's some zenith.
Yer it's a better shot at gameplay than anything cyberpunk did.