Mass Effect Legendary Edition (General Discussion)

Regarding mass effect, that is the actual topic anyway, I found it funny how a simple idea can totally change a game segment.

I'm talking of the Thorian Lair, which is one of the "hardest" main missions. I put hardest in quotation marks because it is only challenging in insanity difficulty (in lower ones it's actually underwhelming) and even then, you can use some clever tactics to overcome the heavy close range attacks of the creepers. I used to get shredder ammo to kill biological enemies faster, use biotic powers from my companions for crowd control, retreat in the lair to bait smaller groups into killzone, and as a last resort, melee strikes to interrupt the acid spits.

Yesterday, something so obvious occurred to me, that I don't know why I never thought of it before. I simply equipped all my party with shotguns with sledgehammer ammo. That way, all shots had heavy stopping power, my two companions had the carnage skill, to control enemies that get too close, and my adept Sheppard had great crowd control tools with stasis, push, lift and singularity. BUT, again, I actually barely needed anything but the shotguns (stasis only for the asari clone); because practically every shot would knock the creepers down, and as the acid spots were permanently interrupted, the creepers never managed to be a threat without that power...

Impressive to see how much something this small could change a fight from moderately threatening to an absolute joke...

And kinda funny that I thought of it exactly when I wasn't playing as a soldier! .