MELE achievement hunting

I should end up with most of them eventually, except for the play on Insanity ones.


Scream as they fall? Does it means pushing the guy out of the window count?

I suspect they will. The power-based ones were used to unlock bonus powers.

The squadmate-based ones (and some others) gave some minor stat bonuses, like +10% shields or regen 1 health per second. I doubt those stat bonuses will be removed.

Never got hung up on achievements myself. Mostly get them from just playing the game.

Okay, I went back and looked. Some of the difficulty and playthrough/XP/level-related achievements have been removed. That is fine and was mostly expected.

1. As I mentioned in my previous post, the weapons-related achievements appear to have been removed from the list provided by sofajockey:
- Pistol Expert (150 Pistol Kills)
- Shotgun Expert (150 Shotgun Kills)
- Assault Rifle Expert (150 Assault Rifle Kills)
- Sniper Expert (150 Sniper Rifle Kills)

These achievements unlocked the shotgun, assault rifle, and sniper rifle talents for bonus powers, and increased duration of Marksman (Pistol). Curious if these were removed from the game period, or just removed from the list provided.


2. These enemy-related achievements appear to have been removed:
- Dog of War (150 organic enemy kills)
- Geth Hunter (250 synthetic enemy kills)

I don't think any stat bonuses were associated with them, so no big deal on their removal. A lot of enemy-related killing achievements are now tracked across all games in the trilogy for achievements.


3. I do not see these achievements which had bonuses attached to them:
- Tactician (Complete playthrough with shield damage greater than health damage)
- Rich (Exceed 1,000,000 Credits)

I believe Tactician provided a shield stat increase for all Shepards?
The Rich achievement unlocked Spectre weapons in all playthroughs, and had an import check in ME2 that increased starting credits.

Finally they've changed that!

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

I did not get the trophy for that after romancing Samantha. My guess is because I skipped some content related to the romance such as not doing Grissom and not rescuing the Cerberus scientists. Either way, that will be fixed in my current ME3 playthrough.

I will definitely be getting my three platinums for MELE. Anything less would be unacceptable. 😉

The ME1 platinum looks achievable in a single playthrough. I'm not sure how hard I'll chase it. If it feels like it's artificially imposing upon my squad rotation, or whatnot, I might just spread it across two PTs. Then again, trophies are one-and-done, so you only have to make that extra effort once before never worrying about it again.

I believe it's counted across all 3 games.

Squadmate tech and biotic powers count towards getting the tech and biotic power achievements. I can confirm. I am playing as a soldier and used Tali, Kaiden, and Liara to get these achievements.

Squadmate quest achievements are now do-able in a single playthrough (complete 5 quests with each squadmate). Some of the Citadel quests are good for getting these achievements.

I'm glad you reminded me of this. I remember back in '07 having to drop everything and go to Therum and get Liara ASAP; then bring her back to mop up those Citadel "missions". The lower 5 per ally threshold is much better.

I need to get Ashley's 5 out of the way early, so I can put her back on the bench until her dramatic exit.