Adept or Soldier Playthrough next?

The differences become most profound in ME3. ME2 is very "shooty" no matter your class.

Do you want biotic detonations everywhere? Or do you want to melt your enemies under a hail of weapons fire and elemental explosions? Both classes are a lot of fun.

It took me literally 7 years to try a Soldier playthrough.

Surprisingly it was a lot of fun, even more so with Adrenaline Rush (ME2 and ME3).

Slowing down time is almost as cathartic as charging with a Vanguard.

This is one of the things Andromeda got right. They removed time dilation and encouraged players to play a more mobile, aggressive style.

Engineer for sure. Playing one right now on insanity and it is a ton of fun incinerating and cryo blasting everything in sight Looking forward to the IFF mission with Mordin and Samara - incinerating and throwing our way to the reaper core

I don't like Engineer much solely because I'm not into drones. Still, skills are abundant and any one doesn't like can be ignored. The class is a monster in terms of having lots of destructive tools.

Every class is well designed and fun in ME2 and ME3. Hell, I even enjoy them all in ME1, though the "half-classes" aren't as unique in that game.

In terms of game design, I can see preferring ME2. In terms of fitting lore to gameplay more logically, and because of speed of play and fun, flashy effects, I prefer ME3. I think Andromeda's gameplay is even better, though unfinished*, as a natural evolution of ME3.

* Andromeda's weapons have no weight to them. The layers of feedback and effects that really polish a game experience were missed in this area. Powers are great, but the guns just don't feel as good as they felt in ME2 and ME3. Crafting customized weapons is a lot of fun but completely broken. More pre-release polish and post-launch support could've fixed these issues.

Yeah plasnning on an Engineer when I g obac kfo rmy second run later as I've got ideas for an engineer and an Infiltrator in mindMusrt admit I'm looking forward t ooverloading all those ME2 flamethrowers.

I'm not "into" drones either, but they make a nice distraction for that second scion on the floating platforms on the Collector Ship on insanity In fact, my drone kept the second scion busy for so long that it made a sizeable dent in the Scion's armor. It lasted way longer than stasis. As a result, I got through that phase of Collector Ship in one try the other day.

Well, you're not picking Vanguard, Sentinel, or Infiltrator, so you're wrong.

WRONG I TELL YOU!

Nah, just kidding.

Soldier. People think it's just guns, but the ammo powers are cool.
That, and the sheer versatility with your weapons opens up a lot of possibilities.

As a bonus, ME3 Concussive Shot turns enemies in elemental piñatas.
The irony is hilarious when the class that is ostensibly the most weapons-focused becomes the class that uses them the least.

I'm an outlier here. Only ever played soldier, ever.

Just because it was the first class I chose on ME1, and than, got to love the bullet time.

A big part of my insanity strategy is prioritizing targets and getting them out of the game before they can do any damage, and bullet time is great for that.

In legendary, I will try new classes, but my 1st PT is soldier again, just so I can try to platinum the trilogy in one attempt.

You'll run into the Gunsmith hurdle. You can't improve guns to level X in a single playthrough. You can, however, sprint through Earth and Mars in a NG+ and upgrade your Shuriken to X very easily.




I'm guessing this is not Insanity? I never enjoyed Shockwave. It isn't as effective as I'd like when the swarms of armored Husks descend. I know some use it to great effect. Maybe I'm underestimating it because of not giving it a real chance.

I tmay depend on wha tdifficult yyou pla yon or have it specced as I find it ver yuseful in ME2 especially if you can fire it off before getting swarmed by husks. I find i tver yuseful on missions like the collector ship. I'vve also found it useful for keepin gthe husks off you durin gthe suicide mission too during the biotic shield bit.