Adept or Soldier Playthrough next?

Yeah, it is very much an issue of difficulty. With Insanity, every enemy in the game is given armor. The swarms of husks become swarms of armored husks. You have to peel off that armor before you can scatter or kill them. There are several power loadouts for handling this, but Shockwave isn't really a good fit.

I can definitely see how it would be great against unarmored foes.

They all can be useful... it's all I'm saying.  Everyone has their own favorites.  Personally, I'm not a fan of Samara, you are. {shrug}

I have got to try an adept next time I do the trilogy, soldier is easier but I always do that and I need a breath of fresh air in terms of gameplay.

Strange, I hear about this for the first time. Wrecked Saren multiple times with Adept Shepard and Liara in squad with biotics and game never crashed, didn't happened in OG either.

Like I sait, first time hearing about this. I played OT more than 20 times, LE is at 4 ATM. Even replayed last fight seven times after I read your post and it didn't crashed. I'sm sorry that you have this problem, it really sucks.
You should turn off squadmate power usage and command them manually, it's far more effective.

I've had 2 crash on me a fwe times but both 1 and 3 tend to be pretty stable so yeah. I've not had an yserious issues with crashes. Though the LE version of ME2 seems to work fine as I don't think it's crashed on me yet or at least it hasn't in the 2 playthrough's I have done.

Adept. It's my favourite and you don't need to worry so much about running out of thermal clips.

Engineer is my second favourite, also fun.

Well; finished my adept run of ME1 no problem whatsoever; but also, not that much difference, IMHO. Perhaps it would be harder on the original trilogy because of the weapons restrictions, but in the legendary Edition, after you get endgame gear, an adept is almost as good as the soldier, but with extra tricks, and I didn't even get the best light armor in that run...

Now, ME2...

I instantly miss adrenaline rush. And miss my assault rifle. Shooting the heavy pistol is ok, but relying on the shuriken is unnerving; too much spread and no stopping power.
Because of that, I don't feel the gain of the warp ammo all that much. Also, Shepard's exposes himself to much and for too long to shoot his powers, and lots of the times the effect gets stuck in the game geometry, like, in my cover, or in front of the enemy's cover.

And I definitely feel the fact that every enemy have either armor or shields. Armor is already annoying, but shields are terrible, I have no direct power to counter them (have to bring mates with overload).

I'm still in Mordin's recruitment, and the vorcha feels much more if a threat now, for two reasons; warp ammo does not have the stun effect on them, nor does it impede health regeneration. Playing as a soldier I didn't even remember it existed...

The game feels much harder now. I'm enjoying it, but I feel I won't be able to get through it on insanity. Should I lower the setting? I really think I'll probably get stuck the first time I get to the collectors if I keep difficulty up.

Guys, any tips for adept on insanity? I'm curious...

Some gameplay mechanics, builds, and other stuff can be found linked in this thread.

Specifically for Adepts, I recommend starting with Mass Effect 2: Adepting through Insanity b Average Gatsby, one of the original Adept guides. Some of the build advice has changed since then, but the basics hold up. This is the guide that I used when I first starting using the Adept on Insanity.

I also have a video guide for the ME2 Adept on Insanity in a YouTube playlist. Not the greatest guide in the world; with actual planning, I could have condensed it into only a handful of videos instead of almost an entire playthrough. But like Average Gatsby's guide, the first few videos should help you early game.

Basics:
1. Use Singularity to hold enemies in place.
2. Use Pull to disable or stagger enemies.
3. Use squadmate's warp to detonate lifted enemies.
4. Use your own warp when indoors for combos or if enemies are clustered.
5. For wide-open environments, you can combo lifted enemies with Throw to throw them off the map.

Build basics:
1. At level 4, you can put at least 1 point into Warp, throw, singularity, and pull.
2. Starting from level 5, max your class passive.
3. Max Singularity
4. up to you on the order of maxing pull, warp, and throw. I leave throw to last.

Pistols for armor, SMGs for shields/barriers. Shuriken is good, but hard to use. All SMGs better when you get the Shield damage upgrade (requires 2 SMG damage upgrades to unlock. One in store, one in Garrus/Archangel recruitment mission). Most players prefer the Locust.

Miranda is good squadmate because she has Warp. Thane also good because he has Warp. If protections really bother you, take defense-stripping squadmates like Mordin (Incinerate) or Miranda/Garrus/Kasumi (Overload). Garrus has best Overload because he has power damage bonuses in passives.

Put squadmates behind you so they will do power attacks instantly (no casting animation).

Good luck, and have fun!

Adept is certainly one of the harder classes to use in ME2 on Insanity. It tends to require using all available powers, squadmates, and weapons effectively.

The shooting classes (Soldier, Vanguard, Infiltrator) tend to kill enemies at regular intervals. For example, in each encounter most players will activate cloak/A-Rush > kill > wait for cooldown > repeat. The Adept tends to take longer for the first kill, but can then start to kill enemies at increasingly faster rates.

That is my experience anyway. Anyway, good luck with the rest of your playthrough. I hope you find the Adept fun.

Yeah, I think you'll be okay as you continue to add more live gameplay hours. One thing that helps me is that I replay certain missions over and over again, testing different weapon loadouts and squadmates. A useful assignment to practice close quarter combat is the N7 Mission: Hanhe-Kedar Facility. Plenty of armored LOKIs in tight corners. Another one is the N7:Mining Facility with the husk infestation. Both are good testing grounds.


For an early stage Adept, I highly recommend dumping all of Jacob's points into squad incendiary ammo - it'll come in super handy against the enemies that charge towards you, especially as most of them have armor (LOKI, FENRIS, Pyro Vorcha, Krogan, Praetorian, Husks).

To deal with a charging foe, I like to:
- Throw out a singularity to stagger/hold whatever is charging
- Tell the squad to target that enemy (if everyone has incendiary ammo, it makes a huge difference)
- Fire a couple of shots with the pistol
- Throw

Throw doesn't kill, but it buys time, especially if there is more than one enemy encroaching on your space. I'm more concerned about personal distance than I am finishing off enemies one by one as an Adept.

You'll find each battle is broken down into two parts:
A) stripping enemy defenses
B )  setting up warp bombs / Rag-dolling

Sometimes you have to spend a lot more time on A) before you get to B ) but at some point, you'll feel a turning point where you're just rag-dolling everything in sight - which is the best part about being an Adept