Was difficulty nerfed in general?

Now that you mentioned it, I agree, tresher maws were harder; no more cheese instakills, true, but their aim for the acid spit felt improved...

I did feel ME2 easier in several spots.

Still judging ME3, but so far my impression is that it is the one that changed less (just did the Cerberus attack on the citadel)...

Singularity Projector?

I learned to love heavy weapons late. Like last year. Pwning the game is still very easy without them, but there is fun to be found there. When you look for fun, there is plenty to be had in these games. Part of the appeal, part of the brilliance, of these lovely flawed gems.

Can also be used for gamestreaming, and video capture (like a solo, or fun team of friends, or a Thunderdome with your favorite scrub to pwn). Also allows a PS3/PC gamer to play XB exclusive titles, which is pretty cool and why I don't own another Playstation. Sony dun kilt my enthusiasm with several of their moves since PS3, but XB is bringing about the only synthesis I care about - console and PC as one, as they should be.

Sony is on the Deadpool, I place $100. This is a long play, but I feel great about it.

I did the Mirror Match on Insanity yesterday and dam, that felt harder than before (though I am guessing it actually wasn't and I just didn't remember how hard it used to be). Those fricking clones kick some serious ass. Took me 5 or 6 tries with an infiltrator. At some point I looked up what people wrote on the internet. Someone claimed that with tactical cloak you can one- or two-shot clones with a Black Widow. That was definitely not my experience. Maybe he meant a Black Widow X, this is my first MELE playthrough, so I only had the weapons upgraded to V. With that, it takes at least 3 headshots even if someone overloads their shields first.

I ended up barricading myself in the pain train map because at least there, if you are lucky, most of the grenades they keep throwing at you end up falling in the gaps and out of the map.

Yeah, I'm progressing slowly - real life on the way big time - but now, I only have sanctuary, the Cerberus base and the earth push ahead. Probably will take an even extra while because of the Armax arena, though maybe I'll leave it's achievements for later...

Anyways, did omega, and it was as easy as in my previous insanity playthrough, but with a big difference - level V gear instead of level X. The clone fight in Citadel was noticeably easier, but for that one I included two new tactics I didn't use before, so maybe this one is not a fair comparison.

I'm curious with the arena clones N7 fight. Probably the hardest of the game, and the only one I didn't beat on insanity (lowered it for the achievement in the OT). I'll see how it measure up on the LE...

just finished canon playthrough of the series. ME2 and ME3 seemed about the same as original in terms of difficulty. ME1 was noticeably easier early game due to weapons working properly. It was also nice being able to hit level 57 in one playthrough.

Yeah that's kind of my assesment 2 and 3 are moe ro rless the same difficult ywise as before onlysignificant change is tha tthe graphics d olook shinier but other than that the games feel the same ME1 is the onl one that feels different as for me it's much easier now that they've taken away the weapons restrictions. I thin k the Mako sections are now slightly harder when it comes t ocomba tgiven the Mako isn't quiet as bullet spongey in the LE as in the original but because the shields recharge quicker it's not that much of an issue as I died yesterday while playin gBring Down the Sky due to not keeping an eye on the health bar when taking on the turrets outside the first torch and they got me befoer I could destroy all of them. But in general ME1 is definitely easier

Well, I'm now in the last moments of the 3rd game - literally the last fight of the earth push, a couple kills away from the bansheepocalypse (had to leave t that to go to work).

And a bug brought the difficulty of the game in this moment.

Literally, my supressor heavy pistol stopped shooting. I have no clue why. My ammo is ok. Never saw this bug before.

Without it, it will be an issue to contain the banshees. I'll likely manage to power through, but damn...

Its the second weapon bug I come across. The m7 rifle sometimes have to flush heat 2 times, ocasionally 3 times, before it starts to refill ammo, even though I DO wait the full venting process before trying to shoot again.

Actually I saw 3 weapons related bugs, but the third one is beneficial. If i change weapons while I apply an ammo power, it skips the animation of the gun being changed...

Never came across these bugs in the OT. Anybody else here getting them?

My opinion: Infiltrator clone fight is probably one of the easiest clone fights since you can also have cloak. Losing sight of Clone Infiltrator Shepard can cause problems, but losing sight of any Clone Shepard can be a problem.

The hardest clone fight is probably the Vanguard Clone Shepard IF you are using a gimmicky No-Charge Vanguard build. If you are using Charge like a typical Vanguard, then I think it becomes one of the easier fights.

I think a consistently difficult Clone Shepard fight is the Engineer Clone, which can be surprisingly very dangerous, between its Incinerate and Drone projectile attacks, which can break shieldgate > break healthgate > kill in 3 quick attacks.

Clone Adept and Clone Sentinel and very similar, as is Clone Soldier. Not a lot of difference other than gun used. Their projectile and grenade attacks are the same but just colored different.

So for the difficulty difference ME1 was a cake walk. You really felt the changes there.

ME2 was easier in a lot of places but Horizon and the Reaper IFF mission were still very hard. Horizon is hard because you need to micro manage a bit more towards the end than you do for most of the game. It also is a fight that benefits having a lot of biotics which you don't have at that point(samara and thane). The reaper IFF has the one part where husks are swarming you on top of them shockwaves from the scions. That part is brutal. Plus the end of that mission but I found the trick was playing CoD zombies with the husks. In general I think that the difficulty change was more due to knowledge and a change because of RP. I like adept in me1 and 3 but on ME2 I know it's underwhelming on insanity so I went sentinel and OH BOY was that a good decision. Now couple that with my newly found appreciation for biotics in certain situations things naturally got easier.

ME3 was about the same as og. I have to say IDK if enemy fire rate and accuracy is based off of FPS though. I know og ME3 was much easier on consoles with 30fps than on pc (boy was that a shock when I swapped to pc). So yeah Garrus is still op and ME3 gold solos really make you good at single player.

I still don't think they changed the difficulty... I think spawns and spawn rates are just messed up more than anything. Ran through Arrival on "normal" mode and had a pyro spawn in the room just after you hack the door to transition to the final showdown with Kenson. In the OT, he would have spawned in the previous room as part of the second wave with the engineer. So, the first part of that battle felt easier, but then I was caught by total surprise to encounter him inches from my face just after hacking the door.

I also just finished getting The One and Only Achievement in ME3. About two months ago, I did a Mirror Match on Insanity with no problems in the old game with the same build I've been using in ME3LE. The fight was much easier in the old game on Insanity than it was in MELE on Normal. I was also using the same weapons and mods (with the exception of Liara who was using a Suppressor V instead of an Executioner Pistol in MELE because I didn't buy one of those... but I don't think that should have made much of a difference.

I'm still working through getting my Long Service Medal (o Insanity) so I'll have another point of comparison when I'm done with him. It makes no sense that they would change difficulty when they've left so many other "bugs" in the game the same as they always were... and then added some new bugs on top of that.

Yeah the only significant change is ME1only because of the ewapon restrictions being lifted I think but 2 and 3 feel more or less the same difficulty wise to their original versions