

Bioware made several assumptions about the audience during development of Mass Effect. Each either focuses heavily in one area (guns, tech, biotics) or splits focus between two of them. There are 6 character classes in Mass Effect. Also, each medi-gel you pick up that you don't need grants 150 XP.

ME3: Have very low expectations for the ending.Progression is still gated by finding blueprints.

ME2: You aren't missing anything if you use cheats to give yourself the resources provided by planet scanning.ME1: Be sure to complete the side mission UNC: Rogue VI to unlock subclass bonuses.TLDR: If that doesn't help you decide, just play on Veteran. However, the last couple of games are considered somewhat 'easier' across all difficulties. Mass Effect 2 and 3 allow you to import save games, granting additional player power which further muddies the difficulty discussion. In the legendary edition, all difficulty levels are available without unlocks. (Though it is very common for people to mention the ones that allow use of cross-class skills.) People rarely discuss the aim assist setting or how many achievements they had that grant permanent power boosts. It's difficult to take opinions about the difficulty at face value. The first Mass Effect was long enough ago that Normal difficulty can p rovide a decent experience and the hardest difficulties were locked away behind completing the game.

The first thing to consider is the difficulty level that you want to play on. This link is a great resource and explains how to do things like turn off bloom and depth of field: There are other threads for discussing romances and plot holes.įortunately, Mass Effect was built on the Unreal engine, which means that players can modify config files to fix a number of things that the game developers overlooked while worrying about Xbox memory limitations. In particular, character builds, playstyles, and config options. This thread is for discussing how to squeeze as much enjoyment as possible out of the re-release of the Mass Effect trilogy.
