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Technical Issues achievement in Mass Effect 3

Technical Issues

Investigate a strange occurrence in the combat simulator.

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How to unlock the Technical Issues achievement

  • SirLugashSirLugash
    05 Mar 2013 05 Mar 2013 29 Aug 2014
    Here is a little walkthrough:

    First of all you will need to play a few games in the Combat Arena for some Tokens to buy some upgrades from the Armax store:

    Bronze Token (1) for the Spin Zone map.
    Silver Tokens (7 or 8) for Difficulty/Score modifiers, Elite enemies and Reapers.
    Gold Token (2) for Super Elite enemies and Collectors.
    (Remember you can cash in 1 Gold for 3 Silver and 1 Silver for 3 Bronze).
    (Thanks to eViL mOnKeY 270 for pointing out that you need to unlock enemy factions as well).

    Once done, head down to the Combat Sim Controls and check your messages, there should be one named "Unusual Scores" in which you are asked to help the Armax IT people find a bug in the program.
    This will contain of 3 matches:

    1. Finish a game against Super Elite enemies.
    - Map: Wingman
    - Enemy: Reapers recommended, but any enemy will do
    - Challenge: Super Elite
    - Score modifier: Whatever you like

    From the starting point, turn left and into the far corner on the lowest floor.
    Get youself behind the very last cover point and place your squad mates at the two cover points before you.
    You should be able to pick off enemies from quite a distance.
    Banshees only show up in the last wave.
    Also, do not run for the bonuses as the game could make this safe place a spawn zone.

    2. You get the message "Early Testing Results".
    You will need to finish a game with maxmimum score bonus.
    Turn on:
    - No Medi-Gel
    - One-Shot Player Shields
    - Enhanced Enemy Shiels
    - Enemy Damage Boost
    - No Placed Ammo
    This will net you 60% score bonus.
    - Do NOT select Player Damage Boost!

    - Map: Wingman
    - Enemy: Whatever you want
    - Challenge: Foot Soldiers

    Same tactic as before

    3. You get the message "Memory Leak Isolated".
    You will have to finish a game against Elite Geth on Spin Zone with "Enhanced Enemy Shields" on.

    - Map: Spin Zone
    - Enemy: Geth
    - Challenge: Elite
    - Score Modifier: Enhanced Enemy Shields
    You can also select Enhanced Damage Boost if you want.

    Set it up this way and you will notice that the map will go all crazy.
    You will face a total of 5 Waves against Super Elites only.
    Waves 1-4 will be Super Elites from one enemy faction per wave.
    Wave 5 will have only boss-level enemies from all factions combined.
    A good point to stay would be the area just in front of you after starting, the L-shaped cover.

    After completing all 5 waves, you will get the achievement.

    Oh and if you really have difficulties accomplishing any of those, just set the "Combat Difficulty" setting in the options menu to "Narrative".

    Piece of cake doesn't even describe it.

    Guide not helping? View 2 more guides for this achievement.

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    SirLugashYour match setup fits into every match description, so I wouldn't expect any problems.
    The details for the first two matches were just recommendations from me which I found easy to accomplish.
    Posted by SirLugash on 18 Sep 13 at 10:45
    Darkness727420How long does it take for the email to show up?????????
    Posted by Darkness727420 on 01 May 20 at 06:13
    DanifittiJust to let everybody knows: I did the mirror match for the other achievement, and it counted as a match against super elite enemies. So if you want to purchase everything, and then do both matches in one, it will work. Also, you will probably get the achievement for the score in the last match from this achievement, so if you go on at least normal difficulty, you can actually grab all the achivements while going for this one.
    Posted by Danifitti on 14 Apr 23 at 16:29
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  • Delirious BenDelirious Ben
    08 Mar 2013 08 Mar 2013
    You will need to have played a number of games and got some high scores to unlock all the extras needed to make this achievement accessible.

    Personally I unlocked all the maps, all the multipliers and all extra opponents so that I could do some of the other email requests that come in, but you could limit it to:

    1 Bronze Token for the Spin Zone map.
    8 Silver Tokens for Difficulty/Score modifiers, Elite enemies and Reapers.
    2 Gold Token for Super Elite enemies and Collectors.

    You unlock different tokens depending on how you scored in the arena and then can go to the Armax stores and cash in your credits for the extra variables mentioned above.

    Once you have an email named "Unusual Scores" in the mailbox near the high score section of the combat zone, which you are asked to help find a bug in the system.

    There will be 3 matches you need to complete, each with a few variables active but the rest however you like. You can also do this on the lowest difficulty if you wish which can make the achievement much easier to obtain.

    1. Finish a game against Super Elite enemies.
    - Map: Whatever you like
    - Enemy: Whatever you like
    - Challenge: Super Elite
    - Score multiplier: Whatever you like

    2. You will now get the email "Early Testing Results".
    You will need to finish a game with all the multipliers turned on.
    Turn on:
    - No Medi-Gel
    - One-Shot Player Shields
    - Enhanced Enemy Shiels
    - Enemy Damage Boost
    - No Placed Ammo
    This will net you 60% score bonus. But YOU CAN also add the Player Damage Boost multiplier which removes 10% meaning you can have a 50% score bonus and still progress.

    - Map: Whatever you like
    - Enemy: Whatever you want
    - Challenge: Foot Soldiers is easiest.
    - Score Multipliers as above. I selected all of them.

    3. You will now get the email "Memory Leak Isolated".
    You will have to finish a game against Elite Geth on Spin Zone with "Enhanced Enemy Shields" on.

    - Map: Spin Zone
    - Enemy: Geth
    - Challenge: Elite
    - Score Modifier: Enhanced Enemy Shields
    You can also select Enhanced Damage Boost if you want.

    Set it up this way and you will notice that the map will go all crazy.
    You will face a total of 5 Waves against Super Elites only.
    Waves 1-4 will be Super Elites from one enemy faction per wave.
    Wave 5 will have only boss-level enemies from all factions combined.
    A good point to stay would be the area just in front of you after starting, the L-shaped cover.

    After completing all 5 waves, you will get the achievement.

    Oh and if you really have difficulties accomplishing any of those, just set the "Combat Difficulty" setting in the options menu to "Narrative".

    *********Some credit needs to go to SirLugash who created a guide above of which I partly used as a template. I started doing his guide and realised I didn't have to do it all his way and unlocked the achievement no problem.************
  • SilentRich69SilentRich69
    16 Mar 2013 16 Mar 2013
    Okay guys short and sweet guide here because this achievement is NOT HARD and takes very little effort if done right.

    1. Set the difficulty to narrative (trust me its a cake walk)
    2. Buy EVERYTHING the arena has to offer so you can complete all of the challenges presented to you.
    3. When you complete a challenge open your emails again to get new challenges and to collect rewards.
    4. On narrative the only fight that will cause any harm AT ALL is the final fight simply because their are so many tough enemies but you should have little problem taking them out if you got this far.

    Video below showing the final battle (the only one that presents a challenge) being done in narrative mode.
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