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First Aid Specialist achievement in Mass Effect

First Aid Specialist

Use medi-gel 150 times

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How to unlock the First Aid Specialist achievement

  • CyberKnightCyberKnight
    29 Aug 2009 29 Aug 2009
    If you need to spam some medi-gel uses, the Pinnacle Station DLC does the job nicely. Every time you enter the simulation, you're given a full load of medi-gel for free (ironically, Admiral Ahern occasionally yells "That medi-gel ain't free!" when you get shot).

    The Survival mode works best, as the enemies will attack you and give you plenty of opportunities to use your gel as long as you can stay alive. As soon as you run out of gel, die and restart the sim.

    Other ideas for "boosting" your medi-gel use:

    Run out into danger so you're more likely to get shot, and use gel early and often.

    When you've cleared out an enemy hide-out, find any plasma containers or other explosive "barrels", walk right up to them, shoot, and immediately heal. Repeat as long as you have gel or barrels available.

    You can always replenish your medi-gel for free from the Normandy's sick bay. You can return to the Normandy from a planet without losing your progress on that planet, so return as necessary to get more gel before going to the next building on the planet.

    Obviously this achievement may make it difficult to get the Tactician, as you can't use medi-gel unless you are injured, and Tactician requires minimizing your injuries. It's possible, but hey, you have multiple playthroughs ahead of you in this game anyway, so it may be easier to not stress it and go for Tactician on one playthrough and encourage damage and medi-gel on another.

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    worldwidedavepFYI - it DOES count if you use medi gel to heal your allies. The achievement popped for me after I healed one of my allies and I had no damage myself.
    Posted by worldwidedavep on 22 Feb 11 at 17:13
    Solario32Cool...thx worldwidedavep.
    Posted by Solario32 on 31 Oct 11 at 17:05
    Falcon SVNCould you please state in your solution whether or not it counts when healing your teammates. I'm on my second play through and have healed my teammates over 200 times. The achievement has not popped.
    Posted by Falcon SVN on 28 Sep 15 at 14:39
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  • CodsternationCodsternation
    31 Aug 2008 31 Aug 2008
    This achievement carries between difficulties/careers. Simply just heal when needed, and heal before opening any first aide containers (if you're at max medi-gel).
  • an7manan7man
    25 Nov 2007 06 Feb 2011
    The quickest and easiest way in my opinion is to make a save in front of an explosive. This way you can load the explosive canister back after you blow it up. Loading the save makes it so the explosive is back and no waiting for your medigel to recharge.

    I only recommend this after you have done your play-through/s and still have not received the achievement.


    Note: The loading screen is much faster than waiting for the Medigel to recharge.
    Also deleting your autosave makes it so you can load the file save faster.
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    chef matt 32This definitely works. I did not notice much of a difference when deleting the autosave. If you are boosting all 150, it takes about an hour. There are two explosive canisters in the Lower Markets (right behind the Citadel Transit for Chora's Den). Sometimes it may glitch and the canister might explode, but not do any damage. In this case, just go to the second canister in the area.
    Posted by chef matt 32 on 07 Sep 11 at 02:41
    Bazroy99Lovely stuff definitely the fastest way. Recommend getting a shotgun with explosive rounds so it's just a one shot on the explosive.
    Posted by Bazroy99 on 03 Apr 20 at 20:36
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