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Veteran achievement in Mass Effect Legendary Edition

Veteran

Kill 2,000 enemies in Mass Effect 1, 2 or 3

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  • PangoBaraPangoBara
    17 May 2021 18 May 2021 16 May 2022
    For most people, including myself, your kill counter will reset if you swap games. Like, if you have 1999 kills in ME1 and you click on ME2, you can very likely lose all progress (This could be fixed now for all I know, but I couldn't guarantee that)

    My personal favorite method for this achievement is one you can do very right after you gain control of the Normandy in Mass Effect 1.

    It involves the mission UNC: Lost Module with the monkeys you can use to glitch infinite paragon points. This mission is located in the Attican Beta system - Hercules cluster - planet Eletania.

    Look at the map and go to the orange marker that is on the right side of the map. You will start the mission here.

    The correct area out of the three monkey colonies that are highlighted on your map is the middle one. It has a structure next to it (you need to go in here to finish the mission).
    Drive up the structure and park in between the monkey nests. Save your game.

    Use the Mako to kill all monkeys, reload, and repeat.

    I was killing 10 monkeys about every 10 seconds. Starting from 0 kills (because of a glitch), I reached 2000 kills in about 30 minutes.

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    PangoBaraFirst of all, calm down. Second of all, my load time was about 2-3 seconds.
    I literally kept track of the time when I did it from when I started to when I finished.
    Posted by PangoBara on 28 May 22 at 02:58
    RancidVessel14I wonder If they fixed this or not
    Posted by RancidVessel14 on 26 Aug 22 at 09:51
    JOHN SWFCStill works, I did it after finishing ME1 so that I didn't have to worry about the numbers glitching, or if I'd actually make it to the 2000 before I finished the game. Found a spot where I could use the Mako's rocket to take out about 8 monkeys at once and just reloaded it from there. Soon got the 1k so I must've been close to that, then according to this site it was another 27 minutes to the 2k mark, and that was with a little break as well.

    The guy above claiming it's a 15 second reload time clearly doesn't have a Series X yet 😁
    Posted by JOHN SWFC on 29 Aug 22 at 08:32
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  • REDWINGS05REDWINGS05
    23 May 2021 23 May 2021 23 May 2021
    Edit: Per Fiezza below, powers may not contribute to getting kills, so it is wise to do gun only runs to make sure every kill you get is counting.

    Edit 2: I forgot to mention that I was using the M-490 Blackstorm Singularity Projector for my first few runs and I was only seeing an increase of 3 kills per run even though it was wiping out every enemy. Best of stay away from that gun specifically as well and maybe all heavy weapons.

    This method will generate between 40-60 kills per run depending on your luck/weapon levels. Each run takes anywhere from 2-4 min. I was able to grind out the last 1000 kills I needed in about 1 hr using this method. I was on the casual difficulty to make enemies as easy as possible. This method uses ME2 since that is currently the only reliable game that tracks, even with the update.

    The mission you are looking to use is "N7-Abandoned Mine" which is found on the planet Aequitas (Minos Wasteland, Fortis). Credit to Neo Yggdrasill for his comment in the forums pointing me in this direction.

    I recommend a save before you go to the mission in your cabin on the Normandy for an easy load to check your progress.

    After that is done, land on the planet and make another save incase you mess up and end the mission. Now progress through the mission until you come to a path that branches off in 2 directions. Make a separate save here.

    From this point, move up to the right and onto the overhang, notice the crate on the right that has an ammo resupply, do not pick this up yet. Once you enter the overhang, enemies will spawn. Go to the top of the ramp but do not go down to the bottom. simply let the husks run to this ramp and up at you. Aim for their torso for an easy 1 burst kill with the assault rifle. Use the ammo on the crate as required to finish out the wave. You will get an auto save once all enemies are defeated.

    Once complete, head down and collect ammo as needed, there is always one right at the bottom of the ramp. Then head in the doorway to the right and continue into the room ahead. Once you have cleared the doorway, quickly pop back out and look to your left. There will be waves of 3 husks that spawn for a total of 6-7 times. Simply keep killing these until they no longer spawn. you will notice another auto save happening at the bottom.

    Reload your save from the bottom of the ramp earlier and repeat as needed.
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    FlezzaThere seems to be a lot of comments about kills resetting when you change between games, though personally unsure if that applies to 3 as well since most talk about 1 and 2 so it might be fine, if you have a chunk of it on me2 I'd probably suggest trying to grind it out on 2 if you are able just in case until someone confirms its ok.
    Posted by Flezza on 27 May 21 at 12:05
    Electronidusi can confirm that switching back and forth from ME2 and ME3 does not reset you kill count (or at least it didnt for me) i switched to ME2 from Me3 to check my kill count (it was at 1442) and then wwnt back to 3 and got some kills and then went back to Me2 to see if there was progress and saw that the count went up 10 kills. i also only used a weapon (no powered kills)
    Posted by Electronidus on 31 May 21 at 23:09
    ciderioThe tracker appears to reset even just going from 1 to 2 for the first time, not just returning to 1 from 2.

    I got the 250 kills one about a third of the way through 1. Just checked kill count on 2 about a third of the way through and I'm only on 276 kills.
    Posted by ciderio on 07 Jun 21 at 11:59
  • SoundRocketmanSoundRocketman
    30 May 2021 22 May 2021 22 May 2021
    Heads up the tracker resets if you return to Mass Effect 1 after starting Mass Effect 2. I was about 100 short by end of 2 loaded up 1 to mop up some others and the stat checker in 2 is back at 0 kills.
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    Fa1con87I hope this will be patched at some point. How can it reset when i reload a different game.
    Posted by Fa1con87 on 24 May 21 at 14:57
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