Mass Effect 3
68 Achievements
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Technical Issues
Investigate a strange occurrence in the combat simulator.
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How to unlock the Technical Issues achievement in Mass Effect 3 - Definitive Guide
SirLugash
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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.
Delirious Ben
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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.************
SilentRich69
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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.
strifekun
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Bronze: maps (Spin Zone, Prime Evil, The Armax Classic, Pain Train, Brimstone)
Silver: modifiers (all), Reaper Combat set, Elite Challenge
Gold: Collector Combat set, Super Elite Challenge, Mirror Match Combat set
You can get points for these doing the simulator. The simulator has other quests, so if you're doing those, you'll end up getting most of these anyway.
An email will show up on the terminal after you have all of the above. It'll be called 'Unusual Scores' and the IT people will be asking you to help them look for some bugs.
It's basically a set of three matches.
For the first two matches, play as you feel comfortable. It's basic simulator stuff, if you've played all the simulator missions before this, you should know how to play the first two.
The first quest is to finish a game with 'Super Elite' enemies.
- Choose any enemy class as long as you choose the super elite level.
- Maps, squad members, modifiers, etc, none of that matters; so feel free to go wild.
You'll get an email with the next quest labled 'Early Testing Results' and a reward of a Sniper Rifle High-Velocity Barrel.
The second quest is to finish a game with 'Maximum Score Bonus'.
The IT team wants you to use the modifiers. So turn on no medi-gel, one-shot player shields, enhanced enemy shields, enemy damage boost, and no placed ammo. You can not turn on the player damage boost or it will not count.
- Maps, squad members, enemy class, enemy level, go wild.
Afterward you'll get an email called 'Memory Leak Isolated' with the next quest and a reward of Pistol Power Magnifier.
The third quest is a bit more complicated.
- Spin Zone (map)
- Geth (enemies)
- Elite (difficulty/level)
- Enhanced enemy shields (modifiers)
My choice of squad mates is probably what made this fight harder for me, so I'd recommend choosing a balanced team that can fight Cerberus, Geth, Reapers, and Collectors because this fight is a collection of high level bosses in one wave.
There are a total of five waves. All of these waves can be overwhelming if not careful. Do /not/ let them pin you down in a corner. Combat drones and sentry turrets are your friends. I also recommend constantly moving; the praetorian will come at you and if they get to close, they have an insta-kill attack.
Wave number five combines all the enemies from the previous waves. If you die, it's game over.
If all fails, you can always turn the combat down to Narrative.
olsen77
This is the most annoying trophy in the DLC and it's a three stage mission. You'll need to do quite a few runs through the combat simulator and purchase most, if not all combat modifiers and challenge levels to be able to go for this trophy. Like with your personal terminal, there will be an email box where you receive messages when setting up Arena matches. The message that you're looking for is called "Unusual Scores." You'll be asked to fight a super-elite opponent in the Arena.
After finishing the super-elite opponent match, you'll be asked to start a new match with all of the modifiers active. The challenge level and opponents don't matter here, so put it on the easiest type.
The last part is to play on Spin Zone with geth elites and enhanced enemy shields enabled. Things will go haywire pretty quickly and you'll be fighting seemingly every type of difficult enemy. The breakdown of the different waves is below. Once you complete all five ways, this will unlock.
Round 1 - Praetorians and Abominations
Round 2 - Geth Primes and Geth Pyros
Round 3 - Dragoons and Atlases
Round 4 - Banshees and Husks
Round 5 - Atlases, Banshees, Praetorians, and Geth Primes
Tyger7, DLC, by, Asturgis, Scotty
To begin the combat simulator, you will first need to complete the main story. After completion, you will be sent an email with a complimentary pass to compete in the simulator. When you have read the email, proceed to the Armax Arena and talk to the hologram up the stairs and to the left. When you are finished talking to the hologram, head down the stairs, in the center of the room, with a barrier, that says, 'Athletes Only', to a terminal where you can set your options and begin combat missions in the simulator.
After you have played some matches, you will begin to get requests on the simulator terminal, that are just set options that people want you to compete with. Keep completing matches, fulfilling peoples requests and buying the prizes/upgrades from the token stores. Eventually you will get a request from AAA Information Technology Dept, entitled 'Unusual Scores'. You are being recruited to help find a bug in the system and you will need to complete 3 matches with the set conditions to unlock this achievement. The first match you will need to fight super elite enemies, the second match, you will need to complete a match with all of the multipliers turned on and the third match, you will need to complete on the map 'Spin Zone', against Geth elite enemies, with enhanced enemy shields enabled.
After finishing the third match the achievement will unlock.
Malganas1987
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msgeorge
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