Mass Effect Legendary Edition
127 Achievements
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Operative
ME2: Complete a mission discovered by scanning an unexplored world
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How to unlock the Operative achievement in Mass Effect Legendary Edition - Definitive Guide
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.
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.
38 Comments
Can you do this for melee as well or does that not track in ME1?
By Fooga on 18 May 2021 00:59
I'm not certain to be completely honest with you. I've seen some people say melee doesn't count in ME1. You could try and see if it tracks. Might be easier to just play a bit of ME2 or ME3 on the easiest difficulty and punch everyone (100 kills isn't too much). That's how i got it real quick
By PangoBara on 18 May 2021 01:05
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.
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.
6 Comments
Can confirm powers don't count at all for whatever stupid fucking reason. Not even grenades. I'm playing as a Vanguard and I'm farming Husk kills in the abandoned mines mission, started farming at 1192 kills, killed most of the Husks with incendiary grenades, went back to check the tracker and I only had 1205. So apparently the only kills that counted were the ones I got with my weapon. So dumb.
By The SCHWARTZ 00 on 24 May 2021 17:20
will this carry over to me3 or should i just finish it on me2
By Tyler Haz3 on 27 May 2021 02:22
You can unlock this very quickly by going to the Fathar cluster and searching the planet called Lorek. The Fathar cluster is located in the Omega Nebula, which is the starting point on your galaxy map when you first gain access back.
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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I hope this will be patched at some point. How can it reset when i reload a different game.
By Fa1con87 on 24 May 2021 14:57
This achievement is cumulative across all three games in the series, and tracks any method of kill - gun, melee, power, vehicle, etc. You should have no issue unlocking this naturally. In previous patches of the game, the tracking would reset to zero when you switched between games, but that shouldn't be an issue any longer. If you'd like to be safe, there's a great place to farm this in ME1 anyway. During the mission "UNC: Lost Module" (Attican Beta / Hercules / Eletania) there will be nests of docile monkeys that you can destroy at will. Save in the Mako right in front of one of the buildings, kill all 10 monkeys, reload and repeat. It should only take an hour and then these are out of the way for good.
See Agent (25G) for more info.
This guide was translated automatically.
This is done in the background towards the end of Part 2; you’ll get much more in the entire trilogy.