Mass Effect Legendary Edition

Mass Effect Legendary Edition

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Gunsmith

Gunsmith

ME3: Upgrade any weapon to level 10.

25 XP

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How to unlock the Gunsmith achievement in Mass Effect Legendary Edition - Definitive Guide

This achievement requires you to go into NG+ on Mass Effect 3 after already upgrading some weapons as far as you can.

The weapon upgrade station is located on the bottom level of the Normandy, in the shuttle bay. It will be one of the glowy panels in front of you when you get off the elevator. On your first playthrough, you can only upgrade weapons to level 5.

If a weapon needs to be found instead of being purchased or given to you, that weapon will max out at level 7 until you find it in game. Upon finding a weapon in NG+, it will increase by 3 levels.

What I personally would recommend is to purchase up to level 5 on three weapons: M8 Avenger, M3 Predator, and M4 Shuriken

You are required to have the M8 Avenger and M3 Predator by time you finish the opening section. And you can find the M4 Shuriken in one of the camera rooms on Mars (which will make it level 7)

Upon reaching the point in which you can be on the Normandy, head back down to the shuttle bay and use your money from the previous playthrough to max out at least one of your weapons (the M8 Avenger wouldn't let me go past 8 personally, that's why i recommend upgrading more than one gun)

Upon reaching level 10 with one, your achievement will unlock
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18 May 2021 14:22

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IIRC from playing the ME3 multiplayer back in the day, not every gun could get to level 10. I couldn't max the Avenger either, but some random Sniper rifle I bought for Garrus let me level it from 5 and I never got another one of those. It might vary from weapon to weapon.
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By Fooga on 20 May 2021 04:19
I genuinely don't know what causes it to be completely honest with you. One of the guides for the original Mass Effect 3 actually tells you to do the Avenger. Maybe it's class based?
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By PangoBara on 20 May 2021 04:53
Maybe but I was Soldier so you’d think I’d be able to get it to 10 if that were the case lol. Could also just be a bug.
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By Fooga on 20 May 2021 05:01
I used the M8 Avenger to get level 10 with. I tried with M7 Lancer first since it's what I was using but it maxed out at level 8. Must be random. I was an Infiltrator if that makes any difference.
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By Scotty#6895 on 22 May 2021 17:27
For those wondering, you have to do Earth, Mars, Citadel, and Dream Sequence #1 before being able to use the weapon table. Skipping all dialogue possible and dropping difficulty to Narrative makes this take about 25-30mins.

I used the Mantis (found one on Mars to boost it so figured why not) for the achievement as an Infiltrator.
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By Pink Freud PhD on 27 May 2021 05:36
Well just to add more information for people working it out, I play as adept and I did the three mentioned in the guide. The predator and the avenger went to tier X but the shuriken capped out at VIII for me.
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By Flezza on 28 May 2021 12:26
As soon as I has access to the Normandy in NG+ I purchased a Level 1/I weapon from the procurement station that I had not purchased in my first playthrough (Indra I in my case) I was then able to level this weapon directly to level 10/X.

Avenger and Predator wouldn't go past level 7 for me.
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By Pebo on 31 May 2021 00:48
I couldn't upgrade any of the starting weapons past 7.

I had to fully upgrade the N7 Valkyrie to get the achievement. Rather expensive upgrade as well, luckily I had a ton of credits.
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By The SCHWARTZ 00 on 31 May 2021 17:06
This was my last achievement for this. 385th on TA to 100%. 😃Such a great accomplishment for me.
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By ZombieNuuNuu on 06 Jun 2021 21:18
This launcher is absolutely saturated with new bugs. This sounds like one of them.
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By PhilTheStampede on 11 Jun 2021 01:16
you don't even need to find the specific weapon in NG+. just get your ass to the Normandy and you'll see all that your weapons that you upgraded to 5 are now at level 7. spend some 30K credits and boom cheevo pops
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By luhosenpai on 11 Jun 2021 06:11
As far as I'm aware you can increase any existing gun youy have 5 more levels. So if your rpedator was 2 you can only get it to 7 etc.

Interesting note: This is the only achievement you can't get in a single play through, in the whole of me 1/2/3
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By Sakori on 13 Jun 2021 15:13
I'm particularly annoyed that it's a second play through, even if only partially. I have having to go back and do NG+ achievements like that. It's one thing in a game like NieR where it serves a purpose, but there was no reason for this nonsense.
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By 緑眼のイアン on 27 Jun 2021 07:19
The Legendary Edition should not have included this achievement in the first place. Alternatively, they could have allowed us to upgrade weapons to rank 10 on our first playthrough.
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By Dresden N7 on 04 Oct 2021 06:19
was hoping you could do this with a second playthrough with a different character but that does not seem to be the case. will have to finish this playthrough and then import one of the characters that finished ME3 to finish this off.
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By Rista B on 04 Nov 2021 17:30
NG+, I was happy!
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By IamKamakura on 07 Dec 2021 05:21
I wish they had made it so you could upgrade to 10 in a non NG+ plus in the Legendary Edition, it was the only improvement I was actually asking for. Oh well.
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By Matthz8 on 18 Jan 2022 15:50
Lame achievement. Im not doing that. I think i will go outside.
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By lee1987xz on 10 Jul 2021 10:37
when you start a new game and import your previous playthrough, it takes the save from just before you finish the game.
the reqason why i mention this is because in that save i didn't have the above mentioned weapons at lvl V and even tho i upgraded them to V and made a newer save, when making NG+ it didn't count that new save, but the one from just before end game.
luckily i had other weapons at V (Black Widow V) so I was able to do it anyways as soon as I had access to the shuttle bay on the Normandy
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By Phoenix C64 on 20 Jul 2021 23:46
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Mass Effect Legendary Edition gives you forty gamesave slots. To get a ME3 end of game gamesave that will enable you to get the Gunsmith achievement in NG+, make sure before you go to the final part of the game, that you have a free save slot or two available. If not, you will have to delete a gamesave slot and repeat the Citadel end section.

I did not have an available save slot when I finished the game and had to delete a save to free up a save slot. Then, I had to repeat the final end section where you have to go into the beam, get onto the Citadel, have the interaction with Anderson, the Illusive Man, and the Catalyst. That's when I got an ME3 end of game save that would import a set of level 5 weapons.
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Don't know you are being downvoted. It's true. I had to replay the final mission after freeing up save slots because no option to import ME3 character was available for a NG+.
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By Meeze on 05 Feb 2022 21:52
In addition to the information in the other two guides, these are the only 4 guns in ME3 that will be available to upgrade to level 10 after Priority: Mars (since you need to pick the gun up to be able to upgrade to level 10). Certain guns are in your loadout by default depending on your class, so to be safe, don't rely on those ones.
  1. M-92 Mantis, already in loadout for Infiltrators. LOCATION: At the beginning of the level, to the right once you drop through hole in fence.
  2. M-23 Katana, already in loadout for Soldiers, Vanguards and Sentinels. LOCATION: On a downed enemy in the corridor after the contamination laser room.
  3. M-4 Shuriken, already in loadout for Adepts and Engineers. LOCATION: In the corner of the office where you activate a terminal, after doing your first stealth kill.
  4. M-15 Vindicator, never in loadout. LOCATION: In gun locker after tram ride.
The M-8 Avenger didn't work for me, so don't rely on only having that one. To be safe, the gun which imo is safest to upgrade (since no class has it by default) is the M-15 Vindicator.
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13 Mar 2022 16:13

This is the only achievement in the whole series that requires you to play a new game+, but I completed it 50 minutes into that New Game+.

1) Before you hit the point of no return in your first game
, upgrade the weapon you would like to level up to at least V (5), my Avenger was at 6 I think somehow.
2) Complete your first playthrough of ME3.
3) Start a new game with that first character and carry over all your previous save's gun levels.
*Helpful: I turned the difficulty down to Narrative so I could run around and melee everything to work on Bruiser as well.
4) Run through the game to the point you get control of the Normandy. About 50 minutes.
5) After meeting with the Citadel Council for the first time, hit the Normandy's shuttle bay and level up a weapon to X.
6) BOOM.

It should cost 30-35K credits, which I made running through to that point in the game, not including what carried over in the new game+.
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24 Jun 2021 00:00

This is supposed to be supplementary to Man785's solution.

Also I will be using 1-10 for the gun levels rather than the roman numerals. If you have problems converting between the two, that's a you problem.

First and foremost, even if you never use the M-8 Avenger upgrade it to level 5 before finishing your first playthrough. I will explain why below in section 3.

1. New Game + Bump
All weapons obtained in your first playthrough get bumped up a level on your second playthrough (new game +). So if you upgrade any weapon to level 5 it will be at 6 upon starting the second playthrough. I had 9 guns all at level 5. They all were bumped to level 6 and everything that I left at level 1 was at 2 upon starting the second playthrough.
2. Reacquire Bump
During your second playthrough weapons get bumped up a few levels when reacquired. You get +2 upon reacquire if the weapon was at level 5 when you finished the first playthrough. You get +3 upon reacquire if it was below level 5.
3. M-8 Avenger
So, why did I ask you to upgrade the M-8 Avenger? Simple. It is the first gun you reacquire in your second playthrough.

Towards the end of the prologue with Anderson you can grab it off the ground by the beacon used to signal the Normandy. The pistol Anderson gives you does not count as a reacquire.

Assuming you upgraded the M-8 Avenger to level 5, it will be instantly bumped to level 6 for New Game + and then bumped to level 8 when reacquired in the prologue.

After that you only need 17500 credits for the last two levels (7500 for level 9 and 10000 for level 10) to upgrade when back on the Normandy.
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03 Feb 2022 00:00

EA did a surprisingly great job updating the achievements in this collection to be more user-friendly, and then they dropped the ball considerably with this one. Unfortunately, you will need a short NG+ run to complete this, as you can only get to Level 5 in upgrading any weapons in your first play of the game. Make sure you max out at least the M8 Avenger and M3 Predator, but do a few other guns to be safe, as it appears different classes can only max out certain weapons.
 
Once you have your weapons maxed in your first playthrough, begin a second run and go ahead and drop your difficulty to Narrative. Run through the first few missions until you have access to the Normandy again, and use the workbench to upgrade one of your weapons to Level 10 to unlock the achievement.
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