Mass Effect Achievements

All of the achievements below revolve around the abilities of your main character; you can have your AI teammates kill an army with their assault rifles, but it still won't unlock the Assault Rifle Expert ability. As such, getting all of these achievements will probably require completing the game at least three times on various difficulty settings with multiple character classes.

It's unclear if the tech and biotic power achievements require you to cast them on an enemy, or if you can simply cast them at a wall and still unlock them. We were kind of loathe to sit around for an hour testing them, but we're sure some of you achievement junkies will do so. Drop us a line if it works/doesn't work.

Tip: Note that a fair number of the achievements unlock additional game benefits in addition to the point. For example, using Overload 75 times during a play-through will allow all subsequently created characters to use the Electronics skill tree, regardless of their character class. The extent of this system needs some experimentation; does every unlockable apply to all subsequent character, for instance? We don't have all of the unlocks in this chart yet, but we'll update it as we go along.

Achievement NameHow To EarnPoint Reward
Pistol ExpertGet 150 kills with the pistol. UNLOCKS: Marksman duration increases by 25%.10
Shotgun ExpertGet 150 kills with the shotgun. UNLOCKS: New characters can train with shotguns, regardless of class.15
Assault Rifle ExpertGet 150 kills with the assault rifle. UNLOCKS: New characters can select to train in Assault Rifles, no matter their class.15
Sniper Rifle ExpertGet 150 kills with the sniper rifle. UNLOCKS: New characters can train in sniper rifles, regardless of their class.15
Throw MasteryUse Throw 75 times. UNLOCKS: Throw skill is available for all new characters.15
Lift MasteryUse Lift 75 times. UNLOCKS: The Lift skill is available for all new characters.15
Warp MasteryUse Warp 75 times. UNLOCKS: The Warp skill is available for all new characters.15
Singularity MasteryUse Singularity 75 times.15
Barrier MasteryUse Barrier 75 times. UNLOCKS: The Barrier skill is available for all new characters.15
Stasis MasteryUse Stasis 75 times.15
Sabotage SpecialistUse Sabotage 75 times. UNLOCKS: Subsequent characters can start with the Decryption skill tree.15
Damping SpecialistUse Damping 75 times.15
Overload SpecialistUse Overload 75 times. UNLOCKS: Subsequent characters can start with the Electronics skill tree.15
AI Hacking SpecialistUse AI Hacking 75 times.15
First Aid SpecialistUse medi-gel 150 times. UNLOCKS: First Aid can be trained by new characters, regardless of class.15
Dog of WarRegister 150 organic kills. UNLOCKS: Increased health by 10%.25
Geth HunterRegister 250 synethetic kills. UNLOCKS: Increased shield strength by 10%.25
ScholarFind all primary Alien: Council Races, Extinct Races and Non-Council Races codex entries. We're told you can actually accomplish this feat before leaving the Citadel for the first time, but it probably involves inspecting every terminal you come across and talking to everyone you can.25
Medal of ExplorationLand on an uncharted world. If you complete some of the side missions, you will likely unlock this eventually; otherwise it may pop up after reaching Ilos.50
ParamourComplete any romance subplot. Talk to your crewmembers between every mission and eventually you'll take someone to bed.10
RichObtain 1,000,000 credits. You'll probably want to avoid buying any expensive items until you unlock this, as it will let you buy Spectre-level weapons at the C-Sec and Normandy quartermasters that are the best in the game.25
TacticianComplete playthrough with shield damage greater than health damage. If you play on the normal difficulty, this is all but assured to unlock. UNLOCKS: Shield strength increases by 10%.25
CharismaticUse Charm or Intimidate to resolve an impossible situation. It's unclear if this refers to a specific situation, but our max-level Charm character did unlock it. This apparently revolves around talking Wrex down from his tantrum on Vermire.10
RenegadeAccumulate 75% of total Renegade points.15
ParagonAccumulate 75% of total Paragon points.15
Power GamerReach level 50 with one character. Possible to do during your first playthrough if you complete all sidequests while fighting as many foes as possible. UNLOCKS: Experience gain is increased by 5%.20
Extreme Power GamerReach level 60 with one character. Will probably require you to play through the game twice with the same character, if not three times, as the experience required to level up when you hit the high 50's becomes very high. UNLOCKS: Experience gain is increased by 10%. This won't matter for your max-level character, but will help if you decide to make a new character.50
CompletionistComplete the majority of the game. You probably won't get this if you beat the end boss without doing many of the side quests; we didn't. We then reloaded a save from before the end boss and did all of the side quests, but it still didn't unlock, so you'll want to tackle the side quests that are available to you as soon as possible if you want to unlock it, unless you don't mind beating the end of the game twice. UNLOCKS: All experience gained is increased by 10%.25
Soldier AllyComplete the majority of the game with Ashley Williams. (All of these achievements are apparently tied to the Completionist achievement; if it doesn't unlock these apparently don't, either.) UNLOCKS: All damage taken is reduced by 10%.20
Sentinel AllyComplete the majority of the game with Kaiden. UNLOCKS: Cooldowns on Lift and Throw are reduced by 10%.20
Krogan AllyComplete the majority of the game with Wrex. UNLOCKS: Health regeneration of one point per second.20
Turian AllyComplete the majority of the game with Garrus.20
Quarian AllyComplete the majority of the game with Tali. UNLOCKS: Sabotage and AI Hacking recharge time is reduced by 10%.20
Asari AllyComplete the majority of the game with Liara.20
Spectre InducteeBecome a Spectre.15
Search and RescueLocate Dr. T'Soni in the Artemis Tau cluster.10
Distinguished Service MedalComplete Eden Prime.25
Medal of HeroismComplete Feros.25
Council Legion of MeritComplete Virmire.25
Honorarium of Corporate ServiceComplete Noveria.25
Medal of HonorComplete the game once. UNLOCKS Hardcore difficult.100
Long Service MedalComplete the game twice on any difficulty setting. UNLOCKS: All weapon damage is increased by 5%.25
Distinguished Combat MedalComplete the game on the Hardcore difficulty setting. Set the difficulty when you create your character and don't change it.25
Medal of ValorComplete the game on the Insane difficulty setting. This is presumably unlocked by completing the game on Hardcore once.50

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