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Mass Effect 3
442px-ME3 Cover Art

Developer

BioWare

Release

No information

Achievement Total

52

Genre

Sci-fi/Action/RPG

Mass Effect 3 is the third and final installment of the Mass Effect trilogy, developed by BioWare and published by EA Games. The player again assumes the fully customisable role of Commander Shepard as the Reapers launch their invasion of the galaxy. As with previous games, the player is able to carry over save files from Mass Effect and Mass Effect 2, where the choices they made in those games will affect their experience in Mass Effect 3.

Due to controversy over the ending, players have the option of downloading the Mass Effect 3 - Extended Cut DLC for free, which expands on the original ending with additional dialogue and cutscenes.

Achievement List[]

Singleplayer Achievements[]

Icon Name Notes Gamerscore/Trophy Level
100px-ME3 N7 Elite N7 Elite Acquire all other trophies. Platinum (PS3 only)
100px-ME3 Driven Driven Return to active duty. 5/Bronze
This acievement is unlocked upon completion of the mission Prologue: Earth. It is story related, and cannot be missed.
100px-ME3 Bringer of War Bringer of War Chase down an assassin. 10/Bronze
This achievement is awared upon completion of the mission Priority: Mars. It is story related, and cannot be missed.
100px-ME3 Mobilizer Mobilizer Bring a veteran officer aboard. 15/Bronze
This achievement is awarded upon completion of the mission Priority: Palaven. It is story-related, and cannot be missed.
100px-ME3 World Shaker World Shaker Destroy an Atlas Mech dropped from orbit. 15/Bronze
This achievement is awarded upon completion of the mission Priority: Sur'Kesh. It is story-related, and cannot be missed.
100px-ME3 Pathfinder Pathfinder Explore a lost city. 15/Bronze
This achievement is awarded upon completion of the mission Priority: Tuchanka. It is story-related, and cannot be missed.
100px-ME3 Tunnel Rat Tunnel Rat Survive the swarm. 15/Bronze
MISSABLE. This achievement is awarded upon completion of the side-mission Attican Traverse: Krogan Team. The mission becomes available after Priority: Sur'Kesh.
100px-ME3 Party Crasher Party Crasher Sabotage a dreadnaught. 15/Bronze
This achievement is awarded upon completion of the mission Priority: Geth Dreadnaught. It is story-related, and cannot be missed.
100px-ME3 Hard Target Hard Target Call down an orbital strike. 15/Bronze
This achievement is awarded upon completion of the mission Priority: Rannoch. It is story-related, and cannot be missed.
100px-ME3 Saboteur Saboteur Disable a fighter squadron. 15/Bronze
MISSABLE. This achievement is awarded upon completion of the mission Rannoch: Geth Fighter Squadrons. The mission becomes available after Priority: Geth Dreadnaught, and must be completed before Priority: Rannoch
100px-ME3 Arbiter Arbiter Win a political stand-off. 25/Bronze
This achievement is awarded upon completion of the mission Priority: The Citadel II (there are three Priority: The Citadel missions in the game). It is story-related and cannot be missed.
100px-ME3 Last Witness Last Witness Extract ancient technology. 25/Bronze
This achievement is awarded upon completion of the mission Priority: Thessia. It is story-related and cannot be missed.
100px-ME3 Executioner Executioner Defeat an old adversary. 25/Bronze
This achievement is awarded upon completion of the mission Priority: Cerberus Headquarters. It is story-related and cannot be missed.
100px-ME3 Well Connected Well Connected Send a warning across the galaxy. 15/Bronze
This achievement is awarded upon completion of the mission Priority: Horizon. It is story-related and cannot be missed.
100px-ME3 Fact Finder Fact Finder Uncover an enemy's monstrous origin. 15/Bronze
MISSABLE. This achievement is awarded upon completion of the mission Kallini: Ardat-Yakshi Monastery. The mission becomes available after Priority: The Citadel II, although it will be labelled Mesana: Distress Signal in the journal.
100px-ME3 Liberator Liberator Stop a Cerberus kidnapping. 15/Bronze
MISSABLE. This achievement is awarded upon completion of the mission Grissom Academy: Emergency Evacuation. The mission becomes available after Priority: Palaven. If three missions are completed without attempting Grissom Academy: Emergency Evacuation, the mission will fail.
100px-ME3 Problem Solver Problem Solver Evacuate a scientific facility. 15/Bronze
MISSABLE. This achievement is awarded upon completion of the mission Arrae: Ex-Cerberus Scientists. The mission becomes available after Priority: The Citadel 'II. 
100px-ME3 Patriot Patriot Make the final assault. 25/Bronze
This achievement is awarded when you start the mission Priority: Earth.
100px-ME3 Legend Legend Mission accomplished. 50/Silver
This achievement is awarded upon completion of the mission Priority: Earth. It is story-related and cannot be missed.
100px-ME3 Shopaholic Shopaholic Visit a store in the single-player campaign. 10/Bronze
This achievement is unlocked upon interacting with a store. Stores are found across the Citadel, which can be visited between missions. Your first opportunity to earn this occurs during your first visit to the Citadel, after Priority: Mars. You will have the option to visit someone at Huerta Memorial Hospital, and as you do so you will walk straight past a store terminal in the Patient Lounge area.
100px-ME3 Master and Commander Master and Commander Deliver most of the galaxy at war assets to the final conflict. 50/Silver
This achivement unlocks as you start the mission Priority: Cerberus Headquarters if you have an Effective Millitary Strength (EMS) rating of 4000 or higher (although if you have the Extended Cut DLC installed, is is changed to 3,100 Total Military Strength). Your TMS and EMS will depend on decisions you have made throughout the story, multiplayer and any additional War Assets you have discovered through planet scanning. A fuller guide is pending.
100px-ME3 Lost and Found Lost and Found Dispatch 10 probes to retrieve people or resources in Reaper territory. 25/Bronze
When you enter a Reaper-controlled system, which is represented by a Reaper hovering over it on the galaxy map, you have the option to scan the system for War Assets. Pressing the scan button scans an area around the Normandy, and if you have found anything a red circle will pop up around the planet in question. To acquire the Asset, enter the orbit of the planet and use on-screen prompts to scan the planet's surface. Move the scanner in the direction indicated by the white line until you encounter a white dot, then use on-screen prompts to dispatch the probe. Do this ten times to unlock the achivement, but be warned: excessive scanning in a system will alert the Reapers to your presence (see also: Untouchable achivement).
100px-ME3 Long Service Medal Long Service Medal

Complete Mass Effect 3 twice, or once with a character imported from Mass Effect 2.

50/Silver

This achivement can either be earned by completing Mass Effect 3 twice (completing it once and then selecting the 'New Game+' option on the main menu) or by selecting the 'Import ME2 Character' option on the main menu and completing the game once. Note that this option will only be available if you have a Mass Effect 2 save file.

100px-ME3 Insanity Insanity Finish the game on the Insanity difficulty setting without changing the setting after leaving Earth. 75/Gold
It is recommended you work on the Unwavering achivement at the same time as this one. For full details see an Insanity Walkthrough (pending).
100px-ME3 A Personal Touch A Personal Touch Modify a weapon. 10/Bronze
Every weapon in the game can be upgraded with up to two mods, which are themselves spread throughout the game's levels and the stores. To get this achivement, you must apply a mod to a weapon, which can be done via the squad menu before a mission starts - select the weapon you want to mod, press Square to go to the mod screen, select the mod you want to attach and press X to attach it to the weapon. While on a mission, you can only mod weapons at weapon benches, and the first weapon mods you find will be on the Priority: Mars mission.
100px-ME3 Paramour Paramour Establish or rekindle a romantic relationship. 25/Bronze
See the Mass Effect Romance Guide for details (pending).
100px-ME3 Combined Arms Combined Arms Perform any combination of 50 Biotic Combos or Tech Bursts. 25/Silver
100px-ME3 Focused Focused Evolve any of your powers to rank 6. 25/Bronze
As you level up, you will unlock points to spend on levelling up your powers. Pause the game and access the Squad menu to assign points to your powers, and to unlock this achivement you will need to level any one of those powers to rank 6. 
100px-ME3 Recruit Recruit Kill 250 enemies. This is cumulative with the Soldier and Veteran achivements. Kills are tracked across all playthroughs and multiplayer. 10/Bronze
100px-ME3 Soldier Soldier Kill 1000 enemies. 15/Bronze
100px-ME3 Veteran Veteran Kill 5000 enemies. 25/Silver
These achievements are self-explanatory, and do not have to be completed in a single playthrough. The total number of kills is counted across all playthroughs and multiplayer.
100px-ME3 Bruiser Bruiser Kill 100 enemies with melee attacks. Kills are tracked across all playthroughs and multiplayer. 10/Bronze
Melee attacks can be executed using the Circle button, and a heavy melee by holding it. In order to count for this trophy, the killing blow must be delivered by a melee attack.
100px-ME3 Untouchable Untouchable Escape a Reaper on the galaxy map. 10/Bronze
This achievement can be earned by travelling to a Reaper-controlled star cluster on the galaxy map and scanning enough to alert the Reapers. When the Reapers enter the system, return to the Mass Relay as fast as possible and plot the relay jump. The Reapers can also be escaped by leaving the star system to travel to another in the same cluster, although the Reapers will still be in the system until you complete another mission.
100px-ME3 Overload Specialist Overload Specialist Overload the shields of 100 enemies. Overloads are tracked across all playthroughs and multiplayer. 15/Bronze
Use the Overload power to deplete the shields of 100 enemies. In order to count, the Overload must remove the enterity of the shield. Also, overloads used by squadmates do not count - the player must be the origin of the power. In singleplayer, Overload is a power available to the Engineer and Sentinel classes, and in multiplayer it is available to the Geth Engineer, Human Engineer, Turian Sentinel and Turian Ghost Infiltrator characters.
100px-ME3 Sky High Sky High Lift 100 enemies off the ground with powers. Lifts are tracked across all playthroughs and multiplayer. 15/Bronze
A 'lift' is an attack that lifts enemies into the air or throws them to the ground. Specific lift powers are available to the following classes: Soldier (Concussive Shot), Adept (Singularity, Pull, Throw), Sentinel (Throw, Lift Grenade) and Vanguard (Pull). Note that the squadmate powers will not count towards this achivement.
100px-ME3 Pyromaniac Pyromaniac Set 100 enemies on fire with powers. Fires are tracked across all playthroughs and multiplayer. 15/Bronze
The following player classes have abilities that can set enemies alight: Soldier (Incendiary Ammo), Engineer (Incinerate), Infiltrator (Incinerate) and Vanguard (Incendiary Ammo). Note that squadmate powers will not count towards this achivement.
100px-ME3 Eye of the Hurricane Eye of the Hurricane Kill a Brute when its charging you. This achievement can also be earned in multiplayer. 10/Bronze
This achivement can be awkward, but if done correctly can be easy. To earn this achivement you must kill a Brute while it is performing its special Charge attack. The best way to do this is to get it down to half a quarter health then get far away from it, forcing it to perform its Charge attack. It will squat down right before it charges, which works as a signal to open fire. Note that if you don't move out of the way as you shoot, the Brute will hit you and interrupt your attack. If you are having trouble, try using the Adrenaline Rush power to slow down time. Brutes are encountered on most missions where the enemies are the Reapers, starting with Priority: Palaven
100px-ME3 Mail Slot Mail Slot Kill 10 guardians with headshots from the front when their sheilds are active. Mail Slots are tracked across all playthroughs and muliplayer. 10/Bronze
100px-ME3 Hijacker Hijacker Hijack an Atlas Mech. This achievement can also be earned in multiplayer. 10/Bronze
100px-ME3 Giant Killer Giant Killer Defeat a Harvester. 10/Bronze
Harvesters can be found in the missions Priority': ThessiaPriority: EarthTuchanka: Turian Platoon and the DLC mission Namakli: Leviathan. This achivement cannot be missed, as the Harvesters must be killed in order to progress on the missions Priority: EarthTuchanka: Turian Platoon and Namakli: Leviathan

Multiplayer Achievements[]

All of these achievements have two conditions that will unlock them - one in multiplayer and one in singleplayer. Only one of these conditions needs to be filled to unlock the achievement.

Icon Name Notes Gamerscore/Trophy Level
100px-ME3 Enlisted Enlisted Start a character in Multiplayer or customise a character in Single Player. 5/Bronze
100px-ME3 Tour of Duty Tour of Duty Finish all multiplayer maps or all N7 missions in Single Player. 20/Bronze
100px-ME3 Always Prepared Always Prepared Obtain two non-customisable suits of armour. 10/Bronze
100px-ME3 Tourist Tourist Complete one multiplayer match or 2 N7 missions in Singleplayer. 5/Bronze
100px-ME3 Explorer Explorer Complete three multiplayer matches or 5 N7 missions in Singleplayer. 15/Bronze
100px-ME3 Gunsmith Gunsmith Upgrade any weapon to level 10. 25/Silver
100px-ME3 Almost There Almost There Reach Level 15 in multiplayer or Level 50 in Single player. 15/Bronze
100px-ME3 Peak Condition Peak Condition Reach Level 20 in multiplayer or Level 60 in Singleplayer. 25/Bronze
Both levelling achivements are easier to earn in Multiplayer than in Singleplayer, since there are fewer levels in Multiplayer. In Multiplayer, you can get a character to level 20 in an evening or two, while in Singleplayer it should take at least 3 playthroughs (2 if you import a max-level character from Mass Effect 2). 
100px-ME3 Battle-Scarred Battle Scarred Promote a multiplayer character to the Galaxy at War, or import a Mass Effect 3 character after a completed playthrough. 25/Bronze
100px-ME3 Unwavering Unwavering Finish all multiplayer maps on Gold, or all Singleplayer missions in Insanity. 50/Gold
100px-ME3 Defender Defender Attain the highest state of readiness in each Theatre of War. (Unlike other multiplayer achievements, this has not singleplayer alternative). 25/Bronze

Downloadable Content Achievements[]

From Ashes[]

All achievements in this pack are singleplayer.

Icon Name Notes Gamerscore/Trophy Level
100px-ME3 Freedom Fighter Freedom Fighter Find all required intel to help Eden Prime's colonists. 25/Bronze
100px-ME3 Prothean Expert Prothean Expert Learn more about the Prothean Empire. 25/Bronze
This achievement is awarded upon completion of the mission Priority: Eden Prime. The mission becomes available after installing From Ashes and reading an email on your private terminal regarding Eden Prime.

Leviathan[]

All achievements in this pack are singleplayer.

Icon Name Notes Gamerscore/Trophy Level
100px-ME3 No Stone Unturned No Stone Unturned Investigate a sinister conspiracy. 25/Bronze
This achivement is awarded upon completion of the mission Mahavid: Leviathan. The mission is acquired after visiting installing Leviathan, reading the email at your private terminal and visiting Bryson's Lab on the Citadel.
100px-ME3 Family Matters Family Matters Rescue a civilian from Reaper forces. 25/Bronze
This achievement is awarded upon completion of the mission Namakli: Leviathan.
100px-ME3 Under Pressure Under Pressure Discover an ancient secret. 50/Bronze
This achievement is awarded upon completion of the mission Despoina: Leviathan
100px-ME3 Conspiracy Theorist Conspiracy Theorist Use clues to pinpoint the exact location of an objective. 25/Silver

Omega[]

All achievements in the pack are singleplayer.

Icon Name Notes Gamerscore/Trophy Level
Saviour
Saviour Free Omega from Cerberus occupation. 25/Bronze
This achievement is awared upon completion of the mission Omega: Aria T'Loak. The mission is acquired after installing Omega, reading an email at your private terminal and completing the assignment Citadel: Aria T'Loak
Talon
Talon Find the Talon leader. 50/Silver
Meticulous
Meticulous Complete all the Command Centre side missions on Omega. 50/Silver

Citadel[]

All achievements in this pack are singleplayer.

Icon Name Notes Gamerscore/Trophy Level
100px-ME3 Priority Target
Priority Target Discover a plot against you. 25/Bronze
100px-ME3 High Society
High Society Go undercover to follow a lead. 25/Bronze
100px-ME3 Team Player
Team Player Infiltrate an enemy stronghold with your crew. 25/Bronze
100px-ME3 Last Resort
Last Resort Stop an out-of-control scheme before it's too late. 50/Silver
100px-ME3 Perfect Host
Perfect Host Throw a party for your friends. 10/Bronze
100px-ME3 King Castle
King of the Castle Win a prize at one of the arcade games. 15/Bronze
100px-ME3 Technical Issues
Technical Issues Investigate a strange occurrence in the combat simulator. 25/Silver
100px-ME3 Simulated Hero
Simulated Hero Score 9999 points in the combat simulator on Normal, Hardcore or Insanity. 25/Silver
100px-ME3 One And Only
The One and Only Defeat a group of Spectre-Level opponents on Normal, Hardcore or Insanity. 50/Silver