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@@11moe: Biotics got massively nerfed in ME2 because they were all forced to share a timer AND you can't rag-doll enemies with their shields up any more. At least in this game you could just cycle through all your biotics one after another and the first ones would be recharged once you're halfway through, assuming an optimal build. Plus shielding offered absolutely no defense against biotic ragdolling shenanigans. It is quite easy to go through ME1 using nothing but biotics 95% of the time... well... probably not right at the start at level 1, but it picks up pretty quickly if you focus everything on min-maxing two powers.
@@fenixchief7 or you can do what some people do including myself 1) kill wrex 2) spare the queen 3) save the council 4) destroy the data 5) sabotage the cure Congratulations your a Paragon that discreetly caused genocide on your adopted childs race A.K.A Grunt!
@@stylesrj I was just thinking about how Mass Effect 3 doesn't seem like it would be that bad - I'm playing as a Vanguard right now and I find myself rarely using my weapons.
Idk I did it waaaaay before in ME3, wasn't that bad. You can really spam abilities in 3 with low CD, and I think CDs on 2 were lower as well, while powers were stronger. I also remember that half-biotic-half-engineer class which had both Anti-shield and Anti-armor abilities, and also you can spam them from your teammates.
Im commander frog and this is my favorite video on the internet Krogans with regenerating heath and once they pop immunity having even slower health loss and charge by swapping to their shotguns are stupidly annoying to deal with, also idk if yk this but anti thorian grenades also work and insta kill creepers making it so much easier
@@deusexludos8129 That's because Mass Effect 2 has the jankest cover system out of all 3 games. So many times in ME2 you try and crouch behind cover and Shepard just leans against it standing up, exposing his entire back to the enemies and you just instantly die. After playing through all 3 games again on the Legendary version, I realized ME2 actually as the worst gameplay of the 3 games imo. Jankness, squadmates only have 3 powers, Shepard only has 5 powers, you're locked out of certain gun types depending on class. In ME1 legendary edition they let you use all guns as all classes, ME2 really needed that too. But the legendary edition was halfbaked, the fact that the ME1 final boss crash still happens is insane, that was literally a bug in the OG game and they never fixed it.
Honestly, 2 and 3 get much easier, cause tech and biotics got some big boosts. 2 as an Engineer or 3 as a Vanguard would make this challenge trivial (alternative for 3: let Garrus ascend into godhood and just watch the new main character murder everything)
Honestly ME3 is all around probably the easiest to do this sort of challenge on given that you can pop powers off like a machine gun cause you can get your recharge so crazy low even early on
@@CuddleCakez He usually just murders most things before they can kill him for me. Might also be because I draw most of the fire as an immortal vanguard pinball.
I never thought I needed Mass Effect challenge videos in my life, but I absolutely need to see more of these from you. Amazing video, you are probably my favorite challenge runner to watch with your personality and humor
@@SotiCoto Garrus > Wrex > Kaidan > Liara > Tali > Ashley. In no situation does it hurt you to take a combination of the first three, the last three are situational.
Ah man, I definitely had some PTSD-induced flashbacks with this video. The difficulty scaling is all over the place in ME1. After multiple playthroughs, I believe it to be a combination of higher enemy levels or stats in side missions, coupled with crappy equipment in the early game. Prior to a certain point in the game, every gun feels like a BB gun, armor is paper thin with shields that are barely thicker than a fart, and equipment mods offer garbage bonuses. I'm not sure if loot drops are tied to your main story progression or what, but it always felt like it wasn't until the 2nd or 3rd story world that my equipment was finally worth a damn. Not to mention the annoying as hell sniper and rocket enemies that are prevalent in this game. I am sooooo glad they removed Geth snipers and Stalkers from the later games.
loot is tied to your level except for the specter weapons start at rank of 7. I don't remember what the level is for each rank but they max out at rank 10 at lv 50. Equipment mods are actually a bit broken in mass effect. A high level Frictionless materials mod will prevent all heat build up letting you fire infinite rounds without any heat build up. Poison rounds disable the health regen of krogans and turians. As long as one party member has an environmental suit mod the party can stand inlv 2 hazards without taking damage. As long as someone in the party has a scanning mod you're radar can't be jammed. Mass effect guns have a hidden chance to hit. That's why it seems like guns do so little damage early game. This chance to hit was increased by a lot in legendary edition which is why the early game is a lot easier in legendary edition.
you have a talent for making games i have no knowledge of super interesting. i dont find myself lost or confused just entertained and enjoying the video
You should definitely look more into Mass Effect I had no idea about it until 2 years ago and a buddy of mine had me go in blind and it was a stellar experience
I never play ME1 on anything but soldier due to the horrendous recharge times. You have my respect for doing this frankly painful looking challenge run.
2:05 "Carth and I" That made me laugh out loud because I had to think about the similarities of mass effect to kotor. Then I laughed out loud again when I remembered that Kaiden and Carth actually share a voice actor xD
I wish I knew you were doing this as I have a tip that could have saved you hours on the rogue vi mission. Each generator you destroy increases the difficulty of the drones and barriers for the others. You also get difficulty increases each time you pass the first corridor. To massively decrease the pain of this mission, enter each building, clear all enemies in the first room but DO NOT proceed past the BENT hallway, then clear the other two first rooms. Only then do you come back and do the later rooms. This way the barriers won’t affect the largest fights and the bandage boost will be far less threatening on enemies remaining. For those who haven’t done this yet, you’re welcome.
Weird. When I leave a facility without finishing it and enter a different facility, all the enemies in the previous facility reset. Though this was with the OG version back in the day. Dont know if legendary edition is different.
Did you know you can kill yourself in the tutorial before you reach Eden Prime? You actually have grenades on the Normandy when you start the game. If you throw them into the wall and detonate them right in your face you can die before the game has even bothered to autosave once. This results in a blank character slot. RIP Stoat Shepard.
I literally just started a run with a biotic and now I know that the Saren fight is scuffed. Your pain and suffering will not be waisted Frog, thank you for your service.
Im really confused how you don't have more subs. I clicked on a video by pure accident and now I'm binging all your content. TH-cam, give this man a raise.
Wait, if you’re gonna do the other games without shooting, are you going to be importing this one Shepard across all the games? Also lineup of Garrus and Ashley the entire game may not what I do, but it worked and it was funny.
Commander Shepherd's resume: -Decorated war hero -Commanding officer of the Normandy -Is a Spectre -Doesn't know how to use a firearm Seems reasonable.
The hilarious thing is that you can genuinely go through the entire trilogy as Vanguard or Adept practically without shooting a gun once. Except shooting that one robot.
"Given that I can't shoot, it would be very important for me to upgrade my biotic powers. So I spent my first three skill points on charm" For some reason I feel personally attacked.
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@@11moe idk. We'll see
@@11moe: Biotics got massively nerfed in ME2 because they were all forced to share a timer AND you can't rag-doll enemies with their shields up any more. At least in this game you could just cycle through all your biotics one after another and the first ones would be recharged once you're halfway through, assuming an optimal build. Plus shielding offered absolutely no defense against biotic ragdolling shenanigans. It is quite easy to go through ME1 using nothing but biotics 95% of the time... well... probably not right at the start at level 1, but it picks up pretty quickly if you focus everything on min-maxing two powers.
- Paragon
- Decides the fate of an entire species on a coinflip
You're cooked 💀
nobody says paragons have to save EVERYONE
@@12Fakeaccount Paragon Shep is just a lot better at hiding their war crimes
@@mwbwyatt true. You can max out paragon points and still kill the Rachni Queen, kill Wrex, let the council die, ect.
@@fenixchief7 or you can do what some people do including myself
1) kill wrex
2) spare the queen
3) save the council
4) destroy the data
5) sabotage the cure
Congratulations your a Paragon that discreetly caused genocide on your adopted childs race A.K.A Grunt!
Calling Wrex B tier you have sinned
Haven't got that far in And I agree
You're right; he's easily F tier.
@@HaHaImBannedbait used to be believable
@@HaHaImBanned lol
@@HaHaImBanned ashley williams wrote this
It would be a real shame if you had to do the same thing from Mass Effect 2 and 3, it would be truly awful
I did this exact challenge earlier this year. ME2 is borderline impossible, especially as Adept. It isn’t even fun, just miserable
@@stylesrj I was just thinking about how Mass Effect 3 doesn't seem like it would be that bad - I'm playing as a Vanguard right now and I find myself rarely using my weapons.
@@stylesrj yeah, so it makes sense that 3 would be easier than 2 for this challenge
Mass effect 3 yiur squadmates can just kill everything with the right guns
Idk I did it waaaaay before in ME3, wasn't that bad. You can really spam abilities in 3 with low CD, and I think CDs on 2 were lower as well, while powers were stronger. I also remember that half-biotic-half-engineer class which had both Anti-shield and Anti-armor abilities, and also you can spam them from your teammates.
frog and mass effect the world is healing
Explaining the camo armor joke made it somehow funnier.
"I'm Commander Shepherd, and this is my favorite frog on the Citadel."
Im commander frog and this is my favorite video on the internet
Krogans with regenerating heath and once they pop immunity having even slower health loss and charge by swapping to their shotguns are stupidly annoying to deal with, also idk if yk this but anti thorian grenades also work and insta kill creepers making it so much easier
The paragon route making the upcoming section objectively easier is the kinda gameplay decisions I miss from old school Bioware.
@ ^^
“A bad guy named after Nazi nerve gas”
…why didn’t I figure that out before?
Huh interesting. I thought sarin was more recent than that for some reason.
@@SlysheenGaseous Snake….
@ZKP314
Never even noti.... no, I'm sorry I can't finish that sentence..... I just can't.
It's literally the first thing I noticed.
Probably because it's Saren and Sarin but I also didn't connect the dots.
Sarin isn't discussed often in connection to WWII because the Nazis surprisingly never used it against allied soldiers.
Did you just say that the literal big frog companion is b tier?
23:55 "shepard kept strong eye contact" haha
Now do mass effect 2 without shooting on insanity ;)
@@roan9914 ME2 is the hardest insanity by far
@@deusexludos8129 That's because Mass Effect 2 has the jankest cover system out of all 3 games. So many times in ME2 you try and crouch behind cover and Shepard just leans against it standing up, exposing his entire back to the enemies and you just instantly die. After playing through all 3 games again on the Legendary version, I realized ME2 actually as the worst gameplay of the 3 games imo. Jankness, squadmates only have 3 powers, Shepard only has 5 powers, you're locked out of certain gun types depending on class. In ME1 legendary edition they let you use all guns as all classes, ME2 really needed that too. But the legendary edition was halfbaked, the fact that the ME1 final boss crash still happens is insane, that was literally a bug in the OG game and they never fixed it.
Honestly, 2 and 3 get much easier, cause tech and biotics got some big boosts. 2 as an Engineer or 3 as a Vanguard would make this challenge trivial (alternative for 3: let Garrus ascend into godhood and just watch the new main character murder everything)
@@HeinerGunnar adept in 2 struggles hard but like sentinel is not bad
@@roan9914 yeah adept is kinda meh in 2 and 3, that's true
At least with ME3, you can turn Garrus into the God of Death and let him kill literally everyone.
Honestly ME3 is all around probably the easiest to do this sort of challenge on given that you can pop powers off like a machine gun cause you can get your recharge so crazy low even early on
Anyone with the typhoon is op, but James is unkillable. Garrus dies too much on insanity for my liking. xP
@@CuddleCakez He usually just murders most things before they can kill him for me. Might also be because I draw most of the fire as an immortal vanguard pinball.
@@paulsilagi4783 Doing a companion only playthrough is my problem I guess lol. Pretty neat how they can solo insanity with ease.
"Gethenfedamine"
Masterful. I love it. Btw I love your channel, and your videos are amazing
I'm Commander Shephard and this is my favourite mostly Halo-related TH-cam channel on the Citadel.
You're sire grievous you imposter
- Sir, you have any weapons on you?
- No, just some grenades and and non-shooting tank
Okay you may proceed sir have a pleasant day...wait a mi-
2:25 He gets Lenny'd lol. Great reference. You always have the best voiceovers
Nothing signifies the start of mass effect like a dark lord of the sith being killed by the ruler of mordor
I never thought I needed Mass Effect challenge videos in my life, but I absolutely need to see more of these from you. Amazing video, you are probably my favorite challenge runner to watch with your personality and humor
3:55 oh those are fighting words
Those are fighting words indeed
seeing a split second of kat getting domed will never get old
Just finished a ME1 playthrough a day or two ago, I've beat the trilogy several times over and keep coming back
ME Trilogy is always going to be in my Top 10 video game series of all time, maybe even cracking the Top 5 when the mood strikes
Im a frog, it turns out guns are extremely useful in these situations
This is massively effectiving me. Great vid as always
Its really funny seeing the difficulty with the Thorian- the special grenade you're given instant kills them.
Playing Soldier *only* before this? Putting Garrus above Wrex? Brother that's criminal and I am going to break your legs.
I hear frog legs are delicious
Garrus IS better than Wrex.
Garrus > Liara > Tali > Wrex > The humans.
@@SotiCoto No. Wrong. Get out.
@@SotiCoto Garrus > Wrex > Kaidan > Liara > Tali > Ashley.
In no situation does it hurt you to take a combination of the first three, the last three are situational.
Love your humor
!
Look forward to watching by this full vid!
Wrex is genuinely the only companion in the first game i gave a shit about, love that guy
Hes the best mass effect companion only rivaled by garrus and grunt
2:30 Then he gets Lennied is such a niche reference 😂😂 think of the rabbits Lenny!
WAIT THIS VIDEO IS EXACTLY WHAT I NEEDED! I'VE BEEN BUILDING UP THE WILLPOWER TO FINALLY PLAY MASS EFFECT!!!!
> Mass Effect content
> funny editing
> asmongold joke
subbed, keep it coming brother
20:47i heard that beam rifle sound frog, your not slick 😂
17:38 Maniac!
Love the videos man keep up the great work
Frog I love you. Keep up the awesome videos ❤
I feel great in special places when you post, frog man.
I'm surprised you didn't go Sentinel. They're squishy but they have the best power based specialization
Ah man, I definitely had some PTSD-induced flashbacks with this video. The difficulty scaling is all over the place in ME1. After multiple playthroughs, I believe it to be a combination of higher enemy levels or stats in side missions, coupled with crappy equipment in the early game. Prior to a certain point in the game, every gun feels like a BB gun, armor is paper thin with shields that are barely thicker than a fart, and equipment mods offer garbage bonuses. I'm not sure if loot drops are tied to your main story progression or what, but it always felt like it wasn't until the 2nd or 3rd story world that my equipment was finally worth a damn. Not to mention the annoying as hell sniper and rocket enemies that are prevalent in this game. I am sooooo glad they removed Geth snipers and Stalkers from the later games.
loot is tied to your level except for the specter weapons start at rank of 7. I don't remember what the level is for each rank but they max out at rank 10 at lv 50.
Equipment mods are actually a bit broken in mass effect. A high level Frictionless materials mod will prevent all heat build up letting you fire infinite rounds without any heat build up. Poison rounds disable the health regen of krogans and turians. As long as one party member has an environmental suit mod the party can stand inlv 2 hazards without taking damage. As long as someone in the party has a scanning mod you're radar can't be jammed.
Mass effect guns have a hidden chance to hit. That's why it seems like guns do so little damage early game. This chance to hit was increased by a lot in legendary edition which is why the early game is a lot easier in legendary edition.
Great stuff! Can't wait for the other two.
you have a talent for making games i have no knowledge of super interesting. i dont find myself lost or confused just entertained and enjoying the video
You should definitely look more into Mass Effect
I had no idea about it until 2 years ago and a buddy of mine had me go in blind and it was a stellar experience
Mass Effect 1 is such a great game! Best world building and story of the series, the only one of them I still play.
I like ME2 the most
@@1th_to_comment. ME2 enjoyers when they see a single enemy without Armor/Shield/Barrier: 😡😡😡🤯🤯😡
GODDAMN IT FROG! I WAS GONNA DO THIS!
Still a funny AF video and I love your stuff, keep up the hard work but DAMN IT!
I never play ME1 on anything but soldier due to the horrendous recharge times. You have my respect for doing this frankly painful looking challenge run.
There are very few youtubers I get excited about them posting new videos. Frog has joined that list
2:05 "Carth and I"
That made me laugh out loud because I had to think about the similarities of mass effect to kotor.
Then I laughed out loud again when I remembered that Kaiden and Carth actually share a voice actor xD
You need to do ME2 now XD this was hilarious to watch! You're my favorite frog by far-
Can’t wait for the Mass Effect 2 video.
ME2, ME3, MEA next please and thank you Mr Frog.
Jokes aside I really like Kaiden’s backstory.
I wish I knew you were doing this as I have a tip that could have saved you hours on the rogue vi mission.
Each generator you destroy increases the difficulty of the drones and barriers for the others. You also get difficulty increases each time you pass the first corridor. To massively decrease the pain of this mission, enter each building, clear all enemies in the first room but DO NOT proceed past the BENT hallway, then clear the other two first rooms. Only then do you come back and do the later rooms. This way the barriers won’t affect the largest fights and the bandage boost will be far less threatening on enemies remaining.
For those who haven’t done this yet, you’re welcome.
Weird. When I leave a facility without finishing it and enter a different facility, all the enemies in the previous facility reset. Though this was with the OG version back in the day. Dont know if legendary edition is different.
This is my favorite game series of all time I really enjoyed watching this video
Can't wait for this on ME3 where Phantoms will just 1 tap you with their swords.
good lord, the first 2 minutes are filled with such good lines, I am unable to drink proberly
1:17
This man doesn't take his own challenge seriously and I'm all for it 😂😂
Did you know you can kill yourself in the tutorial before you reach Eden Prime? You actually have grenades on the Normandy when you start the game. If you throw them into the wall and detonate them right in your face you can die before the game has even bothered to autosave once. This results in a blank character slot. RIP Stoat Shepard.
I literally just started a run with a biotic and now I know that the Saren fight is scuffed. Your pain and suffering will not be waisted Frog, thank you for your service.
As someone who 100% the game multiple times and has done insanity more than once. You’re one insane frog.
Brilliant.
I have to say, the world needs more mass effect challenge runs.
Im really confused how you don't have more subs. I clicked on a video by pure accident and now I'm binging all your content. TH-cam, give this man a raise.
Edit: Frog*, sorry to offend.
Imagine not introducing Tali as "best girl", and since you turned Ashley down, you're evidently saving yourself for her.
Tali went back to ''neutral'' at me because i didn't lied about her father and she died because of that lol
I've scrolled past this video in my algorithm like 4 times. Then i finally noticed it was a frog, and had to click it
Saving Ashley I can forgive (even if I never will), but calling Wrex a B-tier character? That's treason!
Love ur channel man keep up the good work
"Gets Lennie'd". Alright, I like the cut of your jib and, on an unrelated note, Nihlus just wanted to pet the Eden Prime gas thingies CHANGE MY MIND
I love when the algorithm shows you a gold mine
I appreciate that even though you couldn't use the other weapons, you had to upgrade all your other weapons.
0:40 Ayyyyyy SOLDIER BOYS FOR THE WIN!
He just outed himself as a basic boy
Surprised to see people doing challenge runs in Mass Effect, awesome.
ahhhhh time to watch my favorite frog play a game ive never seen before
Great video and such funny story telling
"A guy named after a Nazi nerve gas is a bad guy" I never caught that till now XD ☠
A British Turian. You sir are a cheeky, funny guy. I love it. God save us.
9:54 Classic runner jump scare
Wait, if you’re gonna do the other games without shooting, are you going to be importing this one Shepard across all the games?
Also lineup of Garrus and Ashley the entire game may not what I do, but it worked and it was funny.
I was in the middle of watching the SWTOR II video when I saw this was uploaded.
I will finish that video later; this requires a watch NOW.
Hope you do more challenges in the series, also I'm like 80% sure that Lalo could stop the Reapers as long as he thought it would bother Gus
Commander Shepherd's resume:
-Decorated war hero
-Commanding officer of the Normandy
-Is a Spectre
-Doesn't know how to use a firearm
Seems reasonable.
"Until we encountered a couple of new species, Geth and Woman."
I don't know why this line got me but it did XD
Frog, “And you get to do it in the best vehicle ever created.”
*Que me looking for the Puma*
I love your channel name. Im pretty anti social hierarchy. But im down for a Hierarchy with FROGS on top. All hail Frogs dude!
Since the Rogue VI on the Moon is the beta version of EDI, I can only imagine her in ME2 saying "You punched me to death once, Shepard."
27:14 Does troubleshooting count as shooting...?
Big ups to fellow T.Higgins coach!
Well played, gg lmao, Nice to see you honoring playing what nakes you happy and not nessesarely what you think we want
Frog playing Kotor 2 and Mass Effect... feel like Swtor play thru is right around the corner and I'm so here for it
You madman you actually did it. Also hell yeah mass effect my fav game trilogy!!
The hilarious thing is that you can genuinely go through the entire trilogy as Vanguard or Adept practically without shooting a gun once.
Except shooting that one robot.
"Given that I can't shoot, it would be very important for me to upgrade my biotic powers. So I spent my first three skill points on charm"
For some reason I feel personally attacked.
Glad to see the Halo 2 Jackel Snipers found their way over
Fuck yeah. Been looking forward to this all week.. I love mass effect. Hope to see some more challenges soon former the ME series
2:04 Carth
I love when you say “I’m a frog”
I'm Commander Shepard, and I punch Reapers for breakfast.
Crazy it crashed so much for you. I don't think I've ever once had mass effect crash on my machine, controller or no.
halo beam rifle sound effect as you get shot by a geth sniper made me laugh so hard for some reason
"Recruited Garrus who's the coolest party member in the trilogy."
100% agree.
"As well as Wrex who's a solid B tier."
...how so very dare you.
I liked that itorian mumbling 😂
The idea of Lovecraftian plants growing in Asmondgold's shower is wild. Probably true tho too.