Trophy & Achievement Guide for Mass Effect 2 covers information regarding the list of trophies and achievements that can be obtained in order to reach 100% completion. Players can find information on how to obtain the following trophies/achievements in the following list.
Mass Effect 2 Trophy & Achievement Guide
Mass Effect 2
The following Trophies & Achievements do not require any DLC.
Trophy & Achievement |
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Save your crew from an overwhelming attack | Complete the intro sequence on the Normandy | Bronze |
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View all advanced combat training videos at Shepard's private terminal. | Watch all 3 videos on your private terminal. | Bronze |
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Evolve any power | Purchase a Power when you reach level 4 and have 4 squad points, evolve your basic power into specialized. | Bronze |
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Personalize your armor in your quarters on the Normandy | Change a piece of your Armor or clothing at any customization panel. | Bronze |
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Complete any research project in the Normandy's laboratory | Complete Research Projects in the Tech Lab. | Bronze |
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Fully upgrade a weapon | Find an Upgrade during missions and research it, or purchase upgrades on Omega, The Citadel, Illium and Tuchanka (It's not necesary to research the purchased upgrades to earn the achievemnt). | Bronze |
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Obtain 10 technology upgrades | Upgrades are found during missions, and then they are available to create. You can also buy upgrades on Omega, The Citadel, Illium and Tuchanka. | Bronze |
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Unlock 15 new Mass Effect 2 codex entries | Examine things in the environment when the option it's prompted. Use 'investate' during conversations. |
Bronze |
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Reach Level 30 with one character | Gain XP by completing Missions, conversations, alignment actions and hacking. | Silver |
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Visit 100% of the planets in an unexplored cluster | Enter any of the system clusters using the Relay station, go to the edge of that current cluster and explore the system, enter an unexplored cluser, this achievement only requires to you enter the orbit of a planet and the game will consider the planet explored just by doing that. Then explore every planet of the unexplored cluster. | Bronze |
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Retrieve mineral resources by scanning and probing a planet in the galaxy map | Run the scanner over an unexplored planet, once you find some activity drop a probe. | Bronze |
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Complete 5 missions discovered by scanning unexplored worlds | Go to a world, then when EDI alerts "Anomaly detected" find the signal by using the scanner. When you find the anomaly send a probe, it will gather some minerals. Repeat 5 times. | Bronze |
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Complete a mission discovered by scanning an unexplored world | Go to a world, then when EDI alerts "Anomaly detected" find the signal by using the scanner. When you find the anomaly send a probe, it will gather some minerals. | Bronze |
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Incinerate the armor of 25 enemies | You or a squad member must use the Incinerate power to deal a finishing blow to an enemy's armor bar (Yellow bar on top of the enemy's health bar). Attacking Blood Pack Vorcha warriors is recommended to achieve this, because they have a weak armor. | Bronze |
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Warp the barriers of 25 enemies | You or a squad member must deal a finishing blow to the barrier bar (the blue bar will say "barrier" instead of "shields") with the Warp power 25 times. | Bronze |
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Disrupt the shields of 25 enemies | You or a squad member must deal the finishing blow to the shield bar with the Overload power 25 times. | Bronze |
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Make 20 enemies scream as they fall or are set on fire | Incinerate ammo, biotic powers that make enemies fall (and the DLC heavy weapon Firestorm) will work here. Your squadmates use of Incinerate will also count as long as you give them the order to do use the power. | Bronze |
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Kill enemies with 5 different heavy weapons during the game | Get 5 kills with a different Heavy Weapon each. | Bronze |
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Hit 20 different targets with multiple biotic powers to combine the effects | You or your squadmates must simply hit 20 different targets with any Biotic Power. | Bronze |
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Thresher Maw defeated | This achievement is missable. On the third part of Grunt's Loyalty Mission, don't only survive the thresher maw attack for 5 minutes, you must also kill it before that time is over. | Bronze |
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Shoot and kill 20 enemies while they're knocked back by a punch | Melee them and shoot them quickly while they're knocked back. Some Weapons like Shotguns are more efficient for this achievement. | Bronze |
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Perform 30 headshot kills with any weapon on humanoid targets | Finish your Enemies with a headshot. | Bronze |
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Successfully pursue a relationship with a teammate | See who of your squadmates is willing to be more personal and less formal after each mission talk. Your character can romance with the following squadmate depending on your character's gender.
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Silver |
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Complete Mass Effect 2 twice, or complete it once with a character imported from Mass Effect 1 | Import a character from Mass Effect 1 or Mass Effect 2, and then complete (again) Mass Effect 2. More information about importing your character from Mass Effect 1 at Mass Effect Transfer File. More information about importing your character from Mass Effect 2 or starting a new career after completing the game at New Game Plus. |
Silver |
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Keep your team alive through the suicide mission | To prevent all your squadmates from dying during the final mission, you must get max loyalty with every posible member, you must get the Hull, Shields and Thanix Cannon ship upgrades, assign specialists for each job during the final mission (hybrids not recommended) and don't take any non-loyal squadmate with you into the final battle. | Gold |
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Complete the game on the "Insanity" difficulty level without changing the setting | Choose Insanity difficulty before you start the game run and never change the difficulty setting even one time for any reason, complete the game. You may check the recommended Builds. | Gold |
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Survive suicide mission | Only Commander Shepard has to survive but if no squadmates survives Shepard will also die, so it will require at least 2 squadmates to survive too, to ensure the survival of Shepard. (By completing the "No One Left Behind" achievement, this achievement will unlock too) | Silver |
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Save humanity throughout the galaxy from certain annihilation | Complete the game on any difficulty, by completing all Illusive Man's Missions (Side Missions are not required). | Silver |
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Use the Omega 4 Relay | Within the natural progression of the game, the Illusive Man will prompt you a mission to find and collect the IFF to gain access to the Omega 4 Relay. | Bronze |
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Complete the investigation of a derelict alien vessel | After completing a few missions following the mission on Horizon, the Illusive Man will send a message telling you about a derelict collector ship. Complete this mission. | Bronze |
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Hack a geth collective | Complete Legion's loyalty mission: A House Divided | Bronze |
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Obtain geth technology | This achievement can be missed. After completing "Ghost Ship", you'll get a mission to get the IFF, complete it and you'll have a non-functioning geth on board, don't give it to Cerberus, keep it, activate it and it will join as Legion. | Bronze |
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Gain the loyalty of the Assassin | The "Assasin" is Thane and to gain his loyalty, you must perform a quest of his on the Citadel obtained by talking to him on the Normandy when prompted. The quest is to stop his son from becoming an assassin. You must prevent the assassination (or complete it yourself) to gain this achievement. | Bronze |
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Help the Justicar resolve her mission | During Samara's Loyalty Mission, after arriving on Omega, go to Afterlife and ask Aria about Samara’s daughter. She’ll sent you to check the apartment of Morinth’s victim. You need to look at the girl’s holo-diary and a datapad behind the bed. After creating a plan with Samara, go for the VIP area. From there, mention the name “Jaruut” to the bouncer and enter. When you enter the club, talk to the guy to your left and he’ll give info about Morinth. Now you have to get Morinth back to her place. To do that, you have to catch her attention:
Then Morinth will then approach and talk to you, avoid anything that has to do with “Justicar” and “Family”. If you choose the wrong option three times, Morinth will leave and you will miss out on this trophy. These are the options that you should choose:
Examine everything in her apartment (pick up the assault damage upgrade). Samara will burst in and they will fight. You’ll have to choose which one you’re going to side with. With enough paragon/renegade you can perform a charm or intimidate conversation option with Morinth to be able to side with her. Otherwise, you'll have to choose Samara. Choosing either one of them will unlock the achievement. |
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Gain the loyalty of the quarian | Complete Tali's Loyalty Mission to earn her Loyalty. (If you expose Tali's father she will not become loyal) | Bronze |
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Gain the loyalty of the Professor | Complete Mordin's Loyalty Mission to earn his Loyalty. | Bronze |
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Gain the loyalty of Archangel | Complete Archangel's Loyalty Mission to earn his Loyalty. | Bronze |
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Gain the loyalty of the Krogan | Complete Grunt's Loyalty Mission to earn his Loyalty. | Bronze |
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Gain the loyalty of the biotic Convict | Complete Jack's Loyalty Mission to earn her Loyalty. | Bronze |
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Gain the loyalty of the Cerberus Operative | Complete Jacob's Loyalty Mission to earn his Loyalty. | Bronze |
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Gain the loyalty of the Cerberus Officer | Complete Miranda's Loyalty Mission to earn her Loyalty. | Bronze |
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Defend a human colony from attack | The Illusive Man will give you a mission after you recruit Jack, Garrus, Mordin and Grunt (in any order), complete the mission. | Bronze |
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Successfully recruit the Assassin | Recruit Thane. | Bronze |
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Successfully recruit the Justicar | Recruit Samara. | Bronze |
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Successfully recruit the quarian | Recruit Tali | Bronze |
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Successfully recruit the Professor | Recruit Mordin | Bronze |
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Successfully recruit Archangel | Recruit Garrus | Bronze |
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Successfully recruit the krogan | Recruit Grunt | Bronze |
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Successfully recruit the biotic Convict | Recruit Jack | Bronze |
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Return to active duty | Unlocked after your first meeting with the Illusive Man. | Bronze |
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Acquire all trophies | Unlocked when you have all the other Trophies. | Platinum |
Lair of the Shadow Broker
The following Trophies & Achievements require the Lair of the Shadow Broker DLC
Trophy & Achievement |
Description |
Guide |
Quality |
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Reminisce with Liara on the Normandy | After the completion of Lair of the Shadow Broker, talk to Liara in the stronghold, she will ask to go with you onto the Normandy. Accept. The conversation can continue however you want, the achievement will unlocked at the end of it. | Bronze |
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Complete the Shadow Broker Mission pack on Hardcore or Insanity | Switch the difficulty to Hardcore or Insanity before going to Illium. You may check our recommended Builds. Complete the DLC in any of those difficulties. | Bronze |
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Confront the Shadow Broker | Enter the room where the Shadow Broker is. | Silver |
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Defeat the Shadow Broker’s Assassin | Defeat the Shadow Broker Vasir. You may check our recommended Builds. | Bronze |
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Use all information terminals in the Shadow Broker’s stronghold | After the completion of the Lair of the Shadow Broker DLC, you'll be in the stronghold. There are 8 terminals you must see:
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Bronze |
Overlordt
The following Trophies & Achievements require the Overlord DLC
Trophy & Achievement |
Description |
Guide |
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Successfully shut down the rogue VI in Project Overlord | Rogue VI can be found at the end of Atlas Station (You'll fight alone so be prepared, check our recommended Builds), defeat the rogue VI, choose any conversation dialog. | Bronze |
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Collect 6 Cerberus data packets scattered across Aite Overlord | The packets are found in the first area of Aite.
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Bronze |
Kasumi - Stolen Memory
The following Trophies & Achievements require the Kasumi - Stolen Memory DLC
Trophy & Achievement |
Description |
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Gain the loyalty of the thief Kasumi - Stolen Memory | Complete Kasumi's Loyalty Mission to earn her Loyalty. | Bronze |
Zaeed - The Price of Revenge
The following Trophies & Achievements require the Zaeed - The Price of Revenge DLC
Trophy & Achievement |
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Gain the loyalty of the mercenary Zaeed - The Price of Revenge | Complete Zaeed's Loyalty Mission to earn his Loyalty. | Bronze |
Arrival
The following Trophies & Achievements require the Arrival DLC
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Description |
Guide |
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Rescue Dr. Amanda Kenson without attracting hostile attention Arrival | This achievement can be missed, during the first mission of the DLC you must avoid killing any Batarians before rescuing Dr. Kenson. Killing any Varren will not affect the achievement. Allow Batarians to go through doors ahead of you, don't kill them. Pass them by. Free Dr. Kenson. | Bronze |
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Survive all five waves in the battle for Object Rho Arrival | This achievement can be missed by getting killed in the battle for Object Rho Arrival. Survive without dying in the battle. Check our recommended Builds. | Bronze |
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Complete the Arrival DLC pack Arrival | Complete all 5 waves in the battle for Object Roh. | Bronze |