Mass effect 1 insanity difficulty not that difficult but tedious

[sniper27]

This is probably my third time playing through mass effect. The first time was a while ago and the second time was pretty recently. My second play through I played mass effect 1 and 2 original games then moved to play 3 on the legendary edition. The difficulty was set to veteran or hardcore.

Now I am on my third playthrough and I set it to insanity. I don't feel like the difficulty is that much worse, it just seems much more annoying. I swear when using a infiltrator I spam overload, sabotage, and the sniper ability to barley make a dent in an enemies health. For example, the thorian creeper takes too many headshots with the sniper rifle to count. Like is the game that much harder, or is it just making the missions take much longer...

Oh and they remaster mass effect 1 but cant add the combat changes from 3??

I am okay with hard difficulties, I just found this weird.

[CursedPanther]

Originally posted by sniper27:

Oh and they remaster mass effect 1 but cant add the combat changes from 3??

It's called a remaster, not a remake. Most things just don't change.

The weapon penalty for ME1 classes has also been removed in the LE. You may wanna reconsider your weapon loadout and approach for certain close quarter scenarios.

[Insanitor]

In ME1, I felt the difficulty didn't matter all that much. It just affected how much Damage, Health and Exp the enemies gave. I started on Hardcore, and switched to Insanity shortly after leaving the citadel.

When starting up ME2, I also started on Hardcore, importing my ME1 character, which made me start at level 5... And oh boy. If it wasn't because my Character was a Sentinel with the Tech Armor, I'd have been torn apart. Not just because of how much damage the enemies deals, but also because they're better at using their abilities, moving around cover positions and will actually try flanking you.

[reprodukTOOOOOOOOOOOR]

its easy in me1, but me2 is way more difficult.... you get primarily targeted and friendly ai doesnt always stick to covers, you get laser sniped in 3-4 hits as soon as you peek from the cover

[GordoBoy]

In ME1 all you need is a decent SR and good weapon mods to just go oneshotting 90% of the enemies on the game, Insanity on ME2 on the other hand everybody gets 5 servings of lead to the forehead and still ask for more.

[Linguistically Inept]

thorian creepers are weirdly tanky at high levels on insanity, though properly geared you can ragdoll them infinitely with a sniper so they only serve as distractions... also dont use overload/sabotage on them unless you're overheated (and dont have assassinate up to refresh); its very much not worth it (like even if you have them all clumped up with a singularity -liara is basically mandatory squad member for infiltrator- then i still think lobbing nades is better to aoe them down)

Originally posted by sniper27:

Oh and they remaster mass effect 1 but cant add the combat changes from 3??

remaster, not a remake; although LE1 does still add changes; notably the removal of weapon sway, ability to use any weapon type, gun individualisation (favourite example of this is the avalanche shotgun, which is a single slug shotgun for if you specced into shotguns but want to pretend to be a sniper) and addition of headshots (which arent a thing in the OG ME1)

[sniper27]

Originally posted by GordoBoy:

In ME1 all you need is a decent SR and good weapon mods to just go oneshotting 90% of the enemies on the game, Insanity on ME2 on the other hand everybody gets 5 servings of lead to the forehead and still ask for more.

Facts I just finished my renegade playthrough today. I maxed out all the weapons and I was chillin

[GordoBoy]

Originally posted by sniper27:

Originally posted by GordoBoy:

In ME1 all you need is a decent SR and good weapon mods to just go oneshotting 90% of the enemies on the game, Insanity on ME2 on the other hand everybody gets 5 servings of lead to the forehead and still ask for more.

Facts I just finished my renegade playthrough today. I maxed out all the weapons and I was chillin

Shame you can only buy the X level spectre weapons at the end of the game...

[FhqwhTODD]

Sorry but Insanity is piss easy in the first game.

[sniper27]

Originally posted by Gottkaiser Fhqwhgod:

Sorry but Insanity is piss easy in the first game.

I realized that by the time i finished it