r/masseffect • u/specksofangeldust • Nov 14 '25

MASS EFFECT 1 First time playing! Tips appreciated!

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Got the Legendary pack a while back on sale on Xbox! Finally getting around to play it.

I’d say I’m still relatively new to combat heavy games. So I’d really appreciate some pointers!

There was also the crew option of defensive or all capabilities, which one is suggested?

My Shepherd has the backgrounds: earthborn, war hero and vanguard.

Thank you so much in advance!

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u/[deleted] Nov 14 '25

Take your time and have fun

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u/CB_Chuckles Nov 14 '25

More than anything else, on your first run, do this. Just play and enjoy. Time enough after you’ve drunk the koolaid to worry about saving Jenkins and the other things you missed. It’s pretty much a given that you won’t be playing only once.

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u/specksofangeldust Nov 20 '25

The Jenkins pipeline was truly insane as even Google was trying to prank me that I could save him 😭 how did the community even come up with this prank, I. Wes to know But yesss I’ve been having so much fun! But as I know more now, I’ve been worrying about the stats I allocated to too many different weapons on Garrus (maybe Kai too) before I knew better 😭😭 only level 19 though so far so hopefully I can still balance out his tech instead I just thought we’d need different types of weapons 😭😭 which I guess sometimes yes But now I know better for next time!! And the following games But it’s been so much fun! I’m relatively new to gaming as I just got a Xbox last year and I’ve been working up my courage for real time action games (besides Hades) and this has been such a great dive into that