Can You Beat Mass Effect on Insanity Without Shooting?

[@frogarchist]

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[@11Moe]

do you plan on doing this for me2 and me3 cuz powers can be used for combos and have quicker recharge times

[@frogarchist]

@@11Moe idk. We'll see

[@SotiCoto]

@@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.

[@roan9914]

Calling Wrex B tier you have sinned

[@EvidentlyEezy]

Haven't got that far in And I agree

[@HaHaImBanned]

You're right; he's easily F tier.

[@goobingtons]

​@@HaHaImBannedbait used to be believable

[@Mrpuddington]

@@HaHaImBanned lol

[@PenguinWithInternetAccess]

@@HaHaImBanned ashley williams wrote this

[@12Fakeaccount]

- Paragon - Decides the fate of an entire species on a coinflip You're cooked 💀

[@mwbwyatt]

nobody says paragons have to save EVERYONE

[@genericusernamehere0374]

frog and mass effect the world is healing

[@insanity14]

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

[@Tiberium10332]

Explaining the camo armor joke made it somehow funnier.

[@mystershow]

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

[@Skwiddd]

I did this exact challenge earlier this year. ME2 is borderline impossible, especially as Adept. It isn’t even fun, just miserable

[@stylesrj]

@@Skwiddd Couldn't you just play as a Sentinel and use Overload on Shields, Warp on Barriers and Armour... and bring someone who knows Lift or Throw?

[@bird3713]

@@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]

@@bird3713 Thing is, Mass Effect 2 gave every enemy Shield, Barriers or Armour or some combination of them and you can't use your powers like Lift on those foes. And by the time you've knocked out that bar, the Health is rather trivial to deal with to the point where you wouldn't need to use your powers to finish them off. In a no-shooting run of course that's when you'd use them but it makes every fight a slog. ME3 only gives some of those properties to enemies. So a Cannibal would be vulnerable to Throw or Singularity but a Marauder requires you to remove the shields first. Much easier to play as say a Vanguard in that situation since you can get in close and use powers to ward off your enemies since they all don't have Armour or Shields :D

[@bird3713]

@@stylesrj yeah, so it makes sense that 3 would be easier than 2 for this challenge

[@calebbraun9505]

"I'm Commander Shepherd, and this is my favorite frog on the Citadel."

[@roan9914]

Now do mass effect 2 without shooting on insanity ;)

[@deusexludos8129]

@@roan9914 ME2 is the hardest insanity by far

[@HeavenlyPhantomStar]

@@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.

[@HeinerGunnar]

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)

[@roan9914]

@@HeinerGunnar adept in 2 struggles hard but like sentinel is not bad

[@HeinerGunnar]

@@roan9914 yeah adept is kinda meh in 2 and 3, that's true

[@ZKP314]

“A bad guy named after Nazi nerve gas” …why didn’t I figure that out before?

[@Slysheen]

Huh interesting. I thought sarin was more recent than that for some reason.

[@Bokenobi]

@@SlysheenGaseous Snake….

[@MikeDchy25]

@@ZKP314 Never even noti.... no, I'm sorry I can't finish that sentence..... I just can't.

[@ThomasC-sd9mz]

I'm Commander Shephard and this is my favourite mostly Halo-related KZbin channel on the Citadel.

[@ChiefChampAlot]

You're sire grievous you imposter

[@neoshek640]

Did you just say that the literal big frog companion is b tier?

[@adammc7170]

At least with ME3, you can turn Garrus into the God of Death and let him kill literally everyone.

[@Foostini]

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]

Anyone with the typhoon is op, but James is unkillable. Garrus dies too much on insanity for my liking. xP

[@DanTheGuitar]

"Gethenfedamine" Masterful. I love it. Btw I love your channel, and your videos are amazing

[@TenthSgtSnipes]

Nothing signifies the start of mass effect like a dark lord of the sith being killed by the ruler of mordor

[@finvaly]

- Sir, you have any weapons on you? - No, just some grenades and and non-shooting tank

[@kod8933]

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

[@austinfowler2707]

3:55 oh those are fighting words

[@rowandunn2403]

Just finished a ME1 playthrough a day or two ago, I've beat the trilogy several times over and keep coming back

[@insertnamehere6659]

Playing Soldier *only* before this? Putting Garrus above Wrex? Brother that's criminal and I am going to break your legs.

[@austinfowler2707]

I hear frog legs are delicious

[@SotiCoto]

Garrus IS better than Wrex. Garrus > Liara > Tali > Wrex > The humans.

[@Foostini]

Wrex is genuinely the only companion in the first game i gave a shit about, love that guy

[@FrogWrex]

Hes the best mass effect companion only rivaled by garrus and grunt

[@mizter5597]

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

[@primary2630]

23:55 "shepard kept strong eye contact" haha

[@austinclements8010]

Im a frog, it turns out guns are extremely useful in these situations

[@dark_side_cookies]

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.

[@jacobfaro9571]

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.

[@GSixFiveFourThreeFourDashTwo]

seeing a split second of kat getting domed will never get old

[@Spectrefoxxiii]

Its really funny seeing the difficulty with the Thorian- the special grenade you're given instant kills them.

[@MementoMoriv2]

2:30 Then he gets Lennied is such a niche reference 😂😂 think of the rabbits Lenny!

[@CosmicFilms-007]

Love your humor ! Look forward to watching by this full vid!

[@thatguyRoy3304]

This is massively effectiving me. Great vid as always

[@gono4806]

ME2, ME3, MEA next please and thank you Mr Frog.

[@invisibleword7891]

There are very few youtubers I get excited about them posting new videos. Frog has joined that list

[@MitchCyan]

17:38 Maniac!

[@MrAbgeBrandt]

Mass Effect 1 is such a great game! Best world building and story of the series, the only one of them I still play.

[@1th_to_comment.]

I like ME2 the most

[@N0cturrnee]

@@1th_to_comment. ME2 enjoyers when they see a single enemy without Armor/Shield/Barrier: 😡😡😡🤯🤯😡

[@ethansnyder8503]

I feel great in special places when you post, frog man.

[@johnsohn653]

Mass effect was such a promising franchise and Bioware manged to kill it right at the finish line. They over promised and under deliviered. Then they tried to ressurenct the franchise long after people quit caring about it with a mediocre spinoff

[@trickitytock7702]

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. KZbin, give this man a raise.

[@trickitytock7702]

Edit: Frog*, sorry to offend.

[@jamwaffles]

Frog I love you. Keep up the awesome videos ❤

[@liverpool634]

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

[@1234wowww]

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

[@daedthedk]

As someone who 100% the game multiple times and has done insanity more than once. You’re one insane frog.

[@springheeljak145]

How come you only used Ashley and Garrus? Liara, Tali, and Kaiden have a bunch of useful powers that would have made it easier

[@alwayssecond2]

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.

[@Coonan3272]

This is my favorite game series of all time I really enjoyed watching this video

[@TranquillShot]

WAIT THIS VIDEO IS EXACTLY WHAT I NEEDED! I'VE BEEN BUILDING UP THE WILLPOWER TO FINALLY PLAY MASS EFFECT!!!!

[@Winningthewormoff]

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

[@SirSharkus]

Saving Ashley I can forgive (even if I never will), but calling Wrex a B-tier character? That's treason!

[@the_legit_tsm]

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!

[@OkamiAmaterasu.]

Can't wait for this on ME3 where Phantoms will just 1 tap you with their swords.

[@xx5508-_-]

Love the videos man keep up the great work

[@adriangonzalez8161]

1:17 This man doesn't take his own challenge seriously and I'm all for it 😂😂

[@kane6351]

2:04 Carth

[@LtHobo-uy9kn]

Next is ME2 with only shooting (no powers of any kind) and then ME3 with only melee because that game makes me want to punch myself for playing it

[@stylesrj]

Isn't ME3 Melee Only how you're supposed to play Vanguard?

[@cousinpatsey2471]

3 is the best one though

[@slicedlime]

Brilliant.

[@lajedi32]

Frog playing Kotor 2 and Mass Effect... feel like Swtor play thru is right around the corner and I'm so here for it

[@springheeljak145]

Adept is OP in ME1, a no shooting run is much more doable with adept

[@BlindProphet413]

Great stuff! Can't wait for the other two.

[@SoNorthitzSouth]

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.

[@lilkasper378]

ahhhhh time to watch my favorite frog play a game ive never seen before

[@alternatejamey4050]

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.

[@WastedPot]

A British Turian. You sir are a cheeky, funny guy. I love it. God save us.

[@rynzemrak1834]

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.

[@dru55the1egend]

Lalo Salamanca is pretty good looking, no? Also, caught the Pulp Fiction reference, good one 😂

[@torrytucker9766]

Frog, “And you get to do it in the best vehicle ever created.” *Que me looking for the Puma*

[@Glyvenator]

"Until we encountered a couple of new species, Geth and Woman." I don't know why this line got me but it did XD

[@jacobchaffin2663]

Fuck yeah. Been looking forward to this all week.. I love mass effect. Hope to see some more challenges soon former the ME series

[@SotiCoto]

I didn't have any trouble on Insanity when I played, and I was Adept with Electronics bonus, so I didn't shoot much. Could probably have done it without shooting at all quite easily. And not just me either, since I went through most of it with Kaiden and Liara so I had everyone's powers at my disposal. The real trick is getting enemies out of bounds: usually by making them float and then just casually pushing them over a void... or... just shooting them into the sky. It is worth noting though that it was NG+ so I was already high level when I started. Which is to say I started on Insanity being able to yeet any enemy smaller than a Thresher Maw into orbit. In fact Thresher Maws were the only things I consistently used guns on... and I hunted all of them down. Every single one.

[@Styxer1008]

I love when the algorithm shows you a gold mine

[@CaloricRanger]

Well played, gg lmao, Nice to see you honoring playing what nakes you happy and not nessesarely what you think we want

[@evankern5219]

Pushing the Geth Colossi with the Mako is what made the lava worlds so fun 😁

[@FrogWrex]

I really could go for some more mass effect content from you Frog. Also wrex is the best mass effect charachter

[@spacebumpkin1565]

Big ups to fellow T.Higgins coach!

[@_Dandy_S]

9:54 Classic runner jump scare

[@caleb4965]

Love ur channel man keep up the good work

[@bullet_hozer1210]

Mass Effect 1, the game with the most robot enemies Tech abilities: good against robots Frog: I'm gonna make this challenge harder with pure biotics *this message is brought to you by sentinels, the balanced class*

[@Piter_1032]

Unlike the other parts of the trilogy, technological powers do not deal more damage to synthetics, so the adept with the most crowd control skills is the best

[@totallyabrit9879]

I almost refuse to believe you beat the krogan on the mission you recruit Liara. However I have no reason to not believe it. Therefore, good work frog

[@malcolmclancytv2262]

"A guy named after a Nazi nerve gas is a bad guy" I never caught that till now XD ☠

[@tylerf5914]

The idea of Lovecraftian plants growing in Asmondgold's shower is wild. Probably true tho too.

[@nrdsgtbck101]

I love the Halo 2 jackal sniper sound effects.

[@Linkforlife199]

Since you were allowing the squadmates to shoot, you could have given them Incendiary or Toxic rounds to deal with Krogan since it stops their health regen.

[@jennafink8489]

I love when you say “I’m a frog”

[@stenanderson1695]

You madman you actually did it. Also hell yeah mass effect my fav game trilogy!!

[@mightofanubis3238]

This is just what I needed after a real crappy day, Made me laugh in the first 5 mins. Thank you

[@SaltyRocksPew]

halo beam rifle sound effect as you get shot by a geth sniper made me laugh so hard for some reason

[@hoppeanhelicoptertours]

Better call Frog

[@springheeljak145]

It's a shame the legendary edition nerfed some of the boss battles. I remember the Benezia fight being much easier than the original version

[@rob0duck430]

Are you sure about that? I've played it on both and it feels almost exactly the same.

[@1stCallipostle]

Sure it's not that you were 13 years older?

[@springheeljak145]

@@1stCallipostle Positive. I was a lot better at games 13 years ago and the wiki confirms the commandos use fewer disabler attacks (the most frustrating part of the battle).

[@lemonman6064]

WOOOOOOOOOO MASS EFECT VIDEO YEEEAAAHH!!!

[@sandramcdonald8876]

> Mass Effect content > funny editing > asmongold joke subbed, keep it coming brother

[@andromedas6630]

Great video Frog man! Have you ever considers trying to play or review the batman arkham games?

[@HeavenlyPhantomStar]

Alternative way to play this would have been fully relying on party members and like going engineer to heal them better, but late game adept is technically better I suppose given ME1's biotics. Another way if you were gonna be trying to melee would have been playing Soldier and speccing for melee and getting armor mods that helped with that, but I dunno how long that would hold up actually. But like, this really boils down to just like pumping a combat party member like Garrus, Wrex or Ashley's gun skills up and just sending them in and letting them carry. Also like, the best strat would have been fully manual control on party member powers too.

[@HundredCrossHQ]

Please do the whole series

[@devilmikey00]

Made it way harder on yourself not having liara in the party. Between her and adept shep you can max out Singularity, Lift and Stasis along with the best biotic amp's you can find and you can spam singularity, lift and stasis indefinitely between the two of them fairly early. You can stun lock every regular enemy in the game then just bring ashley or wrex along to do dmg. Bastion also lets you do DMG while an enemy is in stasis trivializing anything tough later on. Biotics are OP as hell in ME1 once you level up.

[@bernard832]

I did this challenge a long time ago in ME3 and it was not a challenge. Without carrying any guns, your powers recharge very fast and an adept can spam pull/push for biotic combos. Technically it's not possible though, because you have to shoot a door in the prologue and the final boss, a regular Marauder.

[@Rift2123]

i dk why but i am 30 seconds in an I just know this is gonna be comfy

[@THEhorde117]

Doing Bring Down The Sky probably wouldve been a nightmare even for the colossus armor, i wouldve skipped that too 😂

[@reginaldlevesque6988]

Tee Higgins has been getting better lately

[@dragunmunday]

Melee only next

[@Hadgerz]

Those visions in the Prothean beacon are of Bioware's future as a company. Truly maddening to all mortals who witness.

[@augustday9483]

I didn't even remember that you have a melee attack in ME1. I don't think I've ever used it before lmao

[@burnin8able]

I played through the entire series of ME for the first time maybe a year ago as the Engineer class and tbh the engi powers are so busted by about the halfway mark in each game I was barely using my guns regardless of challenge restrictions just because I could beep boop delete enemies with tech powers.