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It’s been well-documented that the Pathfinder in Mass Effect: Andromeda will enjoy more versatility as a combatant than Shepard ever had, and while players can access any ability — and several Profiles that enhance those abilities — you’ll still want to be mindful of the “Training” you select for your Pathfinder during character creation.

Each specialty represents the training your character received in the Milky Way galaxy before the journey to Andromeda, and each determines what skills and starting powers you’ll have access to. It’s roughly the equivalent of choosing your starting class in one of the previous Mass Effect games but has much less of an impact on the experience. In Andromeda, you choose from one of six options, each offering access to a single starting power — which would be locked behind its broader ability tree otherwise — and one or two other skills. You’ll still be able to unlock every other skill at your own pace, but these will set the course for your journey and can impact much of your early-game.

Mass Effect: Andromeda multiplayer has six starter character classes: Soldier, Vanguard, Engineer, Adept, Infiltrator and Sentinel. You can unlock uncommon, rare, and ultra rare characters.

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While the previous naming conventions like Adept and Sentinel are gone, each previous Mass Effect class has its equivalent in Training, and now their names more practically describe their combat focus. (Why would you name a sniper an “infiltrator,” anyway?) We’re here to help you go over these options to make the best choice.

Security

Training in Security unlocks Concussive Shot for your Pathfinder, a heat-seeking, high-impact round that can knock enemies down. With that also comes Turbocharge, a short-term boost to weapon fire rate and thermal clip efficiency, and Combat Fitness, increased durability and carrying capacity for weapons.

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Security should be the go-to for those who played as Soldier in previous games, really honing in on the core of the combat experience. Combat Fitness has universal appeal in any character build, and both Turbocharge and Concussive Shot are a boon to any weapons-oriented fighter. This Training can make for a solid foundation for anybody’s combat moving forward in Andromeda. No matter what path you choose, guns will play a big role, and there’s a place in any loadout for Concussive Shot.

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Biotic

Selecting Biotic grants easy access to the trifecta of Throw, Singularity, and Barrier, which will allow you to hurl opponents through the air, create small black holes on the battlefield, and grant you a biotic overshield.

Easily analogous to the Adept of previous games, Biotic is — quite obviously — the biotics-focused training for anyone looking to hone in on the “space magic” of Mass Effect. Chain-detonating biotic abilities is a powerful mechanic that can shred through enemy shields and demolish groups of small enemies, and with training as a Biotic, you can do it on your own by using Throw on your own Singularity. It’s not a bad option for anybody looking to dabble in biotics. Barrier would be essential anyway, and Singularity is easily one of the coolest and best biotic abilities available (even Combat- and Tech-focused players should pick that one up). Keep in mind, however, that at least in previous games, Throw didn’t see a lot of utility outside of allowing players to basically “force push” smaller enemies, knocking them down — but it does make for a fun combo with Pull.

Technician

As a Technician, you get Overload to chain-shock groups of enemies, but more importantly, deal high amounts of damage to shields and synthetic enemies like robots. You also get Invasion, allowing you to infect the weapons and shields of nearby enemies, and Team Support, which provides additional kinetic barriers to boost your squad’s defenses.

This one’s for players who want to go all in on Tech-based powers and for those who enjoyed Engineer in the original Mass Effect games. In pretty much any build, Overload is going to be essential, as there will be plenty of synthetic enemies throughout Andromeda, particularly the Remnant enemies. Invasion is also useful as a debuff against enemies. And you can’t go wrong with Team Support, of course, if you’re going to even remotely focus on Tech. All that being said, Technician is a really solid option.

Leader

Leader grants access to Energy Drain, which functions not unlike Overload but it instead siphons enemy shields directly into your own. Annihilation creates a mass effect field that slowly damages all nearby foes, and Tech Support enhances the tech-based durability of your squad.

Leader is where things get a little more niche when it comes to starting training, less about a singular focus and more about mixing things up. It represents a defensive mix of tech- and biotic-based powers. In that, it’s the Sentinel class equivalent in Andromeda. Energy Drain and Annihilation have great synergy, allowing players to get in close — which makes the durability from Tech Support a necessity — and keep their shields boosted with Energy Drain. Annihilation also primes enemies for biotic detonation, which is always worthwhile. Coupling these abilities with Charge and a Shotgun would be optimal for any and all close range combatants.

Scrapper

Scrappers are the Vanguard-style class, mixing basic combat prowess with biotics for players into high-risk, high-reward combat. Scrapper is one of two Training focuses that comes with a starting power and only one unlocked skill: the classic Charge lets Scrappers launch themselves like a biotic torpedo at an enemy, regaining a bit of their shields in the process. That comes with Combat Fitness for an increase in durability and weapon carrying capacity.

While it might come off as unfair that Scrapper has two instead of three unlocked skills, Charge isn’t worth writing off just yet. Vanguard was a class in the first three Mass Effect games that got better and better over time. First, with the addition of Charge in Mass Effect 2 and then again in ME3 with Nova. In Andromeda, abilities like Backlash, which acts as a reflective biotic shield you can hold in front of you, can stand to make a Charge-focused build mixed with shotguns really formidable. And unless you pick Scrapper, you’ll have to invest nine points in the Biotic skill tree just to gain access to Charge. Who needs Tech when you can bring your best weapons into the fray with a swath of biotic abilities?

Operative

Much like Scrapper, Operative grants a single unlocked skill on top of the starting power, and it’s a potent one that would otherwise require you to invest nine points into Tech just to access it. You get instant access to Tactical Cloak, allowing for brief periods of invisibility and bonus damage if attacking when it’s active. You also get Combat Fitness for the much-needed durability and weapon carrying capacity.

Roughly equal to the fan-favorite Infiltrator (which was OP in Mass Effect 2), Operative is the ideal track for tactical snipers. An added bonus is that with the jump-jet in Andromeda, players can activate the cloak and launch into the air to hover and snipe at enemies from an advantageous angle, something that was never possible in previous games.

While committing to one Training that you go back on wouldn’t be the end of the world, especially on higher difficulties, selecting one that suits your desired path is essential. If you’re even remotely considering focusing on sniping, Operative is the clear choice. If you favor shotguns and getting intimate with enemies, then go with either Leader or Scrapper. And if you know you want to focus almost solely on the Combat, Biotic, or Tech skill trees, then the choices are pretty straightforward there as well. That isn’t to say that a Scrapper can’t focus on Biotics, or an Operative can’t augment his Cloak with almost entirely just Combat abilities, but the path is yours to find, Pathfinder.

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I never expected to find myself getting stuck back into Mass Effect 3's multiplayer mode in 2020, but that's exactly what I've been doing over the last few weeks. The next-generation is here with the PS5 and Xbox Series X, and a barrage of great games have been hitting the virtual shelves this past month. So why am I playing the multiplayer mode of an eight-year-old game? Well, I have the Mass Effect Legendary Edition to thank for that.

Now, I'll be the first to admit that I don't play multiplayer games very often. I've always leaned more towards single-player campaigns, but something about Mass Effect's multiplayer has always seemed so much less intimidating and appealing to me. Maybe it's because of my deep fondness for BioWare's fictional universe and its characters, but for whatever reason, I ended up playing it quite a lot back in the day on my Xbox 360. Was I ever a pro? No. Did I die a lot? Sure. But I had a whole lot of fun playing it.

On November 7, better known in Mass Effect circles as N7 Day, I raced over to the BioWare blog and consumed each word of the Legendary Edition announcement like it was a gift sent from the heavens. While I squealed over the prospect of seeing how Garrus Vakarian will no doubt benefit from the enhanced visuals of the remaster, I couldn't help but notice any mention of the multiplayer mode was decidedly absent.

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Could this mean it won't be carried over to the remaster? And if so, what does that mean for Mass Effect 3's Galaxy at War system? Will that even be a feature? I also start to wonder if there's much demand for it to return, if anyone's still playing it today, and if it's even as good as I remember it being. With all this in mind, I came to a decision: I'm going to jump right back into the multiplayer mode in 2020, and see for myself.

The Defender

As you may already know, the multiplayer mode in Mass Effect 3 works in much the same way as any horde mode you may have come across. Fighting off waves of enemies, you're often also tasked with different objectives like taking out a particular set of foes, or hacking into a system, before holding out at an extraction point after defeating so many enemy waves. Filling the space boots of an N7 operative, you can play as your preferred class just as you can in the main campaign; from the biotic specialist Adepts to the gun-toting Soldiers, and everything in between. Organised by tiers of difficulty, you join matches and level up to add more powers to your skillset.

The mode isn't just tacked onto the game for the sake of it, though. It also ties into the main campaign. In Mass Effect 3, a system known as Galaxy at War is introduced, where you can manage your resources to better prepare for the big final showdown against the Reapers, measured by your Galatic Readiness Rating. One of the easiest ways to increase your Readiness Rating is through the multiplayer mode that was only featured in the last game of the trilogy. There were also some now-removed apps I never personally tried out - Mass Effect: Datapad and Mass Effect: Infiltrator - that could also help boost your level. Each location you can jump into in multiplayer matches will raise your Readiness Rating in each of the systems on your galaxy map.

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I often think back on the multiplayer mode so fondly because it helped stretch out my time with the final game. When I first fell for Mass Effect, I fell hard. So much so that when I came to play Mass Effect 3, I didn't want to reach the end. I was determined to make it go on for as long as humanly possible. Squeezing out every side quest, collectible, and resource I could find to keep me away from meeting the game's end, I eventually turned to focus on trying to get achievements instead. One achievement I always wanted to accomplish was called 'The Defender'. In order to earn this trophy, you're tasked with attaining the highest Readiness Rating in each theatre of war. This achievement is what initially pushed me to jump into the multiplayer mode, but I've still not managed to attain it to this day.

Galaxy at War

With so many fond memories of the mode, I did wonder if I was seeing the multiplayer side of Mass Effect 3 through rose-tinted glasses. Feeling a little rusty, and starting fresh on PC, I was surprised at just how quickly I joined a match on a weekday evening. Admittedly, joining at random was perhaps not the best choice I've ever made. Thrown into the heat of battle against Cerberus as a level one Engineer (who's packing some basic guns), I'm sure I was more of a hindrance than anything.

But just like all those years ago, I'm buoyed by the camaraderie of this group of strangers playing an eight-year-old multiplayer mode alongside me. Quick to have my back and revive me as needed, my squad are a supportive bunch, and I quickly begin to fall into the flow of battle as we take down each enemy wave. In what was my first match in years, I find myself thoroughly enjoying every second. It really is still as good as I remember.

After doing a little digging online, it didn't take me long to realise Mass Effect 3's multiplayer continues to hold a special place in so many fellow fans' hearts. Not only that, but many continue to play to this day. With Discord servers dedicated to finding other players to jump into matches with in 2020, and many expressing their fondness for the mode on Reddit, there's a lot of love for the multiplayer side of the game. Clearly, I'm far from alone in hoping it finds a place in the Legendary Edition.

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Confirmation of Commander Shepard's return with the upcoming release of the Mass Effect Legendary Edition shined a little ray of light into this hell year. Just knowing I'll be able to jump aboard the Normandy ship once again and see all of the characters I hold so close to my heart is as exciting as it is comforting. Complete with enhanced graphics and a faster framerate, I haven't stopped thinking about how good everyone and everything will no doubt look.

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Long story short, you better believe I'm more ready to send the Reapers packing all over again. But with no sign of the multiplayer mode in the announcement, we still don't know for sure if it will make a comeback. While it could very well be included, I do wonder what it will mean for the Galaxy at War system if it isn't, and if there'll be another way to increase the overall Readiness Rating if it is excluded. One thing's for sure: BioWare has just restored my hope, not just for Mass Effect's return, but for my chances at finally earning 'The Defender' achievement after all.

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