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I have beaten all three games, 1 once, 2 twice, and 3 twice, I made a save file today that has a romance of Liara in 1 and Garrus in 2, did a speed-ish-run until before the cerburas base attack for the "romance" scene with Liara and didn't get Paramore 3. Last achievement I need
- BiosNova5 years agoSeasoned Newcomer
Just got to the romance scene in ME2 on PS4 copy (playing on PS5) with Tali and no trophy. Hopefully a fix is rolled out for this pretty soon and the effort to make them restroactive should be taken. the ME games are not exactly short.
Paramour 2/3 are definitely still bugged, and it sounds like Insanity 2/3 is as well but I'm not progressing until these issues are corrected.
I played ME1 during launch week and got Paramour 1 / Insanity I, and kept a save before the romance scene with Liara as I heard about the glitch but wanted to get these legit. Beat ME2 on normal, romancing Liara (which I know doesn't unlock Paramour 2). Played ME3 on Insanity until the decision to commit to Liara comes up and made a save. Chose yes, no achievement (this is where the achievement triggers on Xbox 360, not the romance scene before the Cerberus base attack).
Loaded up my game after both the last patch and the latest hotfix, reloading this save and making that choice again. No achievement, not even after making a save in ME1 and reloading the game.
However, I did reload my ME1 scene and go through the romance scene again and that unlocked Paramour 2. I tried beating ME1 on Insanity again using my save, but that did not trigger Insanity 2. I then reloaded ME3 thinking that now that Paramour 1 and 2 were unlocked in ME1 that I could at least get Paramour 3 now. Nope, reloaded the scene and nothing unlocks.
If these can''t get fixed can we at least get a rollback of the patched workaround which allowed users to unlock Paramour 2/3 and Insanity 2/3 in a single game so these aren't just permanently locked? It feels pretty bad that they fixed the only foolproof workaround to this bug before they fixed the bug itself.
Adding another voice to the pile that Paramour III is still not fixed. I have 1 and 2 but no 3. I even have saves before ME2 and ME3 romance portions and have tried each multiple times since the patch. No luck.
Incredibly disheartening to make it through all three games and not feel that satisfaction of completion.
- EA_Mako5 years ago
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Thank you for the additional reports and information on this, folks. 👍
I'm well on the way through a ME3 insanity run (starting after the hotfix) so I hope it will land. 🙂
Have you tried replaying the ME1 romance scene? That's what worked for me. It was odd because I got Paramour and Insanity from Mass Effect 1, but Paramour II and Insanity II didn't pop for ME2, even when I replayed the relevant sections after the patch. Then I went back to ME1 and replayed the romance scene and final battle, and the achievements popped then.
My theory is that the progress for Paramour II and Insanity II (and probably Paramour/Insanity III as well) was not tracking properly for me before the patch. So when I completed the relevant portions of ME2 after patching, it counted "1 game done" even though I already had Paramour and Insanity. Then post-patch I went back and did the sections of ME1 again and it was able to count 2 games done at that point.
I keep reading about these cheese tricks to make the achievements/trophies pop for Insanity II/III and Paramour II/III by replaying romance scenes or the final fight against Saren in Mass Effect I multiple times. I’m sorry, but I’m not going to do that. I’m not cheesing the game for a number of reasons. 1) I completed all three games fair and square on Insanity and romanced someone in each game so I want the trophy to pop naturally. 2) I’m playing on PS5 so when a trophy pops it does a screen shot and a small video clip of the moment you achieved said trophy. If I were to use some cheese method work around to make the trophy pop for Insanity III, then it will show me beating the Saren boss fight again which obviously I can’t send to friends to show my trophy clips and if any of my friends check out my trophies, then they will think I simply cheated to get the trophy. I don’t feel like explaining myself a number of times to fellow gamers and friends in gaming groups. It would be greatly appreciated if the game can be patched on all platforms so paramour and insanity trophies were correctly unlocking at appropriate times across all three games.
- @BlackGarden87 When I do my insanity playthrough, I will see if Paramour 2 pops in ME1
- @SeraphicSaint I 100% agree with you about everything you said.... but playing Devil's advocate, does it REALLY matter that your friends have to see the trophies? If you beat the game on insanity, then you beat the game. Remember the old days, before online gaming and achievements. There was no way for anyone to know what you did. I remember when I beat Goldeneye N64 on 007 mode or whatever was the hardest mode. I had to show my friends on my console that I beat it. You can do the same.
Again, I get what your saying, and I'm not giving you a hard time about it. I'm just looking at it both ways.
Everyone plays games for their own reasons. I like getting achievements too, but for me it's more of a personal satisfaction than anything else.
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