ME2 achievements already unlocked?
- 2 years ago
Yes. When you start the game from steam and loads to the Mass effect laucher, you have to put the EA app to offline mode BEFORE loading ME2/3 or it will think again that you have all achivements unlocked in the ingame and have to delete the local_profile to reset the achievements to zero state.
If you forget (like I did few times) you don't have to start a new game after deleting local_profile, but you will lose progress towards achivements that have counters like use overload x times. Story mission still unlock normally, but you might lose access to bonus powers if you already had them unlocked (this happened to me in ME3 when I forgot to go offline and lost all my bonus powers from the medbay after reset)
If I had to speculate, when you launch ME2 / 3 it pulls some data from the servers if online and writes it in the local_profile that has current progress for the ingame achivement tracker. Why it does not affect ME1 is mystery to me, maybe achievement data is stored differently for that game.