Playing Mass Effect As A Shotgun Melee Infiltrator Turns It Into Doom

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There is no wrong way to play Mass Effect - or at least, so I thought. After the launch of the Legendary Edition, BioWare released some stats about the game gathered from player info, which shows that the bulk of players experienced Mass Effect as BroShep Soldier, the dullest way to play it. There are thousands of other games where you can be a generic white guy with a buzzcut and a gun, and while sure, you can customise Shepard, I have a suspicion players who favour Man With Gun don't bother with it. There is so much more to Mass Effect that opens up once you start to play it in different ways, and Shotgun/Melee Infiltrator is an ideal way to defend the galaxy as an entirely unique commander.

I'm using 'unique' slightly liberally there, as the reason I attempted this was because a few people on Reddit said it was fun, but when did listening to the opinions of a few people on Reddit ever do any harm? So anyway, I have my Shotgun/Melee Infiltrator build, and after baselessly accusing someone of being the Boston Bomber, I was ready to rock. And by rock, I mean break open everybody's skull.

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The rules of this build are very simple - once you gain a shotgun, it is the only weapon you can use. You can still use Infiltrator powerups (a tactical cloak, hacking, and disruptive or freezing bullets), as well as the good old Omni-Blade. It means getting as close as possible to your enemy and blasting them to bits. It's not the most tactical build (even with a Tactical Cloak) and definitely not the best bet for an Insanity run, but it is the most fun. It basically means Shepard is Doomguy, but with a few neat extra touches.

Shotgun/Melee Infiltrators can turn themselves