New Mass Effect Achievements appear

By Robert Purchese Published 21 August, 2009

Arena/Fight Club DLC imminent.

Three new Achievements have appeared for Mass Effect, which suggests the long-promised DLC is imminent.

The Xbox website (spotted by Joystiq) attributes 50 Gamerpoints to each Achievement, taking the game's total to 1200 (Bring Down the Sky added 50).

The Achievements are: "Undisputed - Complete Ahern's survival mission"; "New Sheriff in Town - Take first place in any combat scenario on Pinnacle Station"; and "Best of the Best - Take first place in 12 combat scenarios on Pinnacle Station".

The latter two certainly support the "fight club" or "arena" idea that BioWare said was in development earlier in the year.

BioWare had been poised to announce new Mass Effect DLC recently, but blew mysteriously cold again after an apology by community manager Chris Priestly for jumping the gun.

Keep an eye on the official Mass Effect forum for a full announcement. It can't be long now.

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About Robert Purchese

Bertie is Eurogamer's Senior Staff Writer. When he's not hunting down news stories he's often found playing with his kids or gabbling about fantasy games and strange online worlds.

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Comments (16) Latest comment 3 years ago

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  • StueyBoy16 #1 3 years ago

    At last!

  • EmiliasHorse #2 3 years ago

    Damn, I must get around to finishing Mass Effect....can't even remeber why I stopped. I was having a great time doing stuff then all of a sudden.....Oh I know I went back to WoW. Hate you Blizzard...love you really.

  • Hunam #3 3 years ago

    Maybe they'll give the PC players the patch we were promised for April too.

  • orpheus #4 3 years ago

    BDTS was terrible - uninspiring, short and about as much depth as a puddle. Where are the 'new worlds' we were promised? Instead we get another identical grey rock in the middle of nowhere. Mass Effect never lived up to its promises and this DLC won't either.

  • miiiguel #5 3 years ago

    I hope it's bigger than Bring Down the Sky. Not that it makes any diference, I'll buy it anyway.

  • Chufty #6 3 years ago

    BDTS wasn't great but I'm hoping this will be at least half as awesome as the full game. That will do me.

  • RedSparrows #7 3 years ago

    If this is good, will tie it into my pre-ME2 catch up/final achievement gathering.

  • thenastypasty #8 3 years ago

    Iv been waiting for this DLC before i start another play through so the sooner it come's out the better.

  • Xerx3s #9 3 years ago

    "If this is good, will tie it into my pre-ME2 catch up/final achievement gathering. "

    This. Plan to do one more playthough.

  • Inigo #10 3 years ago

    The big problem with mass effect DLC is that you have to start the game again to play it. Unless that's what's taken them so long!

  • outy #11 3 years ago

    I'll have to play through this again for the cannon paragon ending.

  • NewbieZilla #12 3 years ago

    Its a pet peeve of mine, people who call Bring down the Sky "Bringing down the sky". The article even calls it by the proper name. Is it so hard to tell the difference?

    "The big problem with mass effect DLC is that you have to start the game again to play it. Unless that's what's taken them so long!"

    Or, alternatively just load up a save file from before. Pity for those fools who only use one save slot.

  • metalangel #13 3 years ago

    Oh goody. Unless this is the best DLC in the entire history of the universe, I won't be bothering. Maxing out Mass Effect (getting a character to level 60) has totally crushed my enthusiasm for any more of its combat. Sorry, Bioware, the vast majority of people aren't going to sit around for years waiting for DLC.

    As for Bring Down the Sky, I enjoyed it. It was eerily beautiful (the gorgeous blue planet looming ahead in stark contrast to the asteroid, the glowing red horizon as bits snapped off, and the huge, ominous fusion torches) plus it provided an excellent villain.

    I hated the guy, and indeed the Batarians. He was so convinced that the Batarians were the injured party that I willingly sacrificed the hostages to ensure he'd never commit another atrocity like this again. And when the fight is over, slowly shooting holes in him as he protests and then leaving him to slowly die of his injuries was incredibly satisfying.

  • GiarcYekrub #14 3 years ago

    As long as these ain't multiplayer ahievements I'm happy

  • Dr_Wadd #15 3 years ago

    Quite good timing as I`ve only just got around to playing Mass Effect, and I`m only just in to my second run through as an evil character.

  • menage #16 3 years ago

    Bit late, I won't get into this if I don't get into the full game again. And seing as the new season is starting I have enough to play already. 2 months ago I would have started it at once.