Question about Mass Effect Tech Skills

The Game Room
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I just started another thread about ME but I guess this is a pretty different question.

Suppose I come to a computer terminal or a storage locker or something which requires some level of decryption or electronics skill. I haven’t figured out yet whether it checks my skill, or rather, the skill of my squad, or rather, the skill of the squad member with the highest skill. Does anyone know?

At first, before having really played, I assumed I would just have to have my highest skilled squad member go open the thing. But as far as I can tell, there is no way to have a squad member open a door or access a terminal. I have to do that with my own character, as far as I can tell. But I assume that my squad members’ decrypt skills are good for something. I just don’t know exactly how their skills are taken into account.

-FrL-

2

I don’t know the answer and I’d like to know. I think that it checks the whole squad but I can’t be sure.

3

It checks the highest skill in your squad, from what I can tell. I had a squad in which one person had a decent decryption, one had good electronics, and my character was just a grunt with weapons skills. Decryption and electronics stations posed no problem, even though in each instance 2/3 of the squad had no skill in it. I was most successful having one soldier, one biotic, and one tech character – the tech character took care of both decryption and electronics even though my character and one NPC had nothing there.

4

It checks against the highest ranked in your squad.