Mass Effect 2: Normandy's Crash Site - walkthrough Mass Effect 2 guide, walkthrough

Last update: 02 June 2021

Description: This quest can be added to your journal by installing Normandy Crash DLC. You can complete it right after finishing the prologue and getting on board of the new Normandy, because you won't have to fight any enemy units. In order to start this quest you must open the galaxy map and return to the first area of space you've had a chance to explore - Omega Nebula. Use a fuel depot and then fly to a newly unlocked Amada system. Once you're there find a planet named Alchera.

Start scanning the planet's surface. Keep holding the right mouse button and move the mouse until the transmission heard in the background will be very clear. A white dot should appear on the surface and you must click the left mouse button to send a probe there. Begin landing procedures to find yourself on the surface of the planet [Alchera].

The main objective of this mission is to raise a statue in memory of the fallen Normandy crew members. You can achieve this by approaching the largest part of the wreckage (first screenshot) and holding the F key. The monument will be placed automatically.

I would recommend that you spend some additional time searching the area around the crash site to collect twenty missing tags. This is a relatively easy assignment, because all the objects are shiny and therefore you'll spot them even from a larger distance. Notice that some of the tags are hidden inside wooden crates (second screenshot), however a single melee hit or a bullet will destroy each crate.

Aside from picking up tags you can also spend some additional time finding minerals. There are four containers here and opening them will result in gathering 500 units of element zero. Make sure to look for a datapad near a destroyed galaxy map (second screenshot). Interacting with this object will allow you to read three partially damaged messages.

Finish off by finding Shepard's old helmet. In order to get to this object you'll have to find a narrow passageway far away from the crash site (first screenshot). You can return to Normandy by interacting with the shuttle or by pressing and holding the action key. Don't forget to collect everything before you head out, because you won't be allowed to return here.