Over time the project evolved into the entire DLC, with a focus on making it feel more like part of Mass Effect Legendary Edition, rather than feeling like a port of content directly from Mass Effect. This would be fairly easy since there is not much sequencing involved, and only a handful of meshes, something that could be done in a mod without too much work.

Initially it was only going to be Shepard’s Apartment, which is the prize for completing Pinnacle Station. This is one of the earliest pictures, when we were still testing feasibility of the project. Terrain (the rainbow in the background) turned out to be one of the worst things to deal with in this port. Our tools could already port assets from ME1 to ME3, and the LE games are based mostly on the ME3 version of the engine (not entirely, but data formats are mostly the same). This project started on September 18th, 2021, after I came back from a complete modding hiatus after working pretty much nonstop on modding from March until the end of July.Īfter seeing someone comment about wanting Pinnacle Station in Legendary Edition, I began to look into seeing just how capable our tools would be at attempting something like this. I’m pretty sure this is often considered one of the worst DLCs in the franchise. It is somewhat neat prize, but the DLC does not offer any story of any actual substance and nothing is referenced from this DLC in future games (as far as I am aware).

Pinnacle Station had a great vista on the station, which in my opinion is one of its saving graces. There is also a special map after completing all of the other scenarios, upon which completing you get access to “Shepard’s Apartment”, a small building on a remote planet.

Pinnacle Station is a combat-focused DLC where Shepard must top the scoreboard on 4 different maps across 4 different game modes, though only 3 maps are available per mode. These are how the games are referred to in our modding scene to help avoid confusion.įirst, let’s start with some context. For clarity in this post, when I say ‘ME1’, I mean Mass Effect from 2008, and when I say ‘LE1’, I mean Mass Effect (Legendary Edition) from 2021. In this blog post, I’d like to go over some of the technical challenges and how the ME3Tweaks group ported Pinnacle Station from Mass Effect to its Legendary Edition counterpart, as well as detail a few of the changes we made. Sometime after the DLC was released, the source code was lost, which is why it did not appear in the PS3 version of Mass Effect Trilogy, and was subsequently not included in Mass Effect Legendary Edition. Demiurge also handled the PC port of Mass Effect. Pinnacle Station was a DLC developed by Demiurge for the original Mass Effect game in 2009. On November 7th, 2021, the ME3Tweaks group released Pinnacle Station for Mass Effect Legendary Edition.

Weapon and armor fixes remade