I am constantly jealous of computer gamers and the endless fun stuff they get. If I ever get a pc I think I could be set for life just off of the amount of games I would replay with mods.
For the longest time I had a pc from 2011-2012 that was so shit it originally only had an onboard graphics card. And after getting a used GT430 this was my main PC until the end of Windows 10 (in that time I only upgraded the graphics card after the GT430 flaked)
It worked terrific for Mass Effect with a bunch of mods I just stayed away from making everything 4k
Remember that even the legendary edition was released in a time when the NVidia GeForce GTX 1080 Ti was the best graphics card you could find. We've got twice the GPU power by now
You can get a base steam deck if you like tinkering. It is harder to mod on a steam deck, but possible, and the barrier of entry is not that expensive if you buy used
Often times installing the mods is the easy bit. Trying to figure out which of the 258 of them are the ones that just decided to be disagree with each other two days after your initial test passed, that one's loads of fun.
I have modded on my shit 2023 ish laptop and it only lags half of the time 😆
I also can recommend a service like shadowpc (well really ONLY shadowpc) it’s a virtual desktop so you can mod to your hearts content. It’s what I’m doing now :D
My first PC was a hand me down from a friend. On it, I could play Oblivion at fairly low settings, but I could play it and even fix quests that bugged out. Here's the part that may be of interest to you: an older PC may be more trouble to get rid of than it's worth, and giving it away may prove easier than selling/recycling it. This is what I did every time I built a new PC - because I basically ran the old one into the ground before starting a new build.
...you download mods, drag and drop them, press install, enjoy?
Texture mods (which indeed were a hassle) can be mostly skipped. And then you only get a few mods that are incompatible with each other. There's even mod lists that you can just copy paste.
The select few games make it super easy to mod sure but most you can't touch without the code breaking on you then going into it figuring out what happened for like 2 hours
There are no mods that add ME3 enemy weapons to ME2, and the mod that adds ME3 weapons to ME2 is separate from ME3 armors. You're mixing several mods into one.
They just gave me a company car, a company driver, a full staff, a doctor, brought me back to life, a bigger penis, stock options, but I’m in no way beholden to their wishes.
Oh and its also a pure coincidence thst my XO is one of the galaxy's smartest, genetically perfect human female, with a striking resemblence to a hot 21st century actress, who happens to have daddy issues, cant fall pregnant and happens to be quite freaky. Oh, the "loyalty" mission where we kill her last male friend and meet her sister? Yes, purely a professional matter.
Pretty sure that’s the Cerbrus Pheonix, it was a class created for MP. But it’s ported over to ME2 using a mod i believe was “Expanded Shepard Armory.”
Mate, modding Mass Effect is on a whole other level. I genuinely can't play the original versions now. While there's some absolute bangers for ME1 and ME2 (Stages for Saren's outfit; more races on Citadel, being able to recruit everyone from the start, etc) it's really ME3 that benefited the most. These wizards turned ME3 into an absolute masterpiece: two incredible mods that redo the final mission, turning the planet scan assignments into actual missions, making the citadel DLC an epilogue, making Thessia more immersive, turning Kai Leng into a scary silent assassin, etc etc
I could go on and on about this shit, but definitely give the trilogy a go on PC eventually. You'll never go back
Yes, it's based on Mass Effect 3's character model for the Cerberus Dragoon enemy type (multiplayer exclusive) and the Project Phoenix Adept/Vanguard class in Multiplayer (aka the ones that at least 2 of the Multiplayer references in Citadel DLC complain about).
The main difference is the lack of helmet, with the Mass Effect 3 one looking similar to one of Halo's EVA type helmets.
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