When theMass Effect Legendary Editionlaunched earlier this year, it provided fans an opportunity to revisit the hugely popular sci-fi RPG trilogy again for the first time in years. It packaged all three initialMass Effectgames together with each game’s DLC and extra content. However, there was one surprising omission. The Pinnacle Station DLC for the originalMass Effectwasn’t included, with BioWare saying the source had been corrupted. Where BioWare faltered, fans have come together, however. The Pinnacle Station is now available as a mode for theMass Effect Legendary Edition.
The mod is named the Pinnacle Station DLC and is available to download on PC now. Developed by ME3Tweaks, thePinnacle Station DLCmod delivers not just the content of the DLC originally released forMass Effect, but an updated version bringing it in parallel to the visuals ofMass Effect Legendary Edition. It includes all of the content found in the originalMass EffectDLC.
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While the Pinnacle Station DLC mod does bring over all of theoriginal content fromMass Effect, it also makes several key changes improving on the DLC. For example, all of the levels within the Pinnacle Station DLC now how an additional music track raising the intensity of the experience as the level progresses. Several fixes have also been made, including issues with collision, texture pop-in, bugged enemy spawn locations, and other problems that BioWare was never able to solve in 2009.
Pinnacle Station, for those unfamiliar, wasMass Effect’s second of two DLC packs. It launched two years after the original game and delivered a range of challenging content forMass Effectadepts to take on. It added eight virtual reality combat scenarios, including Capture the Flag and Deathmatch modes. It lacked story content, which likely made it easier for BioWare to drop from theMass Effect Legendary Edition, but was valuable toMass Effectplayersat the time.
BioWare was unable to include the Pinnacle Station DLC in theMass Effect Legendary Editionfor two reasons. First, the original source code had been corrupted. Second, BioWare would have to completely redo the DLC from the ground up, an endeavor of six months that the studio didn’t have time for. Pinnacle Station was just one ofover 40 Mass Effect DLCsin the bundle, after all.
Where BioWare didn’t have the time, theMass Effectmodding community has delivered.BioWaresaid it would take six months for the studio to remake Pinnacle Station; it took modders just over seven. While it’s unfortunate thatMass Effect Legendary Editionusers on other platforms can’t access the mod, perhaps BioWare can work out an arrangement just for the sake of preservingMass Effect’s legacy.
Mass Effect Legendary Editionis available now on PC, PS4, and Xbox One.
