This Week In Modding: Lots Of Mass Effect, A Surprising Half-Life Crossover, And More

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We had a lot of Mass Effect mods to cover this week, as fans continue to perfect the Legendary Edition remasters that launched last year. From romance mods to complete overhauls, it’s been a good week to be a fan of BioWare’s space opera RPG series.

Also in the news, we have a Half-Life and Star Fox crossover - one that even recruited official voice acting talent to pull off. All of that and more features in our modding news round up this week.

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Ever since the launch of Mass Effect Legendary Edition, modders have been on a mission to restore lost content. This is because the remasters are much easier to mod for, allowing fans to implement unused audio, and even add their own. Most recently we saw that with the Thane and Tali romance mod, which pieces together unused voice files to give players a fully usable queer romance. Some audio has had to be stitched together, and not all the lines were voiced for whatever reason. But it does give us the queer representation that didn’t make it into Mass Effect 2, following the pushback from conservatives with the first game.

The first Mass Effect is fantastic, and holds up surprisingly well for a game that came out in 2007. However, the technical limitations meant that some shortcuts had to be made, and the alien population of the Milky Way bore the brunt of it. They all look pretty much the same, and even wear the same clothing. This mod changes that, introducing more diversity to the game. Right now, it changes alien character models, and even replaces some human NPCs with asari and turians. Future updates will increase the gender diversity in factions such as C-Sec, making the world feel much