Mass Effect Legendary Edition

About this mod

A project designed to diversify LE1 through increased population count, better species' population balancing, outfit/appearance diversification and overall breathing more life into the world.

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LE1 Diversification Project is an initiative designed to bring the NPCs and hub design forward to create a greater sense of asset and population diversity that was not possible in the original release of ME1 due to memory limitations, as well as make many other improvements to the game. The focus of the mod is to make the world feel more vibrant and alive through:

  • Seamlessly integrating Female Turians into the entire game, from the Citadel to Noveria to Pinnacle Station and Uncharted Worlds. 
  • Increasing asset diversity and "un-cutting" the corners that BioWare took to save on memory, such as not having just one outfit per non-human species in any single area, instead adding a much greater variety of outfit meshes/tints, faces/hairs, and weapon models. 
  • Rebalancing hub populations to create a more realistic and fair balancing of species and better equality of genders across the game. For example, vastly increasing the female presence within C-Sec, better racial diversity among humans, better representation for same-sex and interspecies relationships. and increasing the population of minor species such as Hanar/Elcor/Volus. 
  • Breathing more life into the world through increasing the number of NPCs in the game and populating areas that are effectively empty in vanilla (such as Dr. Michel's clinic with 0 patients, or Opold's empty shop on Noveria). 
  • Other various miscellaneous improvements such as content restoration, in-world beautification passes (such as adding more ambient decorative objects such as furniture, vehicles, paintings, etc), and perhaps more.




The mod is still in active development, with the Citadel and Noveria fully covered as of now, and initial minor edits made to Uncharted Worlds, Therum and the endgame.

I'm more than happy to listen to ideas and suggestions, though please understand that certain things will be unfeasible or conflict with my vision for the project, and may not be included. This mod is a long-term development project that's receiving infrequent, but extremely large updates until it effectively becomes a total overhaul of LE1. I'm aiming to be feature complete by the end of 2023.



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Compatibility
For now, the mod is ONLY compatible with ENGLISH VO. Support for non-English voiceover will be coming at some point in the future.

Translations are available for Spanish, French, German, Russian, Italian and Polish.
Japanese
translation is currently unavailable - please send me a DM if you can translate and are willing to help translate upcoming content as well..

The following mods are required:
Compatibility patches are included for:

LE1 Diversification Project is natively compatible with the following mods thanks to the permissions of their respective authors:

The following mods are incompatible:

Installation

Use the Mod Manager Download button, or drag the .7z into the ME3Tweaks Mod Manager and install.

Technical Info for Modders
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Special Thanks
Mistyvail for our original conversations and collaboration that led to the inception of this project. We both agreed that porting outfits from Andromeda simply doesn't work very well, as the aesthetic and texture work doesn'tblend seamlessly with OT/LE assets. Her subsequent work reshaping Turian outfit/armour meshes has resulted in (in my opinion) the best  realization of seamlessly integrated Female Turian NPCs so far, and was the inception of the Diversification Project Asset Library.

Herobrine24 for providing some pre-made level streaming edits that greatly improve immersion.

Mgamerz, 55tumbl, Kinkojiro, Mistyvail, rondeeno, Knighthawk, Vegz and Catachrism, for kindly allowing for compatibility patches with their mods.

The Elcor Hamlet Appreciation Society for their support/guidance throughout the development of this mod.


Translators
French Translation: Loadinggue
Russian Translation: Dowewl
Spanish Translation: marcodgf
German Translation: AuRora
Polish Translation: TreoPL
Italian Translation: TittyFish

Assets Used