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N7 Day 2021 - Unofficial LE2 Patch Development and Sneak Peek to Future Projects
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The unofficial Mass Effect LE2 Patch team presents its work behind the scenes on this incredibly special day, as well as other projects we all are working on behind the scenes while trying to keep our sanity.
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Best of luck to all on the project.
Instead, you're insulting those of us who are creating this incredibly intricate, and gigantic mod. The video was posted on N7 day so that we could let the wider community know that a patch was in the works. We never told anybody to delay their playthroughs. Nor did we want them to.
Stop being a passive aggressive a**hole in a comment section where the lead Dev of the mod gets direct notifications of every comment posted.
It's really disconcerting to see someone putting out information like this with authority and no idea where it's come from. It adds to the false expectations around the patch which are really hard to manage. You could just ask directly.
We were always honest that we wanted to show our work on the LE2 patch for N7 day, a day you might not find important and which might not be important for EA, but which has been important within the modding community over the past few years. We have always been open about the fact we only started work on the patch shortly before that time - much later than the Community Patch teams. Since no one had volunteered for an LE2 Community Patch, we picked up that work in the autumn. We were able to fix a number of the biggest, most reported issues for N7 day, but over the subsequent months we became aware of many more errors and had to make decisions about how and whether to address these and on what timescale. We have been honest that we do not recommend waiting on playthroughs. I have specifically said this to multiple people. We have released interim fixes for people while we work on the wider patch.
Believe me, we are aware that there is impatience. I do not understand why, two weeks ago, you were sanguine about this, but now have decided to come communicate your disappointment and judgement directly. There are actual humans behind this project, who, as you have admitted you know, have been working on this despite challenging personal circumstances. I just don't know what you're hoping to achieve, or, honestly, why you're so confident about where we are in our progress with it.
I guess I feel we're judged for not having dropped everything to work on the patch in the first place. If we hadn't released the N7 day video we'd be accused of it being vaporware. Since we did it apparently started some timer. If it's smaller than the LE3 patch we'll be criticised for taking so long. If it's larger, we'll be criticised for being overly ambitious. We get all this, all the time. So sure, we made decisions you, personally, don't approve of. But please consider that there were other calculations at play and believe me that you are wrong if you think there was any way we could have handled the cards we were dealt that wouldn't have resulted in shirty comments about delays, or armchair quarterbacking about how we should have handled it.
If you want to move ahead with your playthrough, great! I hope you mod the crap out of it and have a great time. It's been my honest advice to everyone since we started work on this. But I just...don't understand the purpose in coming over here, presenting yourself as an expert, then telling everyone we screwed up on this. I don't know what you're hoping to achieve, except maybe somehow taking us to task for disappointing you. Which in itself is a demotivating and demoralising comment to receive. So, job done I guess.
My original post here was apologetic for overstepping my bounds, and while this one is too, it's more curt. I'm going to go ahead and just step aside and wipe my hands of everything, and just delete all my posts. I'm not really interested in getting into a shouting match, especially with people I don't know or have ever seen as adversaries. I was merely a follower of this project, trying to share information I found from various Twitter pages and the like that others interested in updates may not have seen.
I've deleted all my posts from around the internet on this topic. As I said before this edit, my intent was never to be malicious or passive-aggressive. Best of luck in continued development. I won't bother anyone around this project any more than I already have.
Jokes aside i hope it releases soon because i was planning to get LE for my birthday to do a whole new playthru as femshep but having patches for 1 and 3 while missing 2 is bummers. :p
Regardless, thank you for the hard work!
Rest assured the project is not abandoned and a lot is still being done, we are just not spending time on announcements. Moreover, we all have our own real lives and side modding projects as well. This is not our job after all. We might start sharing more regular updates if we find a way that wouldn't distract us as much from fixing this cursed game.
Post Script: Aaaahhh! Hairy Sheploo is coming to LE!!!! I can't wait!