So what's going to happen to this project/mod/thread now that BSN is shutting down?

It looks to me like it will live on just fine over on the Nexus. For mods, there tends to be good chat since it's largely people who want it as opposed to people who want to voice their displeasure with mods. Granted, this is MEUITM; what's not to love!?

http://www.nexusmods...effect/mods/1/?

It's been a long road and it looks like there won't be a home here anymore.

@Bioware

Thanks for all the support. I know you can't comment on mods but hey, you did allow us to mess around quite a bit and I do appreciate it. I'm looking forward to Andromeda. I'm also looking forward to keeping at CEM now that I was able to crack m_* movements with a little help from my online mates. And dang, lip syncs are hard!!!! You all do great work. I'm just trying to emulate your awesomeness.

@CEM Fans

There aren't that many of you but hey, I've really had fun with you all over the years and you'll find me on Nexus and me3explorer for the most part. moddb is, uh, that site is just not where stuff happens with my mod. But whatever, it's cool. I can't wait to start getting into Andromeda. No modding required is my prediction. I suspect it's gonna be awesome and I plan to take a week of vacation starting on release day.

I read the release and I get it. The traffic here is low. It's a lot to maintain. For example, the mod stuff alone is way more active over on Nexus...for me anyway.

A friend recommended it to me saying I might like it. At first I thought it was just KOTOR but just not Star Wars...and then I spoke with Sovereign. The rest is history.

I'm in!

Given the OP's avatar I can see his or her viewpoint (I'm going with his.) I like non-babe characters; particularly protagonists. Female leads who look like attractive females is fine, but I'm not big into the "Amazon babe" thing and I like the look of the new character in that trailer.

Good analysis. You did a good job of keeping with facts pretty much and reasonable conjecture. We'll obviously find out once we play the game but excellent review. I hadn't taken the time to do the close viewing myself so you saved me a ton of time.

No idea but have you looked over or asked about it at me3explorer.freeforums.org ? I know SirCyxrtyx has figured out some stuff.

2012 isn't new in my book. If you're talking about the me3explorer.freeforums.org site. Even if you're new there, go check it out and see what you can find out. You might even find that doing a .mod version of your idea is a better choice or perhaps offer both .mod and a "mod as DLC."

Start here

http://me3explorer.freeforums.org/

Specifically in the research and tutorials sections.

Do your best to read up on what you can. Sometimes certain people can be a bit "frosty" with questions from new people. I kind of get why but still...Anyway, that's where to go to start learning how it works. Occasionally people get interested and bam, suddenly they have mods out there. elysiumfic is an excellent example going from knowing just about nothing to getting great hair mods out as DLC for people.

I'll ask you here, you're not actually writing about ALOT (A Lot Of Textures) but instead just saying you see a lot of DLC mods and want to know how, right? What would you like to make? Some things are relatively easy and some things are deceptively very difficult.

I want to play the original ME3 ending again, but I only get the MEHEM ending when I play. I have already uninstalled MEHEM using the uninstaller that was on v0.4, but still no original ending. Any ideas?

I'm not positive. Is it possible that MEHEM v0.5 was installed? Look in your DLC folder %mass effect 3 install directory%\BIOGame\DLC and make sure that DLC_CON_MEHEM isn't there. If so, you can delete it or double check in the root of %mass effect 3 install directory% for UNinstall_MEHEM_doNOTdeleteORremove and double click that to uninstall v0.5.

For v0.4, if the uninstall didn't work, then I'd say run a repair through Origin of the Extended Cut which should get that returned to normal.

i`ve got a little (and maybe stupid) question: i`m using this awesome mod for my current playthrough and now, origins want to do an update (not for the game but for the client itself). the instruction for the mehemmod is sayin that updates will harm/crush the mod-function..does this "warning" only count for gameupdates or also for originclient-updates?

(sorry for my english..hope question is clear)

 

thank you!

Origin client updates are fine. As long as "Automatically keep my games up to date" is unchecked, you're safe.

Hey Mr Fob, 

it's me Glutzahn

I just was asked by some guys on YT if there're news on the german translation of mehem. 
So I went here to ask^^
If you have some news or need any additional help pls let me know

I know Fob is around in general...I'm starting to wonder if some big surprise release is coming. He was in the midst of a play through with MEHEM v0.5 recently to look the mod over to, I thought, think about anything else to change and then get on with v0.6 for the German fans. Obviously we need his answer to this but even though it's been a long time I gather it's still his plan to do v0.6 with at least English and German support. Hopefully we'll read some real news soon.

Having the geth get destroyed when destroy is chosen doesn't bother me since most of the time I let the quarians destroy them over Rannoch.

And this is why the discussions on the endings the game in general get really tricky. If the geth are destroyed, then the destroy ending only leaves EDI. I think I'd take out EDI instead of risk the other options given what Shepard could possibly know at the time.

We're all going to have different views and experience with this game. I attempt to roll play my Shepards as best I can and in that light, every ending has been used when I play because the rationale of Shep can vary that much; to me at least.

Side note; I wonder how much the moderators chuckle at the same discussions as they confirm we're not breaking rules.

My objections to the MEHEM in a nutshell:

https://www.youtube....h?v=GhiOAFE64M4

 

Seriously, the EC endings are fine (Except Destroy and Refusal, those are monstrous decisions I can't see even the most Renegade Shepard take) and I don't understand why this is considered a "better" ending by most people.

Eh, simply a matter of viewpoint. Read this (although it is lonnnnng.) I know my beefs are with a lot of things going on so by the time I get to the end I've had enough. That said, I've been known to dabble in quite dark endings.

The reality is, most people are in your camp, Xisuthros. The vocal ones are in MEHEM's camp. Kind of like Femshep lovers talking all the time even though 80% of players went Broshep. Factoring in the number of MEHEM downloads compared to the number of game sales and it's a lowish percentage of users. Granted, it's high enough to notice.

Bioware definitely looked at the aftermath of Mass Effect, and the Extended Cut, and still had to offer up the Citadel DLC. It's no wonder that Dragon Age: Inquisition, which I quite enjoyed, seemed to take a safer route.

Since Content mods are being mentioned now, I can't let the chance to mention my Faster Elevators mod for ME1 go by.

 

Thanks for the reminder! I'm setting up ME1 right now.

Thanks!

 

So just to be sure I've got this right: I run ME3Explorer and let it unpack the DLC's. Then I install any mods by replacing the files (not texture mods, but all the others). Then I let it scan the texture tree. Then I use the tpf tool to install the texture mods. Do I need to rescan the tree after that?

 

Thanks!

That order of events looks right to me. I think the new me3explorer does unpack the the DLCs on first opening (I've tested it but my DLCs are usually already unpacked.) And nope, no need to rescan the tree after that, so that's good. The treescan is easily the longest part of the process for most people.

The good news is most mods you install will not even replace original files. They'll just install as DLCs.

And the last bit of info I'll share is that if after you install everything and the game is freaking out by not opening or saying DLCs are corrupt, just run an AutoTOC on all the DLC (mods and official) and the main game. This seems to get everything going again for me, anyway.

Yeah, that's what I'm seeing lol! And actually...most of those suggested look like stuff that I'll want to use!

 

Are ME3 Recalibrated, MOAM, and EGM compatible with each other?

 

Also looking at some of these mods made me think...is there a mod that removes Jack's STUPID glasses from her alternate costume in ME2?

 

Thanks everybody!!

It looks like EGM is compatible with Recalibrated from what I'm reading on the EGM nexus page. This is not surprising since kinkojiro worked on EGM and Recalibrated; not that knew that, it's just a small group who make mods and we try to work together when we can.

MOAM...I actually have not used it myself. I'm guessing it's a coalesced thing which should be fine but that's a big guess on my part.

Oh yea, and I am surprised Deager didn't mention it but if you are using an ending mod where Shep will survive, you may want to consider CEM.

Eh, I figure people find it now if they want it. I forgot about MOAM, that's a good "all inclusive" mod too. As you can tell A Future Pilot, once you get away from graphics, it's a lot of little mods here and there.

I think that's all you need. creeperlava really covered the gamut with textures for ME2 and ME3 so it should be all you're after.

EDIT: The non-graphic mods are going to be so subjective. I think you'll be happiest with the ending mod of your choice and calling that good since, in general, you're not looking for story changing stuff. /EDIT

Sorry, EDIT2. These are just fun.

http://www.nexusmods...ect3/mods/344/?

http://www.nexusmods...ect3/mods/299/?

3 is your magic number barring very few exceptions.

I would say, just give the game a whirl. If you get a little listless with it, hang in there. I thought it was just KOTOR but without light sabers until a key plot point. It's well worth playing the trilogy at least once to see all the stuff that can happen.

I'm glad I checked this thread before wasting time with a PM or something else. Looks like MEHEM v0.5 will be just fine then. I gotta wash LIME - The Cycle Continues from my mind at some point here.

Here's a thread I created about the results of not talking to anyone in ME3

If anyone would make that list, it would be you, themikefest. I think you have played this trilogy more than anyone and I'm on run #19.

I'm doing a pragmatic run right now and not chatting much with people. It was interesting to hear dialogue I hadn't before from James and Garrus when I first went to talk to them over halfway through the main story.

The most interesting things to me were regarding Sanctuary. First, I had not chatted much at all with Traynor so when I expected her to explain its location, she simply looked down as EDI looked at her. At that point EDI proceeded to explain where Sanctuary was. Then, at the end of the mission, given my choices, no Lawson was alive to track Leng so the Alliance worked on the code and then a call with Hackett is where it's explained where to go.

Needless to say, this story won't end well if you know how poorly I've been taking care of things while being "efficient" and all.

Look at you sacrificing to save everyone else. Nice tribute.