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How to: Skip most of the intro movies with a new character


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Akimb0

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I'm not sure how useful this will be to everyone, but when I make a new character, after seeing all the cool intro movies for the first time, I didn't want to have to sit through them for every new character I made. So I went and found which videos play during the Normandy intro.

Navigate to your Movies folder, found in: %/Program Files/Mass Effect 2/Biogame/Movies. The following .bik files can be renamed to .bak to stop them running:

ME2_Opening_SunMid_INT
Opening_End_Seq
Opening_End_SeqFM
Opening_Seq_INT
ProNor_Pod2
ProNor_Shepard_Rebuilt
ProNor_Escape
ProNorEscapeAsh
ProNorEscapeKaid

This seems to cut out most of it, however there are still some sequences which can't be skipped, such as Miranda talking to the Illusive Man; the scene between Shepard and the "love interest" from the first game and rescuing Joker.

Also if you import a character, the appearance seems to default and doesn't
carry over. However you can of course just recreate the face using the customise options. You still recieve all your bonus goodies for importing a character as usual.

So other than the appearance not carrying over I've not noticed any other problems with this. It cuts down starting a new character to around 2 minutes instead of 10. If you ever want to get the movies back, you simply change the file extension back to .bik instead of .bak.

Modifié par Akimb0, 04 février 2010 - 05:40 .


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kusvuari

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Thank you for this, I might give it a try a bit later (when I'm not tired, would hate to accidentally delete the wrong thing)

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kusvuari

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If you have the steam version of ME2 you'll find OP's file location won't be what you're after.

Here is the location of the Steam File C:\\Program Files\\Steam\\SteamApps\\common\\mass effect 2\\BioGame\\Movies



The same instructions from Akimb0 should apply, though instead of changing .bik to .bak I just made them .bik1 (I don't think it makes a difference which you decide to use)



Thanks again.



I'm looking forward to getting my character perfect, then I think I will fix the filenames.

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MoeStCool

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doesn't work for me :/



but i have a localized german version, so this might be the reason

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MoeStCool

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****, i just had to wait the third time throug all this ****, because i want a pretty shephard! does anyone know how to disable the vids via some kind of console?

lol@censorship. is this a kindergarden?

Modifié par MoeStCool, 08 février 2010 - 06:08 .


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Chewableprozac

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