For those who liked and didn't like MEA, do you think DAI was better?

When you do, you should create a let's play thread on the DA board. phoray did this for her first ME:A run on the ME:A spoiler board, and we had a lot of fun with it.

I owned the console versions of DAO/DA2 before the PC versions and I gotta say, base game wise I didn't notice much difference on Normal in how they played. Especially if you abuse about four powers with a few passives thrown in and rely on your tactics for everything else. Like I do . The tac-cam on PC is leagues better, though...I'm not even sure I actually remember the console version having one. The real difference to me came from mods on PC. Took an already great game and made it fantastic.

I am legit terrified though to mod MEA. I've heard some horror stories.

I waited until we were told that there would be no more updates or any DLCs for MEA, to start modding MEA, but once I started, it's very easy to do. I downloaded the Frosty tool, watched a video about using it, followed directions for any mods I downloaded and have had no problems at all. I LOVE mods so am glad that I'm finally modding MEA...hope you try it and it goes as smoothly for you. 

Are MET modders being lazy, or does W10 break something really fundamental?

As for ME:A modding, I've never heard of anything really compelling. What am I missing?

News to me and my windows 10 PC. All the tools work.

I'm asking the obvious here. Do you rename texmod and the executable at every startup, in order for texmod to be adressed by the Origin client? (Alternatively you can also create a bat file doing the work for you).

In the case of ME2 it has to look like this.

echo OFF
ECHO Run Mass Effect 2 with Texmod?
SET /P X=(Y)es or (N)o?
IF /I "%X%"=="Y" goto :Yes
IF /I "%X%"=="N" goto :No
GOTO END

:Yes
ren "C:\Program Files (x86)\Origin Games\Mass Effect 2\Binaries\ME2Game.exe" "ME2Game_tmp.exe
ren "C:\Program Files (x86)\Origin Games\Mass Effect 2\Binaries\Texmod.exe" "ME2Game.exe"


ECHO Files renamed! Please start your Mass Effect 2 in Origin now.
PAUSE

ren "C:\Program Files (x86)\Origin Games\Mass Effect 2\Binaries\ME2Game.exe" "Texmod.exe"
ren "C:\Program Files (x86)\Origin Games\Mass Effect 2\Binaries\ME2Game_tmp.exe" "ME2Game.exe"

ECHO Filenames restored! Now you can start Mass Effect 2 with use of TexMod.
PAUSE

GOTO END

:No

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Origin Games\Mass Effect 2\Binaries\ME2Game.exe"

:END

In the case of ME3 you just have to swap the ME2 executable with ME3s

You also need the appropriate coalesced for the textures to work. Or to edit it, of course.

 Wow, scared me to think ALL mods wouldn't work for the OT, on Win 10, but then I remembered I had played the OT with lots of mods, earlier this year, on Win 10. I didn't use any outfit or skins on texmod though so that may be why everything worked ok. I plan to play the OT again soon and want all my mods working. 

Cool, thanks! I haven't tried modding it since several people on Tumblr talked about mods breaking their games in the earlier days, that and the mods I looked at last time I tried looking weren't that interesting, but I will give it a go nowadays.

I am replaying DAI ATM and i personally feel that it is hands down a better game. It has its issues sure, but the overall level of quality is definitely higher than MEA. Besides the 3 skill slot system kill of any desire i might have of ever playing MEA again, unless a mod exists which addresses that particular issue. DAI has better writing, better companions, better crafting, better companion control and customization and much more. It is overall a better game and it annoys me that Bioware stated that they learned from DAI and put those lessons in MEA cause that was an outright bloody lie.

Whats worse is MEA gave them the perfect chance to allow us to play different races but it looks like they never even considered that and a new galaxy full of potential, they instead gave us bland and tripe bs lacking any originality to the game.

Except for the things which were improved. For instance, DAI has very few NPC interactions in the open-world areas, and was rightly criticized for that. ME:A substantially improves on this aspect.



If they did consider it, they likely rejected it out of hand. You didn't really expect anything else, did you?

That there are more NPC conversation in ME:A's open-world areas, and that DAI was criticized for not having enough of those, are simply facts.

It is interesting that this didn't do anything for you, though. Any idea why?