ME3 suggested mods?

- ALOT (no brainer)
- If you don't mind reading quite a bit during your playthrough, I'd say add EGM. It adds a ton of content and atmosphere to the game but there is a lot of stuff to read, so you will spend a lot more time in between missions in the GM or the codex, reading the latest reports on the war, background info or doing a few "text adventure" style missions in the GM. There is also a ton of other little stuff to do. I certainly recommend it.
- ME3 Recalibrated fixes a bunch of little bugs and oddities, makes some conversations a bit smoother and stuff. It's a good add.
- Ken and Gaby recruitment restoration mod
- Extended Anderson Conversation never hurts

All of the above mods add great stuff to the game while not messing with it's atmosphere or story (except for EGM but it fits so well, I put it in up there).

Personally, I do like to play Citadel after the ending (because it just fits better with the lighter tone and all), so I like to use the Citadel Epilogue Mod (CEM). This works best in conjunction with a bunch of ending mods (see their nexus page for which Deager made compatibility patches). But this is already going into very story altering territory, so not sure if you want tot do that.

All of those mods (except the coalesced stuff which you need to do yourself) can be found on the Nexus. Be sure to read their descriptions carefully for install and compatibility instructions.

Hope that helps.

Make sure you read all the notes about this. Some mods are in conflict with it.

Thanks for the input so far. I'll make sure my S/S mod is compatible with the mods I use (i know ME3Recalibrated isn't supported.)

Here are some other mods people on my Reddit thread suggested

"Bonus Power Packs - Adds bonus powers from MP to the single player campaign

JohnP's Alternate MEHEM - While it does tweak the ending, I think it does this in a very respectful way to the original content. I use version A that keeps a lot of the original content but, for me, gives a more satisfying end to the Destroy ending.

Extended Final Anderson Conversation - Restores cut content to the final conversation with Anderson. Because there wasn't enough crying as it was.

Ken and Gabby Recruitment Restoration Mod - Restore cut content to recruiting Ken and Gabby by going to Purgatory instead of approving at the Spectre terminal."

and

"There is expanded galaxy mod (egm), which adds tons of content, such as customizing normandy (choosing additional doctors, engineers, your XO, vehicles and mechs in hangar bay) new missions, armor, a new weapon

Ark mod - new, challenging mission, improvements on n7 missions, egm addon

Miranda mod - miranda as squadmate with voiced conversations, egm addon

Project variety - more diverse citadel, actual weapons in cutscenes (althou it can be glitched sometimes), and other cosmetic changes, some of which are very subjective (it is quite customizable thou)

Repawn missikn overhaul - also harder missions ( for now therevare only 3 affected)

Stimulant pack the ultimate bonus power- adds stimulant pack as a bonus power

Spectre expansion mod - egm addon, improves spectre terminal, new missions, more strategic choices

Omwga hub - adds a small hub after doing omega dlc, egm addon

Ashley warpack and battlepack (?) - improves more armor for ash, marksman glitchvfix and optional changes to her apperance (tovmake her look more like in me2 and me1)"

Thoughts? I think EGM is definitely a candidate.

The mod I use with ME3:

- Alot
- S/S Romance well Same-Gender Romances for ME3 now.
- Extended Final Anderson Conversation, because feels. (it only add existing audio that was not used, add some more depth to the relation between Shep & Anderson)
- Restored Engineer Recruitment_DLC (makes more sens too me ^^; )
- BetterCabinMusic because the music in the cabin in ME3 are aweful.

Now for the Ending, I used for a long time MEHEM, but for my last run I used JAM V1.5 & it was really good too: it's a lot more vanilla friendly: you can choose to have or not have the convo with the starchild. Removing the starchild was a thing that bothered me with MEHEM siince I had no problem with him, especially after Leviathan DLC release. I used MEHEM just because the original endings had no happy ending but it sure does add a lot of things that are not vanilla (letters from some people you met in the trilogy, an entirely remade ending) while JAM only add the memorial scene with Shepard).

If you want Citadel DLC to be your ending, you can add CEM (just choose the version matching your ending mod). But since it's designed to be something that happens after London, it removes some dialogues aka things related to the ongoing Reaper war. I don't use it because  I don't like mods that change too much things from Vanlla escpecially if it removes things but I tried it once & it's a really good mod for people that think Citadel dlc should have been the true ending.

An excuse my english

I usually play Citadel before I go to Cerberus headquarters.  I imagine that they are doing a big check up on the Normandy & checking everything is in order in the fleet & with the Crucible before the Final push. I found that the Citadel's goodbye scene has some kind of "we are now going to give everything we have to save the galaxy ans we are not sure we are going to all survive" vibes, not sure if what i'm saying is making sense  to others ^^;

Ya, as i said, I used it on one of my playthrough & I didn't like it. It's very well done, but like I said I don't like when a mod removes things & I still prefer an ending mod with the memorial scene anyway

I prefer to play with mouse + keyboard for that kind of game ^^. As for sweet fx couldn't find one i like, it's either too dark or color are too flashy. Anyway i'm happy with the color of the game
Have a nice game

I had to bump the brightness up after using sweet fx reshade. That helps, but yes it seems darker than in ME2.

I don't have Sweet FX.  Sometime within the last 6 moths to a year, the faces are darker because if shadows.  Tried tweaking the settings but it didn't help.  The only mod I can't think of that could have affected it was ALOT and I added that sometime last year.  The dates line up.  I guess I could remove it to find out but it sounds like a long and tedious process to remove it and then potentially re-add it.

GeForce optimal settings worked wonders on ME3.  ME2 is improved but there are still some shadows at times.  Now if I get yet ME2 to stop crashing when I try to look through Archangel's scope during Garrus's recruitment mission.