Mass Effect Legendary Edition (General Discussion)

Do you have your notes for this? Do you recall the original texture name? I find this an interesting little mod

Found this mod...

www.nexusmods.com/masseffect3/mods/252

I guess I can find what I am looking for there

I really like yours, I might try to do something silly.

First, those textures are awesome. I'm always impressed when someone creates something so cool of their own initiative, purely for their own enjoyment and that of others. Very nice.

Secondly, Mass Effect military ranks will cause nosebleeds, and possibly brain hemorrhage, if examined too closely. Some seem drawn from USN, some from USMC, and some from RAF (Flight Lieutenant being the one I caught).

Instead of free-wheeling with these, I wish they'd assigned a single writer to make up a standardized list of ranks. They're Canadians. They could've used the Canadian military. Being from the US, I'd likely have chosen the USN.

The real world inspiration is less important than the resulting consistency. This would've taken a writer with internet access 30 minutes. It's always disappointing to me how often they botch military details in a game about space marines. It's not a huge deal, but it momentarily kills my immersion every time a miscue rears its head. And I'm not even a veteran of the services. I'm just a guy who reads a lot and likes to be informed.

EDIT: I decided I should refresh my memory on what the Codex says, and I rediscovered the Systems Alliance military ranks list.

There's also discussion of the thin line between Naval and Marine personnel, and the traditional naming conventions that still exist. Some of the cited differences are not correctly reflected in-game*, but at least they did make the effort to standardize this stuff.
* One such example is "Serviceman" Bhatia, who should've been "Private" or "Corporal" Bhatia.

I'll put the ranks chart below in an sblock.

I had no issue with them creating their own rank structure, but trying to make sense of the insignia...

My train of thought was something like this for Anderson's insignia changes:

- three bars when he was captain (me: ok)
- three bars and a red stripe when he's an admiral (me: ok, I guess)
- Admiral Anderson on Earth...two bars on his collar and four on his hat and armor (me: ...)

That was actually a lot of fun to do.

Ok, they made the cash. Now make something good with it. I have altered the deal, pray I don't alter it any further.

Ah that's great news, thanks SirSourpuss! I did wonder if it was as good as it looked, I barely dared to hope. Hope that means other old classics can be remastered/continued.

Yeah it is though tbh I think they did a good job with it. Certainly better than I thought the ywould. As they only changed it in the areas where it was really needed.

More Jedi: Fallen Order? Awesome.

A remaster of DAO would be nice. I never played DA2