Modding!!!

It's Frostbite again, so you won't see anything major. But hair and appearance mods will come out in short order I'm sure.

EA/DICE have firmly been against adding modding support to the Frostbite 3 engine. As long as this remains the case, no future BioWare game will ever have official modding support.

That said, as the others have noted it'll still be modded anyway to about the same degree that DA:I was.

EA/DICE are stupid modding community can increase longivity of game for long look Skyrim/Fallout/GTA V

EA must be making significant profits from games, DLC and MP booster packs to overlook the potential of alternate ways of making money. They could have made a ton of money on many games by just offering more hair style packs, clothing packs, various customization packs, etc. And it's that kind of customization that the modding community excels at 'fixing'.

I have to wonder what reasons EA has for distancing itself from user communities and modding in general. Particularly when other companies like Bethesda and CD Projekt Red embrace it so well and how much mods increase the replay value for so many. They only have to look back at BioWare's long history of games. It's not like ME3 and DA:I mods are even competing with anything EA does either.

While the Frostbite engine doesn't seem all that friendly towards modding, is there some fault with the engine that prevents them from embracing modding? Or is it just another lawyer/legal thing?

The problem with this, from a business PoV, is that you and your investors don't give a toss if someone plays your single-player game for 10 or 1000 hours (and many, many players barely even play more than 15 hours of any game, making longevity moot for them). You also don't care if someone picks up Skyrim 5 years down the line because of mods; by this time it's probably 10$ on Steam and you barely make any money with it. You'd much rather people pay for DLC instead.

I'm not disagreeing, I think modding is well worth the effort. But it's easy to see why it's not popular with publishers. Doesn't help that Frostbite is spearheaded by DICE, which makes multiplayer shooters. Those games are hardly mod-friendly.

As a final note, Skyrim and Fallout are very moddable in large part because their engine is an ancient, cobbled together trash that is much less powerful but also much easier to mod than Frostbite for several reasons. Thereby causing a lot of the problems that you then need modding to solve such as a plethora of bugs, glitches, crashes, and atrocious optimization.

And it's still going. Wonderful things has happened to ME3 since 2016. It just got a mod that make Miranda an extra squadmate with new dialogue and stuff.

From what I understand both DA:I and ME:A are based off Frostbyte3 engine so I am sure moddifications will be done...
Shame though that this never got finished or a lot more progress we could have seen.
greydynamics.github.io/Frostbite3_Editor/

Before:
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After:
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Making and using mods is part of playing those games (on PC and now even consoles). You get a nice world to explore with the main story, some DLC for money but you also get a platform to infinite expand on it. And that continues long after the developers stopped providing new content.
Take Skyrim, they re-released it as 64bit which is something great because it makes the engine more stable (not running out of memory due to too many mods ).

You wouldn't believe how much harder it is to mod DAI (all reverse engineered binaries with no documentation whatsoever) compared to Skyrim or Fallout4 (well documented with an open official IDE).

I've tried it and it's wonderful. She has dialogue in cutscenes on Cerberus HQ now and she's in the conference room (where you argue with Victus, Wrex and Dalatrass) when you recruit her and she'll have a non-cinematic dialogue (or more of them) there which Shepard responds to. Oh yeah, and as part of the Expanded Galaxy Mod which it requires you can invite her and any other love interest you have up to the cabin for those ME2-style interactions (sit on a couch, lie in bed, hug and stuff)

Screw IT time for another Mass Effect 2 and 3 run through using these mods !!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks dude - I always wanted something like this.

Miranda is always my go to love interst aswell (that voice makes me melt)