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Post by giftfish on Jan 4, 2017 20:58:32 GMT
The GistME3 Recalibrated is going to be an extremely lore-friendly DLC mod in the flavor of the "Unofficial Patches" for TES (The Elder Scrolls). I say "in the flavor", b/c we're talking on a much smaller scale. The basic idea is it will be a modest-sized mod full of high-quality fixes for bugs, lore faux pas, poorly-written dialogue (not LI or Thane related!), and NPC appearances. There will be an emphasis on enriching the game experience for imported characters and creating consistency across all three games. Immersion is the name of the game. This will be a multi-author mod. Rather than release these fixes separately, they will be combined. DLC mods are great, but the more there are the more complicated things get. Throwing all these fixes into the same mod makes things easier for users to manage and reduces compatibility issues, which makes our lives as modders easier.
Scope + Technical DetailsI've added this separate section on scope as questions come up. Expect this to grow. Edits for ME3Re should meet the following requirements: - 100% immersive (no bugs/wonkiness... this is what we're trying to fix!)
- Single-player content
- Bugfixes, poor writing/dialogue, cut content restoration (this might need discussion), lore inconsistencies (NPC appearances fit here), or minor lore-centric enhancements
- Fixing broken powers is okay, as long as it's not going to cause conflicts. Please make the fixes to all affected DLC; folks will download and install them as needed.
- Avoid edits to core files that could cause incompatibilities (BioD_Nor.pcc, SFXGame.pcc, etc)
- Avoid edits to Beam run and later files to avoid conflicts with ending mods & ThaneMOD
- Avoid edits to most Citadel DLC files to avoid conflicts with CEM
- Avoid edits to LI content to avoid conflicts with BO & ThaneMOD
- Avoid edits to the galaxy map and cabin to avoid conflicts with GMM
So, "enhancements" are a possibility (this is unlike the USKP, for example), but they would have to be very, very minor and extremely lore-centric. For example, if it was possible to overhaul the quest log to make it more like ME2, or simply improve the quest log to make some quests easier to follow. An unacceptable enhancement would be removing the child from the beginning of the game (though, I'd personally like this, lol). An example of an acceptable cut content restoration would be if SirCxyrtyx wanted to include his Ken/Gabby recruitment mod in ME3Re. There's really no debate that it's stronger and contributes more to the story than the email in the vanilla game. ME3Re will be hosted on Nexusmods, only. All authors will receive admin (file permission) rights on Nexusmods once the mod is released. We're all busy, so my expectation is that anyone who contributes content will take responsibility for monitoring and addressing any bugs relevant to their files. My guess is this will be minimal, since we're keeping things simple  Current ContentMy hope is to release ME3Re v1.0 concurrently with BackOff, since some BO content is being relocated to this mod. More content may be added prior to release. I'll update this OP as needed. - Adjustment for awkward endgame shuttle dialogue between Shepard/Anderson (JohnP)
- Post-Thessia wrap up dialogue with Hackett/Anderson fixed to not imply the loss of Thessia was Shepard's fault (JohnP)
- Minor Prologue:Earth trial dialogue edits (JohnP)
- Edits for child & Anderson dialogue during Prologue: Earth (JohnP)
- Normandy escape from Earth alternate follow up scene (giftfish; relocated file from BackOff)
- First meeting with Bailey; alternate opening for imports and other edits (giftfish; relocated file from BackOff)
- First Council meeting; final comment from Liara removed (giftfish; duplicated file from BackOff)
- Kelly Chambers/Felicia Hannigan makeover (giftfish, duplicate file from BackOff)
- Fix for Salarian Special Tasks Group and Major Kirrahe war assets (AVPen)
- TLK fix for wrong name in Journal for Mesana: Ardak Yakshi Monastery (Kinkojiro)
- BIN fix for swapped locations of Shadow Broker Assets (Kinkojiro)
- Ashley Marksman power fix; includes CitDLC, CE DLC, FA DLC (AVPen)
- Fixed idles for Kaidan/Ash on the Presidium; no more drinking motions w/o glasses in hand (giftfish; duplication from BackOff)
- Fixed nonsensical Normandy security checkpoint guard dialogue post-coup (giftfish)
- Fixed galaxy map bug that highlights Aequitas on Minos Wasteland as having a quest post Admiral Koris (giftfish)
- Removed Anderson's name drop about "Grayson" post-Coup, as if Shepard knows who he's talking about (giftfish)
- Added Kelly's name to the Citadel map, when present (giftfish)
Planned ContentDepending on when it's completed, the content below may be included in v1.0 or a later release. Please note that future releases are not on a specific schedule and will only occur if enough additional material is modded to warrant pushing another release: Donnel Udina makeover (giftfish) Matriarch Aethyta makeover (giftfish) Captain Armando Bailey makeover (giftfish) Possible Hanar Diplomat dialogue fixes (Deager) Possible Aria Omega DLC dialogue fixes (Fob) AuthorsAVPen giftfish JohnP Kinkojiro SirCxyrtyx
Other mod authors are welcome and encouraged to submit additional edits to include in ME3Re. The only constraint is they must fit the scope of the mod (see above). If you're interested, just post here or toss me a PM.
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Post by kainprime on Jan 19, 2017 0:16:01 GMT
Going with some more stuff possibly to be implemented.
1. During Priority: Thessia, when Shepard reaches Outpost Tykis, the gunships mow down a group of Marauders. But the triggering thing is, the Marauders are wielding REVENANTS, rather than Phaestons. In the same vein, Turians on Menae and Tuchanka go about using Avengers, rather than Phaestons too.
2. While rescuing Jacob and the scientists, when Shepard gives the order to fire the turrets, Cerberus gunships are completely black in the following scene.
3. The infamous "Invisible Rannoch Rock" that Shepard picks up in one scene, and then gives Tali thin air in the next shot at the start of Geth Base mission. In that same mission, if the player chooses Renegade dialogue path and uses the painter gun on the downed Reaper during a renegade interrupt, the glow from its eye persists into the following scenes, despite supposedly being inactive. The glow doesn't persist when it shuts down on its own in other dialogue branches.
4. Eclipse-armored Salarian in STG base. I mean, seriously, WAT.
5. Invisible Rodriguez during the closing escape scenes at Grissom. As far as I've been able to replicate it, this bug only occurs if the player skips any of the initial dialogue during that cutscene. If it's allowed to play as normal, Rodriguez appears as normal.
6. Bullshit retcon talk from Leviathan - "Each cycle ends with the birth of a Reaper. Each made in Harbinger's image. Our image." The bullshit of Bioware not making a couple of unique Reapers as seen in closing shot of ME2 and just using Sovereign, and throwing this line in there as justification, let's look at this from the perspective of a Non-DLC line, shall we? EDI post-Tuchanka talks about how Destroyers are similar, but Capital Ships are of unique design. Unique. Now, I'm not gonna ask for new models. Just an edit to the Leviathan line that removes "Each made in Harbinger's image. Our image."
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Post by crazyrabbits on Apr 10, 2017 14:29:23 GMT
Playing through again, the problems in Priority: Citadel II stuck out a lot more to me. Aside from being one of the most notable instances of "cutscene weapons" (everyone's got Avengers/Carnifex guns while walking into the security office/executor's office), there were a couple other problems I noticed.
1) At the very beginning of the mission, when Shepard walks up to Joker as the latter is trying in vain to reach Citadel Control, the passageway leading to the Galaxy Map/CIC is dimmed and black (and there doesn't seem to be any texturing in it, giving it a weird feeling). Might be something to fix up if possible.
2) In the opening Citadel fight scene, when the two C-SEC officers are fighting against an Atlas who tosses a car at them, the two soldiers are stationed on a platform that is seemingly inaccessible, as there is no door to enter or exit from, nor any sort of way to climb down from the platform. It looks awfully strange, as the soldiers are running towards nothing at the end of the platform.
3) The end of the mission, when Shepard and the Council walk away from the burning skycar, ends with a several seconds-long shot of empty space for no reason. It should fade out a few seconds earlier, when Shepard/the Council are walking back through the door.
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Post by sil on Apr 10, 2017 14:33:27 GMT
I'm pretty sure 2) is a movie file
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Post by giftfish on Apr 10, 2017 21:34:23 GMT
1) At the very beginning of the mission, when Shepard walks up to Joker as the latter is trying in vain to reach Citadel Control, the passageway leading to the Galaxy Map/CIC is dimmed and black (and there doesn't seem to be any texturing in it, giving it a weird feeling). Might be something to fix up if possible. I don't remember this, although I fixed the glitch with one of Joker's holoscreens as Shepard is walking up. 2) In the opening Citadel fight scene, when the two C-SEC officers are fighting against an Atlas who tosses a car at them, the two soldiers are stationed on a platform that is seemingly inaccessible, as there is no door to enter or exit from, nor any sort of way to climb down from the platform. It looks awfully strange, as the soldiers are running towards nothing at the end of the platform. This is indeed a BIK, so nothing can be done. I found out after I already had asked Otte to work on putting a C-Sec logo on some human armor, so I could do a replacement for that scene. It's another instance where the human is wearing Alliance-affiliated clothing/armor rather than C-Sec. 3) The end of the mission, when Shepard and the Council walk away from the burning skycar, ends with a several seconds-long shot of empty space for no reason. It should fade out a few seconds earlier, when Shepard/the Council are walking back through the door. This means you couldn't have played with the most recent release of ME3Re, as this is something fixed in v2.0. There was previously a couple significant camera bugs at the end, one involving an entirely empty FOV, and another a randomly teleporting squadmate. The game now allows Shepard and Bailey to walk offscreen (through the door), with the camera panning slowly up at a diagonal as the shuttle burns (and Udina lies dead) in the background. For some, a dead VS will be in the foreground. The pan lasts only 2.5s. The entire standoff scene has had significant clean up that took about 2 weeks of editing. |
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Post by crazyrabbits on Apr 11, 2017 2:48:29 GMT
Yeah, I figured as much. Shame on me for not updating Recalibrated when I upgraded/installed a bunch of other mods. I had suspected the platform-with-no-door was a BIK video - I find that the videos stick out a lot more now due to not being in HD. Minor nitpicks. Recalibrated is still stellar.
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Post by giftfish on May 27, 2017 13:20:47 GMT
There's a bit of broken glass outside the C-Sec office window on the Presidium, pre-coup.
Is there any purpose for this that I'm missing?
Right now, it seems like BW placed it into the wrong file and it should be part of the post-coup content. It likely doesn't really need to be added to the that content, though -- the Presidium is plenty messy at that point and it probably wouldn't be noticeable. It *is* noticeable pre-coup, however, and would be easy to remove.
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Post by sil on May 28, 2017 9:45:58 GMT
I'm pretty sure that is there by mistake. I'd say 99% sure of it being a mistake, the glass should only be there post-coup.
Has anyone else wondered why the Presidium still looks buggered up after the Rannoch arc? I mean, the Keepers are supposed to be these very efficient repair-insects, yet they're not doing any work.
Lazy bugs.
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Post by megadozo on Nov 5, 2017 3:03:16 GMT
Is anyone still working on the Udina makeover?
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Post by giftfish on Nov 8, 2017 15:21:09 GMT
Is anyone still working on the Udina makeover? Yes. However, ME3Re won't see another update until ThaneMOD v3.0 is released. It's been long delayed by several of my other mods, so I need to focus on it before doing more work on ME3Re. (Or BackOff, Better Dreams, etc.) |
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Post by sansuni on May 20, 2018 18:04:48 GMT
Wow, its been such a long time since I last visited these forums and I really thought there would be a lot more suggestions and comments for this mod (which is an awesome mod by the way) An unacceptable enhancement would be removing the child from the beginning of the game (though, I'd personally like this, lol).
I have a suggestion for that though, how about not removing the child but replacing him with the little girl from the "Take Earth Back" trailer (which is as close to canon as you can get, one could almost consider it a "restoration", they are even playing with exact the same ship toy)
Well, it would be a lot less annoying then to see that annoying brat who brings up sooo many bad memories at least.
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Post by avpen on May 21, 2018 3:15:10 GMT
I have a suggestion for that though, how about not removing the child but replacing him with the little girl from the "Take Earth Back" trailer (which is as close to canon as you can get, one could almost consider it a "restoration", they are even playing with exact the same ship toy) Problem is, there's no such type of character model that exists in-game, meaning that you'd have to create an entirely new model from scratch.... Additionally, there are a few instances in several conversation scenes where Shepard references the child as a boy, which would also have to be replaced. |
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Post by sansuni on May 21, 2018 12:57:51 GMT
I have a suggestion for that though, how about not removing the child but replacing him with the little girl from the "Take Earth Back" trailer (which is as close to canon as you can get, one could almost consider it a "restoration", they are even playing with exact the same ship toy) Problem is, there's no such type of character model that exists in-game, meaning that you'd have to create an entirely new model from scratch.... Additionally, there are a few instances in several conversation scenes where Shepard references the child as a boy, which would also have to be replaced. Well, it is only a suggestion (I will have to admit that I didn't think in so much detail about it) but if anyone can menage to pull that off, it is the people in this forum. There are many outfit and hair options for female Shepard, including some very similar hair options to that little girl, maybe something could be fashioned out of those without ruining the rigging. I would try it out (as you know I love doing those failed experiments like that) but I don't have ME3 installed anymore. For the second part, I don't recall Shepard ever mentioning that boy to anyone ever. (maybe it was an option I didn't select?) For one or two possible scenes that boy gets a mention, it would actually improve the game if Shepard didn't mention it, so it falls in the scope of this mod anyway. I agree, this is not a "must be done" kind of thing, but in my honest opinion it would actually improve the game and cover some of the sins this game was shipped with. That boy only serves to bring up bad memories, shattered dreams and broken promises. Not to mention that little girl actually predates that child, so it could actually be a cut content. |
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Post by crazyrabbits on May 26, 2018 4:21:37 GMT
^ At the risk of being pedantic, a concept that was never realized is not "cut content". It had to have been made in some form, and there is no evidence to support it was anything more than a CG render they created for a trailer.
There are many things you can do with restoring content (this forum is a prime example of what can be done when like-minded people organize), but this is running more into wish-fulfillment than anything else. That, and there are mods (Better Dreams, for instance) that address the shortcomings of the boy/dream character that were done more elegantly and in less time.
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Post by giftfish on May 29, 2018 20:08:18 GMT
^ At the risk of being pedantic, a concept that was never realized is not "cut content". It had to have been made in some form, and there is no evidence to support it was anything more than a CG render they created for a trailer. There are many things you can do with restoring content (this forum is a prime example of what can be done when like-minded people organize), but this is running more into wish-fulfillment than anything else. That, and there are mods (Better Dreams, for instance) that address the shortcomings of the boy/dream character that were done more elegantly and in less time.
Yep, crazy has explained my stance on this pretty well.
Sansuni, I'm not sure you understand how CG trailers for games work. Nothing in that trailer uses game assets. That's all designed and created separately, specifically for the trailer. It's why Ash doesn't really look like Ash, why Broshep barely looks like himself, and everything looks a hell of a lot better. I'm not an animator, but the I'd be shocked if it uses Unreal at all. CG trailers/movies are made with modeling/animation software like Maya. That top down highly-detailed view of Vancouver (I think it was...)? That doesn't exist in the game files. Trailers that don't depict game footage -- cinematic trailers -- contain content that's entirely separate from the game and designed to a MUCH higher standard than what players will run in the game's engine.
Similarly, material in a CG trailer is not "cut content". It's only purpose is to give you a general idea of what the game is about and to draw you into playing it. It stands entirely independent of the game, and may even depict thematic content that hasn't even been finished (since the trailer might be released months/years before the game is complete). Also, to be clear, I have a _very_ narrow view of game canon: it includes only what appears in the games, themselves.
As far as hairstyles, that's outside of ME3Re's scope. There's plenty of mods out there that add new hairstyles to the game, so if that's something you're after, just take a look on Nexus. Pretty sure there are braids available. :]
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