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[daninthemix]

This has me nearly as excited as my impending PipBoy Edition... which is odd

Me too. I actually already played through the trilogy about a month ago (used the existing ME1 controller mod, which doesn't work well in menus and you have no power wheel) and it was great fun. Going to do NG+ all the way through once dybuk sorts this.

 

[Lime]

Does the series support nvidia's DSR? I'm thinking of replaying it at a ridiculous resolution once my 980 Ti arrives

Use Gedosato

 

[Alo81]

Use Gedosato

Any reason you're recommending it over DSR?

 

[Lime]

Any reason you're recommending it over DSR?

Higher resolutions than DSR, SMAA injection, no HUD hotkey without coalesced editing, possibly more.

 

[Alo81]

Higher resolutions than DSR, SMAA injection, no HUD hotkey without coalesced editing, possibly more.

All reasonable reasons, but it could all be done without GeDo as well. I thought there might be something more specifically singular

 

[Patrick S.]

This thread hasn't been updated so I just wanna let you know that Mass Effect 1 is now playable with the controller. I've played for a couple of hours and it works nice, although it's still WIP.

 

[The Dear Leader]

This thread hasn't been updated so I just wanna let you know that Mass Effect 1 is now playable with the controller. I've played for a couple of hours and it works nice, although it's still WIP.

Great news, so 3 is all that's left now?

 

[Modest Mauser]

This thread hasn't been updated so I just wanna let you know that Mass Effect 1 is now playable with the controller. I've played for a couple of hours and it works nice, although it's still WIP.

Time to start replaying the trilogy

 

[Patrick S.]

Great news, so 3 is all that's left now?

Wasn't the mod for ME 3 already done?

 

[AlanOC91]

This thread hasn't been updated so I just wanna let you know that Mass Effect 1 is now playable with the controller. I've played for a couple of hours and it works nice, although it's still WIP.

Can you post a link please?
Can't seem to find it at ME3 Explorer.

 

[pahamrick]

Wasn't the mod for ME 3 already done?

Yeah, 3 is complete. The original guy has left and been MIA, but another person has fixed the two major bugs (force feedback, arena crash) so it's perfectly playable 100% with controller, minus multiplayer.

 

[Patrick S.]

Can you post a link please?
Can't seem to find it at ME3 Explorer.

It's on page 12. https://mega.co.nz/#!Rl9WgKQB!59BRaKUHAF4C4QzhnXzXUxld_43vv8oxU0OftJrHbEs

 

[Icyflamez96]

What the hell? Am I reading this right? The Mass Effect games for PC never had proper controller support? I've been planning on getting this for years. Now that I have a PC and just got an XBox 360 controller for it, i'll be on the verge of buying ME1 as soon as i'm done with the games i'm currently playing. You're telling me this whole time it didn't have controller support?

 

[pahamrick]

What the hell? Am I reading this right? The Mass Effect games for PC never had proper controller support? I've been planning on getting this for years. Now that I have a PC and just got an XBox 360 controller for it, i'm on the verge of buying ME1 as soon as i'm done with the games i'm currently playing. You're telling me this whole time it didn't have controller support?

Yep. If the modders modding controller support back in are to be believed, they even went out of their way to remove controller support.

 

[The Dear Leader]

EDIT: Nevermind, I was all sorts of confused.

 

[AlanOC91]

It's on page 12. https://mega.co.nz/#!Rl9WgKQB!59BRaKUHAF4C4QzhnXzXUxld_43vv8oxU0OftJrHbEs

Woops it was under mods in development rather than mods. My bad.

Thanks!

 

[WanderingWind]

This works perfectly on ME2. Really is a game changer.

 

[cleveridea]

So all 3 PC ME's work seamlessly with controller now?

 

[Khayam]

So all 3 PC ME's work seamlessly with controller now?

I wanna know too.

 

[daninthemix]

I wanna know too.

2 and 3 are perfect (except no support for 3's multiplayer mode) and 1 is in progress and nearing completion.

 

[cleveridea]

wow this is amazing news

ME1 ran like garbage on xbox 360 so even partial support for pc controller is worth it

so apart from ME3 MP (which I dont care about) this means that the PC version (on a good PC) is all positive with no negatives right?

the only reason I played the ME series on xbox consoles was for the controller

 

[SmartWaffles]

wow this is amazing news

ME1 ran like garbage on xbox 360 so even partial support for pc controller is worth it

so apart from ME3 MP (which I dont care about) this means that the PC version (on a good PC) is all positive with no negatives right?

the only reason I played the ME series on xbox consoles was for the controller

The graphics settings are limited but they run very well on even years old mid-low end PCs. Just beware that the DLCs are still at launch price so even if you get the trilogy edition you still need to throw in like 80$ for the whole experience.

 

[Ingueferroque]

Shameful that Bioware or EA doesnt make this happen. Atrocious post launch support.

 

[EatChildren]

So from what I've gathered it's not SGSSAA that's busted so much as it combined with a negative mipmap bias. You can enable SGSSAA just fine, but enabling the mipmap bias in recent drivers requires you set transparency antialiasing as some specific entry, which prevents you from adding SGSSAA. Damn.

 

[The Dear Leader]

So from what I've gathered it's not SGSSAA that's busted so much as it combined with a negative mipmap bias. You can enable SGSSAA just fine, but enabling the mipmap bias in recent drivers requires you set transparency antialiasing as some specific entry, which prevents you from adding SGSSAA. Damn.

wut

 

[Auto-Reply]

Yep. If the modders modding controller support back in are to be believed, they even went out of their way to remove controller support.

Any speculations on why that would be the case?

 

[Mivey]

Any speculations on why that would be the case?

Maybe the lead on the PC porting team was a hardcore PC master race zealot who hated all things console related with a vengeance.
Either that or programming the UI such that it automatically switches between two UIs was inconceivable to them, so they ripped the controller one out, maybe believing it could speed things up somehow.

 

[cleveridea]

The graphics settings are limited but they run very well on even years old mid-low end PCs. Just beware that the DLCs are still at launch price so even if you get the trilogy edition you still need to throw in like 80$ for the whole experience.

Wow thats a bargain to me, plus I picked up the base games near free in things like steam/origin sales since I knew eventually I'd like to play on PC.

Fave series of all time

ME2 & 3 run fine on xbox 360, but will benefit nicely from 60 fps and 1080p (I believe textures are greatly improved too)

ME1 plays like absolute garbage on xbox 360 and that basically torpedoed my plan to replay the entire trilogy from the beginning.

Another nice thing is I am VERY concerned what happens with ME3 stupid "have to play MP to get best war status" (forget exact name). I mean it makes money for them but what happens if I want to play ME3 in 10 or 20 years time? Are the servers down and I just cant ever get the high war status rating I want (100% of course, I believe default is 50% without raising)

I would imagine the PC community could patch if required to ensure complete ME3 SP can be experienced even if MP servers go dark.

 

[TC McQueen]

Another nice thing is I am VERY concerned what happens with ME3 stupid "have to play MP to get best war status" (forget exact name). I mean it makes money for them but what happens if I want to play ME3 in 10 or 20 years time? Are the servers down and I just cant ever get the high war status rating I want (100% of course, I believe default is 50% without raising)

Just get Gibbd's ME3 save game editor and mod the SP war asset values.

 

[SmartWaffles]

Wow thats a bargain to me, plus I picked up the base games near free in things like steam/origin sales since I knew eventually I'd like to play on PC.

Fave series of all time

ME2 & 3 run fine on xbox 360, but will benefit nicely from 60 fps and 1080p (I believe textures are greatly improved too)

ME1 plays like absolute garbage on xbox 360 and that basically torpedoed my plan to replay the entire trilogy from the beginning.

Another nice thing is I am VERY concerned what happens with ME3 stupid "have to play MP to get best war status" (forget exact name). I mean it makes money for them but what happens if I want to play ME3 in 10 or 20 years time? Are the servers down and I just cant ever get the high war status rating I want (100% of course, I believe default is 50% without raising)

I would imagine the PC community could patch if required to ensure complete ME3 SP can be experienced even if MP servers go dark.

The MP effort is no longer required to get the optimal ending with the free Extended Cut DLC. As long as you make the right choices and complete enough side missions you'll be fine. And yeah you can also just go for the save editor route to eliminate that worry completely.

 

[Big_Al]

Maybe the lead on the PC porting team was a hardcore PC master race zealot who hated all things console related with a vengeance.
Either that or programming the UI such that it automatically switches between two UIs was inconceivable to them, so they ripped the controller one out, maybe believing it could speed things up somehow.

Wasn't the UI specifically changed in the PC version of Mass Effect for mouse/keyboard though when ported ? I remember playing it with m/kb and it worked brilliantly and I also remember it being different too. I'd need to check though it's been a looooooooooong time since I saw Mass Effect on 360.

 

[GavinUK86]

First time I'm hearing about this.

I just finished replaying ME1, time to carry on with a controller!

 

[Taker34]

I'm currently playing through ME1 and a controller with no issues so far. So yeah a dream just came true. We have near perfect, native controller support... you gotta wonder why BioWare refused to do this - but then I see the DLC prices and realize, they don't care at all.

 

[GavinUK86]

I'm currently playing through ME1 and a controller with no issues so far. So yeah a dream just came true. We have near perfect, native controller support... you gotta wonder why BioWare refused to do this - but then I see the DLC prices and realize, they don't care at all.

Well, some of the more vocal PC community are very anti-controller so I wouldn't be surprised if that was a big factor into their decision to not include it natively.

 

[SmartWaffles]

Wasn't the UI specifically changed in the PC version of Mass Effect for mouse/keyboard though when ported ? I remember playing it with m/kb and it worked brilliantly and I also remember it being different too. I'd need to check though it's been a looooooooooong time since I saw Mass Effect on 360.

Dragon Age Inquisition is the first and only BioWare game that has both controller and KB/M UI on PC, all their previous multiplat games have only KB/M and PC UI support.

 

[cleveridea]

Just get Gibbd's ME3 save game editor and mod the SP war asset values.

ah thanks yeah had a feeling that was the case!

 

[cleveridea]

I'm currently playing through ME1 and a controller with no issues so far. So yeah a dream just came true. We have near perfect, native controller support... you gotta wonder why BioWare refused to do this - but then I see the DLC prices and realize, they don't care at all.

The statement at the time was that they didnt have the budget for it.

Part of the concern may have been ongoing support issues, various controller options etc (third party, PS4 etc beyond the 360 and now X1)

 

[Keits]

I've been really wanting to replay these games on PC, but the lack of native controller support was stopping me. Here's to this project getting completed for all three games!

Edit : Donation drive is closed? I'd definitely love to contribute.

 

[pahamrick]

I've been really wanting to replay these games on PC, but the lack of native controller support was stopping me. Here's to this project getting completed for all three games!

Edit : Donation drive is closed? I'd definitely love to contribute.

The guy who the original donation drive was for up and disappeared like two months ago. Other people have finished what he started.

 

[Keits]

The guy who the original donation drive was for up and disappeared like two months ago. Other people have finished what he started.

Oh wow. So is support for ME1 also coming next?

Edit - caught up with the thread a bit but its a lot. Sounds like ME1 is available in some form or is WIP?

 

[The Dear Leader]

Now there needs to be a mod that unlocks EA ass from their chair's and get's them to do a god damn sale on all the 2 and 3 DLC.

 

[Patrick S.]

There's a new release, and it also adds controller icons to tutorial messages.

 

[daninthemix]

Just a bump to say the ME1 mod really is basically done now. Tutorial messages, inventory, everything. Anyone waiting on these mods to play the trilogy should go ahead and start now.

So from what I've gathered it's not SGSSAA that's busted so much as it combined with a negative mipmap bias. You can enable SGSSAA just fine, but enabling the mipmap bias in recent drivers requires you set transparency antialiasing as some specific entry, which prevents you from adding SGSSAA. Damn.

Really? My findings were that on newer drivers my compatibility bits either no longer worked at all (so no AA), or I got a horrible juddering in certain places (during cutscenes in ME3, for instance). You're saying it's all down to the LOD bias?

 

[Vertti]

Yeah. Finally!

I still have some other PC gaming to do (MGS5 and Ori) but after that's it's Mass Effect time!

 

[GHG]

So what should I do to ME1 to make it look great?

Am I good to go if I just downsample or are there any other tweaks I should be looking at?

 

[daninthemix]

So what should I do to ME1 to make it look great?

Am I good to go if I just downsample or are there any other tweaks I should be looking at?

SGSSAA arguably looks cleaner than downsampling to me, and with much less performance hit. I wrote the settings earlier in this thread.

 

[Barrow Roll]

Is SGSSAA still busted on the latest drivers? 355.60, came out on August 13th.

So what should I do to ME1 to make it look great?

Am I good to go if I just downsample or are there any other tweaks I should be looking at?

This texture pack is essential:
http://www.nexusmods.com/masseffect/mods/1/?

You can also force HBAO+ in Nvidia inspector with these bits:
0x0000002F

On an unrelated note, can console commands still be used on the keyboard while using the controller mod?

 

[Maushimo]

Welp, maybe it'll be time to go back to mass effect soon... I mean after Witcher 3 and MGSV of course.

 

[DeathGlobe]

If only the dlc ever went on sale :/

 

[Lime]

If only the dlc ever went on sale :/

As long as Itchy & Scratchy money exist (aka Bioware points), it won't ever happen.