And Eden Prime, the first location in Mass Effect, benefits from the changes incorporated on Mass Effect 3: From Ashes DLC. On Noveria, the storm has been intensified. The colony on Feros now has more buildings, more smoke and fire effects, and more damage and debris to reflect the Geth attack. The lighting designers followed next, adding all those aforementioned post-effects and bringing Mass Effect 3 engine features to the first two games.įinally, BioWare made broad brush improvements to entire worlds.
At this stage, BioWare also began dealing with bugs that arose out of the remastering process. The environment artists team added props to “exceptionally barren areas”, remade low-resolution or stretched textures, and smoothed out jagged 3D assets. Pre-rendered cutscenes have been re-rendered in 4K for Mass Effect: Legendary Edition wherever possible, with the remaining being through an AI upscale program. BioWare infused realism into old textures by making them react to light in a more convincing manner, extending animations and adding secondary particle effects, or beefing up the trilogy's iconic horizontal lens flares. Or even anachronistic errors such as a change of uniform. Where possible, BioWare brought in improved versions of visual assets used on sequels - Mass Effect 2 and Mass Effect 3 - but they kept an eye on not flattening the sense of passage of time (such as the characters' aging or getting hit by a rocket in some cases). The title that needed the most work was naturally the first Mass Effect game, released in 2007 on Xbox 360.
Most of it has been done using AI-enabled up-res programs, in conjunction with upgrading Unreal Engine 3 (used on the original Mass Effect trilogy) to a “more updated and unified version”. If you'd like to get even more technical and in-depth, Mass Effect: Legendary Edition developers BioWare have posted a lengthy blog just for you.īioWare notes “remastering a single game is a deceivingly complex process, so creating a proper plan for how best to mitigate risk while reopening three games to full development was foremost on our minds.” They had to improve over thirty thousand textures for Mass Effect: Legendary Edition, many of them from 720p or lower to 4K - the standard for the new remaster. It gives us a look at the better character, environmental and visual effects, including beautification passes, skin rendering, enhanced/ remade textures, more detailed 3D models, eye shaders, re-lit cutscenes, and global post-effects such as tone mapping, volumetrics, depth of field, ambient occlusion, and subsurface scattering.
Mass Effect: Legendary Edition has gotten a new comparison trailer with a month to release date, which showcases how the upcoming remastered version improves on the original Mass Effect trilogy of games.
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