One of Mass Effect’s most popular finale mods is now available for the trilogy’s Legendary Edition.
This latest version of the so-called Happy Ending Mod adds many of the tweaks from previous iterations into a package which slots neatly into the Legendary Edition of BioWare’s space opera trilogy.
So, if you would like to guarantee your Shepard always survives and gets a big ol’ hug from their chosen romance partner, read on.
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This fan-made creation cuts large chunks of BioWare’s original ending, and even some scenes from the Extended Cut, which the Legendary Edition includes as standard.
In short, it canonises the game’s red-flavoured Destroy ending, but removes the costs – so synthetic life such as the geth and EDI survive while all Reapers conveniently drop down dead.
Footage of the mod, below, shows a high score ending with little collateral damage and where the galaxy’s Mass Relays are not damaged.
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More creatively, the mod restores some cut dialogue files in Shepard’s final conversation with Anderson (which are nice, but in my opinion draw out the scene a little long). There’s also extra recorded dialogue in the game’s “breath” scene, where Shepard is found among the rubble.