Mass Effect: Legendary Edition New Update Now Live

Having launched last month, the remastered Legendary Edition of the original Mass Effect trilogy has now been augmented with a number of quality-of-life improvements. These include decoupling subtitles from voice-acting, some achievement-related fixes, assorted performance and stability improvements, and more.

Here’s the full changelog:

We’ve made the following fixes and improvements across all platforms in this update.

General

• English spoken dialogue can now be selected separately from subtitle language
• Resolved issues with unlocking some achievements/trophies, such as the Paramours or kill count trackers
• Corrected pre-rendered cutscenes that were darker than intended after the previous update
• Wireless headsets/devices no longer cause issues with the Xbox launcher
• Improved PC performance across various hardware configurations, including on Virmire
• Fixed an issue on PC where non-standard characters in the operating system’s username would prevent the game from launching
  • Removed the dependency on the AVX instruction set in the launcher
• Other minor calibrations and fixes, including some instances of crashing

Mass Effect

• Fixed an issue that prevented players from reaching the max level 
• Fixed an issue where tier VII Spectre – Master Gear was inaccessible
• Various collision improvements
• Fixed an issue that would prevent the ability to interact with objects
• Lowered audio volume on Mass Relay load screens
• Improved eye animations for male characters in some scenes

Mass Effect 2

• Toned down the intensity of fog on Illium
• Fixed an issue where a character’s eyes at the end of the Overlord DLC were unintentionally red
• Reduced the max credits that can be carried from Mass Effect to Mass Effect 2 down to 100k for more balanced early-game progression
  • Credit carryover maximum now matches carryover from the original release
  • Posthumous banking fees are a lot! It’s a great way to dodge taxes.

Mass Effect 3

• Resolved an issue where English dialogue no longer played during the Citadel DLC for German and Italian localizations
• Fixed an issue where some key characters weren’t appearing as intended during the Citadel DLC