Best Mass Effect 2 Mods
Another edit: When you use enb it looks pretty cool in some scenes and is wayy too dark in others. I wouldn't be able to play through the game like that, but you could actually edit the enb-ini to change the settings and make it look the way you want it to look.
Mass Effect 2 is now 8 years old and here are some of the greatest mods that you can install for it. The modders that have contributed to it have strived to achieve the best look possible, while remaining very close to the vanilla (default) style. Among many others, this project includes HR textures for: squad mates, environments, cerberus, geth, quarians, reapers, the galaxy map, NPCs, weapons, armors, etc. Playing this for the first time in years since I completed it on the Xbox. Are there any essential mods (in your opinion) that you feel I should install before I start my play through? I've noticed that the textures are pretty low-res when played in full screen, as to be expected really for a game that's really quite old now, so is there any texture mod around that improve this aspect?
Oh and on my PC (Phenom II 955 @ 3.7Ghz, 8GB RAM, GTX 570) the FPS were kinda low (barely playable), which was probably because of the combination of the ultra textures and enb.The texture loading times are not as bad on my system, the high res textures took about 3-4 minutes to load and the ultra textures 7-8 minutes (all of them). And it does load that long every time you start the game, but not in the loading screens when you are playing. @emem said:@JJWeatherman: Garrus looks even cooler than he already did!And I somehow can't post fullscreen images or images that zoom in when you click on them, any idea how that works?I used to know how to do that.But even if you did that, they would only expand so far. It would probably be best just to post a direct link to a full resolution version. I actually just looked at them in the images section of your profile, so linking there would work too.@FritzDude said:Amazing?
No, it doesn't. It just looks a bit better.
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If you want amazing visuals in mods, then look at the recently released GTA IV mod. I can't remember the name.That mod alone makes me want a nice Gaming PC.
It's not the best showcase either.That's actually a pretty old version of the mod, what people are talking about right now is the iCEnhancer and the newest version of that one is 1.25 which also runs with the latest version of GTA4 (standard Steam installation, version 1.0.7). But it's better to downgrade to 1.0.4 (I did that and it works), because it looks better and runs more smoothly. It seems like ICEnhancer 1.2 looks better than 1.25, but it does not work with 1.0.7 at all, you'd have to downgrade first.Anyway, Mass Effect 2. High res mod. Looking good. @Branthog: Oh well, the things you do to improve your gaming experience.:) I personally don't really care, I'm used to working with configs and I sometimes download seperate mods and addons. There have always been extra things to download for the PC for a lot of games (almost none to improve the visuals though) and there was no automatic Steam patching, you had to do everything manually 6-7 years ago as you know.
I would say playing PC games has become a lot easier over the years in general. A lot of kids who play games on the PC only know how to start Steam and click on the game they want to play, and it works (magically).:). @JJWeatherman said:@LightsUpTheShaft said:Does a year and a half old game need a high res texture pack?Looking at the full size screens, it looks amazing. Therefore I say yes!:DWas always a little disappointed with the texture resolution in the PC version - looked poorer in spots than even the first game at times.
This seems like such a huge boost. Considering how easy it is to run this game 60FPS at 1920x1080 on even middling hardware, I can't see any reason why people wouldn't download this. @emem said:@Branthog: Oh well, the things you do to improve your gaming experience.:) I personally don't really care, I'm used to working with configs and I sometimes download seperate mods and addons.
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There have always been extra things to download for the PC for a lot of games (almost none to improve the visuals though) and there was no automatic Steam patching, you had to do everything manually 6-7 years ago as you know. I would say playing PC games has become a lot easier over the years in general. A lot of kids who play games on the PC only know how to start Steam and click on the game they want to play, and it works (magically).:)Except that config files are part of the product. It's not something extra that you have to 'go get' later on.
Mass Effect 2 Best Texture Mods
It's one thing to go get a third party mod that makes Oblivion look and play better. It's another thing to buy the PC version of the game, install the PC version of the game, and then have to go download a separate pack for the PC graphics. I mean, why would you not just include that in the downloaded/purchased game? When they do that, it strikes me with the same bad taste that only having 'low, medium, high' options for graphics do (instead of just giving me all the options I could want or providing an editable config).Don't get me wrong - I'm glad it's there. It's better than not having it at all.
It's just kind of silly. It's like ordering a big mac and getting two buns and some sauce and then being asked 'oh, did you want hamburger on your hamburger?' .At least it looks a little better here than the DAII version did, though. Even with the 1.1gb hi-res pack, DAII still looked kind of crappy. @Branthog: Yeah, it's just the way it is right now. Complaining about console ports doesn't help.
Putting in high resolution textures seems to be extra work that's not worth doing for most games, there's nothing you can do about it. It's kinda crazy when you look at some really really old games that have better looking textures than any console game out there. Especially the terrain textures.@kingzetta said: @LordYeti said:@kingzetta:Click the fullscreen button, pal.I refuseThat's just scary in every way. @SethPhotopoulos said: @Yanngc33 said: I can't tell the difference. It i @Vitor said:@JJWeatherman said:@LightsUpTheShaft said:Does a year and a half old game need a high res texture pack?Looking at the full size screens, it looks amazing. Therefore I say yes!:DWas always a little disappointed with the texture resolution in the PC version - looked poorer in spots than even the first game at times. This seems like such a huge boost.
Considering how easy it is to run this game 60FPS at 1920x1080 on even middling hardware, I can't see any reason why people wouldn't download this.People are reporting huge jumps in load times. @akizjack said:@clstirens said: @akizjack said:It doesn't look that much better to be honest. Though it's nice to see they fixed Garrus' blurry face mark.Open the fullscreen version. At first, I was like 'Looks slightly better. Maybe' then I opened fullscreen and my jaw dropped.I did, and my jaw didn't drop.I guess you can't spot shit textures? Garrus armor annoyed me to no end whenever i saw him up close in cut scenes.
He will tell you where the documents are. 
At least this mod adresses this issue. I alwasy found it weird that ME2 has such a huge variety in quality textures. Some looked pretty good, and others just looked horrible as all fuck. But i guess the reason behind it was to optimize console performance.
Its just sad they didn't correct that for the PC port.