Pinnacle Station DLC

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Test the limits of your combat prowess aboard a remote, top-secret Alliance space station. Enhanced port of the original Mass Effect DLC, which was not included in Legendary Edition due to lost source code.

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You can include files from Pinnacle Station in your mod with the following conditions:

You may turn on donation points or take monetary donations if:
- Your mod is based on Pinnacle Station's files for less than 50% of the overall content. For example, changing outfits for consistency across the game is fine, as Pinnacle Station's files only would be a minority part of the main mod.

You may not turn on donation points or take monetary donations if:
- Your mod is based on Pinnacle Station's files for at least 50% of the overall content. For example, if your mod's purpose is to change all outfits on Pinnacle Station (and only Pinnacle Station), you can't monetize it.

Using the blank extension files is permitted without consideration of the above rules.

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No translation available on the Nexus

Changelogs

Version 2.0
- Lighting on all maps except the apartment has been converted to static lighting, which greatly improves visuals and reducing GPU requirements. Performance requirements are now in line with the vanilla game.
- When a scenario begins that is scored, the top score will be shown for a brief moment, to remind you of your target score to beat.
- A new simulator settings panel next to Ochren allows you to change different settings, such as music, XP on 1st place, and other new options.
- In the simulator settings, you can now choose which faction you want to fightthe default enemies, Batarians, Salarians, or a mixture of all enemies available. In a future update, more will be added, and mod authors can add their own using the extensible SimulatorWaveClass system. This affects all game modes except the final mission.
- New difficulty ramping for Survival and Capture modes: More enemies spawn over time (can be turned off in the simulator settings)
- New difficulty ramping for Survival and Capture modes: As the mission progresses, enemies will gain access to weapon mods (can be turned off in the simulator settings)
- New difficulty ramping for Survival and Capture modes: As the mission progresses, enemies will gain access to powers and talents (can be turned off in the simulator settings)
- The armor lockers in the simulator lobby room have been made functional for squadmates
- Capture mode has a new look on the point which better reflects the state of the point
- Capture mode enemies will now engage more when you touch a capture point. We hope to improve this further in a future update.
- Polish localization has been added for dialogue.
- Textures should pop-in less for maps. This will be improved in a future update.
- Improved music loop for Lava map
- Added custom loading screens showing the simulator booting up
- Capturing a point will no longer delete nearby enemies
- Fixed missing material on strut of Tropical walkway
- Improved collision on the sandbar in Tropical map
- Added frost to the window material
- You can no longer save your game in the simulator before weapons are drawn
- Removed the "Loading" modal dialog when exiting the simulator
- The game will no longer softlock if Shepard is ragdolling at the end of a simulator match
- Improved collision in the area to the right of Ocaren
- Fixed Vidinos's introductory conversation ending too early
- Added missing animation transitions in Vidinos's "Head will roll" dialogue
- Declining Ahern's mission no longer awkwardly transitions into his normal conversation
- The Escape key and B button will now exit you from the scoreboard UI
- Failing a simulator mission will now show "Mission Failed" in the scoreboard UI
- If you cannot afford to use the Courier in Shepard's Apartment, the quest will not be marked as resolved
- Some bugs exist in this version and will be patched in the next bugfix release.
Version 1.0.4
- Fixed series completion achievement unlocking when it shouldn't due to achievements changing from OT to LE
- Fixed an issue with localization in Japanese
- No files changed that need patched for other mods
Version 1.0.3
- Achivements have been removed - the way they are handled in OT vs LE are very different, and ME3Tweaks doesn't want to deal with potential issues of achivements with third party providers (Steam/Origin/Gamepass, etc).
- Tropical Hunt Insanity difficulty has been slightly reduced to be a bit more forgiving in time awarded per kill
- The mod is now able to be patched onto (not supported, but allowed) or extended with the extension files that are always loaded.
Version 1.0.2
- The official voiceover for the italian, german, and french localizations of the game have been ported over. There will likely be some dialogue that gets cut off due to internal changes with ISACT - we need to know exactly what line (and gender of shep) to fix these
- Survival is now capped at 10 minutes
- Subterranean Hunt Insanity had its time decay changed to the standard 8%, up from the vanilla 1%, which seems like an error on Demiurge's part
- The scoreboard is now localized into French, German, Russian, and Italian
- Music can now be toggled on and off if you don't want it on in the simulator. This option can be toggled on a screen to the right side of Ocaren, in front of the Krogan
- (Cut content restoration) When you kill 3 or more enemies in a very short period of time, Ahern may announce your kill streak
- Lighting has been fixed in a few areas where it was way too bright, such as on the consoles in front of the main window on Pinnacle Station
Version 1.0.1
- Tropical map has improved performance
- Tropical map sandbars now have improved lighting
- Lava bubble effect on Volcano map has been slightly adjusted to look better
- Now includes russian text translation, used with permission from ZoG Forum Team
- Game should now autosave when boarding Pinnacle Station from the Normandy
- Localizations show now work when using mismatched voiceover and subtitle, such as French subtitles with English voice acting

Pinnacle Station DLC

Mass Effect Legendary Edition: Pinnacle Station is an enhanced port of the original Pinnacle Station DLC, which was not included in the Legendary Edition due to lost and corrupted source code. The ME3Tweaks group has ported this DLC across from the original game, while remastering it in the same vein as the Legendary Edition and fixing numerous issues. This is the complete DLC: Pinnacle Station including all simulator maps. No content was cut for this port.

The DLC features a new space station built into an asteroid which houses a combat training facility jointly run by the Alliance Navy and the Turian Hierarchy. Practice and build your combat team using 4 different simulator maps and 4 different combat modes. Beat the other competitors on all 12 simulations to unlock the chance to win a unique prize.

To start the DLC go to the galaxy map on the Normandy and head to the Argos Rho cluster, Phoenix system.

Changes from the Original DLC
We have remastered many areas of this DLC to improve it's experience, including (but not limited to):

Volcano Insanity Hunt has had it's difficulty slightly reduced.
All maps now have music. All levels but Warehouse also have a second piece of music that kicks in as the intensity of the scenario increases.
Fixed geth flashlights floating above their heads.
Fix bugged spawns.
Fixed many collision problems.
Fixed inability to win Survival mode on casual with certain powers.
Removed a lot of jank, including modal LOADING screens, texture popin, and cutscene timings.
Survival has been tweaked to increase engagement

Lighting will look significantly different, because we could not use the original lighting, as well as keeping more in-tone with Legendary Edition's lighting.

Localization

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* If you are a native speaker and notice problems with certain lines cutting off early, please post and tell us which lines. Japanese text translations will be added if made available with permission from the translator. Polish is available as of the 2.0 version.

How was this ported?

BioWare lost the source code, which meant they are unable to recreate the DLC using their tools that rely on that code. The Legendary Explorer toolkit, which has been developed over the decade since the third game came out, is designed to edit "cooked" editions of the game, i.e. without source code, so in some regards it was easier for modders to port it than BioWare (who would have had to rebuild the source code from scratch).

Nevertheless it has taken Mgamerz and the team months of work to complete.

If you're interested in the technical explanation, Mgamerz has written a blog post going in depth on how this DLC was ported on the ME3Tweaks blog.

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
As of the 2.0 update, this mod should not have any higher system requirements than the original game. Older versions needed a higher end GPU to do real time lighting.

INSTALLATION
This mod is only available for the PC versions of Mass Effect: Legendary Edition. It will never be available on other platforms (as with all mods).

Installation is done with ME3Tweaks Mod Manager. Drag and Drop the downloaded archive onto the interface and import the mod. Then apply the mod to the game.

To play this DLC, you must have access to the Galaxy Map. A tracker will be added so that you can find Pinnacle Station.

UNINSTALLATION
Save games taken while in Pinnacle Station maps (including the special prize area) will cause game to crash if the DLC is not installed. Uninstall the DLC by going to Manage Target in Mod Manager and disabling or deleting the DLC.

CREDITS
This mod would not have been possible without the following people:

ME3TWEAKS (DEVELOPMENT GROUP)

Mgamerz
Kinkojiro
HenBagle
SirCxyrtyx

ADDITIONAL CONTRIBUTORS

d00t (debugging)
Audemus (Assets)
DropTheSquid (Assets)
NaNuke (Assets)
Mellin (Assets)
CreeperLava (Assets)
JimbobJeffers (Assets)

TESTERS

Khaar

LEGENDARY EDITION DLC LOCALIZATION

noxbalverine (Spanish)
Annoying Snail (Russian)
TTTr96, GimmyBreaker, Michu351 and Kwasek (Polish)

ORIGINAL DLC NON-OFFICIAL LOCALIZATION
RUSSIAN
Provided by ZoG Forum Team, used with permission.

Behar - resource parsing, translation, testing, edits
CoachEgar - translation, testing, revisions
ntr73 - translation
parabashka - translation
Alabarna - translation
13urn - translation
SPRiHOD - translation

VERSION 2.0 LOCALIZATION

Herobrine24 (German)
Gatzek (Polish)
karolie, Loadingue (French)
Cole Phelps (Russian)
TittyFish (Italian)

This project is unaffiliated with BioWare, however we would like to express our gratitude to BioWare and Demuirge Studios as the original creators of Mass Effect and Pinnacle Station.

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