Altered Assassin - A Mass Effect 3 Mod

[@moonknightish]

Jacob's plot revolving around saving Miranda could work really really well, expecially since the two were supposed to be close (this was hinted in ME2, but never got any specific development). It could be a really great character arc for him, and for Miranda too, as even as an Assassin she would have more plot relevance than she has in ME3 vanilla. Fantastic work...and trailer

[@cybridproductions]

yes! that's something i have included in the mod in a few ways. they're more obvious if miranda is the assassin and jacob ends up in miranda's role at sanctuary, but miranda will react very personally in a few ways to jacob's situation as well. can't wait to reveal more in a few days. i will also be uploading extensive video on my channel showing most of the mod's contents.

[@UnabridgedGamer]

@@cybridproductions I look forward to seeing all that you've put into this! It's quite the feat of reverse engineering, and fixes a number of narrative fumblings with both characters in vanilla ME3!

[@RimeyCH]

Well their relationship does actually get some development... In a mobile game that nobody played and that's no longer available...

[@iconicweirdguy8678]

The reveal of the Paragon option at the end was peak

[@jess-adventurer]

Genuinely fixes so many writing issues with ME2 and ME3. Thank you for all your hard work on this!

[@Mgamerz]

Damn this is nice. Great editing at the end there.

[@lelecotv]

OMG! I loved this! This is so genius! Congratulations! I can't wait to play with this mod

[@docholiday4129]

Now this is a mod i can totally get behind. The idea that your actions directly caused one of your ex squad mates to be pit against you. Instead of some random nobody you never meet before being your rival, it's either one of the people you failed to save

[@wickdaline8668]

Almost thought that was Jack as an alternate assassin, too.

[@NostalgicGamerRickOShay]

Same. But I still say that Jack should have been a boss enemy if you allowed Cerberus to recapture her.

[@dephtons]

This guy hard wtf, I've wanted something like this forever

[@natomiltary4573]

Whaaaat this is freaking awesome!?!?!??!? How brilliant do you have to be, to come up with and create such a fantastic mod! This is wonderful! and the outfits look so fitting!! Well done. Thank you so much!~ The video is fantastic too!!!

[@fishbone076]

This looks awesome. Gonna use it in my next playthrough.

[@iconicweirdguy8678]

I like how Miranda gets a whole new design and Jacob is just Jacob

[@cybridproductions]

they both have new designs! they both have the new visor, head implants and armor based on kai leng's (without the skirt and with amended shoulder pads). they have different colour schemes. the only thing miranda gets that jacob doesn't is new hair so that you can see her skull implant. when showcasing miranda as the assassin, though, the trailer does feature a lot of jacob in his regular role rescuing oriana - so it's possible you are thinking of that?

[@iconicweirdguy8678]

@cybridproductions After re-watching the video, I see that he's a bit different, I was talking more about how Miranda has a wildly different design while Jacob is more subtle, it does make sense that Cerberus would have to shave her hair to get the implants in

[@cybridproductions]

@@iconicweirdguy8678 yeah the hair is the only difference in their designs, but i do get it makes a more immediate visual difference.

[@cybridproductions]

@@iconicweirdguy8678 yeah the hair is the only thing miranda has that jacob doesn't but i do get it's a more immediately recognisable difference on screen.

[@muffinman6048]

Looks amazing!

[@xenowriter82]

Insane!

[@deshartproductions]

Wow just wow, great mod and great work when it comes to the trailer for it. 🔥🔥

[@JeremySolo]

INCREDIBLE!!!

[@kyreegreen9248]

there was one for Kaiden and Ashley, but the mod got deleted can't wait to try this one

[@Darkcur]

Honestly, much better than what we got.

[@AMaidenlessRunt]

This how I felt about jacob all along, he needed a redemption arc. In mass effect he's irrelevant in combat compared to the gigachads like Garrus Miranda and Grunt who you'll be replacing him with anyways then there's thane zaeed tali samara all who you'd pick over him anyways. He's in the same boat as ashley and kaiden in me1. Who you'll be replacing with wrex garrus tali and liara in different combinations. My beef with jacob is like he feels out of place like he doesn't want to be there his loyalty mission is the shortest one even when you encounter him in me3 he's still the same character.

[@cybridproductions]

yes my goal is to provide significantly more content for jacob regardless of the path taken. either he pays a tragic price for agreeing to work with cerberus, or he is given the opportunity to step up heroically and live up to his claim he'd stay with cerberus only as long as they walked their talk, and more proactively take them down and rescue oriana. it worked even better than i'd hoped in terms of grounding the content he does have in me3. similarly miranda is really reluctant to admit any fault in cerberus in mass effect 2 and seeing that pay off with tragic consequences is also fitting in a tragic way. this way my hope is that kai leng can be removed, while providing both jacob and miranda with branching, but complete, character arcs - one heroic, one tragic (at least...potentially tragic...)

[@azrielmoha6877]

@@cybridproductions Holy shit a mod that edit the storyline never been done before i think. This is amazing, can't wait. Couple questions, so what happen exactly to Miranda in this mod? Will she switch places with Jacob since he take her place in the story. How this mod play with story beats in Miranda mod and PEOM since in the former one have Miranda join the Normandy crew and the latter have Jacob as joinable companion in the Priority Earth mission.

[@NostalgicGamerRickOShay]

I still say that Jack should have been a boss enemy if you allowed Cerberus to recapture her.

[@maximglanzer]

I remember their being a mod that replaced kia lang with who ever got left behind on vermire

[@azrielmoha6877]

Holy shit a mod that edit the storyline never been done before i think. This is amazing, can't wait. Couple questions, so what happen exactly to Miranda in this mod? Will she switch places with Jacob since he take her place in the story. How this mod play with story beats in Miranda mod and PEOM since in the former one have Miranda join the Normandy crew and the latter have Jacob as joinable companion in the Priority Earth mission.

[@cybridproductions]

people have edited storylines before (i edit the legion storyline in mass effect 2 in early recruitment for instance, and of course the big example is all the ending mods), but no i don't think anyone's extensively edited this one beyond changes to kai leng himself. i hope you enjoy it. miranda and jacob can both have different fates in this mod. ONE of them will end up in the role of the assassin. if the assassin is jacob, miranda's role is largely unchanged (though she reacts to the situation) and jacob's mission plays out without him as it would if he was dead. if miranda is the assassin, jacob will take her role in sanctuary and save her sister. this mod will be compatible with miranda mod though miranda mod's content will only trigger if she is *not* the assassin. this mod is for legendary edition and PEOM is not released for legendary edition. so i have no idea how that would work if it got released.

[@azrielmoha6877]

@cybridproductions huh i thought it was either Jack and Jacob. The female assassin looks like Jack. Also you might want to check again, PEOM for the legendary edition is releasing in N7 Day. I guess a compability patch would be Jacob not appearing in the PEOM Priority Earth if he died as the assassin (unless we can save him from his indocrination). Either way i'm excited. Godspeed, your mods are awesome and we're thankful for your hard work

[@cybridproductions]

@@azrielmoha6877 miranda has a shaved head because she has implants in the back of her head. look at her face, it's not jack. re: PEOM, i'm aware there is a plan to release PEOM (without meaning this as a knock on anyone because life happens, that mod has a history of lengthy unplanned delays - for its fans here's hoping that doesn't happen this time, but that's why i'm exercising gentle expectation management on that point). but as i said, it is not currently released. and since i'm not psychic, i have no idea how its implemented, whether it would need a patch, whether it would work out of the box or what. so i literally cannot answer your question. because that mod is not released for LE.

[@samanthaclyde8688]

As far as I am concerned, mods that drastically change the games and modify the story that much is a BIG no-no. But this? This I want to try. Great trailer, it really makes me want to use that mod. Kudos. I hope it will be available on Nexus.

[@cybridproductions]

it will be released on nexus mods on n7 day (november 7th 2024)

[@samanthaclyde8688]

@@cybridproductionsYay! That’s great news. I’m very intrigued, ngl. I’m curious to see how you wrote your mod into ME3’s plot. Also, I don’t know which version (Jacob or Miranda) makes more sense… guess I’ll have to try both. What a chore! 😉😂

[@Tom-H1]

This makes my two least favorite ME2 characters actually... have an arc

[@cybridproductions]

yes! this was my goal! hope you give it a try and it improves your playthrough :D

[@RConn55]

Miranda has a pretty great arc idk what you’re on about

[@williamkerfoot8039]

​@RConn55 Miranda is a disaster after ME2! Her ME3 arc was a regurgitation of her ME2 storyline only worse! She also had stiff and awful dialogue, and her exchanges with the Commander played out the same way! As a matter of fact, I played ME3 with Miranda dead and I can tell you with complete certainty that Mass Effect 3 is a better game WITHOUT her!

[@RConn55]

@ damn dude you changed my mind.

[@RConn55]

@ Miranda mod does incredible justice to her arc in me3. Vanilla version her arc was pretty annoying

[@solamry]

Guys,after i complete original trilogy,if u want it i made full playthrough this mod

[@TheSoulGage]

Okay, this is awesome. I still love 3 to death and I really don't mind how Thane dies in it, it's perfectly fitting, given how far he is with KP and all that. But I can see why so many have a problem with it. But Jacob or Miranda especially would make the tension way more sense. Like that was their former comrade so you can now look at it like "Oh what happened to you dude?" Still doesn't help how much of ME3's development was rushed towards the last third, but just maybe... Can some people please redesign the Thessia fight to something similar in the original drafts? That is the ONE thing that does not work in this game at all. Sorry for the tangent there, but this is why I love the modding community. First the Shut Up Leng mod and now this? Lets go!

[@Megatron_95]

Now I really want to get a gaming pc

[@loogiemaster308]

Do it you don’t even need a powerful one to run mass effect

[@smoogieboogie1694]

This is sick but now I'm wondering if there's a mod like this for the squadmate left on Virmire.

[@cybridproductions]

there was for a while for the original trilogy but the author pulled it from the internet. interestingly it started getting developed after i started developing this, then got pulled from the internet entirely by the time i released it. dev cycle for this mod was *that* long mods were born and died during it... i don't know much about it but i think it was pretty simple implementation - mostly a model swap with the assassin fully helmeted and shepard unaware of who they were until the reveal at cerberus hq. i never played it though so i'm not sure. personally i'm not interested in making a mod like that. it's not an idea i find interesting so i woudn't do a good job with it. maybe someone else will at some point.

[@shadowonyx0130]

God dammit this looks awesome, unfortunately I play on Xbox so f***

[@Vincent_Rabbit]

I always thought the Assassin should've been the Virmire survivor you didn't pick/sacrificed (basically a zombified assassin), but having either Jacob or Miranda is a much better idea! Just two questions though, is it random whoever becomes the Assasin or is there something you can trigger in ME2? And what happens if both Miranda and Jacob dies in the SM? Does it default back to Kai Leng?

[@cybridproductions]

thank you! yeah i was never a huge fan of the virmire survivor idea, because personally i felt it was a bit overly convenient/retconny to have cerberus there in the background to pick them up on virmire? but i'm aware it's a popular idea. there was an OT mod for it, so maybe someone will do that again in future for LE too. but i'm really glad i convinced you on this idea instead! it's not random, it's based on choices in the second game - it's gonna be miranda *unless* she's exceptionally loyal and you show strong faith in her during the suicide mission. full details are on the mod page. and yeah, if they both die during the suicide mission it reverts back to kai leng. he becomes a redundancy option like dagg or padok wiks.

[@NostalgicGamerRickOShay]

@@cybridproductions The OT mod for it has been lost.

[@Sirdiealot88]

anyone played it? is it worth playing again for?

[@AikenDrum1715CE]

Hypothetically then, if Jacob went into the vents in ME2 and cooked would he still be an option for the assassin? Cerberus has form in resurrecting people after all.

[@cybridproductions]

no. why would cerberus spend billions of credits to do that? if his body was even recoverable if shep nuked the base. that feels like a metagame request so you can kill him twice. and honestly while i have plenty of criticisms of the writing for the character, the level of vicious investment some people seem to have in murdering him is weird. i'm not about it.

[@AikenDrum1715CE]

@@cybridproductions I confess I was being a little facetious with my query. The Taylor hate is pretty much a meme now, I agree it gets a bit weird. However, the fact that you reply with a reasoned argument is frankly brilliant. Thank you for this and thank you for what looks like an awesome mod.

[@dragon6821]

anything that removes kai leng Im in

[@RobertoBeto64]

Hey, im making a video about that mod (since no one actually done that) but i wont be able to provide a clickable link cuz youtube is greedy. Just asking, can I use your mod and upload it on KZbin?

[@cybridproductions]

you mean can you make a video about my mod? sure, just include a link to the mods nexus site in the description so people know where to download it - www.nexusmods.com/masseffectlegendaryedition/mods/2507 i don't care if its clickable - just like, something so if people are interested they know where to get it.

[@RConn55]

I always romance Miranda and this could be very interesting

[@DanielClifton-sm4vl]

this would have made more sense

[@ProperBadger]

Y’all hate Jacob so much you turned him into an actual villain? 😂

[@cybridproductions]

i really hope you watch the whole trailer. i do not hate jacob and - not kidding - several times seriously considered scrapping the mod idea because i was worried people would use it to be creepy about murdering him. i have a bunch of problems with the writing for jacob in these games but i also think the level of hate people have for him is bizarre and often kinda racist. this mod creates two branching narratives. in one jacob is a heroic figure trying to save miranda from indoctrination. in other a tragic figure kidnapped and mind controlled by the illusive man. but in the tragic branch he is sympathetic, not evil, and you can fight to save him. anyone playing this cus lol jacob should be a villain? that's their baggage.

[@ProperBadger]

@ I was joking, my bad. I did notice Miranda in the trailer too. I love the amount of effort you’ve put in, it’s cool we are still getting these huge mods for such a classic

[@cybridproductions]

@@ProperBadger no worries, sorry if i came down hard. i got some weird reactions over on reddit that made me a little edgy. glad you're not one of them and thank you!

[@NostalgicGamerRickOShay]

I would turn Liam from MEA into a villain.

[@cybridproductions]

​@@NostalgicGamerRickOShay yeah so like i said in the thread you're replying to, i had serious doubts about publicly releasing this mod cus i didn't wanna have to deal with the "edgy" comments about how awful jacob is cus half of them are racist. you randomly dragging liam in here? yeah, that definitely counts as weird and racist.

[@josephgarfield3363]

Is the voice acting soundalikes or AI?

[@cybridproductions]

neither its spliced and reused dialogue.

[@josephgarfield3363]

@@cybridproductions that's really cool!