This INCREDIBLE MOD Revamps Mass Effect 3's Final Mission (Take Earth Back Mod Review)

[@BigDanGaming]

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[@trooperodst6880]

Great stuff

[@trooperodst6880]

Mass Effect 3 shoudn't have been released in March 6 2012. Game needed a little more time.. like end of 2012 It would have more polished.

[@DarthKilaj85]

Id rather see an alchor with an artillery on his back over a hannar

[@ezioarka]

U talk about this mod but not PRIORITY EARTH OVERHAUL. That adds somuch more to mass effect 3.

[@Tydeous]

@@ezioarka Leader of the Take Earth Back team here. This review is for the legendary edition version of the mod. At this time Orikon has said repeatedly that he has no intention of remaking PEOM for the remaster, so it wouldn't be possible for Big Dan Gaming to review it. That said, PEOM adds a lot of stuff, but what it changes is quite different to what we changed, and we added a lot of stuff of our own. They focused on just restoring as much cut content as possible, while we focused on improving immersion and cinematics. The two mods have different design philosophies behind them, but you can't really weigh up what is "added", as so much of what TEB did is done to feel as if it was already part of the game.

[@alliekuma4234]

Shepard going "You sure?" so nonchalantly after a dramatic yell is hilarious. Also, that Asari speech should have absolutely been kept in. All of this was needed.

[@Tydeous]

The asari speech was actually written by modders and recorded by the professional voice actress Larissa Thompson, so its all fan-made :)

[@HickoryDickory86]

@@Tydeous That's awesome! I love it when the actors themselves love the property so much that they volunteer their talents to fan projects like this. Like how Lani Minella, one of the voice actresses from Skyrim (predominantly Dunmer women), is voicing Azura for Skywind. It just shows they are truly passionate about the work they've done and are happy to continue being a part of it.

[@SuperstarMcAwesomepants]

Gave me chills

[@michaelandreipalon359]

Makes it sound like a redemption from their leniency for at least three games, I must say.

[@J_Themborn]

@@Tydeous that explains hearing an Asari npc not voiced by Laura Bailey considering most of them were.

[@dareiousmiller8179]

I love the line from Primarch Victus "This is our last stand commander... there are no more reinforcements " it really sets it in as this ends now or we die

[@TheCorrodedMan]

The whole third game felt like a genuine struggle against impossible odds. Seeing the sheer size of the reaper fleet at the end of ME2 put it into perspective, but the third game really drove him the idea that these guys aren’t just here to conquer; they’re here to _kill,_ to destroy and maim and mutilate until there is no one left to fight back, no one left to resist them. It puts me in mind of the story of Sisyphus; cursed by the gods, he rolls a stone up an impossibly steep hill every single day, only for it to fall when he reaches the top, forcing him to trek right back down and do it all over again.

[@THE_KIRYU]

You had me at "Elcor warriors charging alongside Shepard"

[@hedonistic_goblin7390]

I feel an elchor at full tilt would be absolutely terrifying

[@shamzer0374]

Elcor living tanks!

[@pal1d1nl1ght]

@@hedonistic_goblin7390 Seeing them move at any rate beyond a slow crawl is kinda terrifying

[@doktor3196]

"You had me at put." Cheryl from Archer season 1

[@xSilentZeroXx]

Badassfully: Let's do this, Shepard. Let's take Earth back.

[@lukebarroso449]

Really wish it was in the regular game, its awesome to see all the different races and characters fill up the empty space

[@billypaul1234]

@Grd Csn no it wasn't. Stop lying

[@billypaul1234]

@Grd Csn I've played the trilogy through 20 times. I own it on Xbox 360 as well as playstation 3. Trust me, I've played it.

[@billypaul1234]

@Grd Csn Those characters still show up in the remaster but only if certain things happen. If you only have the Geth alive, or only the Quarians alive, or if you betray the krogan. The mod adds those characters together.

[@billypaul1234]

@Grd Csn I did a speed run where I betrayed Wrex and Kirahee still shows up in the legendary diction so I'm really confused as to what you're talking about

[@billypaul1234]

@Grd Csn I was never saying that those people don't show up in the original games which they do (on the 360 as well it's not just the PS3) but they never all show up together and you are claiming that you can't have them show up at all in the legendary edition and they do. This mod has them all showing up together whereas in the the Vanilla versions of the game they don't.

[@MrRemorseless]

I remember being so fucking pumped to fight alongside the Rachni and Geth... And then I didn't see shit. I really respect these fan mods

[@michaelburke7978]

I remember being pumped when the Elcor ambassador asked us to help with emergency extractions on Dekuuna, and then we just ended up scanning the planet lol

[@segevkrespi8609]

@@michaelburke7978 It's not even the planet, the Elcor flotilla is located on the planet's moon lol

[@cameronwillmott1534]

​@@michaelburke7978 OH I know, I was expecting a short mission like with Grunt and the Rachni. I felt robbed.

[@protonjones54]

Yeah I agree with Michael. There were so many missed opportunities like that, and not being able to fight along side the elcor, hanar, volus, more drell, you name it. Game might've been so much better if it didn't have a rushed development by EA. I need to see if there's more mods that add more visibility to these other races for the game.

[@TheZamaron]

You still don't really fight WITH them in this mod, but yah it is pretty cool they at least put the Rachni into the background, I can imagine they are so very pissed at the Reapers for enslaving them for foot soldiers.

[@Tydeous]

Hi Big Dan Gaming! Team leader for Take Earth Back (both OT and LE versions) here. I just wanted to thank you for giving our mod such a good review. The team worked extremely hard over several months to make the OT version, and then we had to rebuild the entire thing from scratch for LE, so knowing that people love the mod is amazing. Thank you!

[@BigDanGaming]

Great work Tydeous! I really enjoyed playing it

[@Jamesnuch]

@Tydeous has your team ever thought about creating a “war summit” scene taking place before the assault? The leaders you recruit could meet for one final plan of attack and the player could choose which fleet goes where and which war assets will be deployed. Would be amazing!

[@AnimeShinigami13]

a similar mod, priority earth overhaul mod crashed for me at the point where I had just finished talking to Wrex. i might try your mod out instead next time. all the effort of an insanity playthrough for nothing. (pouts) I wanted to call geth air drops and fight husk tyrants!

[@Tydeous]

@@Jamesnuch Trust me, we've conjured up dozens and dozens of ideas like these :D. The problem with this is that there is no dialogue for it, which would mean that it wouldn't feel immersive for the player. The lack of dialogue has also meant we can't enhance the Anderson briefing on Earth to account for the different allies around the table. It's just an unfortunately consequence of modding a game that requires a lot of cinematic immersion.

[@Tydeous]

@@AnimeShinigami13 Not entirely sure how you were fighting husk Tyrants in PEOM as those are for Take Earth Back and Spectre Expansion Mod only, but hopefully you'll enjoy our mod :)

[@dmaxcustom]

When the Primarch says that the Krogan fought in Palaven, valiantly, to the last Krogan, legit made my eyes watery. All their anger and millennia of resentment and they finally respect each other. God damn it. Once you play the game with that extra dialogue, you cannot play it without.

[@guillercuastico]

Krogan back to what they do best: killing huge monsters to keep galactic peace.

[@WanderingPropeller]

I’d argue the turians always respected the krogans’ combat prowess. It’s one of the reasons they opted to use a solution as (supposedly) final as the genophage. It just didn’t have a chance to shine through before due to the lingering animosity.

[@Jamesnuch]

I always wished there was big War Summit before the assault to take back earth. It would be cool if you could choose which fleets will be apart of “Sword” and which fleets will protect the Crucible. Would have added an extra strategy layer, kind of the like the ME2 suicide mission

[@alduintheanti-dragonborn]

God dammit EA.

[@Tydeous]

So do we, but it sadly isn't something that could be modded in because of all the dialogue/FMVs required. Very cool concept though

[@andrews.5212]

well i think is better his way... it shouldn't be up to the player that level of strategy in MassEffect. Remember, you play as SHEPARD, a Commander. The space battle is under Hackett, Admiral of the entire Human Alliance Fleet. The ground Assault is coordinated by Anderson, an Admiral and deFacto leader of all Earth Systems Alliance earth troops, coordinating all global resistance with earth different nations. Both out-rank and out-experience you. The fact that you are in "charge" of sword initial assault is both for dramatic reasons and for Hackett's statement of "making you the tip of the spear"... But as much as Shepard is a good Commander he/she has little to no Experience of Space Battles (compared to Hackett and the rest) so shouldn't be up to Shep. Same for the ground assault. Shep is good as Team Leader and a good soldier. You are kinda passive in this fase and i see why could feel frustrating after two games where you decide what to do and where but in a sense would be weirder the other way around. This is not the Suicide Mission. That was Sheapard's mission: leading a "SpecOps" team in a daring infiltration mission. This is full scale war. BIG difference.

[@joegrimes9232]

I agree, however I can take it as is. Shepard's a force, but there's a whole mess of people behind the scenes. Shepard cant single handed plan the whole liberation. Don't get me wrong, It should be in there, but I can accept it without. Just paying some lip service to your building is enough and this mod delivers

[@thepaintingbanjo8894]

@@andrews.5212 I agree completely with your canon reasoning. Instead of a war summit, Shepard could totally manage all the assets/factions available to him on the battlefield and follow the Infiltration Mission to a similar beat as the Suicide Mission. A few steps with bad calls with managing these faction could torpedo your chance to get beamed up and fail the game.

[@robbybobby4373]

Wow!! I did not know this was a thing. Priority: Earth REALLY needed these types of extra cutscenes and dialogue. Showing actual war assets on Earth really would've made all that effort during the playthrough even more worth it. Now I kinda wished Bioware added some of these extra stuff to the Legendary Edition since they had a lot of time to do so. OH WELL!

[@zacharyreichert5035]

ME3 is only worth playing with mods, LE just doesn't cut it. Hologram kid does not exist in my game. I like it.

[@tenjenk]

I wanted to see more stuff like the different races working together strategically

[@kinggoten]

with Mass Effect 4 coming, these types of changes could of helped them get themselves out of the whole they put themselves in with the ME3 ending, everything after the charge at the beam should have been changed too what I don't know there is a few mods out there, they also had the ability to do new voice work and such if EA allowed to do a proper ending overhaul. I don't like anything to do with the crucible should of been a proper victory not space magic but that would be an entire game change so would of lived with it, remove star kid remove going up the beam just fire the damn thing it kills the reapers perhaps after a boss fight, and something to deal with the illusive man, or maybe save the illusive man for a future project.

[@GothicElf68]

@@zacharyreichert5035 I was adamantly opposed to even purchasing the LE until I found out that many of my favorite mods were in the process of- or had been- recreated for the LE versions. Particularly those for ME3LE. I just hope OTEMIS redid her mods as well. While they added no content (she did custom textures) her Hi-Rez versions of the uniforms, Liara's primary outfit, and other clothing assets, were incredible.

[@GothicElf68]

@@kinggoten I agree! Especially if they are indeed making the Destroy ending canon, as it has been hinted at. The entire bit with the starchild was disappointing, to say the least.

[@Arijit_Das_]

I think this mod is a good one. Even if it doesn't do any gameplay changes, all those extra dialogues sure gives a better prelude to the final battle, which surely gives a little bit more immersive experience.

[@Tydeous]

Thank you! We did do some combat changes but they're not huge changes. For example, we added Barrier Engines across the final mission if you're playing on Hardcore or Insanity difficulty, we added an extra small combat to the beginning of the post-Earth hub mission, and for users of Spectre Expansion Mod we added the Reaper Tyrant enemy.

[@linkenski]

The reason I wanted to do those is because I felt it gives more of a personal closure from those characters. Victus, there is bestowing you with the beliefs of the Turians, an entire species, upon Shepard; Wrex thanks you as a friend for all you did, or Wreav hisses at your petty "friendships"; Raan and the Geth prime symbolize the peace, and gives a hint of their growing trust and hope for organics and synthetics. I felt like this was the whole game's conclusions reiterated in one overall scene, before heading to the inevitable conclusion of Shepard's personal story.

[@holo7070]

The Geth conversation is my absolute favorite part of the mod because it really makes me happy knowing Legions sacrifice will not be in vain.

[@Blazieth]

It's not even that part that has me so happy - it's the way they talk about working together with the Quarians and combining their troops. That part is cut content, because I'm pretty sure the Geth don't show up on Earth to talk to unless you chose them *over* the Quarians.

[@aleksamilosevic8792]

@@Blazieth they do show up on earthin that insane cutscene of ships coming to earth. Weird we didnt see them on the ground

[@BronsonFerri]

"Once we secure our future, we will help rebuild yours." OOOOOF that got me good.

[@Trialwolf]

There are a lot of interesting mods for Mass Effect, just saw one called Duel of the Shepards that swaps out the Clone Shepard in the Citadel DLC for the opposite Gender making it look more like Brother and Sister are fighting each other. One mod to check out for sure is the ME3 Expanded Galaxy mod which adds tons of additions and fixes to the game, too many to mention here but it really adds to the immersion and adds some choose your own adventure style missions and war assets.

[@robbybobby4373]

Hah! That would've been a fun idea. It also would've reminded me of Assassin's Creed: Odyssey with whoever you choose to play through with, the other will be the antagonist.

[@thatlonelygiraffeinc.6989]

That's a cool idea, but clone shepard is waaaaaayyyyyy funnier

[@tenjenk]

Will it just create default femshep or the female equivalent of your visual code setup?

[@steelbear2063]

"Duel of the Shepards that swaps out the Clone Shepard in the Citadel DLC for the opposite Gender making it look more like Brother and Sister are fighting each other" - all I see is Rule34 material

[@PieaterProducts]

It would be a must-have mod if they added in some scripted sequences in the gameplay, like a helpful Turian sniper in one place, a small swarm of Rachni in another, Geth/Quarian squad that helps you launch the missile, etc. Make the mission a little easier if you actually recruited all the races of the galaxy.

[@tredausmaxima]

Exactly. And make the mission a little harder if you didn't have enough war assets.

[@jameswright4236]

Having just completed the trilogy, that was my exact thought. You would think that the effort made across the whole trilogy would show in some grand finale depicting all races recruited to the fight and the Reapers being overwhelmed by a united galaxy rather than just essentially triggering an EMP that renders all technology defunct

[@mickomoo]

The mod Priority Earth Overhaul does that but it only exists for the original trilogy.

[@Tydeous]

Hey there, team leader for the mod here. While I was making the original trilogy version of the mod I conducted a lot of experiments. Whether it was recreating the Reaper rising from the Thames or adding allies that actually fight at your side, we tried it. We tried all sorts of crazy stuff. The problem is that most of these experiments turned out to damage the mission more than improve it, and among those was the allies that fight at your side. The last mission really isn't difficult, and after working on it all these months it has become clear just how short a mission it really is. My experience of these was that it made the mission feel crammed and too easy, even with changes to enemy numbers. Immersion was a key part of our design philosophy, so in the end we stuck with keeping the mission similar to how it was, but adding in ambient allies and events, but not changing the flow of the mission. Our hope is to eventually do a submod of Take Earth Back (a 2.0 if you will) that would dive into adding more experimental, daring things to the final mission. If we do it and its a submod, then players can either pick the original Take Earth Back to get a vanilla-esque overhaul, or install the submod for a bit more extravagance. We're not decided when/if we're doing that yet, but its something we're interested in.

[@decimation9780]

@@Tydeous If at all possible, could you perhaps restore any weapon assets that were planned to be in the game but didn’t make the cut? In my own playthrough of ME3, by the time I reached the last mission, I kinda just relied on the M11 Suppressed because of how busted it is, so having more viable weapons to use would be a welcome addition. Provided it’s possible of course, no real point in asking for something that can’t be done in the first place.

[@sagaswp]

I want a Kirrahe Companion mod! He should've been a team member in 3, we needed another Salarian. Hold the line!

[@godofawesum223]

I'm still mad there wasn't a Batarian squaddie.

[@Awesomeisme7000]

​@@godofawesum223fuck Batarians.

[@Cancoillotteman]

To be fair Kirrahe would never abandon STG or the Salarians, it would not make sense. Or maybe for just one mission or DLC.

[@thenickelarcher]

I would love it if when you are at the part of Take back Earth where you have to shoot the two missiles at the Reaper, that they had several of the allies you had acquired join in and help you when the cut scene for the second missile starts. Like Shepard starts to hit the key pad to launch the missile and Reaper forces come out and head straight for Shepard, only for a mix of Geth, Quarians, Krogans, Turians, Asari, Salarians, Rachni, and humans run in from the other direction and engage them. Giving Shepard the chance to launch the missile.

[@mrrrbanks1102]

This is incredible how did they managed this I really wish this was included in the main game it would have cushioned the blow of the ending

[@Tydeous]

We managed this with a mammoth amount of work, but it was worth it. We're really proud of the mod :)

[@lordofgingers]

@@Tydeousbut the biggest challenge that even BioWare couldn’t surmount in their MP……hanar combatants!!! Big crazy jellyfish squad 😅

[@yfullman]

That Asari's speech was awesome

[@Tydeous]

The voice actress responsible is Larissa Thompson. She used to do a lot of narration for the Templin Institute videos. She did a wonderful job :)

[@Assassino275]

@@Tydeous oooooo

[@Johnny-Thunder]

Isn't that the same voice as Eva Coré? It's another Cerberus bot! (or Oriana Lawson)

[@steelbear2063]

@@Tydeous Oh she's awesome

[@RogueBipolarDemon]

@@Tydeous I knew her voice in an instant, miss her being with the Institute but The Sojourn is REALLY great as well

[@qwerty_and_azerty]

Seeing rachni fighting along Elcor is quite a sight!

[@knocturna9731]

I wish BioWare would just buy or license the mod and make it available for all platforms.

[@Tydeous]

We'd offer it for free!

[@adrashmadra7149]

No

[@Butcher369]

@@Tydeous y’all did an amazing job with this mod and Why this wasn’t in the Legendary Edition is beyond me!

[@Tydeous]

@@Butcher369 Thank you! A few of us had hoped that a remaster would lead to Bioware trying to polish sections of the game like this, but sadly it didn't happen. Fortunately, the mod tools were quickly updated for ME:LE, so at least we have mods to fix it up :)

[@ethanpethel3261]

I really enjoyed seeing the armored Elkor in this, always wanted to see them in action.

[@bigjavo36]

I wish they would make a mod that allows you to bring everyone for the final push. Like in the citadel dlc I wish I could have my whole crew there to make the push through no man's land.

[@John_shepard]

This is really nice work! The conversation with the geth prime really adds more depth to the ending you choose, makes you reconsider the destroy ending.

[@JAYDOG1337A]

Thinking about it, the geth would be really helpful with rebuilding after the war, since they don't need to rest or worry about catching any infections or stuff like that, plus you can just make more of them to help with rebuilding. It kinda pissed me off that we never got to see the elcor battle, I mean seriously living tanks.

[@JAYDOG1337A]

@DeliverersBestFriend I choose Synthesis, because destroying the reapers proves them right that organics and synthetics can never get along, let me ask you, if the destroy option killed the Reapers and all organics, rather than the reapers and all synthetics, would you still choose the destroy option?

[@JAYDOG1337A]

@DeliverersBestFriend Banding together against a common enemy is not the same as proving peace is possible, who's to say the quarians wouldn't try and destroy the geth again with a different method, or try and control them again.

[@simple-commentator-not-rea7345]

Mass Effect was always a game series locked in managing only two friendly NPC's at a time in unscripted battle. A truly ideal Mass Effect 3 is a game where hostile and friendly NPC's should have engaged in battles. Can you imagine that? A series of battle stages on earth where varrying unique NPC's of every allied army you've gathered would engage against more powerful Reaper forces? A man can dream

[@jessicawilson1751]

Something similar to the final fight in Denerim in Dragon Age: Origins? If I recall correctly, you could call upon your allies you recruited to fight in taking back the city from the darkspawn.

[@darthjayder9914]

@@jessicawilson1751 You could, though there weren't that many different allies and the warden could only have a maximum of 4 in a playthrough. but the warden could call upon people to help them.

[@happysideoffear777]

This mod is literally everything I wanted. The only thing I really thought was a problem with the original ending was the fact that you got shown nothing for all your hard work and all the people and species you recruited. I'm so excited to do a playthrough with this mod

[@FelixEarth]

The Asari speech really got me, damn she was inspiring

[@rainyatsu4588]

I find that strange that you are on the fence on whether or not you were going to use the mod in the future all because it doesn’t do anything to alter gameplay. For the most part people don’t play Mass Effect for its gameplay, it’s all about the story and the characters, the take earth back mod is a fantastic and absolutely golden mod to have for Mass Effect and I believe it is absolutely paramount for all players to utilize it during their play throughs

[@Tydeous]

It'll be interesting to hear how Big Dan feels about the final mission when he replays it once he uninstalls the mod. My own experience was that it felt very barren

[@miketheviking_]

Watching this Mod gave me chills! It made me feel like everything was real….Like we did something… Like the entire galaxy is unified and ready to gladly die together!

[@Tydeous]

Thank you! We put a lot of hard work into this, so that's lovely to hear :)

[@tredausmaxima]

Yeah. This would have been more realistic. Like if your war assets were high you would even get reinforcements from various races and factions, and that if they were low, you would actually suffer heavy ground losses

[@Eyetrauma]

ngl before watching this I didn't know the 'STEVE!' was a bug and figured it was maybe a reference to RE4's 'MIKE!'

[@jessicawilson1751]

I always play femShep so I thought the "STEVE!" was if he died in the crash.

[@DandySlayer13]

Pair this mod with the Restored Anderson Conversation and Star Child Be Gone mods and you will have the most fulfilling ME3 experience ever! I finally finished ME3 again after not doing it for nearly a decade after I beat it during the release month because of these 3 mods combined.

[@TastySanchez]

Amazing content. This is exactly what I wanted to see in the final mission and makes the destroy ending that much harder to choose

[@kevinscott3047]

I don't have a PC but the thought of seeing all the races Shepherd united charging the beam together gives me chills. Although the idea of seeing Volus haul ass makes me chuckle lol

[@dextergrif1052]

Would love to see you do more mod reviews like this one. This makes me realize that although I had a lot of problems with ME3’s ending the one thing it did really well was make it feel like Priority: Earth was the LAST mission. This enhances that feeling and adds much needed variety based on your war assets.

[@davecullins1606]

I love it every time a geth unit shows empathy or offers to help. It shows just how empathic they really are!

[@bigzed7908]

This mission always makes me cry. I think this is the most beautiful thing in all of fiction. There's just no comparison. I wish it got the recognition it deserves...

[@grandmasterchris9666]

Stuff like this makes me wish consoles had mod support.

[@riftshredder5438]

EA and Bioware needs to make this mod official in the console versions

[@KelsR58]

that would be offensive to their artistic integrity

[@aaronskuse2207]

BioWare had the objectively perfect opportunity to fix the original botched abortion of an ending for ME3 with the Legendary Edition re-release, but no, they slapped on some graphical tweaks and rebound the controls. Absolutely grEAdy.

[@SeanMather]

Anyone else feel bad when the Geth said they would help rebuild…?

[@TheReaper569]

when modders make more narrative gameplay than devolopers. Thank you EA for being an inspiration

[@ZeroOmega-vg8nq]

to be fair modders dont need to worry bout time crunch and pleasing the money men. they work with the mess they are given and try to get blood from the stone

[@Eve-luci]

I had a little smile creep up when the Geth Prime looked at Raan and mentioned synergy.

[@Tydeous]

We have Exkywor (author of Thomas the Tank Engine Reaper mod, and Duel of the Fates mod) to thank for that. His and Lunkensko's cinematic work was truly stellar.

[@h0lly_blue]

I can hear Tali casually freaking out in the background *_"AUNTIE RAAN WHAT THE-"_*

[@ZeroOmega-vg8nq]

​@@h0lly_blue"Tali you have your non human boyfriend. do you really want to throw stones in that glass envirosuit?"

[@ScottishScrub]

They really shouldve just added this into the LE.

[@Tydeous]

We wish they had!

[@dhotnessmcawesome9747]

I love not being part of the internet gaming community. Well... I sorta am now, but I mean... for YEARS until I was an old dude with nothing else to do, I wasn't a part.... So today, I found out "STEVE!" was a meme. Yes... I would say that makes sense. My first time playing I thought "Well... Shepard sure likes is pilots we've talked to once."

[@MadCoffeeBeastx]

I was looking for this asari speech for a long time now. Thanks!

[@hutchy1k94]

Daaaang, they got Elcor living battle tanks in this?! Freaking awesome!

[@nastygaming6381]

Just wanted to say that I enjoy all your videos. Keep up the great work

[@tmytyson]

STEEEVE! Impressive mod. If you haven't already it'd be interesting to see your picks for other mods that affect gameplay or the ending more directly.

[@ClericOfPholtus]

I just realized allied Rachni would be a dope add-in to the final mission, similar to how some mods let allied Geth Primes drop in and so on

[@dragonflybug1577]

This makes the final mission more interesting with the various conversations and seeing all your Allies you’ve gained rather than just humans and cutscenes with your squadmates. Makes you feel like you’ve made more of an impact

[@tenjenk]

Really appreciate you pointing this mod out! Definately going to add it. I would have missed some rich lore otherwise.

[@parunox1702]

This mod honestly flesh out a lot of missing stuff like we should be seeing more species fighting alongside on earth I’m glad that this mod has made a final stand for earth though I wish I would see some blue suns but I’m guessing there weren’t enough spaces for that as well as blood packs

[@Tydeous]

Blood Pack and Blue Suns are in the mod :)

[@andersforsbergmalmsten6290]

Ten years later, I'm still sore we didn't get an epic showdown with Harbinger. That entire endgame was just so underwhelming.

[@bigjavo36]

Bro I teared up a lil seeing these new cut scenes

[@juzoli]

I prefer “Priority Earth Overhaul” mod. Take Earth Back mostly adds population to the map, so much more fractions are fighting around us, depending what allies we gathered in the game. This is good, but the other adds more. But PEOM adds lots of background events, comm chatters and mission reports about what is happening everywhere else on the Earth, so we can feel that we are not alone THE mission, but it is indeed a grandiose operation in multiple areas, and we are “only” the head of the spear. Also adds kind of “mini objectives” along, which adds to the feeling that other units of the Hammer (which we cannot see directly) are depending on our progress. It doesn’t change the mission, but makes a much more immersive and engaging last mission.

[@ArakkoaChronicles]

Does it also add elcor?

[@AudemusN7]

Keep in mind that TEB isn't complete yet, unlike PEOM. There's a lot of content for TEB that the team is planning on adding in future updates.

[@juzoli]

@@AudemusN7 I check for new mods and updates at each playthrough. Some had major updates between March and October. LE mods get even more updates.

[@Arbaaltheundefeated]

That's all well and good, but PEOM isn't available for Legendary edition, TEB is, and has plans for more.

[@linkenski]

The reason I'm not a fan of the PEOM approach is that this is the final level. It's too late to tell "a story about Earth", unless it's just tangential, but the primary focus of the finale of the game is to provide a resolution to the game's central question of "Can the galaxy unite in the face of impossible odds?" so this should not just be a level showing how dire it has been for humanity. We already know that because the Reapers concentrate on Earth moreso than other homeworlds, and the original level already had lots of generic human soldiers and background chatter describing how painful they have it. What it was missing, was this resounding theme of unity to give us a sense of accomplishment before heading into the true endgame about "The Fate of Shepard". A lot of cool work was done for it, though. I appreciate that both exist, but I think the attempts at adding "more story" to Earth itself doesn't have a place in the climax of the plot about all the other species that have to help humanity.

[@Zushi_Tsunami]

I remember seeing a mod in which you fight along side geth primes Grunt, and other allies throughout this mission.

[@alexandercaires5921]

That's probably Priority Eath Overhaul. It's basically the same thing, but not as Nexus policy prevents ME3 devs from porting over mods to MEL.

[@Tydeous]

​@@alexandercaires5921 Nexus doesn't prevent mods from being ported at all. A huge amount of mods made for Mass Effect: Legendary Edition are remakes of the mods for ME3, and made by the very same authors as before. The thing is we cannot directly port the files from ME3 to ME3:LE because the file structure changed enough to prevent that. Instead we have to rebuild these from scratch which can be time consuming, but in my experience, is very quick compared to the initial build of the mods. If Orikon wanted, he could start porting PEOM to ME:LE today. The only person stopping him is himself, not NexusMods.

[@KirstenBayes]

The pink glasses fill me with fear: they killed all the crew in ME2, wiped out the Quarians...

[@StLuxiya]

Killed himself too with them aweful pink goggles I think. Honestly the Reapers cry themselves to sleep wishing they were as effective as these goggles.

[@KirstenBayes]

@@StLuxiya Mordin and Wrex, two tough space bad asses, were no match for the goggles power. Miranda...gone. Jacob...actually, you know what, the goggles did some good, ya know?

[@John-kd2tc]

You should make a video about small mods that make the Mass Effect experience better.

[@ChristianVillavicencio]

Thanks for the reviews Big Dan! Thanks to your videos I installed this mod, Happy ending one and all the community patches (for the whole LE trilogy). I have a new head cannon ending now. I always wanted to save SID and the geth so ended up choosing Synthesis just for that (internally crying because I forced Sheppard to do the ultimate sacrifice).

[@marcmarod]

They should have kept the Asari speech, that was really well written and voiced, a shame

[@jonyjonas]

That asari speech made me cry and want to fight against the f***ing reapers

[@ctirons]

That Asari is voiced by Larissa Thompson!!! She was one of the voices of the Templin Institute! She really has a knack for great speeches and monologues.

[@adrianleong8537]

The Asari gave a good speech! :)

[@Tydeous]

Thanks! The voice actress is Larissa Thompson who did a cracking job on the dialogue. :)

[@thehalfrican1386]

I never knew that shepard screaming "steve" was a bug. But man i could not imagine me3 without it.

[@flemmingjensen4656]

Hey Big Dan, you forgot the change for the Reaper cannons and when you see Hammer fly over you😁

[@drmario381]

Omg I just played the Citadelle DLC, I get the “I should go reference” lmao, honestly that’s was months in the making!

[@m4tt357]

Cool shepard mock up 0:20 Big Dan saving earth

[@vadarman9906]

Glad you shined a light on this well made mod! I wonder if you've also played the Priority Earth Overhaul Mod. It had the same goal, but it actual changes gameplay

[@thegaspoweredmidget117]

I really like the idea of Rex offering humanity a new home if it’s needed don’t know why just do

[@cdrjohnshepard2549]

I’m Commander Shepard, and this is my favorite channel on the cita…. KZbin.

[@heatheryyy]

Thanks so much for these videos! I play on console, so I will never know the joy of a modded ME3 but these make up for it

[@reaperbrothers5487]

It’s nice they Wrex and Bakara are together and already is having a kid it’s nice seeing him become a dad

[@literalsarcasm1830]

I always loved reuniting the Geth and Quarians. It's like bringing a family back together.

[@AkiraUema]

Imagine the geth saying something that cool and then you choose the destroy option at the ending killing all synthetics, not only the Reapers.

[@moonknightish]

Victory demands an heavy price

[@Chrytin]

Use AHEM

[@chrism8860]

This series is one of my favorite

[@dannyyogendra51]

The subtitles called him "Ferdinand Wrex" 🤣🤣🤣

[@aglazeddoughnut5250]

Coming a little late, so this might just be from a recent update or something, but there is a Biotic Hanar in the camp, near where you talk with Kaiden. Made me real happy to see another big heroic jellyfish.

[@Dayrell-sr9tj]

I don't know if it was because I just smoked but that Asari speech gave me goosebumps. I enjoy the cheesey let's all cooperate to save the galaxy trope.

[@AbatedFawn]

Man, this should have also been in the extended cut. Gonna install the moment I can

[@DarthKilaj85]

The Mod feels like what I and also I am sure many others wanted the end of the game to be like and show the results of our choices more I feel its worth keeping in your game and should have been added to the newest edition just released.

[@CynUnion-ji9uj]

"Cortez!" feels suitably dramatic to me. Definitely sounds like Mark Meer poured some soul into both exclamations.

[@AgentK4]

Wow this is so cool 😯 thank you for all the awesome videos BigDanGaming. Massive amounts of respect for you and your content BigDanGaming 😊💯❤️

[@QuarkGamingLLC]

I think that asari was using mod-made voicelines, i recognize her voice from the older templin institute videos

[@Alswulf]

thanks for the review! Just weird cause most of "additional" convs like with Vega, Wrex and Victus I've faced without any mods during my old first attempt .____.

[@michu3763]

It should be restored by Bioware in Legendary Edition, not by modders. It's a shame that Bioware didn't focus more on fixing ME3 in LE,, because it needed attention the most.

[@stephenhahn8284]

Sick content Dan

[@Spider-PunkOffical]

I still feel so bad that the destroy option is the canon outcome. I freed the geth and saved the quarians. Their home world is thriving because of that alliance but now the geth dies in the end!? Unfair! To make matters worse EDI died too :(

[@phaethos]

11:06 that Elcor tanking the reaper beam like it's nothing.

[@FabioAlbuquerqueBelemPA]

The best of all is the Geth dialog fr

[@luckygrunt]

My favourite part is seeing the Rachni soldiers absolutely flooding the streets in the distance. Makes me wonder if that many Rachni could fell a Reaper by sheer numbers alone.

[@mrmaster9801]

This really looks a cool mod. I remember being disappointed of not having the species I had united fighting with me in my final battle, but I didn't know about how rushed was the development of ME3 at the time (I played the game years after it was first released). Glad to know that someone corrected this issue.

[@marcksman7896]

one thing i hated about the destroy ending is that the Geth were destroyed to, and after making peace with the Quarians it just felt wrong.

[@ricksmith4840]

Yea I hated that too. All that effort to bring peace between the Quarians and Geth just for the Geth to be wiped out in the destroy ending is stupid.

[@morganhalfyard6266]

harbinger: i have a fleet shepard: i have urdnot wrex

[@ln5321]

The Legendary Edition was a golden opportunity for Bioware to go back and add some of these details and restore some of this cut content to the games. They failed to capitalize on it.

[@danielcontoro]

All I wanted was a walking, talking, elcor tank. This over delivers.

[@gamesadergaming1321]

If Bioware had cut the multiplayer garbage out of ME3 then they could have spent that time on the single player experience offering us unique endings. Then they could have added multiplayer in at a later date.

[@AA-sw5pb]

I need a mod where shepards final words to Anderson are "Well bang ok"

[@gking920]

That Asari speech actually got me tearing up lol