

Related: From Ashes And Leviathan Are Mass Effect’s Most Story Critical DLCs Both projects aim to increase the texture and video resolution in the classic games, and Bioware is not only aware of them but used them as a bottom-line benchmark while working on the re-release.

On the popular Nexus website, mods like A Lot Of Textures for the Mass Effect trilogy were downloaded more than a million times, with A Lot of Videos also having hundreds of thousands of downloads. The devs aimed for better results than the mods, as they have access to the original, uncompressed assets. Mass Effect Legendary Edition's many graphical improvements were achieved using AI upscaling techniques that Bioware originally discovered in fan mods.
