{"id":31684,"date":"2012-01-30T14:23:52","date_gmt":"2012-01-30T12:23:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=31684"},"modified":"2012-01-30T14:25:33","modified_gmt":"2012-01-30T12:25:33","slug":"new-mass-effect-pc-mod-makes-everything-look-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/31684-new-mass-effect-pc-mod-makes-everything-look-better","title":{"rendered":"New Mass Effect PC mod makes everything look better"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you’d been planning to replay the first two games in preparation for the big finish with Mass Effect 3’s launch in March, HOLD UP JUST A MOMENT THERE. Those games are a couple of years old already, which means they’re too hideous to look at without protective eye-gear OR<\/em> this super high resolution texture pack.<\/p>\n

“My goal was to massively improve character detail while keeping Bioware<\/a>‘s fantastic design as intact as possible,” writes mod creator JeanLuc761 over on the BioWare forums. “Character textures now range from 2048×2048 to 4096×4096, which is 4x more detailed than the default textures.”<\/p>\n

The pack comes in two editions – “optimized” and “ultra”.<\/p>\n

“All characters in the optimized pack use a balance of 1024×1024 and 2048×2048 textures in order to achieve the best balance between quality and performance that I could achieve for this mod. The ultra pack is composed primarily of 4096×4096 textures for armor\/body models and a mix of 2048×2048 and 1024×1024 for faces,” he explains, adding that the “ultra” pack comes with 15-20 minute load times, so yeah<\/em>.<\/p>\n

You can read more about the mod, including installation instructions, and download it at the link below.<\/p>\n

Source: Bioware forums<\/a> (via PC Gamer<\/a>)<\/h5>\n

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I’m Commander Shepard and this is my favourite mod on the BioWare forums<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":159,"featured_media":31694,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[31,427,2176,425,1512],"class_list":["post-31684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-pc","tag-active","tag-bioware","tag-hi-res","tag-mass-effect","tag-mod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31684"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31693,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31684\/revisions\/31693"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}