Anyone try modding ME2 yet?

[Totenkopf]

Was looking around right before posting this and found the following:

 

http://www.masseffectsaves.com/mods.php

 

http://masseffect.wikia.com/wiki/Mass_Effect_2_PC_Tweaks_and_Cheats

 

Anyone play any their games w/more than just the "vanilla" OOTB/DLC content?

[stoffe]

Anyone play any their games w/more than just the "vanilla" OOTB/DLC content?

 

The only things I've done on the ME2 modding front so far is to make the Normandy crew uniform wearable as an armor on away missions since I liked its looks better than the N7 combat hardsuit (and since most of your party aren't wearing combat suits and still do fine it's not that much of a stretch either).

 

That, and some cheat keys to acquire certain weapons early (since they're more fun to play with than what you start out with, and you'd get them from the start anyway if importing a previous save) and speeding up shield recharge a bit.

[Liverandbacon]

I've done some of the stuff Stoffe's done, but also tinkered with the max probe bay and fuel tank size. Sure, it makes the upgrades for both useless, but it removes a major headache of flying back and forth to fuel depots all the time.

 

Also, I changed the speed at which you can move the cursor and turn the planet during scanning, turning a wrist-injuring tedious minigame into a slightly more humane, albeit still tedious minigame. I can barely imagine playing the game with scanning at vanilla settings.

 

Unfortunately, it's rather limited in what we can do, since most of the game is locked up tight, and we can only really mess with the coalesced.ini . Luckily, there's a bunch of stuff in there. Who knows, perhaps people have discovered some more things you can change in there, since when I was modding and playing the game, it was still extremely new.

[Darth333]

I switched the N7 combat suit to the suit Jason is wearing for consistency purposes (Shepard is not Alliance anymore so it just didn't made sense).

 

I also permanently removed the scars from Shepard's face from the beginning of the game and added some shortcut keys to get minerals when needed (the whole planet scanning thing was a total boring waste of time).

[True_Avery]

I'd be interested in how to permanently keep scars on my Shepard's face. Maybe in the third stage or so.

 

And yes, I'm one of the few who loves the scars.

[Totenkopf]

I thought you had to opt to get rid of them, not opt to keep them. Besides, wasting resources on the med bay for cosmetic improvements seems like such a waste when Shep has other priorities.

 

..added some shortcut keys to get minerals when needed

 

How exactly did you manage that (ie how did you edit the coalesced file)? Tried editing in binding options and can't get them to keep (though have been more successful w/other changes).

 

@Liver--if you haven't gone D3's route and found a way to bind resource keys, you can alter the following lines in the config file:

 

[sFXGame.BioPlanet] (lines 4791-95)

PlacedMineralsPool=25000 to 99999

ScanBarMaxMineralSize=1500 to 9999

EezoMineralsBase=1500 to 9999

RandomMineralsBase=350 to 999

 

at least you'll be able to scan fewer planets faster.

 

Also, if you bring over from ME, remember to change size of bonuses, really helps in beginning. Change numbers to your liking:

 

[sFXGameContent.SFXSeqAct_NewGameBonuses] (5071-79)

ME1ImportBonuses=(BonusMinLevel=1,BonusMaxLevel=49,XPBonus=1000,CreditsBonus=20000,ResourceBonus=2500)

ME1ImportBonuses=(BonusMinLevel=50,BonusMaxLevel=59,XPBonus=2000,CreditsBonus=30000,ResourceBonus=5000)

ME1ImportBonuses=(BonusMinLevel=60,BonusMaxLevel=60,XPBonus=4000,CreditsBonus=50000,ResourceBonus=10000)

ME1_RichAchievementCreditBonus=100000

ME1_ParagonRenegadeMaxBonus=190

SecondPlaythrough_CreditsBonus=200000

SecondPlaythrough_ResourceBonus=50000

SecondPlaythrough_AchievementEnumID=ACHIEVEMENT_24_COMPLETE

 

Only other thing in general. If you hate having to look for ammo clips or run out at inopportune times, edit the weapons section near the end of ME2's config file. Many of the guns have a line bInfiniteAmmo=?? When you change from false to true remember to add a space after the "e" before saving (something to do w/palcement..... if the option is 5 spaces and you only type in 4, ie false vs true, the file won't read it and the game won't start. At least that has been my experience thus far on that issue).

[Darth333]

 

How exactly did you manage that (ie how did you edit the coalesced file)? Tried editing in binding options and can't get them to keep (though have been more successful w/other changes).

 

@Liver--if you haven't gone D3's route and found a way to bind resource keys, you can alter the following lines in the config file:

I did edit the coalesced file in the following way ( the [...] they are just there for reference purposes, the additions are in bold):

 

[sFXGame.SFXGameModeDefault]

[...]

Bindings=( Name="F9", Command="PC_QuickLoad" )

Bindings=( Name="LeftShift", Command="PC_EnterCommandMenu" )

[...]

Bindings=( Name="NumPadTwo", Command="initcredits 500000" )

Bindings=( Name="NumPadThree", Command="initpalladium 60000" )

Bindings=( Name="NumPadFour", Command="initplatinum 60000" )

Bindings=( Name="NumPadFive", Command="initiridium 60000" )

Bindings=( Name="NumPadSix", Command="initeezo 5000" )

 

Then use the corresponding keys on the numpad keyboard (make sure it's on too or it won't work ). You can change the amounts of minerals and the keys to whatever you want.

[Totenkopf]

Thanks. Did find that at least one of the mods had key bindings in it and checked to see how they got it to work. I guess I must have typed it in wrong somehow b/c it didn't originally work for me. Since the modded file had other changes, I incorporated a few changes of my own to it (including upping the #s to 900K.....that damn probe deal just ate up too much time and there never seemed to be enough money for the things you need.....not to mention how much I hated the circuit-breaker--ie pin--mini game, as my cursor was all over the place on it).

[Astrotoy7]

If someone can forge a mod that will allow my femshep to romance Dr Chakwas, that's all I need to make the game perfect

 

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