Mass Effect: Legendary Edition comes with a number of improvements to the series, allowing fans to play through Shepard's story with updated visuals and a smoother gameplay experience. Among the game's multiple tweaks comes one notable fix to a major bug in Mass Effect 1.
The Mass Effect trilogy was initially released in 2007 with ME1. Mass Effect 3, the final game of the series, came out five years later in 2012. A sequel titled Mass Effect: Andromeda was later released in 2017, but garnered mixed reception due to a high number of visual bugs and the game's disconnect from previous entries in the franchise.
Legendary Edition packages together the trilogy's original three games with almost all of its DLC, adding up to almost 175 hours of content across the series, although Mass Effect 3's multiplayer mode has been removed. Players will instead have to import Shepard from previous games or complete a substantial amount of side content to achieve the best ending of the game.
Mass Effect 1 Bug That Legendary Edition Fixes
As the first and oldest game in the series, Mass Effect 1 has a tendency to show its age in some areas. The visual quality of character models - something that Legendary Edition improves significantly - isn't up to the standard of the latter two games in the trilogy. The Mako is infamous for having poor controls and several aspects of combat were updated or removed later on in the franchise. But ME1 also comes with some easily noticeable technical bugs. One particularly notable example is the black box problem on the planets of Noveria and Ilos. Players using modern AMD CPUs would in many cases see black pixels in place of the character models in these sections of the game. While there are workarounds available, several fans found that this bug hindered their Mass Effect experience.
Legendary Edition has fixed this bug, along with several other outdated features from Mass Effect 1. The Mako has received new controls with improved handling, though players will still have the option to return to the original Mako configuration. Character customization has been updated to include several new skin tones and hair styles. But the Noveria and Ilos graphical problem is one of the more notorious problems to receive a fix with the release of Legendary Edition.
Various other bug fixes also come bundled with Mass Effect Legendary Edition along with rebalanced audio and enhanced textures. Other aspects of the first game were brought up to par with later releases, such as female Shepard's default model, a unified character creator, and the game's level scaling.