

He also said if they really had to include the DLC, it would force them to push the release date a full six months later to entirely remake Pinnacle Station. The whole ordeal was described as an “emotional roller coaster” by the game director, Mac Walters. The developer even went as far as tracking down a backup that was corrupted. The problem is, however, the source code was apparently lost. That said, it sounded like BioWare really wanted to include it. Ever since Mass Effect Legendary Edition was announced, we basically knew it’d come with remasters of most all its over 40 DLCs.Īll things considered, the original ME’s Pinnacle Station DLC wasn’t anything to write home about and was easily skippable. While BioWare is opting to skirt around the multiplayer introduced in Mass Effect 3, they are also having to ignore a single DLC – Pinnacle Station.

Developed by Demiurge Studios, it released on August 25th 2009, nearly two years after the original game came out and. Pinnacle Station Left Out Of Mass Effect Legendary Edition FebruGabriel Stanford-Reisinger - No Comments Pinnacle Station is the second DLC pack released for the original Mass Effect. Pinnacle Station Left Out Of Mass Effect Legendary Edition.Mass Effect Legendary Edition launches for Xbox One, PlayStation 4 and PC on 14th May 2021. While it certainly would have been nice for all single-player content to have been included, Pinnacle Station wasn't particularly well received when it launched in 2009, and more substantial expansions such as Citadel will be included. And so, leaving it all on the cutting-room floor, it was heartbreaking.” Honestly, just because this is meant to be everything that the team ever created, brought together again - all the single-player content. “It would basically take us another full six months just to do this with most of the team we've got,” says Walters on the prospect of recreating the Pinnacle Station DLC from scratch. Walters described it as an “emotional roller coaster”. That particular bit of DLC was actually developed by a different team, Demiurge Studios, and despite EA and BioWare managing to obtain backups for the code from Demiurge, nearly all the data was corrupted. Speaking to Game Informer, Game Director Mac Walters explained that the team at BioWare wasn't able to include Pinnacle Station, the second piece of DLC released for the original Mass Effect, due to lost code. However, there is one piece of DLC that won't be making the cut. We got our first proper look at Mass Effect Legendary Edition earlier this week, which packages together the original trilogy of games with over forty pieces of DLC, along with overhauled visuals and performance.
