[HOT] : How to transfer your old mass effect saves to the legendary version

Mass Effect, a long-standing series developed by the BioWare studio is back in May 2021 in a legendary version that brings together all three games including all additional content. This version not only contains all the content of the three games, but has benefited from special care allowing fans and new players to (re) discover the Mass Effect trilogy in the best conditions.

If you’ve spent any time on the original version of the Mass Effect games and racked up a ton of hours with Commander Shepard, you might be wondering if you have the option to transfer old save games from the original Mass Effect trilogy. towards the “Legendary Edition”. If you’ve kept your PC version saves and want to pick up an unfinished game, here’s what you need to know.

Compatibility of old Mass Effect Legendary Edition saves:

Of course, please note that it is not possible to resume your original edition saves if you are playing on console. Bioware has not planned a feature on home consoles (Xbox and PlayStation) to convert its saves to the legendary edition of the trilogy. If you play on a PC on the other hand, you can import a save very easily on Mass Effect 2 and 3. Be careful, however, that it does not work with Mass Effect, first of the name!

The first Mass Effect (in the original version) uses a different save format than ME2 and 3. In the Legendary Edition, all three games use the same format, so the saves of the original version of Mass Effect 1 appear corrupted. We will certainly have to wait to see the community release a tool to convert old backups from 1 to the legendary version.

How to import your save from Mass Effect 2 and 3 to the legendary version on PC:

Start ME2 or ME3, and start a new game.

As soon as the cinematic of the beginning of the adventure starts, quit the game to return to your PC desktop by pressing ALT + F4.

Now copy the folder that contains the backups to import from the original version of ME2 or ME3.

Navigate to the Legendary Edition save folder (C: Users Documents BioWare Mass Effect Legendary Edition Save (ME2 or ME3).

Paste the folder of the character to import into this directory.

Relaunch the game making sure you do not select “resume” in the launcher when prompted.

Load the save you just imported and play!