Import your Shepard from the original trilogy!

OK, because it seams no one else wont to be the first, I start.

Lila hair because the blond options suck. 😜

I like to see your Shep too @EA_David  😉

Nice character !!  :-)

@mustang-oliver 

Thanks, but no one seems to want to share their own Shepard.

Hop mine is not to intimidating? 😉

This works pretty well!

For the most part, the ME2 and ME3 facecodes work perfectly fine in Legendary Edition as is. The code portions that don't work are the colors: Skin tone, hair color, makeup, etc. In a few cases, the hairstyle codes don't work too. This tool does away with a lot of the guess work and translates all those color codes to LE codes that work if not 100%, then very close.

What I have noticed is not all colors are represented exactly so in some cases close approximations are used. Sometimes the tool even has multiple hair colors mapping to the same hair color. (For example, ME3 Hair E and F both map to Hair J in LE)

I am a bit disappointed that one of my favorite hair colors doesn't seem to map all that accurately though. In ME1 and ME2, Hair Color 3 was a natural coppery red. But according to this tool, it maps to Hair H in LE, which is like a deep crimson.

Anyway, I'm glad this tool exists. Maintaining a consistent Shepard across the Trilogy has always been important to me (As it has to so many of us). If you recall the ME3 Face Import bug back during the ME3 launch, I had written an entire Blog Post on the Bioware Social Network detailing how to retrieve your face code from your ME2 Save file if you created your Shep in ME1.

Meet Alexander Shepard, hero of the Skyllian Blitz and savior of the galaxy!

It turned out fairly well....

So I went and did photo mode which makes BMP format which doesn't work with their own website, weird. Anyway, screen shot and cropped it, then converted it, cause weirdness.

Now onto my Shepard. I love red hair, and well, I'm into red-heads. Secondly, I picked femshep not only for VA quality, but also because I am female, therefore, I tend to wanna play my own gender.

Some of you may have noticed red/brown eyes. They're the red you can pick in ME1, that's because Renegade, never have done it myself, so I thought I'd go and play it once. I have scars on the face, right cheek and mouth, that's from a near-death experience. Making her be "Ruthless" and Spacer because I dunno, I just decided Spacer was what I wanted this time 'round.

So yeah, this Shepard is also an Infiltrator/tech focus, so high sniping, planning on doing mass extinction and cycle repeat, and Liara romance, to get the Paramore achievements. I'm also pairing myself with Wrex and Liara in ME1, not sure about ME2/3, but definitely, not Garrus because class overlap, feelsbadman. Basically I'm going to play her Ruthlessness off more as a "you're my tool, and when you've outlived your purpose to me, you're gone." Kind of that way, where she employs any method necessary to come out on top. After this though, never playing Renegade again, I feel so bad playing as a Renegade.... I'm a Paragon at heart. But yeah, first legendary Shep.

This is Herculano Shepard. He was born on Earth and grew up with no parents, a la Bruce Wayne. However, unlike Wayne, Shepard had no "Alfred" and soon fell into the wrong crowd. Joining up the 10th Street Reds, Shepard grew to like killing, and decided to seek up a better life for himself by joining up The Alliance... as in a better life to keep killing. On Torfan he sacrificed most of his squad against batarian forces, and god only knows how many more he is willing to sacrifice after being assigned to the Normandy... 

Face code is:
1P3.111.11W.W31.11W.1H1.111.9W1.W11.W1C.513.45

I actually did not use the tool at first. I slapped in my ME3 code from my last play through and there she is. The colors had to be adjusted - skin, hair and make up colors were all missing, so I selected a 'close enough' value for these. Honestly, most of the makeup colors make her look like she's going to a rave, instead of saving the galaxy.  I miss the original colors. 

I've imported the same Jocelyn Shepard through my games, and she winds up looking like this in ME3. It's subtly different than the original, but the tool doesn't accept original ME face codes 😞

Left is my original, right is the ME1 --> ME2 --> ME3 game imported code thrown into ME: Legendary. The lighting could have been better in Legendary...

ME1 face code: 9-2-3-X.13-16-23-18-29-10-18.8-30-28-13-20-31-5.31-25-22-13.3-14-1-23-22.11-20-18.6-2-4-7.6-1-6

ME:Legendary: 993.DGN.IUA.I8V.TDK.W1W.QMD.3E1.NMB.KIA.246.N1G.6

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@TeahouseFox wrote:

I actually did not use the tool at first. I slapped in my ME3 code from my last play through and there she is. The colors had to be adjusted - skin, hair and make up colors were all missing, so I selected a 'close enough' value for these. Honestly, most of the makeup colors make her look like she's going to a rave, instead of saving the galaxy.  I miss the original colors. 

I've imported the same Jocelyn Shepard through my games, and she winds up looking like this in ME3. It's subtly different than the original, but the tool doesn't accept original ME face codes 😞

Left is my original, right is the ME1 --> ME2 --> ME3 game imported code thrown into ME: Legendary. The lighting could have been better in Legendary...

ME1 face code: 9-2-3-X.13-16-23-18-29-10-18.8-30-28-13-20-31-5.31-25-22-13.3-14-1-23-22.11-20-18.6-2-4-7.6-1-6

ME:Legendary: 993.DGN.IUA.I8V.TDK.W1W.QMD.3E1.NMB.KIA.246.N1G.6

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Same problem here. Their excuse is that with the changes to ME3 all the same features are not able to be imported. It sucks because one of the main reasons I bought the MELE was to enjoy the same Shepard through 3 games. I thought they would "fix" those incompatibilities, but to no avail.