List of Bugs Discovered in Mass Effect Legendary Edition

Hello everyone!

I don't know if this is the best place to chronicle bugs that I've encountered throughout Mass Effect Legendary Edition (legacy bugs and new bugs alike), but I wanted to write them down somewhere. Hopefully, this will help bring them into the spotlight if they are not already. I will place them in chronological order as best I can.

1) UNC Listening Post Alpha has an encounter where waves of Rachni do not contribute XP (Mass Effect 1).

2) Shepard's facial hair is inconsistent in Mass Effect 2 if you created a custom Shepard in Mass Effect 1. It often appears lighter than it should or not at all. This is not a Legacy Bug.

3) Not all Asari hands are blue on the Citadel in Mass Effect 2. Some appear to have a human complexion.

4) The Illium landing cutscene only plays once and is never played again (Mass Effect 2). This is inconsistent with every other HUB planet you land on in Mass Effect 2.

5) The paragon check for Conrad Verner does not work when you meet him on Illium. No matter how you treat him in Mass Effect 1, Conrad only recalls you holding a gun to his face.

6) The heavy mech on N7: Mining The Canyon behaves very bizarrely. It often faces the wrong way, shoots at walls long after it should, etc. This is not a Legacy Bug.

7) The Hammerhead does not appear in the Normandy hanger when facing off against the collector drone that invades the Normandy at the start of the suicide mission.

8) Players are unable to gain paragon or renegade points throughout the entirety of the Overlord DLC in Mass Effect 2.

9) Hand placements for every character during a call are incorrect in both Mass Effect 2 and Mass Effect 3. Their hands are much too far away from their ears. This is not a Legacy Bug.

10) Players cannot reset Javik's powers in Mass Effect 3 as they are able to with every other party member via the medical bay.

I hope to see these bugs fixed if only because so many legacy bugs have already been attended to. I want this to be the definitive Mass Effect trilogy collection no matter what console it is being played on. In a world where live services are becoming more and more common, I hope it isn't too much to ask from BioWare.

Thanks for coming to my TED talk.

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13 Replies

draconiam
Seasoned Ace
4 years ago
Mass Effect 3 Legacy:
-Ashley William is suppossed to have more banter in the ship other than with Tali but as of 2012 a conversation she has with Liara upon getting into the Normandy SR-2 which has not been fixed to this day (according to a video both of their lines plus Glyph were fully voiced), I know of a video where the conversation happened but said video was deleted, you might have to ask Legacy modders which reportedly restored said content;
Mass Effect 3 LE:
-the Asari in the Citadel DLC vault archives are using Blue Suns armor rather than the regular black Asari armor which they used in the Legacy version;
-Admirals Hackett and Anderson uniforms models show inconsistencies;
Mass Effect 2 LE:
-the Paramour stage flag appears to not be triggering properly post Collectors Base as it did in the original release.
holger1405
Hero+
4 years ago
@CRUM300-creed

Thanks for this.

Some remarks:

1.) is probably intended behaviour because you have help in this fight from Turrets and non party characters.

5.) There is a scene in ME3 that explains this. Bioware put that in ME3 because they never fixed it in the original ME2.
Conrad refers to this incident and apologizes for accusing you to have "shoving a gun into his face."

It is likely that Bioware did not fixed the ME2 bug because of the ME3 explanation.

6.) I doubt that this will ever get fixed, the quest works just fine.

8.) Overlord never gave any paragon or renegade points. Don't know if that was intended behaviour or just an oversight, but they will most probably don't change that now.

Do you play on a PC?
sundance31us
Hero+
4 years ago
Regarding Conrad's Paragon/Renegade Bug in ME2:
This is actually a ME1 bug; somehow both the paragon and renegade plot flags become triggered after the final scene with Conrad. The bug itself has no effect on ME1 and lays dormant in the save file until that file is imported into ME2.
Final ME1 save plot flags for Conrad (left), ME2 save plot flags for Conrad (right).
As Holger1405 pointed out by April 2011 BW decided that Conrad's memory issue would be addressed in ME3. At the time of ME2's release ME1 wasn't available for the PlayStation, so the bug was exclusive to XBox and PC gammers who imported a save (and only noticed by players who hadn't used the renegade option).
With the bug in place you get all the dialogue wheel options with Conrad (training/armor/etc.); the only thing you don't get is the paragon flag confrontation with the bar owner before going into the bar.
If you have access to the Trilogy Save Editor it's possible to correct the plot flags before interacting with Conrad.
Spoiler
Personally I'll leave the final conversation with Conrad in ME1 to after the lock-down...I can easily see Shep loosing his temper with Conrad at that moment (say on his way to see Anderson) and pulling a gun on him.
fakecreed
New Traveler
4 years ago
@holger1405 wrote:
@CRUM300-creed
Thanks for this.
Some remarks:
1.) is probably intended behaviour because you have help in this fight from Turrets and non party characters.
5.) There is a scene in ME3 that explains this. Bioware put that in ME3 because they never fixed it in the original ME2.
Conrad refers to this incident and apologizes for accusing you to have "shoving a gun into his face."
It is likely that Bioware did not fixed the ME2 bug because of the ME3 explanation.
6.) I doubt that this will ever get fixed, the quest works just fine.
8.) Overlord never gave any paragon or renegade points. Don't know if that was intended behaviour or just an oversight, but they will most probably don't change that now.
Do you play on a PC?
Thanks for the quick response. 🙂 I can definitely understand that it is intended behavior with regards to my first listed item now that you mention it. Conrad always walked the line of breaking the 4th wall so it's kinda funny that he apologizes for the bug in ME3. I own MELE on PS4.
holger1405
Hero+
4 years ago
@CRUM300-creed

You're welcome!

@sundance31us

sundance31us wrote:

This is actually a ME1 bug; somehow both the paragon and renegade plot flags become triggered after the final scene with Conrad. The bug itself has no effect on ME1 and lays dormant in the save file until that file is imported into ME2.

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Exactly.

Besides the Save editor fix, there are actually two Mods (That can be found her, please read the op and next post.) that provide a fix for PC players.
DocTheGamer
4 years ago
Here's a few more issues introduced in MELE, and their corresponding threads

Ragdolled enemies in ME2 / ME3 get stuck

The Grizzly on Noveria in ME1 is inaccessible
Admiral Xen's War Asset is missing, and Aralakh Company's can disappear
Miranda and the Illusive Man's dialogue in the intro to ME2 does not acknowledge your choices (perhaps legacy to the import comic, but as it's now always installed it is permanently unavoidable)
The Thresher Maw in Grunt's loyalty mission does not rotate correctly

A specific dialogue sequence does not play correctly in Priority: Geth Dreadnought
The aiming / facing direction can lock up temporarily in ME1 and ME2
The Hammerhead uses the incorrect scan sound for a successful scan
The screen safe zone is broken in ME3 (too many threads to link)
draconiam
Seasoned Ace
4 years ago
@DocTheGamer This is an old post from 2012 so don't comment on it, just read the entries (https://answers.ea.com/t5/Mass-Effect-3/Ashley-Williams-bugged-lines-in-dialogues/td-p/236398)

There are various extra lines of dialog from Ashley Williams ONE of which is a fully voiced conversation between her and Liara as well Glyph. One of the criticisms about Williams is that she barely has lines of dialog aboard the ship (save the Turian Crash and Turian Bomb missions after Rannoch and take her and Tali on the Turian Bomb mission to unlock ship banter between the two of them) but if this is true then she might have other conversations around the ship but they are buried in the code line.
DocTheGamer
4 years ago
That sounds like content intentionally cut from the original game, as I understand it this thread is for issues introduced by the Legendary Edition.
draconiam
Seasoned Ace
4 years ago
@DocTheGamer The marksmen Bug (which some people have reported still happens) is also listed there in the comments, the conversation with Liara was restored by modders on the Legacy edition which is what the OP is also listing.
mattpina10
4 years ago
Ashley’s romance scene in ME3 is buggy, her and Shepard’s eyes are in and out like they’re possessed. Their mouths don’t move when talking. Hopefully another patch addresses this soon