Mass Effect 3 DLC Missing From EA App Store
Today, as I was making some backups of the Mass Effect games using ME3Tweaks Mod Manager, I was reminded that I had never purchased the Groundside Resistance Pack DLC, which includes some fun guns fr...
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Hi, @HannibalSpectre right now all of ME 3 (an ME 2) DLC are part of respective base games and that's why they no longer have own pages at the store. In theory a fresh install of the game should include all DLC.
That said there are people reporting this doesn't work for them (if you want you may check up these topics:
2, https://answers.ea.com/t5/Other-Mass-Effect-Games/mass-effect-2/td-p/12532211 )
If you want you may reinstall you ME 3 and see if it comes with all the DLC for you, but if you read the first topic, a user is reporting that reinstall made his saves unavailable/don't want to load. So maybe it's better to wait a bit to see how this cases will develop.
Edit: Sorry, forgot to tag you. And that in game message of technical break is there for at least couple of days for me too.
Edit 2: deleted something that may cause confusion.
Well, this is indeed confusing. Your edit doesn't matter lol 🙂
When clicking the manage button, it shows all of the other DLCs that I have. Many of those were not free, and in particular my Collector's Edition materials are probably not included as free DLC for everyone. Maybe they are?
Anyways, Manage button shows me all of the DLCs that I paid for, and all of the free MP DLC. Missing, is Groundside Resistance Pack.
If it is included in the base game, it is not seemingly included in my game. Mod Manager recognizes this as missing DLC, so the files for that DLC are not installed or included in my game. I have already done a repair of the installation.
Thank you for your response. I wish there was a direct download link for that DLC (if it is indeed free and supposed to be included in the game) or that I could just buy it. Either way, it is not something I have access to in-game.
ETA - all of my saves are heavily modded. They are modded without this DLC though. I will be able to play my old saves, as I know what mods I had installed for them and plan on reinstalling the same. That would probably fix @Grotaiche issue IMO, but I cannot be certain.
To summarize:
All DLCs for all games of the Original trilogy are free available by now.
They should be displayed and be downloadable in the "Manage add-ons" section of the specific game in the Library of EA app.
(For ME2 and ME3 that is, the DLCs for ME1 are part of the main game download.)Unfortunately, the EA app is still having problems with permissions for older games for some users, and this seems to be the problem you are having.
@Resztaczasu- no worries, thanks for trying to help! Mods do not have anything to do with my issue, but mods can confirm that the content is not there. That is the reason for mentioning mods - ME3 Mod Manager makes a backup of your vanilla game installation, so that if you screw something up you can just restore the backup copy and get back to playing again. When it does this backup, it scans your files and tells you what DLC you do not have, in case you forgot to download something you own. In this case, it told me that I do not have this DLC installed. Holger's post clarified this; the DLC are free, but should still appear as DLC and that these things have not been "incorporated" into the basegame. I needed this clarification; it could have been that ME3MM needed to be updated. This is not the case, ME3MM is under constant development and is a great tool for these games if you weren't aware. Lots of things that the Mod Maker can fix, including the dreaded ME3 Retaliation Glitch that can prevent players from joining the multiplayer. Anyways, mentioned you so that you would know that mods have nothing to do with my issue, I haven't installed any yet.
Permissions issue at what level, I am wondering? This is an internal EA database issue, how this isn't simple flags ON/OFF makes zero sense to me.
Is the game owned? Is all of the DLC now included? Yes, yes. Click, click.
Doesn't work that way ☹️
Specifically, the "for some users" part really eats me. Why some users? I run Windows 10 like the majority of the userbase, this is a freshly installed Windows. I move folders for some things to different drives, which is possibly involved here, but it has never bothered Origin or any competing product.
I wanted to reply to you to just say that indeed, I do not see the Groundside Resistance Pack DLC or the Genesis DLC when I click on the "Manage" button, but I do see everything else (because I bought it?). The permissions are there that they can see what I have purchased and make sure they are in my account (which is better for me than a lot of people, yikes), but there is not a permission for me to add new DLC that is free for everyone?
LOL
This is not laughing at you, I appreciate your response and think what you wrote is accurate - I just cannot fathom how or why, which has nothing to do with you!
Specifically, the "for some users" part really eats me. Why some users?
Look, I have no inside knowledge of EA's internal file system, so I can't say why some accounts have this problem and others don't, but these games (the original trilogy) are "ancient" considering how fast things move in that area.
So old games on old accounts, with permissions set in old file systems, made for different applications, different languages and game versions, all of which have to be implanted into EA app with a new file system.
That screams problems.
Sorry for any confusion I may cause @HannibalSpectre . I have no experience with modes, so won't comment on that.
Not sure about Collectors Edition, but if you are missing some of the not in game DLC like soundtrack or artbook there are here now:
