(PC/Xbox/PS) ME2: Illium Cutscene Landing Bug

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@Enriador wrote:
@Dresden_N7Hoping for a fix too. They created and remastered in 4K an amazing cutscene but left it to play only once for no reason. Jarring.

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I've wondered this since 2010 with this cutscene oddity, surely this is easy to reinstate in a patch BW? XX

The old design oversight, or bug, carried from the original trilogy. When landing on Omega or docking to Citadel cinematic is played always, but not for Illium. Would be great to see it fixed.

ROFL....many people on PC actually installed mods to STOP the landing sequences from playing to speed load times, and now here you want it to play....If that is what you like, I just find it funny, and proof that different strokes for different folks still holds true to today, not everyone likes the same thing....

@mcsupersport The mods were because the loading screen animations had to play completely before loading would finish (even when actual loading happens relatively quickly). They changed the behavior in the remaster to mimic ME3 (loading is an async process and they just bail on the animation once it's done).

The landing movies could always be skipped, and they play on all the major worlds in the first 2 games except for this one that only plays once.

It's right up there with the Citadel entrance in terms on wonder and spectacle, why only allow the landing cutscenes to repeat for 2 or the 3 main hubs, when arguably the best one (Illium) only plays once ever?  Tuchankas is a much lesser hub than Illium too, yet both it's cutscenes play each time without fail (same with the Citadel).

This has irked me since 2010, so this is a decade old irk....quite a long one haha.

Pls BioWare and EA, this surely couldn't be more than an ini edit or something - it's been modded/fixed on PC, this is for PS5/XB, aka the console Krogans X

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@devSin wrote:

@mcsupersport The mods were because the loading screen animations had to play completely before loading would finish (even when actual loading happens relatively quickly). They changed the behavior in the remaster to mimic ME3 (loading is an async process and they just bail on the animation once it's done).

The landing movies could always be skipped, and they play on all the major worlds in the first 2 games except for this one that only plays once.

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Therein lies the crux of the weirdness and why it surely could be remedied in a patch rather easily - Citadel/Tuchanka/Illium are the 3 hubs somewhat equally, yet Illium gets weirdly hung out to dry on the cutscene front.

The mod that fixes this weird decision is here : https://www.nexusmods.com/masseffect2/mods/53/?tab=posts&navtag=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nexusmods.com%2Fmasseffect2%2Fajax%2Fmodimages%2F%3Fuser%3D0%26id%3D53%26gid%3D264

Seems as though a lot of people miss it too, glad I'm not the only one lol.

This! How many times do we need to see the landing scenes (man I miss having a PC big time!)? I mean, there aren't any new revelations or scenery to experience in them with each landing. I wish there was an implementation where these cut scenes could be limited or turned off. They are redundant and just make the game longer than needs be. One thing that's certainly annoying is leaving Illium, the cutscene cannot be skipped like other ones can be when they start.

Also, in Mass Effect 3 I would like to have the ability tio skip scenes after experiencing them once. Some of the mission start scenes are just too long tbh. Is the context important, most certainly but only once, after that I am wasting time listening to the same dialogue over and over again.