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Bioware has revealed more on the imminent Mass Effect Legendary Edition, which was announced in November for a 2021 release on PC. Several of the project's leads recently gave a livestreamed presentation showing the game, discussing new features, visual improvements, and the reasons behind certain decisions about the remaster What's the Mass Effect Legendary Edition release date? Mass Effect Legendary Edition will launch on May 14, 2021 on both Origin and Steam. What's in the Legendary Edition? Mass Effect Legendary Edition will include the original trilogy remastered plus "over 40 DLC including all story content, promo weapons, armors and packs available from the start." However, it will not include a holographic training mode, the Pinnacle Station DLC, because the source code was lost, and it's so minor it wasn't considered worth rebuilding from scratch. As the LE doesn't include Mass Effect 3's multiplayer mode (read on), it obviously doesn't include any of the multiplayer DLC either. The game has a unified front-end, which is to say a menu screen where you choose between the three games, and of course your progress and decisions carry over into the sequels as they always did. The three games are visually remastered for 4K, HDR, and DX11, with "tens of thousands" of up-ressed textures, enhanced models, lighting, shaders and VFX. It will support high refresh rate and ultra-wide (21:9) displays on PC. There are also improvements to depth-of-field, anti-aliasing, and an "unleashed"—which one presumes means unlocked—framerate on PC. There's a universal character creator across the trilogy with "a lot" more customisation options, and unified settings options across the three titles on PC (for some reason, each entry in the original trilogy had different settings). Probably the greatest relief in Bioware's demo was when a lift ride was shown on the PC version. This was in the Citadel, and ME: LE took 14 seconds to load the area where the original game took 52 seconds Minimum PC Requirements OS: 64-bit Windows 10 CPU: Intel Core i5 3570 or AMD FX-8350 RAM: 8 GB System Memory GPU: NVIDIA GTX 760, AMD Radeon 7970 / R9280X GPU RAM: 2 GB Video Memory HARD DRIVE: At least 120 GB of free space DIRECTX: DirectX 11 Recommended PC Requirements OS: 64-bit Windows 10 CPU: Intel Core i7-7700 or AMD Ryzen 7 3700X RAM: 16 GB System Memory GPU: NVIDIA GTX 1070, AMD Radeon Vega 56. GPU RAM: 4 GB Video Memory HARD DRIVE: At least 120 GB of free space DIRECTX: DirectX 11 more about game here https://www.pcgamer.com/mass-effect-legendary-edition-all-the-new-details-and-everything-we-know/