

Despite Pinnacle Station's rocky critical reception at launch, many fans enjoyed the pack, and it would be a shame to see it lost to time.Since Mass Effect Legendary Edition includes all three games' DLC, many players are encountering Mass Effect 2's Overlord DLC for the first time ever. Pinnacle Station still exists on both the Xbox 360 and PC versions of Mass Effect it's even free for PC users on Origin, meaning that skilled modders in the Mass Effect community may be able to reverse engineer Pinnacle Station into the trilogy remaster.

There is a chance that fans will restore Pinnacle Station to Mass Effect Legendary Edition through mods. Pinnacle Station focused more on providing players with more ways to experience Mass Effect's combat. However, Pinnacle Station did have its fans, as plenty of players enjoyed the survival missions and extra in-universe VR combat scenarios. Pinnacle Station wasn't the best-received DLC pack for Mass Effect, with critics calling the pack uninspired in comparison to the more story-focused Bring Down the Sky. Plus, there are also plenty of other changes and updates fans would like to see Legendary Edition focus on instead. This would have forced BioWare to delay the game past its May 14 release date. While it would technically have been possible to recreate Pinnacle Station for Legendary Edition, Walters explained that it would have taken a lot of time and effort to recreate the DLC from scratch. RELATED: Mass Effect Anatomy: 5 Strange Facts About Commander Shepard's Body Demiurge Studios was able to find a backup, but unfortunately, this was corrupted and no longer usable. In an interview with Game Informer, Mass Effect Legendary Edition game director Mac Walters stated that they went through quite the ordeal trying and track down the Pinnacle Station's source code. Reportedly, Demiurge Studios lost the original source code for Pinnacle Station. The studio has since been acquired by Sega and has recently been involved with several mobile projects. Demiurge has been involved in such projects as Borderland s, BioShock and Medal of Honor: Airborne.

Pinnacle Station was made by a third-party, Demiurge Studios, with the permission of BioWare. However, BioWare has confirmed that Pinnacle Station will not be included in Legendary Edition, meeting the same fate as Mass Effect 3's multiplayer.Īs for why the DLC is being excluded, it's first important to mention that Pinnacle Station was not developed internalled by BioWare. Those who still have either the Xbox 360 or PC version of Mass Effect can still download the expansion to this day. Once the player beat those secret missions, they would be rewarded with a new apartment and have rare items constantly given to them. Completing all the survival missions would unlock the ability to replay the previous missions with an extended timer.
