#citadel dlc is the best dlc

[swaps55]

I think a lot about Shepard's fish tank wipeout in the Citadel DLC.

The entire DLC is this lighthearted love letter to Mass Effect, and it's beautiful. But then there's THIS moment. When Shepard falls through a fish tank.

The entire way down, they desperately try to arrest their fall. They have no shields. No combat armor. There is no one to catch them. It feels like this is one of the few times there is ever fear. And they don't land gently. And the cut scene lingers on it. There is no levity in this moment. Shepard is on the ground, groaning in pain, slow to get up, clutching their ribs. First instinct before they try to get to their feet? Reach for the gun. Have that first. Then see if you can stand.

And I think the only reason we can have this moment, where Shepard is vulnerable, injured, and in trouble, is because there is no one there to see. The moment Brooks gets on the comm, they crack a joke. "Yup. Feeling good." While unable to stand up straight.

We get this at the end of the game, too, but that's when the stakes are at their highest. That's when it's supposed to be hard. It's no less magnificent then, but now, in this moment? When everything was happy and fun and silly? MAN.

And afterward, everyone jokes about it. Every single member of your squad makes a crack about the sushi place. And Shepard plays along. Haha, yeah, fell right through it, while trying to change the subject.

No one knows what that fall was like. No one saw Shepard lying on the ground in the bowls of the Silversun Strip, water dripping off them, struggling to get to their feet.

And no one asks, because it's Shepard.

#mass effect #commander shepard #i have a lot of feelings about this #mass effect meta #citadel dlc is the best dlc

[wendeeesaucy]

Chaotic duo Shakarian bantering like there isn't a literal battle happening outside

#they banter and joke with eachother in such a flirty and playful way throughout the games #like the whole garrus talking about the best place to fight in during mordin's loyalty mission and then brought up in the citadel dlc #honestly there are so many more moments like that but it's one that i recently remember it's so cute #shakarian #garrus x shepard #garrus x femshep #femshep x garrus #mass effect garrus #femshep #commander shepard #garrus vakarian #mass effect legendary edition #mass effect #selene shepard

[thefloatingstone]

He...... He really DOES fucking say "It's Jokin' time!" doesn't he?........

#Also “WELCOME TO THE ISLAND OF DOCTOR ME!!!” is the best line spoken by one Lt. Moreau I have ever heard in my entire life. #Mass Effect #Mass Effect 3 #Citadel DLC #Joker Moreau

[solstheimtxt]

Leviathan is such a good DLC oml

#delete later #citadel still best dlc overall #but leviathan i think is the best story dlc #and i love the borderline horror aspect it takes on

[tinyrogue]

#tiny's games #mass effect #mass effect trilogy #mass effect legendary edition #citadel dlc #normandy #commander shepard #i love her #beautiful #it's been a good ride — the best

[socialprawn]

Is anyone else mad with how not only james vega is not romanceable but also on the me3 dlc they thought of the worst way possible for shepard to “approach” him :V

#my style my attitude u love me or hate me but dont fak w me #my shep and vega hold hands in the battlefield #i have to replay to make sure though cos im basing off my 16 yr old self’s experience of mass effect HAHA #but citadel dlc was horrid w vega :V #if he totally feels like hes not romanceable like… totally #theyre still best friends 🫧🤍🫧

[fourteenthz]

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#so this is embarrassing.... #i was supposed to finish me3 today but after doing the citadel dlc I just couldn’t #sitting on my bed and sobbing but that's alright #idk why i miss it already like i knew ppl grew attached to those characters but I didnt expect whatever was thag #so like postponed attack to cerberus headquarters to tomorrow bc I cannot handle it rn #that final scene with everybody looking at the normandy.... shepard smiling and saying 'the best' yeab #that shit won my heart #I'll delete this later ig just... idk just tossing this here to see if i get to stop crying for a bit and just go to bed lmfao #fuck you bioware (affectionate) #kelly says #dl #dont rb btw !! just u know random thoughts about someone playing me for the first time #kinda all over the place with my feelings here chief might need some help tomorrow

[most-datable-datable-bracket]

MOST DATABLE DATABLE CHARACTER FINAL ROUND

Garrus propaganda:

"Garrus is a character who went from being a shit head punk in ME1 and grows and betters himself over the games. He talks over the hard choices in ME3 without judging Shepard no matter what they choice. He is pretty much the first to stand up for them and even when his own home is being destroyed and he doesn’t know if his father and sister are alive he’s there for SHEPARD. He is there for the person who is always there for everyone else! ME3 Garrus is honestly Best Garrus and I want to celebrate how good his character arc is over the games.

And the best part is: the romance doesn’t fix him. He still grows and improves if you romance him or not!

Idk, I just don’t think it’s super fair to reduce him to his ME1 character when the fact that him growing and improving is the part I like best about him. Garrus, to me, shows you can always get better and life is about always getting better. It’s never too late to be better.

And he has the power to make Shepard dance good in the Citadel DLC."

Zevran propaganda:

"what about 'for the chance to be by your side i would storm the dark city itself'?? he can essentially propose!! if you die he canonically never loves again!!"

"literally the sweetest romance ive ever had the chance of doing

everytime i play origins i try to romance someone else but the momebt he starts talking i absolutely melt!!!!!

zevran shouldnt just be boiled down to bisexual elf man

he also is deeply traumatized since he was used for his body since a young child

so the warden and zevrans romance is such a sweet and slow romance ws you slowly help him realize that you dont just see him as his body!!!!

hes the sweetest man on earth and i will die on this hill

i will never love anyone more than this man"

#garrus vakarian #Mass Effect #zevran arainai #dragon age #dragon age: origins #MDDC Finale #most datable datable character

[onedismay]

Playing the Citadel DLC for the first time. Spent a long time watching fish with this random turian. There's fish!! In the walls!! I don't even know this guy's name but we're best friends now

#mass effect #commander shepard #turian

[swaps55]

#mass effect #mshenko #kaidan alenko #sheploo #otp: after all this time #citadel dlc is the best dlc #just me living in photo mode #and abusing idle animations for my own gain #i do it for the otp #queue continuum

[hungerofhadarr]

I would hate being Shepard in the citadel dlc imagine breaking all your bones and the only thing your best friends and your lover (s) care about is the fish tank . WORRYING ABOUT THE WRONG THING THAT SHATTERED ACROSS THE PAVEMENT

#mass effect

[jazzfordshire]

Hi Jazz! ME anon here with one last update.

So I finished the game almost 3 weeks ago now and wow. I don't think all the thoughts could be put into one ask but I'll try to say a few.

First of all Citadel dlc was so insanely good my god the found family of it all almost made me cry ngl. I replayed it 2 times, did both the chill party and the more energetic one, both were so entertaining.

Femshep and Liara are now one of my top 3 couples of all time I think they broke my brain a little with how much I love them. And that last scene with Liara sharing her memories with Shep did in fact make me cry

The last mission was insane, and the ending was so mean damn. Ofc there was only one choice for me in the end bc I need Shep to live so Red ending was it for me. That cliffhanger man, ouch. But God i'd love to see the squad reunited at some point.

So few pieces of media have ever taken over my brain like this and tbh it's the best game i've ever played to date. I didn't have that much interest in playing it before seeing a few of your posts about ME so ty for making me interested and for answering my really long asks ranting abt it even though you really didn't have to💕

I will now proceed to think abt this for the next 3 to 5 business years. Cheers!

WE GOT ANOTHER ONE, BOYS

#I am so glad you liked it!! #it has lived rent free in my brain for like 10 years

[fuzzyhairedfreak]

Okay Larian here's how you fix your reputation wrt Wyll being SO ignored by y'all's writing: Give us a fancy ball DLC that he is the star of. Let it be all about his life and his backstory, let us meet his childhood friends and enemies, let us defend his honor in a dramatic duel, let us do a fancy dance with him in front of all of Baldurian high society (whether we're romancing him or not) (seriously even the straight guys on reddit were sad they couldn't dance with him in camp without it being a romance thing). It doesn't have to be as high stakes as some other well known fantasy rpg video game's masquerade ball mission, and in fact I'd rather it wasn't. Rather than the Winter Palace, I'm looking for more of a Citadel DLC vibe if you know what I mean. Let there be some drama, a little plot to solve maybe, but mostly good party times with my friends, and getting to learn more about Wyll as a kid and teen, and Wyll telling us all the best gossip from back then. More interpersonal drama than plot. But most importantly, give Wyll romancers our the Sound of Music Maria and Mr. von Trapp showing the kids a folk dance on the patio. Give us our Pride and Prejudice (2005) no one else in the room moment. Our Cinderella and Prince Charming 'So This Is Love' scene. I'm begging

#wyll ravengard #idk if anything they do can actually fix their bs but.... they could try. and I want a ball. so. #and of course if you aren't romancing wyll you can have a romantic dance with whoever else in there somewhere #but the drama should revolve around him <3 #if anyone has written this as a fic yet link me #i can't read wyll fic yet bc i haven't finished my playthru where i'm romancing him but. for later #this has been an post #bg3

[thefloatingstone]

Mass Effect mod list

Ok I said I'd make a list of the Mods I have installed for Mass Effect. Sorry it took me a while.

All my mods are just tweaks and adjustments, nothing that actually changes vanilla in any meaningful way or alters what the core experience is like.

This list is spoiler free

First off, some pointers;

You will need the Mass Effect Mod manager. It works the same as the Mod Manager used for Skyrim, but this one is specific to Mass Effect. You can find it here

For textures, the Mods and Tweaks manager has automatically included the program needed to mod textures for the game. I don't need to teach you how to use these programs as they have built-in tutorials and on screen instructions that walk you through everything.

I learned this the hard way. Only change textures AFTER you have added all the mods you want (that are not texture based). If you change the textures and then want to add more mods, the mod manager will stop you because this confuses how it applies the mods + textures. So make sure to do ALL your mods before you add texture changes.

Whatever else mods you add, make sure to add the LE1 Community Patch, the Unofficial LE2 patch, and the LE3 Community Patch. These are general patches that fixes bugs. That's it. They just fix bugs. But they are essential.

Ok! With all of that out of the way, here you go! No "read more" thing, we die like men.

1: Default Femshep Retexture.

This was actually one of the main reasons I wanted to mod my game. This mod's texture doesn't change Jane Shepard's iconic design, it just uh... makes it better. Mostly because a bunch of game dev dudes are not the best to understanding things like.... make up.

This texture makes Shepard look less like a straight guy's idea of a drag queen and more like an actual person who knows what they're doing would. It also gives her freckles better placement and makes her eyebrows.... less like that.

I love this mod to death. I nearly cried when I saw how good she looks in-game

2: Iconic Femshep Hair Fix For LE3

For reasons unknown, Bioware did not give Jane Shepard her iconic hairstyle in the third game. (Probably for the same reason nobody has the right blood colour in the third game either) This makes sure she has the right hair style in the finale.

3: LE1, LE2 and LE3 Garrus and Turians - Face and Eyes Textures

I'm only linking the first game's but make sure to get the same for the 2nd and 3rd game.

For whatever reason, the Turians often get shafted in the texture department. There is also a bug which has apparently been fixed in the Legendary Edition where Garrus' texture will load in super low res.

This just fixes some resolution issues, fixes their eyes, and just improves the over-all skin texture. Again, this made Garrus and the other Turians look so good I almost cried.

4: Immersive Emails

When the third game launched, there was an app you could get for your phone (irl I mean) where the characters would message you depending on decisions you make in the game itself. Including getting messages from whoever you decide to romance. Sadly the app was never available in my country, but the screenshots were circulated a lot.

(He's asking if you wanna fuck)

Anyway, with the app now defunct, this mod adds ALL the messages into the game itself to appear in your in-game emails instead.

Highly recommend not only for the romance ones, but because in one of the best DLCs in the final game, you get to hear everyone essentially yelling at each other in the Normandy Discord chat, and I imagine that's basically what these messages kinda are.

5: Some mods that restore things that were accidentally removed in the Legendary Edition

Admiral Daro'Xen Restored Kirrahe Makes Good Missing Codex Restored (ME2LE) BUGFIX Genesis Intro Dialogue Undo Mod - Legendary Edition

6: Kasumi Dress ported to Citadel DLC

You get a cocktail dress in the 2nd game as part of a mission which has also become rather iconic.

This ports it over to the third game for a specific mission which required formal wear.

This mod isn't essential at all, I just like the 2nd game's dress a lot

7: Casual Underwear for Femshep

For reasons I'm sure will forever remain a mystery to us 🙄 Shepard's default underwear in the game is like.... lacey and frilly and shit?

That's fine if you like that sort of thing but it really clashes with her personality as well as like... it doesn't make a lot of sense? And in the modder's own words: "I discovered the butt window on femshep's underwear today which sent me into a spiraling modding frenzy (that and fuzzy memories of how awkward the ME3 cutscenes-)"

Anyway this mod replaces the horny game devs' underwear with something that's more in character for her.

(also low key Athletic underwear is a lot sexier imo)

8: Casual Hubs for LE1

The Team Mates wear their casual outfits while on the Normandy or on a non-threatening world like the Citadel. I like this one because I always felt it must be uncomfortable for them, especially when Shepard is allowed to wear her casual outfits on the ship.

There is also this mod for LE2

The casual outfits for some squadmates in the 2nd game are optional, such as Jack wearing a prison uniform on the ship which I personally would not put her in because she's too chaotic to keep that sort of thing on.

The woman was gonna be walking around topless for the 2nd game until EA told Bioware "no" ffs.

9: Cerberus Ladies Wear Cerberus

Bioware never patched the 2nd game so that the Cerberus women actually wear Cerberus uniforms. This fixes that.

10: LE3 Opening Remaster

in the modder's words:

"LE3 Opening Remaster aims to improve the opening cinematic of Mass Effect 3, using remastered footage from an early ME3 Xbox 360 demo, as well as diversifies the opening text scroll if the Arrival DLC was completed."

11: Apartment Additions

In the 2nd game you could invite Shepard's SO to her cabin to hang out. Someone made a similar mod for the 3rd game 👀

12: LE3 Prologue Outfit Customization

The third game's prologue is weird if you have a specific casual outfit you like to put Shepard in (it's the hoodie... we all know it's the hoodie) and she doesn't wear it.

This mod let's you decide which outfit she should be wearing in the opening to better match how you've been dressing her in the 2nd game.

13: Garrus with No Visor and New Outfits (LE2)

Gives Garrus some more outfits he can wear rather than just his green one and optionally removes his visor when he's wearing his casuals (or always if you just dislike the visor).

The visor is lore important so I keep it on him most of the time... but I have it removed for when he's wearing his casuals because it's just kind of awkward for him to have it when he and Shepard start sleeping together.

Also he just looks better in blue than green ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Mods I couldn't install because I had already installed textures :(

LE1 and LE3 Diversification mods.

"A project designed to diversify LE1 through increased population count, better species' population balancing, outfit/appearance diversification and overall breathing more life into the world."

This includes adding female turian NPCs to the first game (they were only given a model in the 3rd game because something something video games) As well as giving the Elcor their walking animation.

The Diversification project is busy being worked on for the 2nd game as well but for now is only applicable to Omega.

I'm only linking to the first game's mod but you can find the third game's from the same creator.

Please note; Diversification mod and Variety are mod are TWO DIFFERENT MODS and may cause clashes if you install both.

I want this mod so bad..... I might risk breaking my game just to add it I swear sldjfsdklfjksd

And that's everything I use!

Before anyone asks, I don't have the "ALOT of textures" mod installed despite it being really good for no other reason than it replaces the signs into english text and that just bothers me for some reason. Especially since the most common spoken language by all species is "Trade". So having signs in english just doesn't make sense to me.

Shepard is an Alliance marine. She would know how to read Trade.

There is also a mod to improve lighting to an insane degree but I haven't messed with it because it requires a seperate program to introduce modern lighting engines to older games and I am too intimidated by it to try it.

Anyway I hope this helps!

#Mass Effect #Mass Effect mods #Mass Effect textures #Nexus mods #Lore friendly #long post

[solstheimtxt]

In celebration of me beating the citadel dlc on insanity (still less difficult than the reaper on Rannoch i s2fg), I drew Vince having some fun (read as: getting shot at b/c I died at this part SO MANY TIMES it was harder than the fucking clone fight)

ft Solaris the Combat drone, the actual MVP. (Engineer Shep best Shep fight me)

#mass effect #oc:vince #commander shepard #citadel dlc #me3 #mass effect 3 #custom shepard #mass effect 3 citadel dlc #pls dont actually fight me i know all classes are good and i love them #hes probably yelling at brooks and kaidan tbqh

[tinyrogue]

#tiny's games #mass effect #mass effect trilogy #mass effect legendary edition #citadel dlc #the best crew in the world ♥ #why shoot something once when you can shoot it 46 more times?