On May 14, Mass Effect: Legendary Edition will bring 4K versions of the original Mass Effect trilogy plus most of its downloadable content to PS4, Xbox One, and PC. However, one single-player expansion is notably absent: the first gameās Pinnacle Station. According to an interview with Game Informer, the original source code was corrupted.
Pinnacle Station marks an odd moment in the original trilogy. Rather than a narrative-driven expansionālike the third gameās venerable CitadelDLCāPinnacle focused more on gameplay, serving up about a dozen timed combat missions, wave battles, and other general tasks. It gave a taste of Mass Effect multiplayer without the multiplayer. (A true cooperative mode with other players wouldnāt come to the series until 2012ās Mass Effect 3. Multiplayer wonāt be returning for Legendary Edition.)
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The Pinnacle Station expansion was not developed by BioWare, like much of the franchise, but by the Boston-based Demiurge Studios. In developing Legendary Edition, BioWare and EA hit up Demiurge for the original Pinnacle Station files, but much of the data was corrupted.
This meant BioWare would need to recreate Pinnacle Station if it was going to make it into Legendary Edition. Instead, the DLC was left on the table.
āIt would basically take us another full six months just to do this with most of the team weāve got,ā Mac Walters, game director on Legendary Edition, told Game Informer. āI wish we could do it. Honestly, just because this is meant to be everything that the team ever created, brought together againāall the single-player content. And so, leaving it all on the cutting-room floor, it was heartbreaking.ā
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