"It's like watching a friend lose a parent - maybe you're not attached, but you feel the secondhand distress"

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It appears I was premature in suggesting that the closure of BioWare might quickly spell an end for Mass Effect 3 's strangely good , preposterously enduring co-op mode. I reinstalled and logged on just last week, and easily found a series of packed lobbies. Still, it was always regrettable that 2021's Mass Effect Legendary Edition opted not to remaster this multiplayer component alongside its dolled-up main trilogy, thus failing to introduce to a new generation the joys of performing teleporting psychic headbutts as a millennia-old bipedal frog.

This oversight has now been addressed, with the release of the Legendary Edition Multiplayer mod for said remaster.…