Mass Effect Legendary Edition contains more than 40 pieces of DLC when it launches on PlayStation 4 in May, but the expansion of Pinnacle Station for the first entry will not be part of the long list. This is because the Demiurge Studios support team was the one that compiled it during the PlayStation 3 generation, and the data that BioWare received when it requested it for the restored collection was almost completely corrupt. The RPG developer states that he really wanted to include Pinnacle Station in his plans for the full remaster of Mass Effect, but the situation got out of his control.
In an interview with Game Informer, game director Mac Walters elaborates on the predicament. He says that since the original code was no longer properly accessible, the team had to rework the DLC completely from scratch to be included. “It’s basically going to take us another full six months to do it with most of the team we have. I wish we could do it. Honestly, just because it’s meant to be everything the team ever created “brought it back together. – all the single-player content. And left it all on the operating room floor, it was heartbreaking.”
Pinnacle Station was essentially a battle arena located on a secret Alliance space station that consisted of 13 different challenges. With about three hours of play, there was no content related to the story. You would unlock powerful guns for use in the main game.
It is then clear that BioWare tried its best to include Pinnacle Station in its plans, but delaying the project by six months was simply not feasible. Yet there is more than 100 hours of content to be experienced as part of the Mass Effect Legendary Edition, so this is not the end of the world. The revamped collection includes game upgrades, including ‘improved aim and weapon balance, sound effects, better Mako controls, inputs / controls, group behavior, cover behavior and game cameras’ along with 60 frames per second on PlayStation 5 and PS4 Pro. Charging times will also be much shorter and an extensive character designer will enable you to shape Shepard according to your individual needs.