So what do you do if you want to add or upgrade DLC Mods after you have applied some Texture Mods? It is also important to know, that no new DLC Mods can be added after you have applied your first Texture Mods, because such additions would break your installation.
While DLC Mods are just folders added to your installation, which you can rename, move and delete as you wish, Texture Mods have to actively change your installation to work. Modding Mass Effect 2 has basically two parts: DLC Mods and Texture Mods.
Therefore it is safest to start your modding journey by doing a clean install. If you have never edited and/or modded your Mass Effect 2 Legendary Edition installation, then you can try the “Repair” functionality of your Origin client.īut this does only check files belonging to the official install, and does not remove added files. This means that nothing must be modded into your installation, and all files have to be in vanilla state. It is very important that your Mass Effect 2 Legendary Edition installation is clean before you continue. Mass Effect 2 Legendary Edition Since the original Mass Effect 2 at lot of time has passed and this modding guide will show, that the Legendary Edition ME 2 is much easier to modify than its predecessor.
