The impending release of Mass Effect Legendary Edition is but a few weeks away, and fans are excited to go back to smashing Reaper heads in. And everyone will be doing it in gloriously high resolutions and frame rates.
Slash Gear revealed a handful of details about how Mass Effect Legendary Edition performs on next-gen hardware, and it seems like Bioware and Electronic Arts mostly did the remaster right. To start with, the game will ship with two display modes: Favor Performance and Favor Quality. This will be of great help for those who plan to play the highly anticipated remaster on the base Xbox One and PlayStation 4.
Players can expect a respectable experience on last-gen consoles with the two display settings. As reported by Polygon, the Favor Performance mode will target 1080p 60 FPS, though it will look a little less pretty. Favor Quality, on the other hand, is targeting a 1080p 30 FPS experience, but with more graphical fidelity. It might be safe to say that the 60 FPS mode will likely rely on resolution upscaling to maintain the framerate, while the other mode will render the game in native full HD.
The release of this remaster comes after the collective disappointment in the series' most recent instalment, Mass Effect Andromeda, which left fans clamoring for a return to form-and a return to Commander Shepard.
Time for Next-Generation Goodness
Now, let's leave that realm of low resolutions and frame rates and step into the halls of glorious next-gen gaming. Here, let's take a look at how Mass Effect Legendary Edition is going to take advantage of the power of brand-new hardware.
For PC players, the game is capped at a massive 240 FPS, with support for 240 Hz refresh rates, as stated on the game's EA page. So for those who have high refresh rate monitors, killing Reapers and Cerberus operatives have never felt so smooth-assuming of course, you have the graphical horsepower to push all those frames forward.
Bioware and EA recommend a GTX 1070 or an RTX 2000 card to maximize the game's frame rate, coupled by a Core i7 7700 or a Ryzen 7 3700X CPU. But of course, it's not just frames being talked about here: resolutions too. The game's Steam page claims full support for resolutions up to 4K Ultra HD, so not only will the gameplay be smooth, but also extremely crisp-like the corpse of a burning Reaper Husk.
What About on PlayStation 5 and Series X/S?
Current-gen consoles won't be left behind in the graphics department too. Every owner of these systems will also have access to the two graphical modes, which will take advantage of the hardware within.
Mass Effect Legendary Edition will run up to 120 FPS at 1440p on the Series X, while the PlayStation 5 version can only get 60 FPS at the same resolution, if using the Favor Performance option. But if you choose the Favor Quality mode, the PS5 and Series X ports will ramp up the resolution to 4K at 60 FPS. All in all, Xbox Series X players get a relatively better-performing port, due to the console's hardware advantages over the competing PS5.
Bioware and EA certainly made sure to truly make Mass Effect Legendary Edition a worthy return to one of the greatest gaming trilogies of all time. And frankly, never has Commander Shepard saving the galaxy multiple times looked so good.
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Written by RJ Pierce
