
These are the original Mass Effect 3 files from BioWare and require you to own the game on Origin in order to work.Īpply it by copying both folders over your Mass Effect 3 installation directory. The scan shows 1 detection because the EXE is "likely encrypted", which is correct because MassEffect3.exe is encrypted in the original game installation. I don't know if the 1.6 and 1.5 versions of Patch_001.sfar actually are different.

dll files it seems to use) and the Patch_001.sfar file that was built against that EXE. It consists of my binaries folder (which contains MassEffect3.exe, the configuration utility, and the few. I have made a package of my 1.5 install (vanilla) that you can install.

The biggest impact is that in MP you cannot connect to users of 1.5 which is the vast majority of users. What does this mean for me if I have this?įor singleplayer mods, probably nothing. There are no known patch notes and this build has only come to light recently. The changes between 1.5 and 1.6 are unknown. Or looking at the file creation date, which for 1.5 is, and for 1.6 is. Or by using the Mass Effect 3 configuration utility, located at \Binaries\MassEffect3Config.exe: You can find this file at \Binaries\win32\MassEffect3.exe You can see this by looking at the file properties of Mass Effect 3 and looking at the details tab. For the most part you will be soloing multiplayer. In public games people will not be able to join and you will be unable to join unless the other players are on 1.6 as well.

Friends with a mix of 1.5 and 1.6 will see a "You cannot play this game because your friend is using a different version of the game" message, or something similar when joing each other's lobby. However, some users (so far, only the UK) have been reporting that version 1.6 exists and essentially makes them unable to use multiplayer. Mass Effect 3, for most of the world, is running on the latest version of 1.5.
