Released an updated and fully maintained version of MESP: https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3423344724

https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3306099100 Latest update i've seen floating around

hopefully this gets updated as its sadly broken

The portraits have stopped working, due to the changes to how species portraits are organized. Sadly I didn't manage to fix that by fiddling around a bit (like I managed to to with another graphical mod, by copying the code another already updated portrait mod used). Probably because this one has multiple portrait types. Flags and name lists are still accessible, however.
Please update! :)

@mhariz1993: No, it's redundant. Expanded Edition already covers everything in this pack and more.

Is this incompatible with ME Species Pack - Expanded Edition ?

Ooops! I finally figured out why I wasn't getting comment notifs on this mod. I had them disabled... derp

@Mythez:
Same answer n_n

@Princess Stabbity
Same question as Dukkokun, but a different approach to modding.

https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2796778215

Thanks for the great mod, and a great attitude towards modding and community assets!

@Dukkokun: Please feel totally free to include the whole mod or any files you're interested in, no need to dependencies. This pack IS meant more to be used a collection of modders resources than a complete mod in its own right, so if you want to use anything from it, please go ahead <3

Hi! Are you ok if I include your mod as a requirement/dependency in a large portrait patch (still requiring users of the patch to subscribe to your mod) but modifying some files to include the portraits in the default Paradox categories?

Appreciate it! Was a huge fan when I played fanatically back in 2.x days, looking forward to more with these fun new 3.x mechanics!

It should be, although I highly recommend the Expanded Edition instead, which is more actively maintained.

is this compatible still? :)

bruh theres no krogan tho kinda disappointed by that. that killed the mod for me

Hmm... I'm not sure. It's generally not recommended but maybe this particular mod would be fine, since Paradox hasn't changed anything species or portrait related in a long time.

Ok cause I love mass effect mods but most of them are from 2.7 at least so what would happen if I used that version to launch your mods

@Exo Stranger: All our mods are always updated to the most recent version of Stellaris.

I have a few questions regarding what version to launch as?

Announcement!
Hi everyone! A lot of you have been wondering if we'd do something more with MESP beyond just maintaining it. You may be happy to hear that LostInACave decided to revive and revamp this pack as Mass Effect Species Pack - Expanded Edition! If you wish to see it expanded further, please check it out and tell us what you think!

@Brick Clifton: I'm afraid that's how the original author structured the portraits. They're technically just different "species" within a single "species class".

As we stated in the description, we have no intention of modifying the content of this mod. It should be treated more as a showcase and a free repository of assets for anyone interested in creating more fleshed-out ME mods rather than a full-fledged experience in its own right.

Think I found a bug? Created a Human Systems Alliance empire, and under the species menu for 'type', it's not humanoid, it's MassEffect. XD I also created a Cerberus empire, same species name, traits, etc., but the Cerberus portrait, and one of the dialogue responses they called me"disgusting MassEffects",think it should've been humanoid or plantoid.

For some reason it thinks the Cerberus humans and SA humans are separate species, despite the same traits, adjectives, everything - is that intended? I read elsewhere empires need to have the same portrait to be considered the same species, which, makes sense, but also sort of not, and that was just a reddit post, not exactly authoritative. When I first encountered the Cerberus humans, the First Contact dialogue was "we're surprised to find lost relatives speaking a dialect", the same text for when the United Nations of Earth discovers the Commonwealth of Man, so it recognizes some kind of shared species..?

Also thanks for making this!

@bascott83 Oh, no need to worry <3
With regards to this mod, it's here mostly as a repository of assets for anyone to use, so while we have no plans to expand upon it beyond maintaining current version compatibility, it's not really that maintenance-intensive. Paradox hasn't changed anything portrait-related in a long while.

@magnusk_98 Thank you! We appreciate your kind words <3

Sorry Princess Stabbity about the quick ask about a update. I meant no disrespect and Not to rush you. I should be worded it better. I just wanted to see what the plan was. Since some Creators are posting whole new versions and leaving behind the old as Legacy Mods or Abandoned Mods.

Love your work and many thanks for this mod (and your other ones as well)!

As always, please wait at least a day to let us playtest the new patch and see what needs adjustments. We're currently busy updaing our major mods but we'll get to the smaller ones as soon as we are able. Thank you for your patience <3

Will there be a update to 3.0.1 patch coming? or will are new Version be posted? Or will this be abandoned?

I could be better because many more species are missing

the systems alliance ship mod is gone

[16:56:13][namelist.cpp:581]: Error: Failed Reading Ship Names!
Reason: Invalid Ship Size:Far Reach
common/name_lists/01_Alliance_namelist.txt(52)

Got a lot of errors:
[16:56:04][pdxassetutil.cpp:113]: Duplicate texture 'no_hair.dds' found
[16:56:11][pdxassetutil.cpp:156]: Failed to find texture 'human_female_clothes_governer.dds'
[16:56:11][texturehandler.cpp:174]: Texture Handler encountered missing texture file: gfx/models/portraits/quarian/human_female_clothes_governer.dds
[16:56:13][pdx_audio.cpp:1183]: Missing sound effect: asari_greetings_A
[16:56:13][portraits.cpp:616]: couldn't find sound effect "asari_greetings_A". file: gfx/portraits/portraits/asari-republic_portraits.txt line: 4
...
[16:56:13][species.cpp:288]: Error: Name list for species old_MassEffect could not be read
Reason: Invalid Species Class!
common/species_names/00_masseffect_species_names.txt(2)
...

alright, that's good to know, thanks as well!

Cool, thank you :)

They shouldn't, there are no prescripted empires and the portraits are non-randomised.

i also would like to know if they could spawn randomly.

Hello. Can these spawn for AI empire use?

unfortunate that the systems alliance ship mod was taken down for some reason.

As stated in the description, this particular mod is provided as is, purely for preservation purposes. It will never be expanded with additional species.

great one. waiting for geth though. or maybe someone knows a good geth mod for 2.7?

This mod is doing the Krogan dirty

And on the day of The Patch, Princess looked upon her domain and saw that it was good.

And she saw that most mods did not require updates.

But still yearn did the launcher for the attention of Princess for she had forgotten one mod.

"Oopseth!" Princess exclaimed in boundless embarrassment and she thus spoke to all users upon creation: "To MESP I too bringeth salvation on this day, that it never succumb to the evils of OCD, I herefore bumpeth its supported version to 2.7.*"

And it was (hopefully) good again.

Is this updated for 2.7?

@Cúchulainn: It shouldn't be an issue with this one. We made sure to assign it to the correct species_archetype when the feature was introduced.

Seems like there's an issue with gene-modding @Jake, was looking at another mass effect species mod pack and it lists it as an issue https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1523143072

@Church: I'm afraid I cannot reproduce the issue. Maybe unsubbing and resubbing will solve it?

i dont have the descriptor file for some reason?

the portraits for anything outside of MassEffect isnt showing its just the vanilla races

My hero

Yeah I dunno know why I said that tbh, I've been using it this whole time....

It is "dead" in the sense we don't add new content to it, but we are trying to keep it compatible with the latest version of Stellaris at least n_n

That said, it didn't even need an update this time. I just bumped the version number.