One of the loudest complaints about Mass Effect Legendary Edition has finally been answered — not by EA, but by fans. The ME3Tweaks mod, released today to coincide with N7 Day, rebuilds Mass Effect 3's cooperative multiplayer inside the 2021 remaster.

When the Legendary Edition shipped, it bundled the full single-player campaigns of all three games along with their story DLC, but left ME3's beloved co-op mode on the cutting-room floor. Modders have spent roughly three years reconstructing it for the remastered engine, a project one of the team described to Kotaku with the rallying cry, 'Let's do something stupid.'

The release carries extra weight given BioWare's current state. As IGN framed it, the studio that built the franchise may be effectively gone, but its community is still shipping the features the official product never got. For returning N7 veterans, the timing could hardly be more fitting: the mod is out now for Legendary Edition players.