Mass Effect 1 in VR

MEVR is a free VR mod for Mass Effect Legendary Edition. Draw your pistol from your hip, pull a grenade off your chest and throw it, duck behind cover, and tell Garrus to take out those troopers. Stereo 3D at life size, head tracking, and motion controllers for everything.

Download MEVR Source code on GitHub

What you get

Your hands do the fighting

  • Aim with the controller; Shepard's arms and fingers follow yours.
  • Holsters on your body, a two-handed rifle grip.
  • Red dots, holo sights, a sniper scope that really zooms.
  • Throw real grenades, punch, rack a hot gun to vent it.
  • Cast powers from a wheel at your palm.

A squad that listens

  • Point to attack, move or regroup.
  • Throw an arc to post your squad where it lands.
  • Optional voice orders, recognised on your own PC.

The galaxy around you

  • Cutscenes on a big 3D cinema screen.
  • Health on your wrist, heat on your gun.
  • Your omni-tool's menus projected from your arm.
  • The galaxy map as a hologram on the Normandy.

The Mako and comfort

  • A cockpit with a throttle and flight stick.
  • Real crouch and cover that protects you.
  • Smooth or snap turning, an optional vignette.
  • A one-minute calibration fits it to your body.

Install in one click

  1. Start Mass Effect 1 once without the mod and quit at the main menu.
  2. Unzip MEVR anywhere and run MEVR-Setup.exe.
  3. Click Install: the mod, its loader and VR-ready game settings, in about a second.
  4. Put your headset on and click Launch. Setup starts SteamVR and takes you straight into the game.

Uninstall in the same app puts your game and settings back exactly as they were. No mod manager needed.

What you need

Questions

Is there a VR mod for Mass Effect?

Yes. MEVR plays Mass Effect 1 from the Legendary Edition in full VR with motion controls. It's built on Halcyon's MassEffect1-VR renderer and adds hand aiming, a body, holsters, squad orders and in-world menus.

Does it work with Mass Effect 2 and 3?

Not yet. MEVR plays Mass Effect 1 only; Mass Effect 2 and 3 are planned. The installer doesn't touch their files.

Does it work with Quest 3 or PS VR2?

Yes, through SteamVR: it has been played on a Quest 3 over Steam Link and on a PS VR2 with Sony's PC adapter. Other PC VR headsets with motion controllers should work.

Is it free and safe to uninstall?

It's free and open source (GPL-3.0). The installer records every change it makes, and Uninstall puts the game back exactly as it was.

Why does Windows warn me about the installer?

Releases aren't code-signed yet. Click More info, then Run anyway, or unblock the zip in its Properties before unzipping. Read our code signing policy.

Thanks

Halcyon for MassEffect1-VR, Aeka0 for Overlord, Aphar for MassFPS, ME3Tweaks and llamathings for the Legendary Edition modding tools, and BioWare for Mass Effect.