Cerberus Daily News Emails (LE2)

Cerberus Daily News Emails

This mod incorporates the defunct Cerberus Daily News articles written by Bioware back into the game as emails. These were canon articles displayed on ME2's main menu after its initial release, updated daily from January 2010 to March 2011, that continued to build the world of Mass Effect and foreshadow DLC and ME3 plotlines. These articles were not preserved by Bioware and survived only because fans archived them on the Mass Effect Wiki, which since April 2011 has remained the only place to read them -- until now.

This mod reintroduces this lost canon material into the game, adding over 50 new emails which will be sent to you as you progress through the game. The text has come directly from the official articles, with some editing for concision and ease of reading. (For instance, all the updates were presented as one giant single paragraph to fit into the main menu; I have edited them accordingly to have line breaks.)

These emails function exactly like emails in the normal game: Kelly will let you know when new ones arrive, and they can be reread from the "Archived Emails" menu after you've read them. Because this is galactic news, unlike most emails in the game, the mod's emails are NOT dependent on your choices: you're free to play as you like and you'll still get them all, no matter which missions you play first or what decisions you make.

Russian, German, Polish, Italian, and French translations of the mod, by MrGoGaAaAa, Crusadio, Grisza82, improbabile, and BiOnikks respectively, are included. A Spanish translation by Deepk is available as a separate file here. If you would like to translate this mod into your language, please contact me.

If you enjoyed this mod, I have others that restore lost content to the Mass Effect trilogy: ME1 Dossiers Restored and Datapad App Messages Expanded.

What is included and why?

However, this mod only includes roughly a third of the total articles, as incorporating them all was impractical for two reasons: first, that there were about five times as many articles as there were missions in the game, so there was no way to realistically space them out to simulate the passage of time; second, coupled with the emails already in the original game, including them all would mean drowning the player in somewhere around 8-15 emails after every single mission.

Priority has been given to articles which foreshadow or introduce plot elements used in ME3 or in ME2's DLC, or articles that helped reinforce the themes of the narrative (e.g., AIs and selfhood). Every article involving a major plot point from the trilogy has been included. Care has also been taken to space emails out so that you don't get overwhelmed: you shouldn't get more than two new ema