Gamers who customized their Shepard in Mass Effect 1 may have trouble importing into ME3

Gamesbeat has discovered that numerous gamers are reporting problems importing their personalized Shepards into Mass Effect 3. The error seems to affect those who have had the same Shepard since Mass Effect 1.

[Sadie2100]

At first, I was like, "What's the big deal?" Then I thought about how weird it'd be if I couldn't use my old Shepard, and yeah...this kinda sucks. Probably a quick fix later, though, I imagine.

[JeffGrubb]

Unfortunately, BioWare has been really quiet on this. That's typically not a good sign. Hopefully, they'll make a statement soon.

[NukaCola]

Question for the community.

If I can import the Mass 2 character into Mass 3, can I change Shepard into a female and keep the story arch flowing? After playing the Mass 3 demo as a female and hearing what some of my friends told me..I really like the voice actor better. I think the female Shepard just flows and sounds better. I wonder if it would effect relationship issues and those hidden quests and events that pop up based on the character you built if I changed her.

[acronkyoung]

Hopefully they fix it soon. Would suck for people to have to wait to play the game just so they can use their own Shep.

[Tolkoto]

Having the same exact Shepard through all three games was always promoted as a major feature of the trilogy. I can't believe they would allow an issue like this to exist.

[WitWolfy]

Plus we all know Bioware approve to custom character modifications. So why the sudden hiccup?

[STONEY4]

The problem is that ME2 introduced facecodes for custom character faces. ME1 didn't, so ME3 can't recognize the face without a facecode. All you have to do is recreate your face while importing to ME3 if you used a custom one from ME1. It's not hard, and it's really not a huge deal.

[Kingdom Come]

When my Pre-Order copy arrives, I refuse to play the campaign until this issue is adressed. I'll tide myself over by playing the online component of the game. But if I can't play through Mass Effect 3 with the character that I started the adventure with on the release date of the original game, I'm going to have to wait for Bioware to release an update.

[STONEY4]

I WANT EVERYONE CONCERNED TO READ THIS AS THERE SEEMS TO BE A MISUNDERSTANDING AMONG MANY PEOPLE:

This is not about save files, it's about custom ME1 faces. You can import your save file just fine. For the faces, there will be no fix, you have to recreate your face at the start of ME3 if it's an ME1 face, it's official from Bioware. If you use default-Shepard or recreated your face anyways in ME2, it isn't an issue at all.

[STONEY4]

Replying to myself here... But turns out it is going to be patched. To all of 1 people reading this.

[Kingdom Come]

Thanks for the update.

[green]

Not playing the campaign until they fix this.

[ufo8mycat]

Not sure why anyone would want to use anything but the default Shepard. The default face IS Commander Shepard.

[WitWolfy]

I agree 100% with you, but some like this specific RPG element in the game

[DeadIIIRed]

The same reason anyone ever wants to customize anything. How boring would this world be if everything was default?

[crazytown99]

I might be okay with this. My Shepard is hideous.

[2pacalypsenow]

wow thats gay

[MasterD919]

I really hope this isn't that common for those who have used that same ME1 character for ME2 saves...Please Bioware make this transition flawless!

My Shepard could not be more ready for ME3 and I've completed 100% of ME1 and ME2 so don't really like the idea of re-doing an entire trilogy as fast as possible just to play ME3.

[m23]

I'm in the same position as you. I've had my character since the first game, and completed both games 100%, I can't imagine not playing with my character. Hopefully this problem is limited.

[MasterD919]

I'm going to be optimistic about it in the meantime as it is too early to tell if EVERYONE will be affected...

I just saved a ME2 game yesterday so I am really counting on any ME1 problems being unrelated to a ME2 save slot (which is really all that should matter). Even if you lose your ME1 save, won't it still be there for ME2 (and with more content)?

[Clarence]

This was the main reason that I kept playing ME on my 360. This a major F!ck up in my opinion. I won't get the game until a fix comes out.

[krazykombatant]

This is bullshit! I'm going to rage if I can't import my shepard!!

[m23]

It has more to do with the looks of your shepard. I was able to import all my decisions and skills, but it was not able to import his face. I was kinda pissed, but I was able to make him again, not perfect but close enough.

[krazykombatant]

Which is still b.s on part of bioware, they delayed the damn so that things like this wouldn't happen. Which just makes me think of what the time was actually used for. But I will hold back from criticizing anymore since I've yet to play the game and I don't want spoilers but still its sad to hear info like this.