Mass Effect Codex – Trilogy Changes

CHANGES FROM ME1 TO ME2 CODEX

In general: most images changed from ME1 to ME2 codex and the introduction to the categories is gone.

If an entry hasn’t changed, it’s not specified below.

Aliens: Council Races

Asari: 

  • New secondary entries: Ardat-Yakshi, Government and Justicars

Salarians: 

  • New secondary entry: League of One

Turians: 

  • New secondary entry: The Unification War

Aliens: Extinct Races

Protheans:

  • New entries: Data Disks, Mars Ruins
  • Cypher: Shepard now referred to as “Commander”

Aliens: Non-Council Races

  • New primary entries: Collectors, Praetorians, Reapers, Reapers: Indoctrination, Vorcha
    • No primary entry for Drell.
  • New secondary entries:
    • Collectors: Collector General
    • Collectors: Harbinger
    • Drell: Biology
    • Drell: Culture
    • Geth: Culture
    • Geth: Heretics
    • Geth: Technology
    • Krogan: Biology
    • Krogan: Blood Rage
    • Krogan: Military Doctrine
  • Keepers is no longer a primary entry but a secondary entry.
  • Geth: Hoppers is a secondary entry from the ME1 codex that is no longer in the ME2 codex. 
  • Quarian: Migrant Fleet is a secondary entry from the ME1 codex that has been modified and can be now found in the Planets and locations category, now called “The Migrant Fleet” (a secondary entry).

Aliens: Non-Sapient Creatures

  • The entire category is now a secondary category.
  • New entry: Husks: Scions

New main secondary entries: 

  • Arrival: The Reapers’ Secret (including sub-entries Project Rho, Planet Arathot, The Alpha Relay)
  • Cerberus Project: Overlord (including sub-entry Planet: Aite)

Citadel and Galactic Government

  • This category is reorganised in the ME2 codex and now has only two main primary entries: Citadel and Spectres
  • Citadel Council and Citadel Space become secondary entries
  • New secondary entries: Citadel Conventions, Citadel Station: Foundations

Humanity and the Systems Alliance

  • This category is reorganised in the ME2 codex with most entries becoming secondary entries. A new primary entry is called: “Rise of the Alliance”
  • New secondary entries: Earth, Gagarin Station “Jump Zero” (used to be the same entry in “Uncharted World” from “Planets and Locations”), Systems Alliance: Military Doctrine, Systems Alliance: N7, Terra Firma Party
  • The secondary entry “Human Diplomatic Relations” is no longer in the codex.
  • Timeline now has lines for 2183 where before it would say “current date”.

Organizations

  • This is a new category of primary entries including Cerberus, Cerberus: The Illusive Man, Mercenaries: Blue Suns, Mercenaries: Eclipse, Mercenaries: The Blood Pack

Planets and locations

  • This category has been reorganized.
  • No longer entries: Feros, Noveria
  • Ilos and Virmire are now secondary entries
  • Gagarin Station is now an entry in Humanity and the Systems Alliance (see above)
  • New primary entries of the category include: Aeia, Freedom’s Progress, Haestrom, Horizon, Illium, Korlus, Omega, Pragia, Rhakana, The Perseus Veil, Tuchanka
  • The Migrant Fleet is now a secondary entry and no longer in the “Non-Council races” category
  • Purgatory has been added as a secondary entry

Shadow Games : The Broker’s Secrets

  • New secondary category with Yahg as a new entry

Ships and Vehicles

  • The category has been rearranged with most of the primary entries becoming secondary. 
  • Now a distinction between Normandy SR-1 and SR-2, both having their own entries
  • All upgrades to the Normandy have an entry
  • New secondary entries: A-61 Mantis Gunship, Helius Thruster Module, 
  • Space Combat has more sub-entries: General Tactics, Planetary Assaults, Pursuit Tactics, Trans-Relay Assaults
  • Starships has more sub-entries: Carriers, Heat Management, Quarian Liveships, Thrusters. Dreadnoughts is no longer a sub-entry
  • Weapons has now a sub-entry Ablative Armor
  • Drones used to be “Vehicles: Combat drones” and is now a secondary entry in Technology

Technology

  • New secondary entries: Argus Plan Scan Technology and Security Mech
  • Biotics has a new secondary entry: “Life as a Biotic”
  • Computers has a new secondary entry: “Computers: Haptic Adaptive Interface”
  • Drones is now a secondary entry and no longer in Ships and Vehicles

The Master Thief: Kasumi’s Secrets

New category of secondary entries with four new entries: Grayboxes, Kassa Fabrications Locust, Lady Liberty, Planet: Bekerstein

The Veteran: Zaeed’s Secrets*

New category of secondary entries with three new entries: M-451 Firestorm, Mercenaries: Blue Suns (Full History), Planet: Zorya

Weapons, Armor and Equipment

  • New primary entry: Collector Particle Beam
  • Upgrades is no longer a secondary entry
  • The content of the Body Armor entry has changed
  • The content of the Small Arms has changed

Comparison ME1 and ME2 Entries “Body Armor” and “Small Arms” 

-> Body Armor – Entry Comparison:

-> Small Arms – Entry Comparison

Blue Suns – Two entries stating two different facts :

In Organizations, “Mercenaries: Blue Suns”

In The Veteran: Zaeed’s Secrets “Mercenaries: Blue Suns (Full History)”

CHANGES FROM ME2 TO ME3 CODEX

In general: most images changed from ME2 to ME3 codex.

If an entry hasn’t changed, it’s not specified below.

Aliens: Council Species

  • Is no longer called “Races” but “Species” but only in two categories as we’ll see below…
  • It’s a drastic change: all secondary entries (relating to Biology, Culture, Military Doctrine, Government…) from those species are erased. 
  • The only secondary entry left is Asari: Ardat-Yaksi.

Aliens: Extinct Species

  • Is no longer called “Races” but “Species” but only in two categories as we’ll see below…
  • Protheans is the only primary entry. All secondary entries in the ME2 codex related to the Protheans are gone.
  • Rachni is now a secondary entry.

Aliens: Non-Council Races

  • Is still called Races despite the previous categories using the word Species.
  • New primary entries: Drell
  • Now secondary entries: Collectors (without sub-entries), Vorcha
  • Krogan has a new secondary entry (“Krogan: Ancient History”) but every other sub entry except Krogan Rebellions is erased
  • Geth lost all secondary entries
  • Praetorians is no longer a primary entry or in the codex
  • Varren are no longer considered “non-sapient creatures” in ME3 and are now a full secondary entry in the Non-Council Races category! But the content of the entry hasn’t changed.
  • Yahg is now a secondary entry in this category, instead of “Shadow Games : The Broker’s Secrets”
  • Reapers and Reapers: Indoctrination are no longer main entries. 

Aliens: Non-Sapient Creatures

  • The only entry is a primary one: Thresher Maws
  • Varren as we have seen is now in the “Non-Council Races”
  • Husks are in a different category as well (Reapers) 

Two secondary entries are gone: Arrival: The Reapers’ Secret (including sub-entries Project Rho, Planet Arathot, The Alpha Relay) and Cerberus Project: Overlord (including sub-entry Planet: Aite)

Citadel and Galactic Government

  • The category still has two primary entries but now only two secondary ones: “Citadel Council” and “Citadel Space”
  • The Treaty of Farixen entry is gone

Humanity and the Systems Alliance

  • This category is reorganised in the ME3 codex. Before one primary entry called “Rise of the Alliance” had a series of secondary entries.
  • Now there are four primary entries: Councilor Donnel Udina, Earth, Human Diplomatic Relations and Systems Alliance. 
  • The Earth entry’s content has changed.

Here is a comparison between Earth in ME2 and Earth in ME3:

  • Human Diplomatic Relations was a secondary entry in the ME1 codex, gone in ME2 and back in ME3 but updated.

Here’s the comparison:

Part of the entry was in the Systems Alliance one from ME2.

  • Alliance News Network and Systems Alliance: Special operations are new secondary entries. Previous entries talked a little about military doctrine but Systems Alliance: Special operations is the first to explain N training.
  • ME Timeline: is now called “ME Timeline” and not just “Timeline” with added date 1285 and 1286.

Known Associates:

  • A new category of entries that is new to ME3. 
  • Associates who get an entry: Steven Hackett, David Anderson, Dr. Liara T’Soni, EDI, Garrus Vakarian, Kaidan Alenko/Ashley Williams, Tali’Zorah, Dr. Mordin Solus, Jacob Taylor, Jeff “Joker” Moreau, Dr. Karin Chakwas. 

Mass Effect 3: From Ashes:

  • A new category of secondary entries including “Planets and locations: Eden Prime” and “Technology: Prothean Beacon”

Omega Reclaimed: Omega’s Secrets

  • A new category of secondary entries:
    • Aria T’Loak
    • Cerberus Occupation of Omega
    • Cerberus: Adjutant
    • Cerberus: General Oleg Petrovsky
    • Cerberus: Rampart Mech
    • Nyreen Kandros
    • Turian Cabals

Organizations

  • The category now has two primary entries: Cerberus and Cerberus: The Illusive Man
  • The content of the “Cerberus” entry has changed from ME2 codex to ME3 codex

Comparison of the entry:

  • The Content of the entry “Cerberus: The Illusive Man” has changed from ME2 to ME3

Comparison of the entry:

  • New secondary entries for Cerberus:
    • Cerberus: Atlas
    • Cerberus: Centurion
    • Cerberus: Engineer
    • Cerberus: Guardian
    • Cerberus: Nemesis
    • Cerberus: Phantom
    • Cerberus: Trooper
  • The Mercenaries entries (Mercenaries: Blue Suns, Mercenaries: Eclipse, Mercenaries: The Blood Pack) are now secondary entries

Planets and locations

  • This category has been reorganized.
  • New primary entries:
    • Gellix
    • Grissom Academy 
    • Lesuss
    • Rannoch
    • Sur’Kesh
    • Thessia
    • Tuchanka
  • Primary entries that now are secondary entries (content doesn’t change): Aiea, Freedom’s Progress, Haestrom, Illium, Korlus, Pragia, Perseus Veil, Rhakana, 
  • Secondary entries that are back: Ilos, The Migrant Fleet
  • New secondary entries: Benning, Cyclone, Feros, Noveria, Ontarom, Sanctum, Terminus Systems, Virmire
  • Feros, Noveria, Virmire and Terminus Systems are back in the codex after being erased from the ME2 codex! The content of those entries is the same than the one in the ME1 codex.
  • Entries no longer in the ME3 codex: Horizon

Shadow Games

The Broker’s Secrets is no longer a category of entries.

Ships and Vehicles

  • The category has been rearranged. 
  • Normandy SR-2 is still a primary entry but its content has changed. 

Here is a comparison of the entry between ME2 to ME3:

  • UK-47 Kodiak was called “UK-47 Kodial: Drop Shuttle”. It’s still a primary entry, the second one after Normandy SR-2, but its content has changed.

Comparison of the entry between ME2 to ME3:

  • The primary entry “Normandy Shield Upgrade: Cyclonic Barrier Technology” used to be called “Normandy Shield Upgrade: CBT” and is now entirely spelled out.
  • “Normandy Weapon Upgrade: Thanix Cannon” is now called “Normandy: Thanix Magnetic-Hydrodynamic Cannon”. The content of the entry has changed.

Here is a comparison between ME2 to ME3:

  • “Military Ship Classifications” was gone from the ME2 codex and is now back as a secondary entry with the same content!
  • “Normandy SR-1” becomes a secondary entry and its content has changed.

Here is a comparison between ME2 to ME3:

  • There were many “Space Combat” sub-entries but the entry itself is now a secondary one by itself, and it’s the same content as “Space Combat: General Tactics” from the ME2 codex
  • “A-61 Mantis Gunship”, sub-entries for FTL Drive, “Helios Thruster Module”, all sub-entries of Starships and Weapons are erased from the ME3 codex

Technology

  • “Argus Plan Scan Technology”, 
  • Biotics has the same content but the main branches of biotics are no longer spelled in CAPSLOCK.
  • “Mass Relays” content has changed:
  • The entry Medi-Gel was in “Weapons, Armor and Equipment” and is now in technology, with the same content.
  • The Crucible is a new primary entry.
  • The Genophage is a new primary entry. It used to be a sub-entry “Krogan: Genophage”. 

The content has changed from ME2 to ME3:

  • The Genophage Cure is a new primary entry.
  • Almost all the other entries are erased. Four secondary entries are left, two from the previous codex (Computers: AI, VI) and two new: The Shroud and Artifacts

The Master’s Thief and The Veteran

The Master Thief: Kasumi’s Secrets and The Veteran: Zaeed’s Secrets are no longer categories of entries.

The Darkness Breached: Leviathan’s Secrets

  • A new category of secondary entries with only one secondary entry “Non-Council Races: Leviathan”

The Reaper War

A new category of secondary entries

  • The Fall of Earth 
  • The Fall of Khar’shan
  • Desperate Measures
  • The Battle of Palaven
  • The Battle of Rannoch
  • The Cerberus Coup 
  • The Fall of Thessia
  • The Miracle at Palaven

The Reapers

A new category of primary entries:

  • Harbinger: Used to be in “Collectors: Harbingers” as a part of “Non-Council Races” in the ME2 codex

The entry has changed to reflect Harbinger’s status as a reaper. 

See the comparison:

  • The Reapers

Has a new paragraph added to it:

  • Sovereign

Back in the codex, with a change from its ME1 entry, which used to be in Ships and Vehicles.

See the comparison:

  • Indoctrination: the content has not changed from the ME2 codex.
  • New entries: 
  • Reaper Variants
  • Banshee
  • Brute
  • Cannibal
  • Harvester
  • Marauder
  • Ravager
  • Husk was in the ME1 and ME2 codex in the “Non-Sapient Creatures” category (with the same content) but is now in the Reapers category. 

See the comparison:

  • Three secondary entries:
    • Harvesting
    • Reaper Capabilities
    • Reaper Vulnerabilities

Weapons, Armor and Equipment

  • The primary entry “Collector Particle Beam” is gone from the codex
  • Four new primary entries:
    • Blackstar
    • Geth Spitfire
    • M-560 Hydra
    • Omni-Tool Weapons
  • Medi-Gel is in Technology now
  • New secondary entry “Tech Armor and Fortification”
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