Mass Effect Legendary Edition Reworked Kai Leng Mod - All scenes
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- Опубліковано 11 лют 2025
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Personally Kai Leng is the most annoying character in whole trilogy so this mods turns him from walmart ninja into silent badass assasin.
You just turned Jar Jar Binks into Boba Fett
Don’t insult Jar Jar like that
Lmao
He looks like Snake eyes
"Good. So you clicked on this video"
Personally one other change I would make to Leng is to make him a Vanguard. Have it where Leng kills Thane by using a Biotic Charge which is also how he takes down Liara on Thessia. This way you have less of the characters acting like idiots and seeing that Vanguards are pretty popular boss fights it's a win win.
This!
Ironically, the ME3 Multiplayer character that uses Kai Leng's body, the N7 Slayer, IS a Vanguard.
Exactly my thoughts! Like... Thane, my love. My heart. My beautiful broken boy. Why would you bring a gun to a knife fight and then RUN TOWARDS THE KNIFE???? 😭😭😭😭
@@jesss2830
Never understood the like for him, never used him, never bothered to talk to him, and only did his loyalty mission.
I seen videos of his entire conversations, I just found legion and the geth along with Tali and her people more interesting in ME2.
In ME3 I did the whole visits thing too as I never let anyone get dusted under ME2 final mission.
One thing I do know is him fighting like that against a dollar store mall ninja like that was out of character.
The silence really adds to the character, now hes less like a edgy narssasistic weakling, but a well trained assasin there to accomplish a mission.
The way they designed Lang is honestly a bigger mistake than the endings.
His "nuh-uh" shield is still annoying but that can be fixed pretty easily with a Codex entry or a line of dialogue explaining how they work
Thane: Has gun
Kai Leng: Has sword
Thane: Lets go punch him
Exactly. That is what happened when you lacks a martial art choreographer (or have zero sense about how to direct a cool fight scene). Also, I remember the game director take out a final boss fight with the Harbinger because he felt it was "too video gamey", what ever that mean. lol
Thane had a feeling he had a tech shield up, blocks gunfire but can be penetrated by something not moving past the speed of sound, like a "punch" tho if you look closely he punches with the gun in his hand and fires, almost got off a headshot but he got weaved and stabbed. I guess Thane could have just taken literally 2 steps back and shower gunfire on him with Shepard but Thane is an assassin, he doesnt let anyone get away.
@@abigmonster8457 I just head cannon that fight away as Thane wins if he aint sick, whatever the choreography shows I just ignore lol.
I just assumed Thane knew he can't kill him with a gun so he needed to hit him with a strong biotic punch like he already did so he needed to close the distance
My story for silent Kai Leng is that his "improvements" in fact affected his Broca's area - a part of our brain responsible for speech production and articulation, he could still make sounds but not talk anymore. However the Illusive Man would not care about this - a perfect assassin does not need to use words after all.
14:05 Also Leng's face got worse than in original, forcing him to cover it, like all Cerberus soldiers.
I think Cerberus would have had the money to avoid that to happen, a better and more simple explaination is that he was turned into a a brainwashed, mindless slave to Cerberus when he was "improved" so he doesn't talk cause he doesn't have his own thoughts or a free will.
stoooop this rules so hard because not only does it improve kai leng but it also adds way more weight and significance to the cerberus agent with a husk face you find during the mars mission. I audibly gasped when he lifted his face i love the modding community fr. Kai being subjected to modifications by the illusive man who has been indoctrinated the whole time and being basically an example of a perfected organic creature turned reaper made weapon adds so much depth to the whole game it's so sick!!!
Plus, it actually makes him more terrifying with a touch like that; it reminds us that the Cerberus we fight in ME3 are basically a paramilitary force of brainwashed zombies who are too far gone to be reasoned with.
We don't speak about unmodded Leng.
Remove his lines, remove his face, and he's unironically a better character for it.
"That's an attitude only a developer could love" moment.
Grey Fox?!
Inject a little Star Wars.
Yeah, remove all the character, awesome..
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Add in implications of heavy cybernetics with reaper tech and it works even better
Honestly what they did with his face for the final cutscene was one of the best things this mod did. Like holy shit that's just such a cool touch which fit in perfectly with the Cerberus plotline of how they're starting to become indoctrinated as the game progresses.
It does make his reports to the illusive man more awkward.
Illisive man: Report in Kei Leng. Did you defeat Shepard? Is the council dead? Answer me dammit!"
Kei Leng: ............
i mean he can type an email right?
His lines actually would be useful without his face being visible, Especially if his Voice grows Distorted after the First Time, and Only Gets More Distorted due to him getting "Extra Work" after Every Fight, Including the one with Miranda.
This is definetely an improvement, would like to try this mod out some day
4:50
I really liked the guards accompanying Leng.
A healthy Thane Krios would no doubt have defeated Kai Leng just like a healthy Arthur Morgan would’ve beaten Micah Bell in RDR2.
Reminds me of Rinzler from TRON: Legacy, no words, face covered, just skill, much better this way.
The mod looks 10/10 but it would've been 11/10 if the line "He did warn you not to overstay your welcome" was still there. It was the only actual good line Kai Leng had in the game
His reports to the Illusive man should remain as well, or it looks really awkward
I find it funny that Polish version of the game translated Renegade as "Egoizm"
For some reason they translated it that way in 2 and 3 because in 1 it was translated as "renegat".
So...when I found out this mod was a thing I downloaded it in like 24 picoseconds. It's a glorious - and hilarious - example of how just keeping it in your damn pants sometimes results in a better product.
The people writing Kai Leng thought he was so fuckin' COOL, and he's the second cringiest thing in the entire saga. But simply strip him of his dialog and cover his stupid face? BOOM. Suddenly he actually IS kinda cool.
There's still annoying-ass plot armor, but this mod does a lot with very little. And 14:07 just blew my mind. I didn't see it coming, and its so obvious and yet so effective to show, in the end, who this guy is. Some of these mod authors really have a good eye for storytelling beats. This is the kind of mod that seriously repairs ME3. Take Earth Back and the Happy Ending Mod do a ton of heavy lifting of course, but mods like this make me smile. Because this mod actually kinda changes my opinion on Kai Leng's inclusion. It just needed some tweaks, and suddenly he's a functional and interesting character, and not a cringe factory. Quite a feat!
Its funny how him being silent gives him an actual different personality from walmart ninja into an actual badass cyber assasin. This mod is just amazing and it does not add anything instead just removes something and makes it better somehow.
@@Azumgi I think ME3, in particular, needs a few mods to prune it down. For all its juicy content, there's a lot I'd get rid of if I knew how.
Like the Normandy rescue on the beam run. Or the Virmire Survivor entirely. If they died on Mars they'd have a bigger impact than what we get after they survive. I felt like Kaidan and Ash both were so lame in ME3, almost to the point where it seemed like the writers hated them. XD
Anything come to mind for you?
@@wilder11 Personally I like Kaidan In ME3 he gets some personality later and i liked his dialogue at the end and in Citadel DLC but Ash is just boring. I didnt like how dreams were the same thing over and over with that kid BUT there is a mod that makes dreams amazing because it gives them a foreshadowing for what about is going to happen later on and gives Shepard much more depth about his peronal issues in the story and its amazing, mod is called Dreams Remade www.nexusmods.com/masseffectlegendaryedition/mods/1630
@@Azumgi Oh yeah, that's a must-have mod too. Completely turns around the dreams. When the child remains a symbol of Earth, essentially, I think he's fine.
The dreams in that mod are perfect. They build on each successive chapter of the game, communicating a very clear message without being overly blunt either.
I always felt like Kai Lame was some kind of self insert or something like that. He is too ridiculous to be take seriously. Like, come on dude, are you shietting in the weebs or something? lol
Nice, they went the boba fett route.
Did not expect no dialogue lines to fit him THIS much better
One thing I would recomend to the mod creators is to add to his dossier that his sword contains a kind of EMP field that can disable kinetic barriers when it's close enough.
Everyone loses braincells when he's on screen
My first playthrough, I saved Ashley and left Kaidan, so when I saw "Kai Leng", I thought maybe Cerberus had recovered KAIdan aLENko through "space magic bullshit", brainwashed him, and turned him into a weapon. Imagine my disappointment.
That's a mod I would pay good money to see:
Male/female, Kai Leng/Ley Illia depending on who you saved in ME1, finding out who they are when going through the Cerberus base, being able to appeal to their forgotten memories in the final fight with the right character, plot, and dialogue choices, or failing to be able to and having to kill yet another former squadmate, ugh!! So much potential, imo.
You take away his face, take away his voice and the childish e-mail messages. Boom! Just like that you create a badass villain to take down. How they messed up such simple character is beyond me. *smh* ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Love it
Looks like soundwave from tfp
I prefer this they made him like a ninja Jason.
Now if only you could remove Thane running at him with a gun in his hand...
And his plot armour during the Thessia fight.
Every video I watched of that fight it's just him getting stunlocked for 30 seconds. Did it myself on Insanity, yet somehow this guy beats us?
I’m in the midsts of doing another play through of the trilogy almost finished ME1. Might try this mod when I get to ME3
what a shame. I remember reading a mass effect book where kai leng was a character. he was completely human, but like, peak physical condition and crazy skills. Super racist. Believed in the superiority of humans. He apparently killed a krogan 1v1 with nothing but a knife (mentioned, not shown) but then there's a fight where turian commandos attack a cereberus hideout and kai leng is literally caught in the shower. All he has is a service pistol and a knife and he's got nothing but a bath towel for armor. He takes down the squad of commandos by stealthing up to them and fights them in melee with knife attacks and point blank pistol shots, which their kinetic barriers cannot stop. He uses the bodies of the turians to block shots from the others to compensate for having no armor at all.
Later on, he gets captured by captain anderson, and anderson shoots him in both legs to cripple him before leaving him to die in a facility that was about to blow up. Kai leng escapes through sheer willpower and determination by american ninja warrior climbing through the facility with only his upper body for locomotion.
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I really thought this character was very cool, because he represented a "peak human badass" that believed that humans were the superior race. Perfect Cerberus villain. The decision to pit him against commander shepard is, I think, perfectly reasonable. but its a real shame he didn't at least start out as a regular, unaugmented human that was spouting anti-alien rhetoric the whole time. And maybe, after defeating him once or twice, kai leng was is crippled badly and barely escapes, and finally, when he comes back he's an augmented half-cybernetic reapered up version of himself. and maybe in the last fight, after you defeat him, you can convince him that he was wrong by appealing to his sense of human superiority and convincing him that the illusiveman is betrayed humanity by making them dependent on reaper tech.
Thane is still an idiot here for hesitating instead of instantly shooting.
Sounds too similar to the Illusive Man conversations in this game, honestly. I was perfectly fine with Leng talking... honestly, the character himself? I like. His character buildup in Retribution was really something - And then Mass Effect 3. I feel like BioWare dropped the ball on a lot of things in the third game - It's a decent game overall, but knowing what might have been if some of the writers from the first two were there, it makes the third game disappointing. If Thane started shooting at Kai Leng once he had a clear shot, then Leng blocked it with his barrier (I know he uses shields in the game, but it would honestly have been interesting if he was a full-blown biotic Vanguard), then engaged him in a battle of biotics with Shepard and company while trying to protect the Salarian Councilor... I think it would have made Leng more of a genuine threat in the minds of the fans. I also think an active battle with Leng while taking the elevator to intercept the Council, even a timer to add to the fight, really could have made it interesting.
As for the Thessia fight? Definitely don't have it where he cowers to recharge while a gunship opens fire. I could see a fight with him using Vanguard-style abilities, like Tela Vasir, even having an entourage of Phantoms and possibly Dragoons into the mix. A small force, mind you. Anything excessively large (like multiple Atlas Mechs) would just be too much attention. Maybe attack Leng enough to the point his barrier collapses and part of his health diminishes, then he resorts to Biotic Charges and Shockwaves from an invulnerable position while you have to contend with his backup, then he re-engages you. On higher difficulties, he could even have a similar situation to the Clone's medi-gel limit.
@@thesecondromuluan8216 I agree his dialogues should be different from those of TIM, however he would definitely benefit for showing some respect for Shepard's accomplishments, maybe even throwing some alternatives according to previous choices (maybe Leng tries to convince Shepard if he sacrificed the concil and followed a renegade route, or salute him with disapointment for wasted potential if Shepard's a pure paragon).
Have him confident enough to offer Shepard the possibility to walk away, and ofc give him a better weapon than a bloody sword !!
Now I can just pretend is Jacob Leng under there. Two wrongs can make a right that way.
How about a mod where he makes incoherent but threatening noises, like Darth Nihilus?
@@iOnlySignIn He still does grunting sounds at the final battle but Yea it would be nice if he had some kind of voice changer.
The best Kai Leng is the Kai Leng that doesn't exist ❤️
I'm curious about that full auto Valkerye.
I just got to that point, and thought the same thing. lol I need it.
From what I remember, the weapon has an incredibly fast “tap the trigger” so to speak. Combined with its high rate of burst fire, you can pretty much make it a fully automatic weapon if you. It’s why I love the rifle
Not knocking the previous poster but there is a legit auto valkyrie mod. Comes packaged with a mod that removes the typhoon's face shield and adds the scope back onto the avenger (but not the lancer).
edit: never mind lol just saw the typhoon in the video
Its a Typhoon with the Valkyrie skin over xDDDD
Nothing more than hiding his face and deleting his lines....
There is a recording in the Cerberus HQ where Illusive Man talks to him and he talks back was it also cut out? bc it would make no sense since Illusive Man is responding to his lines.
Yep its cut same for debrief cutscene
@@Azumgi Thats a bummer. Bc the mod would be a 10/10 when they left it in those scenarios of course with the whole masked look and a filter over the voice.
that sh*t would have been more menacing.
One thing I never understood was why Shepard never even bothered to flip the car or speed up and then hit the breaks to throw his mall ninja wannabe butt off.
A lot of those events never made any sense when it came to him.
The wannabe mall ninja never earned a win, it was given to him and the gunship in ME2 we dusted with small arms fire yet we couldn't dust it in that one fight in ME3?
... Oh good, you turned him into Rinzler without the sympathetic backstory.
some GI joe shit
Lol it's Mass Effect 3 devs fault that poor guy is so hated😂
He has a great background beyond this game.
Huh… did they really change this or do I need to download a mod?
Edit: never mind, my blind behind just read it.
Chyba przejdę mass effecta jeszcze raz
Whats the mod used to change the weapons in cutscenes?
@@42crazyguy I had few mods that added bunch of things into the the game and i dont remember which one was it. Its probably LE3 community patch or Expanded Galaxy mod but i'm not sure.
@@AzumgiIt's always bothered me how it mostly auto reverts to the avenger and sidewinder. Immersion breaking but my guess was because of time constraints.
Honestly never seen black shep
Is this mod compatible with Project Variety?
Yes but PV needs to be the LAST mod installed or it will probably not work.
@@Azumgi Perfect, thanks
Kai Leng could've been a cool character if he was just toned down a bit and not so fucking cringe. The guy puts off Navy Seal copypasta vibes.
He's like people that try playing Battlefield as a mil sim with cringy callouts nowhere close to actual military chatter
So... it hide his face and mute him. And it does what? Cose it defenetelly does NOT fix him.
Everyone involved in the scene with Thane are still morons.
The scene with the skycar is stil dumb.
In the temple he still have a godmod.
This mod does nothing.
The mod lets you skip the fight in the temple which fixes that. Instead of getting his ass beat only to be saved by plot armour instead he just instantly calls in the gunship to shoot you down making his win not feel bullshit.
The scene with the Skycar has the option to switch Kai Leng and the Phantom around like it was originally going to be before Bioware changed their mind.
The Thane scene is still retarded, but honestly just let Thane die in ME2 because the two alternate versions are actually good and make Kai Leng seem competent without requiring plot armour. Thane never should have been in ME3 to begin with he should have died between games anyway.
There’s no fixing that. What it does fix is remove his stupid voice lines and edgy copypasta messages.
Also thane wasn’t stupid in that scene the gun is smacked away the second he’s going to shoot multiple times.
@@KiaraDe-x7r You asking a wrong question. WHY the gun is smacked away?
First, he get right to the KL to dramaticly put a barrel right next to his skull. What was the point? Did he really believed that a guy who already have several guns pointed at him and laugh at this thread will surrender if next gun will be pointed at him at point blank range? Why not simply shoot him, throw him away with biotic or do anythink else?
And than, after the pause in the fight, Thane CHARGE at KL. He have a gun (while KL have a sword), he knows KL is really good at miele combat and he knows very well that he himself is super weak at it due to his ilness. And yet, instead of keepeing the distance or trying to increase it, he CHARGE, shortening the distance, giving up every advantage he have. Basically he commit suicide here.
@@wardaszEven then the plot armor is still so clear. Thane was a legendary assassin, he could've easily take Lang in melee combat. Like how his introduction shows him almost effortlessly dispatching 4 or 5 people within inches of each other
@@UnrulyRantLord Exacly, WAS. Did you talk with him in ME3, in hospital? By this time he is no longer able to perfom such feats
honestly eith how bad i see DA4 failing after that trailer. EA would be wise to just make an update mod store for us console peasants to install the take earth back mod and, happy ending mod this mod to just give us a complete trilogy like we deserved. after andromeda as well i dont trust whoever the DEI infested employees at bioware right now can deliver anything
@@ZeroOmega-vg8nq Dude Bioware has always been "DEI" fuck you on about? This very same game has gay romance options
@@ChangedMyNameFinally69 that shit wasnt DEI as it is today you mung. back then it was fine because the characters were well written and it was merely an extra option that didnt break immersion. you can see the writing difference day and night and even the character designs. DEI crap today makes it so that every 2nd or 3rd character is a DEI chekmark to the point it makes you wonder how the species even maintains itself
with so much rainbow population. i say this as a Bi myself and i despise the amount of pandering done to the rainbow cult. Have gae characters been in older bioware games before yes but even then they were at leasts written competently. Even Dorian in DA4 whose plot is praised over and over is to me mid when his story was so predictable. "oh daddy hates me because i like to take it in the booty" when it wouldave been a far better arc for him to realize his father had an issue with him not because of the homosexuality but his radical ideas to change the tevinter imperium. aka his dad would have more reason to try and brainwash him for his political beleifs because it would shame his family honor but also put a huge target on their backs since the imperium HATES dissonant ideas.
meh.
Silent and faceless, did Disney do this?
"Personally Kai Leng is the most annoying character in whole trilogy so this mods turns him from walmart ninja into silent badass assasin"
He`s supposed to be annoying, you`re supposed to hate the guy, now he`s a stormtrooper.
I seriously doubt the developers intended for him to be annoying
he was a skilled combatant and a strong character, almost perfect counterpart to shepard before ME3
in ME3 we got clownish empty ninja with every word coming from his mouth being cringe bullshit
more to that - in cutscenes he is shown to be a fucking god, ruining our plans, overpowering shepard and co, and in every fight with him he's just a big penyata
so he's not annoying by writers' choice - he's just a product of unskilled or unwilling labor, collecting every cliche on its way
Pathetic.
@@janmaslovitz6736 more rushed than unskilled labor * Thanks EA.
But I agree on the rest, he needed a way more impressive posture, weapons and attitude. Even in gameplay if the sucker was actually throwing grenades and taking sniper pot-shots that would be waaayyy more intimidating than what he does in the vanilla version.
It's amazing what a covered face with fewer lines can do for a character. Not even ironic about it. I just played through ME3 with this mod and Kai Leng was a great villain.
Reminds me of a mod for Call of "Halo" 4 where Master Chief speaking less was an improvement. I think there was another that replaced his armor with the one he had at the end of Halo 3, and this mod for Kai Lang seems to be doing the same.
@@alexanderrobins7497It's weird being apart of the minority that actually likes 4. And I've been around since Halo 2
They really fucked up the Cerberus plotline in 3. Turned illusion man into an MCU villain😂
Also, rip Executor Chellick. Gotta love the relevant mods.