I'm excited for Mods, as there is a lot of activity at Nexus and many of the features we requested during EA are already available there in some form. So for example the one I mentioned at the top would be a riff on the Recruit Any NPC mod (which is also the current custom party mod) and the Party Limit Begone mod (combined with xp scaling to make that work) I also tried the Native Camera Tweaks and WASD mods and a few others like that. These are all killer mods that do many of the things I really wanted from a BG3 game.
But for anything that has an overwrite they can present issues when hotfixes drop. For example, when the Game updated the controller inputs in the last hotfix it busted the WASD mod for half a day. Not a huge deal, but when that happens you quickly realize that being reliant on a single modding enthusiast to update as soon as the game does is a bit tricky. The game is still new and the full release is still being updated. When they get a steam workshop approach up off the ground for ease of use, and modding teams which coordinate more broadly, you can end up with some fantastic mod collections that are easier to adopt in MP sessions probably, but this all takes a fair bit of time to get up off the ground. Like I'm sure it will hum a year from now, but we still got those growing pains at the moment.
There's also a more basic issue I think, of Players wanting to remain Players, and not really wanting to also be their own DM at the same time. Extensive modding can blur the line there more than the Player may wish. This can make mods for the more mechanical stuff or power curve nuts and bolts a bit different than say cosmetic stuff when it comes to choosing which mods to explore.
All that just to say that, even when its very simple to add mods, and with lots of options to choose from, that can still bring some decision paralysis there, and other factors beyond just fear or busting your install. Which is why native support and recommended settings/options would be cool for some of this.
Ps. Oh also there is a Mod to restore achievements while using a modded game, which may not be the most important issue for some, but its still nice to have em. This doesn't solve the more general mod installation type issues if that's the main hang up, but I saw that one update the other day. Haven't tried it lately. I did a clean install after hotfix 6 and have been running vanilla till patch 3 drops. But anyway, another one that seemed pretty cool.
Last edited by Black_Elk; 20/09/23 07:59 PM.
