Hello! Just wanted to write a post sharing my experience with the new mod tool thus far.
I've had random, mixed results with third party mods. I've checked that all have been updated to Patch 7, but even so it seems that the game won't let me create a new save on any difficulty and returns me to the main menu.
I reverified my files and cleared the modlist, and was able to run a new game. I was even able to add third party mods afterwards, and did this slowly one at a time to a point i was satisfied. This worked and I was able to customize and begin a new game. However, I had closed out of the game again and reopened, and it wouldn't let me create a new game anymore, and I had changed nothing. I use BG3MM to load mods, but I've noticed that using it versus the built in manager changes nothing. I'm not exactly sure what the issue is, as it worked one moment and then wouldn't the next.
Verifying files for me takes well over an hour, so doing that every time I want to play is not an option. I'm not frustrated or anything, as it is a brand new implementation, but rather wanted to share my experience with the new feature in hopes maybe someone else has a solution, or we can use this feedback to come up with fixes for it. I toyed with deleting the modprofile file, and that didn't change anything. Verifying was the only thing that effected anything, but it was only temporary.
My only feedback is that it seems the built in mod manager models Vortex's automatic load order functionality, which can cause issues where BG3MM's ability to manually adjust load order fixes. This might just be something that mod makers have to adjust to, I'm not entirely sure how or why some mods have to have specific load orders in order to function since i'm not a modder myself.
The in game mods listed within the mod manager all work fine, so hopefully with time either third party mods can be published directly, or they can be more easily implemented alongside the built in manager! Thanks for reading, I just plan on being patient for now and hoping this all fixes itself soon
- F
