I didn’t mess with mods in EA, but I’m tempted to give a few a try with full release. Specifically camera mods to start. Anyone using any mods at this point, and any you recommend or advise steering clear of? Thanks!
EDIT: I don’t see anyone really using anything yet, so I’m going to hold off myself. I don’t know enough about it to feel confident I won’t jack up my game. Still hope to get some positive feedback regarding mods after release by someone here, so if you do use any and are happy with them, please do let us know!
I just installed a tiny handful, but haven’t had time to test them out. I’m primarily doing it for Approval Tweaks, as the relationship progression with all companions have been way too crazy for me. Basically became soulmates with Shadowheart before the first Long Rest.
Also trying out Cunning Strike primarily for the advertised fix to Sneak Attack behavior. Should work with Commanders Strike now so that manoeuvre isn’t useless anymore. And in general should work you know… properly.
I’ve had Wyll become my romance partner when I hadn’t even talked to the dude outside of recruiting him into my camp. I need those tweaks; that kind of thing is super jarring and doesn’t even make sense. First run, Gale and Lae’zel were advancing their quests before I had even found a settlement and now on my second run, I’m trying to advance Gale’s and he hasn’t even asked for an item to consume yet and I’m already in the Underdark. :/
Hah, I still have no idea who Gale is. I read something on here saying he is missable if you fail a skill check at a portal, but I never even saw a portal!
Oh well, something for a second playthrough.
Not sure if/when it closes down, but there is a portal in between emerald Grove and where you start off. You can go back and find it. You wouldn’t expect it there because the waypoints are so close
At this point I’m fine with ignoring him and saving him and the Drow lady for a second playthrough, but thanks for the tip!
Was looking at Approval Tweaks, any idea if using it stops you gaining Steam achievements?
Most likely, though there is another mod that supposedly re-enables achievements even with mods running.
The achievement enabler introduced a bunch of odd bugs for me (e.g. skipping interactions as if I’d pressed a button) that coupled with the fact that it’s a full on dll replacement (read: arbitrary code execution) skeeved me out enough to uninstall it.
If definitely did work for enabling achievements while playing modded, for what it’s worth though.
I didn’t get the achievements working even with it, I think. Did you run through the launcher?
I use BG3 mod manager for most mods. For that one though you have to do everything manually, if I recall. It was just a matter of dropping the files from the zip file into the game directory and overwriting (I of course backed up my own copies first).
That’s what I did, and I also use BG3MM. But I made a shortcut directly to the exe to skip the launcher, and I wondered if that’s why I was still not getting achievements maybe.
I launch normally through steam, though with the skip launcher option on so I don’t have to bother with the splash screen.