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Playing the Series for the first time together: which mods for which?

Dark_AnsemDark_Ansem Member Posts: 992
in New Players (NO SPOILERS!)
I am playing for the first time the games as a whole: which mods are a must-have?

small addendum: everything that adds more of Irenicus is welcome :)

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  • ErgErg Member Posts: 1,756
    My two cents:

    I love mods and I can't play anymore without them, but if you are playing for the first time, and you have the Enhanced Edition, don't use any mod.

    If you have the original games instead, just use the Fixpacks, Widescreen and Bigger Fonts mods for your first playthrough.

    You will most likely be playing this games more than once, so plenty of time to try mods later on :)
  • Dark_AnsemDark_Ansem Member Posts: 992
    I've played the originals before, yes, but first time overall for both enhanced editions together.
  • Time4TiddyTime4Tiddy Member Posts: 262
    No mods at all so you can see all the "enhanced" additions before you start adding mods. There are a lot of little quests, dialogues and interactions you'll get that were never in the vanilla versions due to bugs or unfinished programming. For example, the neutral characters now have "happy" comments when you get high rep - so you'll hear a lot of "original" dialogue from the NPCs that wasn't in the game before.
  • Dark_AnsemDark_Ansem Member Posts: 992
    oh ok then. a good idea all the same.
  • GamingFreakGamingFreak Member Posts: 639
    BG2 Tweaks is a must. An absolute must. Some of the stuff in the tweaks is pretty much cheating, but some are there to just avoid a headache (like letting you run with any party without them leaving due to reputation scores, or keeping them from fighting each other to the death).

    Rogue Rebalancing is also really good, if you want to play a thief/bard at all. It kind of makes them a bit too powerful, but no more powerful than pretty much any other class by the end of the game. That's the only two mods I can think of, honestly.
  • Big_MurrayBig_Murray Member Posts: 69
    GamingFreak said:

    BG2 Tweaks is a must. An absolute must. Some of the stuff in the tweaks is pretty much cheating, but some are there to just avoid a headache (like letting you run with any party without them leaving due to reputation scores, or keeping them from fighting each other to the death).

    I'd consider that pretty much cheating as well, to be honest.
  • Time4TiddyTime4Tiddy Member Posts: 262
    I dunno, the party dynamics are kind of a critical part of the game. Especially with new characters who have new conflicts. If it's a first playthrough, you probably want to have a little bit of that for the experience of it.
  • Dark_AnsemDark_Ansem Member Posts: 992
    I wonder if there will be either a complete update to fix the mechanics or a 3.5 rules update!
  • booinyoureyesbooinyoureyes Member Posts: 6,164
    rogue re-balancing is great though. pure thieves kinda sucked b4
  • Dark_AnsemDark_Ansem Member Posts: 992
    more suggestions?
  • RealReal Member Posts: 68
    GamingFreak said:

    BG2 Tweaks is a must. An absolute must. .

    I second this. There are many changes you can make in the tweak pack and you can decide the changes you want and the changes you don't want. Want to play a female Gnome and still be able romance Viconia? Now possible. For completely new players, they may not know what they want yet. However, the OP has already played through vanilla BG2 and may have some idea of what they want in the game.

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