Like the title. What games are made better with mods, and foster a great modding scene that retains momentum and delivers excellent content?
My personal favorite is Fallout: New Vegas, but games like DOOM, Half-Life 2 (really all source engine games), and Minecraft have extremely unique mod scenes. Of course, Skyrim remains a modding titan. STALKER: Anomaly is already an amazing mod project and has mod lists for it like GAMMA.
What are your favorites?
Even after all these years, Morrowind still has an active scene.
Terraria is another mod-friendly game that is still active.
Tamriel Rebuilt is genuinely mind-blowing, same with OpenMW as a project.
Sometimes I spend more time modding rimworld than i do actually playing it
I don't know any that are as big as Bethesda games or Minecraft modding scenes, not even close, but FromSoftware games tend to have some really big mods that changes lots of stuff, never got to play any of them other than a bit of one that recently came out for DS3, but is something I want to do after I'm done with Shadow of the Erdtree.
Other than that Valheim seems to have some interesting ones too. Guilty Gear Strive have a lot of alt colors/costumes you can mod into the game.
Oh a big one is The Binding of Isaac, there is a shit ton of mods on the Steam Workshop, I tend to use a lot of non-gameplay mods there. The modding scene in this one is unique and tends to be quite friendly. There's a lot of fun and quality work on there.
The Valheim modding scene is really picking up steam. On thunderstore I've seen some mods that would allow for an mmo-rpg experience with classes and npcs, alongside with the usual: more enemy types, weapons, and armor.
slay the spire mods are pretty fun, i love the characters that the community creates. some of them are anime/touhou related but others make some unique (and silly) ones as well. yomi hustle also has a very big modding scene especially for adding custom characters, theyre pretty cool but i havent messed around with it much
Ohhh, haven't seen that mod scene yet! I'll have to check it out later.
Project Reality for Battlefield 2 is stand alone now, same with Stalker Lost Alpha, two mods I've played around with and enjoyed.
Project Reality has come such a long way, I remember trying to play it with a couple buddies years and years and years ago.
I've only messed around with it versus some ai in single player, I should try and find a good coop server to play on with some people. The AI in BF 2 is kind of pants on head and it detracts from the fun.
Mount & Blade has great mods. I only recently got around to playing Bannerlord and haven't modded it much yet, but I played Warband for hundreds of hours with and without mods
Edit: haven't played it in years now, but Ark was a very fun game to mod. Like holy shit there were so many amazing mods for that game around 2015 or so
Sadly Bannerlord doesn't really have any noteworthy finished mods yet because the game didn't get into a stable state until very recently. The Warhammer one is "playable" for certain definitions of the word, and added in a pretty neat combat magic system. I think the higher fidelity is really slowing modders down too.
Agreed. Since Bannerlord is kinda barebones and has balance issues, modders probably have to deal with fixing some of the stuff already in the game on top of adding more systems.
The major mods I've heard about (has been a minute though) have been Shokujo, Realm of Thrones, and Realms of Arda.
Yeah Bannerlord's base game has some pretty big core issues imo.
The major mods I've heard about (has been a minute though) have been Shokujo, Realm of Thrones, and Realms of Arda.
Of those, only Realm of Thrones actually has files you can download lol. It's going to be a long wait.
What do you mean by big core issues? I just started playing last week, but I'm pretty deep into it and haven't noticed any glaring issues. Haven't tried mods yet, but haven't really run into any problems
It's mostly issues you'll run into once you're into the mid-game. Economics issues and realm management issues mostly. Since social events aren't really a thing in the game (like feasts, tourneys, and weddings), you don't really get a chance to raise other rulers' disposition towards you. Warband had a stat called right to rule, which you could raise actively while being a vassal, preparing you for when the time came to declare independence. That helped you gather allies quickly, depending on the deeds you had done during the playthrough.
In Bannerlord the only real way to raise disposition quickly is to be in the opposing side of the lord you want to raise your disposition with, by beating them and letting them go. Voting in their favour in kingdom decisions yields pretty meager returns.
However, the biggest issue is economics. Mid-game/late-game there's very little ways to ensure you can keep a big army fed. You're almost forced to level smithing in order to smelt down anything valuable the enemy had, forge new stuff with a higher quality, and go around emptying cities' pockets through the same 4-5 minmaxxed weapons.
I really want to love the game but its really only fun during the first, what, 10 hours of a playthrough. It turns into a real slog because there just isn't any diplomacy.
I guess my approach of being a mercenary for a bunch of different kingdoms and never taking prisoners was a really good idea then. I started my own kingdom after and was able to flip the nobles to my side pretty easily. I'm definitely already seeing what you mean by the lack of diplomacy, though. If I didn't merc for a while there's no way to really expand my kingdom fast enough to defend it from the constant war on all sides.
I'm sad to hear about the mod situation. I didn't really look into it at all and just assumed the game has been out for long enough by now
If you ever get tired of Bannerlord, I'd say give warband a try. Ought to be cheap nowadays, runs on anything, and has a myriad of mods. Mind you, it's an eyesore compared to newer games, but the mods make up for it.
Haha if you look back at the original comment in this chain it's me saying I played warband for hundreds of hours
Subnautica's got a small modding scene, but it's mods are pretty good
The subnautica MP mod (not updated to the latest version) is incredibly fun
I came here to post Morrowind but it's already been mentioned so I'll give a shout out to ARMA 3. I don't think anyone even plays that game without mods.
I don't think anyone even plays that game without mods.
I did at first then I modded it later after I exhausted all the single player stuff
The older Total War games have a ton of great mods, Medieval 2 in particular. There's a ton of amazing mods, both historical (like The Italian Wars for pike-and-shot action) and fantasy (like the LOTR mod, Third Age: Total War).
The various Paradox grand strategy games are great too.
Dwarf fortress modding is very easy to learn
I had a personal adventure mode mod that added a ton of reactions for the player to use: butcher any corpse, leather curing and crafting, bone crafting, weapon sharpening, item decorating. Also changed necromancers to different elemental magic schools, each with their own set of spells to unlock via tome/slab
I had another that removed all the fantasy races and creatures, then split up humans by biome into the standard western fantasy trope races (Northmen, steppe riders, desert people, marsh people etc), each with their own distinct appearances, clothing/armor/weapon styles, cultural preferences, and even custom conlangs based on real world language groups
FTL Faster Than Light - Captain's Edition, Station Jobs, Multiverse overhaul mods
Battletech - Battltech Advanced 3062
Skater XL
Not seen much doom modding, but MyHouse.wad is impressive stuff.
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tale of two wastelands!! why settle for new Vegas when you can have more!
