mods that make the game easier

[greenpenguin48]

i kinda suck at the game so a few mods making it easier would be great

[Jambie Lionheart]

Weapon condition indicator is a game changer by itself. There's actually a mind boggling amount of QoL mods that help alleviate in game blights but if B42 goes mainstream when it's supposed to most of these mods will become obsolete in pretty short order.

Honestly the best difficulty reliever is the sand box options though. Tweak it how you want and find your own balance before you start getting into heavy modding.

[★Rainmaker★]

Simple Status, or any other mod that gives you visible "healthbars" for your stats is a big help, especially when making sure your Endurance doesn't get too low when in combat, or that you won't suddenly and unexpectedly get sleepy.

[PhalseDemeise]

Erase Weight. Erasers have -400 weight. Don't leave them in the car.

[Oragepoilu]

IMO, if you suck at the game you probably are just doing it the wrong way ( probably simply because how misleading the game is right now) and that can be "corrected". Yes, it would require a few hours (at least 3-4) but that's enough to prevent almost ANY death you could have.

Well, unless you are the kind of person that panic, then nothing can really help you. The game is already slow and zombies always do the same thing so there is absolutely no need to panic.

If you haven't, I would suggest simply watching some short & detailed video that explain in details some mechanics like (don't watch if they just tell stuff and don't show they tested it):

stomping
hitting the head of a downed z
fence fighting (or window + cabinet)
what's the best direction to split or group zombie following you (north/south work differently than east/west)
how zombies "remember" your position after they stop seeing you, and how to use that to force a zombie (or 100 of them) to forget about you with little effort (hint : house corner, fence, windows)
how stealth work (crouching doesn't change their vision of you, it just change the sound you make)
how crit and weapon damage work with moodle (when you need to sleep and/or rest your damage greatly drop and your crit chance drop a bit, so some weapon like spear shine when you are in bad condition)
how how far a zombie is from you affect your damage (the further away, the more damage you do; hitting at minimum range mean reduce damage)
how to push down a zombie with a weapon in hand but not use it's durability
how to get your skill up faster & safer
how trait works (some don't do what you think, some help while giving you point to spend on other trait) with the goal to make a strong start
how to exploit car durability to kill Z
how to fish (most easy and safe way to get infinite food by using free spear)
how to drink water from a tainted source
how corpse sickness work (getting sick from nearby corpse)
how health/injury work (never change or remove your bandage, don't disinfect, etc)
how armor work (no need to go into extreme detail because it's a huge mess by itself, especially if you carry a weapon like an axe and level up weapon skill)
learn how to level up tailoring and get and easy +10% bite protection on your clothing
how zombie spawn in building (they don't unless you get something like <10 tile from a visible tile inside the building and could spawn right in front of the door you open if you don't first see a tile inside)

maybe how to sprint/dash trough horde


Otherwise,

Any mod that show your endurance will greatly help you learning when you should retreat and sit for a bit.
There is a few mod that allow you to get infected and cure yourself after. Could be either by forcing you to craft it, loot it from a rare z, or remove the infected part, depending on the mod involved. It's more for longer run, to allow you make a few mistakes instead of simply removing the infection.
A mod that would increase your carry weight could also help you. Plenty of way to go about this; some let you find pocket you can sew on your backpack and fanny pack to make them better. Some give you better new backpack, some edit current backpack and make them better. Some add more smaller bag that stack with the backpack. You could also have a straight up free bonus carry weight.

I suggest you check yourself what you could fancy in the workshop, just use a few keyword and sort by popularity. also, CHECK THE DATE OF THE MOD. If it's somewhat old (<2023) read some message and see if people complain because it doesn't work anymore.

[Puppers]

Originally posted by PhalseDemeise:

Erase Weight. Erasers have -400 weight. Don't leave them in the car.

wait what lol

[Oragepoilu]

Originally posted by Puppers:

wait what lol

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2759627264&searchtext=eraser

[Drizzt]

Originally posted by greenpenguin48:

i kinda suck at the game so a few mods making it easier would be great

have you tried adjusting the sandbox settings in the vanilla game? there are dozens of (maybe over a hundred) settings that change everything about the game from zombie population, strength, perception - to loot rarity or abundance, car condition and fuel, character vulnerability, strength, XP gain, or trait cost - etc

if you have not tried changing those then it is probably too early to experiment with mods - since while there are plenty of QoL mods and mods that change how some of the systems work - the game has a built in system to configure its difficulty - so i would suggest playing around with that first

e.g. go to Custom Sandbox and select the Initial Infection preset - then go to the Character tab and set Rear Vulnerability to Low and enable Multi Hit

You will then have a game with a smaller number of weaker zombies, that don't hand around in big groups, and that you can hit multiple of with a melee weapon, and which are less likely to bite your neck from behind - and there will be loads of loot in the world - the cars will have fuel - and your character will level quicker

this should help you learn the systems and get used to combat

you can then increase the difficulty by small amounts - maybe increase the zombie count, or group size, or multiplier, or strength - or reduce the loot - or any of the other settings

there are also Custom Sandbox presets for all the main modes, as well as a few others - anything highlighted in yellow is different to the Apocalypse default settings

you can also save your own presets

hopefully that will help

(there is also a mod that lets you change many of the sandbox settings during a game)

[Zenith]

Journal for saving.

[Death]

Let's start with what your issue actually is. You may be able to solve your issue with simple sandbox settings. That said though, most mods make the game easier.

[tf2 pomson enjoyer #FIXVACPLS]

There's also the Custom sandbox settings, you can disable transmission and reduce zombie count.

[Luke TasRook]

Turn off zombies in settings.

[MrMinMax]

Become OP
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2914075159&searchtext=traits

[d.pras bling-bling]

Originally posted by greenpenguin48:

i kinda suck at the game so a few mods making it easier would be great

hey, You don't need mods for that.
just turn off the nutrition system and the game will become 100X easier.

[Swanky]

Antibodies. If you don't want to turn off infection completely, this is a nice compromise. Still risk of death, but avertable. Treat it like a very grave flu, you might have a chance to survive. Still very crispy if you find yourself in zed infested territory.

[Beltneck]

Virtually all of them.