Quick question about mods and multiplayer.

[Rugged Lemmings]

Sorry, I can only assume that something like this has been asked numerous times, but after doing some internet searching I couldn't find a clear, straight-forward answer to my question.

Quite simply: I'm thinking of picking up some cosmetic mods to spruce up my single player campaigns. Eyes, hair styles, skin textures, removing a certain cosmetic change that occurs if you accept a powerful upgrade later in the game, etc.

But at the same time I'm in a 3 man campaign with some buddies. Just wondering if I start modding up with cosmetics if that will somehow bugger my ability to play with friends.

[Ironwu]

Yes it will break your Multi-Player game. Even if everyone has exactly the same Mods installed, Mods can still cause havoc.

If you want to have a BG3 game going that has Mods while maintaining the integrity of your MP game, then I suggest creating a second User account on your computer and using that to play a Modded game.

Note that just making a new Campaign will NOT do it as the Modding file is global to the computer system User account.

Good Luck

[guard65]

Your best bet is to log into your computer as a diifernt user altogether and run the modded version on that user account. May sure you turn off cloud sync, or better yet just start from the game executable altogether.

The only thing should have to watch out for is if nay of those mods try to place files in you game folder (BG3\data\public). If they do they will effect both games and you will have to avoid that mod. Most mods do not unless manually installed.

[Rugged Lemmings]

Thank you very much guys, that's exactly what I was looking for. I appreciate the answers, cheers mates! :^)