Baldur's Gate 3 Mods

[Herby]

Hey community are there mods for BG3 through steam? or do you need to download a 3rd party mod support

[Teskal]

No support from Steam so far.

[アンジェル]

Originally posted by Herby:

Baldur's Gate 3 Mods
Hey community are there mods for BG3 through steam? or do you need to download a 3rd party mod support

You do not need a third party mod support.

[Mike Garrison]

There are mods, but not yet through Steam. Larian does not officially provide modding tools (yet).

[Gnasty Gnorc]

There will most likely not be mods through Steam. You will need to use other mod sites.

[Fliqpy]

Nexus Mods has em. You might have to download Vortex if you don't want to manually install them yourself.

[Inardesco]

Originally posted by Mike Garrison:

There are mods, but not yet through Steam. Larian does not officially provide modding tools (yet).

The game is build on the same engine as DIvinity Original Sin 2. So they don't have to provide any modding tools since they are already around.

The question would be if WotC would allow official mod support through Steam or not.

[Rinshun]

Originally posted by cluxx:

Nexus Mods has em. You might have to download Vortex if you don't want to manually install them yourself.

Nexus is crap. They delete mods arbitrarily because they aren't confortable with people changing their own games (how tolerant). They are shooting themselves in the foot. Also, they charge money for you to use some features. They are making a profit out of the modders creations that are almost always shared for free... -.-

If you want a mod deleted from there, try basedmods.

[guard65]

Personally I do not want Steam anywhere near my game. I defendant do not want steam modding my game.

You should get support through them one day. I will just boycott.

[seeker1]

It's true Nexus does offer a premium tier service. You pay, you get faster download speeds. Seems fair. That said, I don't subscribe to it and use the site for free. The main reason being that many mods for BG3 don't tend to be very huge files, so it hardly matters.

Also, they do allow modders to accept voluntary donations and contributions for their work. Nobody can charge upfront, but many can be "tipped" if you wish. Again seems like a fair system.

As for what they will or won't host - not gonna get into that.

I agree with others that personally I am NOT hoping "official mod support" means integration with the Steam Workshop, and in fact, there could be reasons to hope they DON'T do that. (There are OTHER ways they could make mods easier to install and use.)

[アンジェル]

Originally posted by seeker1:

It's true Nexus does offer a premium tier service. You pay, you get faster download speeds. Seems fair. That said, I don't subscribe to it and use the site for free. The main reason being that many mods for BG3 don't tend to be very huge files, so it hardly matters.

Also, they do allow modders to accept voluntary donations and contributions for their work. Nobody can charge upfront, but many can be "tipped" if you wish. Again seems like a fair system.

As for what they will or won't host - not gonna get into that.

I agree with others that personally I am NOT hoping "official mod support" means integration with the Steam Workshop, and in fact, there could be reasons to hope they DON'T do that. (There are OTHER ways they could make mods easier to install and use.)

Joke is on Nexus with their speed cap. Their minimum is still far more than what my bandwith's maximum capacity is.

[Ghost]

Originally posted by Rinshun:

Originally posted by cluxx:

Nexus Mods has em. You might have to download Vortex if you don't want to manually install them yourself.

Nexus is crap. They delete mods arbitrarily because they aren't confortable with people changing their own games (how tolerant). They are shooting themselves in the foot. Also, they charge money for you to use some features. They are making a profit out of the modders creations that are almost always shared for free... -.-

If you want a mod deleted from there, try basedmods.

They're a private company. Either you agree to their rules or you don't use their system. If you do break their rules, consequences are on you.

As far as I'm aware, the only thing you can pay for is potentially faster download speeds and ad-blocking for those people that aren't already using an ad-blocker.

Originally posted by seeker1:

It's true Nexus does offer a premium tier service. You pay, you get faster download speeds. Seems fair. That said, I don't subscribe to it and use the site for free. The main reason being that many mods for BG3 don't tend to be very huge files, so it hardly matters.

Also, they do allow modders to accept voluntary donations and contributions for their work. Nobody can charge upfront, but many can be "tipped" if you wish. Again seems like a fair system.

As for what they will or won't host - not gonna get into that.

Agreed. Honestly, the 3MB/s is plenty for me. Sure you can pay for 'unlimited' speeds, but that's still reliant on the speed of your own net, and the gain here would be minimal.

Donations are entirely optional and where they go is up to the mod authors. Personally I just split all mine between the charities, avoids any potential fuss and the amount I'd get is fairly small anyway.

[Chroniver]

Originally posted by Inardesco:

Originally posted by Mike Garrison:

There are mods, but not yet through Steam. Larian does not officially provide modding tools (yet).

The game is build on the same engine as DIvinity Original Sin 2. So they don't have to provide any modding tools since they are already around.

The question would be if WotC would allow official mod support through Steam or not.

The DOS2 tools don't really work with BG3.

Looking at DOS2 it is possible that there will be workshop support one day.

Even so you'll still be better off using mod sites and a manager because loading orders through the workshop will be a nightmare for this game.

[Woke Buster]

I doubt we will see Steam support while the game is still in beta phase. They might add it when the Definitive Edition (full release) comes out in ~2-3 years.

For best BG3 mods I highly recommend to check this website: https://modhq.org/

[Ghost]

Originally posted by User-315-708:

I doubt we will see Steam support while the game is still in beta phase. They might add it when the Definitive Edition (full release) comes out in ~2-3 years.

For best BG3 mods I highly recommend to check this website: https://modhq.org/

Best meaning mods by, and for incels, racists, homophobes, transphobes, etc. and similar that are banned elsewhere because no one with sponsors wants to be associated with them.

As for workshop, who knows. Larian stated that 'mod support' would be coming at some point but never provided a date or what that support would look like.

[harken23]

The BG3 Mod Manager is kind of important, if only because it has a script extender built in. Not as easy to use as Vortex, but it does the job.