Best mods for a beginner?

[Satan Itself]

Hi, I just bought and played WH3. I've played a little bit of WH2 and previous non-fantasy TW games.

So far Vanilla is really nice and challenging (Im playing on hard difficulty). I realized there are many mods available, so far i have only downloaded the aesthetical ones but I am wondering about the overhauls. There seem to be a lot of major reworking mods, specially the SFO has catched my attentions. But I don't know if i should appreciate the Vanilla a little bit more or if the overhaul is for more experienced players.

What would you ppl recommend? Any other mod of interest as well?

[Captain Baldy]

Personally I like anything that gives me more units for factions. Also, reshade. I could not play now without reshade as it makes the game looks stunning. The shots below have not been edited. They look like that in the game and I'm still blown away
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2950226934
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2950227170
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2950227086

[Malaficus Shaikan]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2861087118

The difference between anti player bais and none anti player base is massive.
Allies are usefull now.
Enemies wont destroy themselves trying to kill you.
And npc wage war among eachother.

[SpeaksTooFast]

I normally just play with the "one button respec" letting me change the skills on confederated lords/heroes. Just a nice little quality of life thing.

[Jack Greedy]

Flange are You using TAA, your screenshots are great?

As for OP, start with Radious it is simple very fun overhaul , just 4 parts and You don't need anything more.

Malaficus, thats great mod, thank You for putting it here.

[Father Ribs]

Check out "Great Book of Grudges" on youtube or twitter for a running series of commentaries on quality large mods.

Right now I'm playing the Marienburg one and I'm loving it.

[Jack Greedy]

Legendary Lore is also cool mod, lot of reading and excellent introduction into Warhammer lore.

[Captain Baldy]

Originally posted by Jack Greedy:

Flange are You using TAA, your screenshots are great?

Thanks its down to reshade mostly. I'm still tweaking it but I prefer it with TAA and antialiasing off. I use the AA that comes with reshade. it makes a huge difference to frame rates.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2950320942

[Jack Greedy]

Can you post a link to your Reshade preset? It looks so good, im messing with reshade but im far from reaching that feel.

[Satan Itself]

Originally posted by flange:

Personally I like anything that gives me more units for factions. Also, reshade. I could not play now without reshade as it makes the game looks stunning. The shots below have not been edited. They look like that in the game and I'm still blown away
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2950226934
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2950227170
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2950227086

Nice!! Does the reshade uses up much hardware?

[Cenwalh]

I would REALLY recommend Better Camera Mod -- https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2789858755

What it changes is really simple - you can zoom out more, you can zoom in more.

For me this mod is essential and I cannot go back, it's such a huge quality of life improvement. On top of that it enables taking better close-up screenshots. But for me, the real improvement is being able to see the map much better in big battles, without going into tactical mode.

Originally posted by flange:

Also, reshade. I could not play now without reshade as it makes the game looks stunning.

Could you please post a link to this reshade mod? I cannot find it, and I'd like to try it out. Also, does it have the option to make the visuals brighter? The screenshots you shared look great, but I personally don't like the fact that it's so dark, it's like it sets the brightness to 0.

Thanks!

EDIT -- forgot to add to OP, since you mentioned SFO - I would personally leave SFO for only when you feel like Vanilla has nothing more to offer. It fundamentally changes the game; it's a great, high quality mod, but it's the type of mod that you play after you played dozens of Vanilla campaigns and feel like you want something fresh.
Of course, nothing's stopping from giving it a try, this is just my perspective. The important thing is to have fun. Cheers!

[SBA77]

Finally something wholesome for once, well aside from this.

[Satan Itself]

Originally posted by Cenwalh:

I would REALLY recommend Better Camera Mod -- https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2789858755

What it changes is really simple - you can zoom out more, you can zoom in more.

For me this mod is essential and I cannot go back, it's such a huge quality of life improvement. On top of that it enables taking better close-up screenshots. But for me, the real improvement is being able to see the map much better in big battles, without going into tactical mode.

Originally posted by flange:

Also, reshade. I could not play now without reshade as it makes the game looks stunning.

Could you please post a link to this reshade mod? I cannot find it, and I'd like to try it out. Also, does it have the option to make the visuals brighter? The screenshots you shared look great, but I personally don't like the fact that it's so dark, it's like it sets the brightness to 0.

Thanks!

EDIT -- forgot to add to OP, since you mentioned SFO - I would personally leave SFO for only when you feel like Vanilla has nothing more to offer. It fundamentally changes the game; it's a great, high quality mod, but it's the type of mod that you play after you played dozens of Vanilla campaigns and feel like you want something fresh.
Of course, nothing's stopping from giving it a try, this is just my perspective. The important thing is to have fun. Cheers!

Is not a mod like the others. Is an external open-source programme that you can download. The only thing is that it has too many things to tweak that is kind of overwhelming. And so far I haven't found any presets :( It would be nice if he could share his presets

[Guillérmidas]

As someone that like vanilla but also is a Warhammer fan for over 20 years...

The only gameplay mods I installed are these 3: "Bretonnia Overhaul", "Vasslize&Liberate factions" and "TT caps". I cannot live with the two last options now (except when playing coop campaign, its full vanilla), and Bretonnia overhaul is very nice and vanilla friendly, but will eventually phase it out once CA rework them properly.

Not a fan of big changes like SFO. All my other mods are graphical or light reskins.

[Jack Greedy]

Yes Reshade is great but without preset it is too much to config .