What Mods are needed

[Dester]

Before bringing this to my other multiplayer gamers... I'm working at learning the game against the AI opponents. What types of mods are recommended for this game?

[queenelise9830]

I personally like playing without mods, I have all the DLC though. With all the DLC there's enough content that you can't really grasp it all in one game anyway. Why add more until you're familiar with it?

[Dester]

Why have a bowl of beans when you can enjoy a three course meal?
The improved AI mod seems important... I'm thinking other mods exist too which provide great value. Simply looking for anything which would help me convince my friends this is a good game.

[queenelise9830]

I can see how improved ai would benifit this game, sure. I haven't looked much into the mods myself, I may have to install improved AI for my singleplayer games once I'm better at the game now that I know it's a thing. xD You're better off talking to someone else for anything else though.

[𓆚 standardheadache 𓆚]

I've looked for mods that add more content to Endless Legend and have come up short; most are little changes, like the points you can put into a custom faction, or translations.

I remember hearing that they don't support custom models or animations in mods, so that may be the restrictive part. Not so much that they don't permit them, but that it's just impossible with how much they've done to the Unity engine.

Don't worry, with the DLCs the game goes from good to great. They go on sale pretty often, too.

[Dester]

Yes, enjoying the game... hopefully we will see more developer releases too

[TheMightyCthulhu]

I only have Guardians, Shadows, and the little minor faction DLC and it's already quite a bit of content. I'll be playing a handful of games with just these DLC packs first to appreciate what changes the others will bring.

[Bionerd]

Sorry for necroing, but in-case someone stumbles across this like I just did.

There are plenty of good mods that affect game mechanics/customization: Here are some of my favorites:

-World Generator Full Customization: Excellent world generation mod - be warned that it gives you enough control that you can make some buggy things happen (in particular read the descriptions of anything involving terrain height - Geo Height and one other one I'm spacing the name out of are the usual culprits here).
-Hidden Alloys: All weapons and armor can be researched (as in you no longer depend on quests to get this - that said avoid loading the game while researching these, it will reset the time on them).
-Re-Items: Adds late game dust + titanium/glassteel items.
-Mighter and Magicker: Does a pretty good job with remaking the skill tree so that you don't have to mix governor and combat skills in order to unlock the ones you want. Also gives heros some added utility.
-Progressive Difficulty: Make the endgame more challenging and the beginning a little less so that it's no longer a game of, 'well I survived the first 50-100 turns, now time to play out the remaining ones although there is no way I will lose if I try at all'. (Tweaks AI resource generation to do this - makes the AI cheat more and more as the game goes on but less in the beginning).
-Improved AI: Makes the computer play smarter!
-Dynamic Game Speeds: Makes combat a bigger part of the game (so that it's not all about teching and making buildings). Unfortunately not compatible with progressive difficulty right now - I might work on an attempt to fix that soon. Or make an alternative inspired but both of these modders work.
-Tiny Traits: Good for more control over custom faction creation.
-Endless Heros: Adds more heros to the roster and I think increases the number available in the market a little.