High quality mods?

[IvanGogh]

I'm very new to mods in this game and I'd like to hear from you guys what are the best mods in quality, that is model quality, detail and this kind of stuff, and content. Thanks in advance.

[Maxwell2813]

In terms of model quality and detail probably the Empire at war remake mod

[Sol Inherent]

Thrawns Revenge 2.2

[simon on va t'attraper]

Empire At War Remake is actually the best

[Evono]

Thrawns Revenge hands down. balance is great . effects are superb , the new units and 5 factions just wonderfull.

[Awesomesauce]

Remake is my favourite, but all that spicy graphical goodness sometimes overwhelms the engine.

[PixelNuts]

These better quality mods need that 4gb patch? I couldn't make this patch works with steam version, does it work now?

[Sol Inherent]

The patch is already applied in the steam version

[Archaist]

Thrawns Revenge and Republic at War are the best in my opinion however the steamworks version of RaW has German Voices and English text currently but if you can deal with that I highly recommend it. However if you'd like to do some research on your on XPGamers on youtube has campaign playlists for both mods.

However as your new to mods in this game get ready for crashes, your probably going to have more than a few so save often and with multiple save slots. Good luck.

[Xorras]

Awakening of the Rebellion. Its not on workshop (but Moddb), but its the best mod out of them all. Thrawn Revenge is ok in gameplay, but terrible on visuals. Remake is amazing on visuals and average on gameplay. Republic in war is also a decent mod.

[[KOB]ThePoggiestMan]

remake is a new mod that adds to the base game but it isnt not a total conversion like RAW and TR

[IvanGogh]

I watched a few videos of Thrawn's revenge. Some models are very ugly. I'm not the kind of person that judge games based on graphics, but when a vanilla ship stands near a TR ship, you can clearly see the difference, and this breaks the feeling.

[MR.NYTRO?]

haw can you get a mode for the game?

[IvanGogh]

Originally posted by killer fox:

haw can you get a mode for the game?

Download from the workshop and activate in-game.

[[LSSAH]Canzah]

I don't understand people recommending EaW Remake mod.
It's the equivalent to Half Life 2's FakeFactory mod.
Absolute mishmash of music from Command and Conquer, Mad Max and Mass Effect, none of which fit within Star Wars.
Auto-resolve function broken (you always lose no matter how good your fleet and how weak the enemy fleet is).
Unit scaling is absolutely terrible to the point it's very hard to see anything that isn't a capital ship.
The same applies to all the projectiles like lasers and so on.
Unit icons and hardpoint icons are missing their "backgrounds" so you essentially have black icon, on black space maps, with half pixel width outline as the only thing to distinguish them.
It's an absolute mess to try and target anything specific at a glance without having to pause the game, zoom and look for what you want to target.
And then there's the bugged ship models, sure they do look pretty (as do the particles) but that's where the positives od this mod end.
Victory-class Star Destroyers spawn with half of their hull literally missing, only to disappear entirely few seconds later and then hyperspace-in again few seconds later, now with hull visible properly. There's more bugs like this one.

It's honestly a horrible mess with only the model, particle and texture detail being the only positive thing about the mod, but what point does any of that serve when most of the models will be ant-sized (fighters are quite literally 1 pixel, maybe 2-3 pixels big for bigger ones on 1080p resolution) and the game is a mess from gameplay standpoint?

In terms of FoC (expansion) mods, I suggest trying Thrawn's Revenge, it also overhauls visuals with many much better models, textures and particles, but also having more complex and completely overhauled gameplay mechanics and with none of the issues I described above that EaW Remake suffers from.

Republic at War is another great mod worth playing, and while not as high quality as Thrawn's Revenge, makes up for it by setting the game in the Clone Wars period which is naturally drastically different from the more traditional Rebels/New Republic vs Empire/Imperial Remnant.

And finally, Phoenix Rising, focusing mostly on the post Episode 3 to shortly after Episode 6 time period, another very high quality mod with some custom mechanics, new content and whatnot.

And if you'd like something non-Star Wars, the Stargate Pegasus Chronicles is a stellar Stargate-themed total conversion mod.

For regular, non-FoC version of the game, the only one I can really recommend is Conflict in Space, which was made by a friend of mine who unfortunately has disappeared years ago. Pioneered adding many new features to the game that later actually were officially added by the developers themselves in the FoC expansion such as orbital bombardment, Death Star II with manual targeting laser capable of destroying larger ships and very large ships such as Vader's Executor Super Star Destroyer flagship.



It's worth mentioning that all those mods are available on Workshop right now.
There is another good mod that is NOT available on workshop at the moment due to still being worked on for new, stable release, namely Awakening of the Rebellion focusing on the Original Trilogy time period. However you can grab the 2.60 Open Beta version from its ModDB page if you google for it.

[[LSSAH]Canzah]

Originally posted by IvanGork!:

I watched a few videos of Thrawn's revenge. Some models are very ugly. I'm not the kind of person that judge games based on graphics, but when a vanilla ship stands near a TR ship, you can clearly see the difference, and this breaks the feeling.

I've no idea what you watched considering that TR has much higher model quality than unmodded game.