Best mod to make native singleplayer mode better?

[Landshark]

Is there any mod to enhance the native singleplayer experience, like overall UI/AI type mod? Something like that?

Thanks!

[Morkonan]

I always recommend Floris Modpack.

https://www.nexusmods.com/mbwarband/mods/3489

It's a big mod collection of mods that have been fine-tuned to work well with each other. There are three installation options. The "Expanded" option gives you the most you could possibly expect from any "native" flavor mod.

While Floris includes a version of Diplomacy, many players like the full Diplomacy mod by itself:

https://www.nexusmods.com/mountandblade/mods/1887

(Doublecheck to be sure that's the right one for the version number on Steam.)

PS: I use the Nexusmod links because I don't "trust" Steam Workshop mechanics for Warband Mods. :) There are versions of the above on ModDB and they both have their own forums on the Taleworlds website, too, that may have other links, patches, and "extras" or "submods."

https://forums.taleworlds.com/index.php?categories/the-caravanserai-released-mods.540/

[Eloung]

Първоначално публикувано от Morkonan:

I always recommend Floris Modpack.

https://www.nexusmods.com/mbwarband/mods/3489

It's a big mod collection of mods that have been fine-tuned to work well with each other. There are three installation options. The "Expanded" option gives you the most you could possibly expect from any "native" flavor mod.

While Floris includes a version of Diplomacy, many players like the full Diplomacy mod by itself:

https://www.nexusmods.com/mountandblade/mods/1887

(Doublecheck to be sure that's the right one for the version number on Steam.)

PS: I use the Nexusmod links because I don't "trust" Steam Workshop mechanics for Warband Mods. :) There are versions of the above on ModDB and they both have their own forums on the Taleworlds website, too, that may have other links, patches, and "extras" or "submods."

https://forums.taleworlds.com/index.php?categories/the-caravanserai-released-mods.540/

A bit out of topic, why don't you trust Steam Workshop for Warband though ?
I also recommend Floris Modpack, Highly.

[Landshark]

Thanks all, I just installed Floris Modpack, starting a playthrough now. :)

[Eloung]

Първоначално публикувано от Landshark:

Thanks all, I just installed Floris Modpack, starting a playthrough now. :)

Good luck mate ! Floris comes with a whole new set of troop trees, that's gotta freshen up the game a bit

[Morkonan]

Първоначално публикувано от A Nice Guy:

A bit out of topic, why don't you trust Steam Workshop for Warband though ?...

Way back in the early history of Teh Interwebz and Steam, they introduced the "Workshop" so gamers could easily run their favorite mods. It was Steam's "One Ring" policy "One platform to rule them all..."

Except... they didn't allow hosted file sizes to be big enough for typical Warband mods. And, there was absolutely no confirmation or check notice given to uploaders. That meant every Warband modder who had a large sized Warband mod, which is the norm due to how Warband is modded, ended up thinking they had successfully uploaded their Uber Cool Warband Mod when what actually happened is that all files over the limit were truncated, yet still showed "valid" filename extensions.

Thousands died IRL.

Primarily, the reason I don't trust Steam's Workshop for mods is generally due to the fact that I've always manually installed mods for Warband. I also play games offline, mostly, so Workshop directory files are meaningless additions for me.

There are so many instances of bad installs from the Workshop, IMO, and I have a near-zero record of bad or corrupted manual downloads and installs on my end. This leads me to strongly favor manual downloads and installs of all Warband mods.

Note: There are some file types that the Workshop will not host and some things that will get flagged even though they've been filtered through by fifty-eleven codemonkey white-hats. If you want mods that use/contain those, you have to go elsewhere.