Vanilla or Modded?

[Malaka]

Hello,

Wanted to give it a go before remaster. I tried modding a bit. Tried several guide videos on youtube, all of them eventually failed, either the game was part German, part English, part Polish, or had weird bugs like random textures, or constant crashes, or random black screens. Tried a guide on Steam guides, game simply didn't run, probably guide was outdated. Tried Spine but kept getting corruption in save files or mod files.

Should I just play vanilla or is there a fool proof modding guide/list (like basic bug/glitch fix, some quality of life mods should be more than enough)? I already spent several days and I don't wanna spend much time on figuring stuff out on my own.

Cheers!

[[AK] GaroK]

The game should work out of the box.
Also what's your target language?

If by mods you mean patches to simply run the game, try Union patch from workshop. It's the newest and advanced patch that extends modding possibilities if you're interested in mods. But in its base form it's just patch for modern systems.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2787491081&searchtext=union
If you want mods, I'd still suggest to play vanilla for the first time. This way if you decide to replay the game, you'd be able to notice what the mods actually do and apreciate it.

If you insist on a mod, try Mod-Fix. It's quality of life improvements, some minor dialogue changes (everything is still voiced), minor graphical changes. Ability to make potions, some balance changes. No new missions or lore fanfiction.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2786604938&searchtext=Mod+Fix

[Malaka]

Originally posted by GaroK:

The game should work out of the box.
Also what's your target language?

If by mods you mean patches to simply run the game, try Union patch from workshop. It's the newest and advanced patch that extends modding possibilities if you're interested in mods. But in its base form it's just patch for modern systems.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2787491081&searchtext=union
If you want mods, I'd still suggest to play vanilla for the first time. This way if you decide to replay the game, you'd be able to notice what the mods actually do and apreciate it.

If you insist on a mod, try Mod-Fix. It's quality of life improvements, some minor dialogue changes (everything is still voiced), minor graphical changes. Ability to make potions, some balance changes. No new missions or lore fanfiction.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2786604938&searchtext=Mod+Fix

Thanks for the quick answer!

Target language is English.

So, I just download subscribe to union patch and I am good to go?

Do I also need Union patch for Mod-Fix?

[[AK] GaroK]

Mod-Fix doesn't require Union but some mods and plugins do.

Union is still required to play the game on modern systems if the steam-integrated patches do not work for you.
You need to enable workshop client (no idea if it's default option now) in the beta options, then subscribe the mods and launch the game once downloaded.

If you have more questions I'm open to friend request

[Lanani]

For me (Windows 10, AMD Ryzen 7 5800X, NVIDIA GeForce RTX3070) it worked right out of the box, no mods required. personally, I am very much the kind of person who likes to play games as the developers intended 99% of the time (so no mods), and as someone who played this game completely vanilla on a modern system, I can say I didn't feel the need for mods. It has its jank and a handful of bugs, but nothing that would require a mod to fix.