Easiest way to do a modded playthrough?

[Unwary]

What do I need to have a easily modded playthrough. I've tried some collections (Baradul's MW5 YAML Mods, YAML Base Collection) but they just wind up with the game softlocking to a black screen at the main menu after I enable. I'm not trying to combine them, I tried Baradul's first, softlocked. Deleted everything in the mod directory and from my workshop, tried YAML Base Collection and got the same problem.

Do they require all the DLC purchased to work properly?

[pete]

NEVER use a mod list.

Read the mod description

Read the mod description

You may need to Clear the MW5 appdata folder.

Play the game UNMODDED first

[shrekstyle]

I played baraduls modlist recently, it takes a long time to load the mods and it looks like it softlockes at the main menu (really dark screen with the menu words barely visible) but after letting it sit for a few mins it finishes loading and runs fine.

Reminds me of loading heavily modded KSP, taking 5 mins to load into the menu lol

[lordpooky]

you probably need to go in and delete modlst.jsn a file that the game creates to set up the mods in game. delete it and your game should start so you can disable the mods in the mod menu. good luck

[phfor]

Internal thing in YAML. Just give it time to load into main menu (or disable everything except YAML and mod options), go into the YAML mod options, in the performance section there's "Enable Skin Unlock Code" - disable this. It'll boot quicker, but you won't be able to repaint a bunch of mechs.

Being fixed internally so it won't be a thing at all Soon, but it's legacy code that was never designed to scale to the volume of mechs you can add to your game with mods these days.

Also, Baradul's collection has issues, tried to raise getting them fixed, no response, so don't use it. The Base collection by Wayz is at least good, he keeps it up to date.

[Tenebris]

As phfor said, just let it load.

if it's not outright crashing, then just give it time.