Is there by chance a stand alone mod just for the tradition, without a need for the gigastructural engineering mod? Gigastrucral Engineering is just too cumbersome where it comes to the intial configuration for each attempt of a run and instead of letting us safe our own settings we should so we could add a fixed permanent version if got that correct. Nope, not gonna happen.

Still works just fine.

does this still work after the update?

This mod is independent of the "official" Forerunner-Gigas compatibility patch - will work with or without according to preference.

The compatibility patch changes the requirements from the Maginot World (with the patch requires Deterrence and Quality paths complete in Supremacy, without the patch but with Forerunner just requires adopting Supremacy). Since this mod doesn't change anything outside the tradition trees they can be combined without conflict, or the compatibility patch skipped according to preference if you're happy with the easy Maginot World unlock.

Does this mod still require the "official" Forerunner-Gigas compatibility patch?