never had any issue with it, even after updating the game, and I'm on act 3 atm. I think I did read some issues with ppl who kinda tried to get rid of the mod at some point(?), but I just never take the ring off myself since it's so useful.
@@Tsugandate It's 99% related to trying to uninstall the mod. As all items are saved by name in the save files and BG3 does not have a placeholder item in case of missing item or item data, leading to a hard crash when that is looked for but can't be found.
So does bags bags bags when uninstalling. You need to keep every item you get from the game (possibly should buy all of them if you are at the same act as the seller) , put all of them on ground and destroy them by right clicking and attacking, or using aoe spells. Unfortunately this is the workaround for any mod that adds a new item to game. They arent disappear from inventroies when you uninstall unlike many other games.
I wouldn't use it because it's actually breaks the immersion. All those spells are situational but still needed and can be quite easily accessed through potions and scrolls. I don't see why you would want to further simplify the game that is already not that difficult.
this way its accurate to real dnd where the player goes "im gonna cast this!...wait no, shit im already concentrating on something" but instead of retconning you're just fucked
It's shown twice: under your character portrait (allows you to cancel concentration as well) and at the top in the battle order. There's a circle showing the spell being concentrated on, and it shows it for enemies as well.
there should be a mod (idealy should be by default) where characters can step forward and take over a conversation or check. it makes no sense for your expert companion to sit idle next to you, while clueless you is failing on a dialogue or skill check.
I'm normally against ugliness on the player like blood or dirt, but I found it quite immersive as my characters were reaching the end of the game and visually seeing how much they had to fight through just to make it that far. Gave off an impression of exhaustion or weariness despite needing to continue onward.
I like it too! Especially when you just went through a really rough fight and your party actually looks absolutely battered. The only time it's annoying is when your sex scene triggers on a night like that, BUT I found out you can just throw water onto yourself and others and 'wash' yourself that way. +healing yourself a tiny bit gets rid of the bruises. So if it's really unfortunate timing, you can just take care of yourself before going to bed. My first playthrough was evil durge though, and it was actually really fitting that he wouldn't wash off blood, so I don't mind not knowing at the time haha
Disguise self is also useful for casting "speak with dead" because many wont talk with the people that killed them, but they will talk if you're disguised as someone else
@@ainzooalgown9952 Weird gatekeep when BG3 is literally all about playing the way the player wants. Who cares if they are casual, mind your own business and let people find the qol mods they want.
@@cat-vv9xb Normally I would agree. But BG3 is great because of the RP. DnD min/max character building is limited, combat is easy. The one thing it has (and it's huge) is all the various RP elements and choices you make. If someone TRULY wants to play with that ring sure, but more often than not it is someone who doesn't realize it will lessen the experience for em.
my stack of 15 speak to animal potions, 8 disguise self scrolls, and the two amulets for DT and SwD @@gregrussell1787 ... all at the midpoint of act-1 isn't enough? you sayin that not looting anything, and just getting stuff from mods is "playing"? unless you're long-resting after every single minor encounter, it's more than plenty.
The mod that stops NPC's from running and screaming from your summons is also very nice. EDIT: Patch 3 has added this mod to the base game. NPC's no longer react to summons.
Yeah, especially since NPCs don't run from other NPC summons. So many situations make no sense neither. Why is Balthazar and his minions running from my undead minion because it's undead? You all are undead and your boss is a necromancer, why is he afraid of another necromancer???
Ngl I didn’t run around with my summons until about act 3 when I realized I could just make npcs look the other way when I wanted information from a dead body or access to an area I wasn’t suppose to be in. Super helpful especially since you can control the minions and ungroup them from its summoner. It’s only a good thing if you make it a good thing.
I'd love to see a mod that lets you quickly switch party members outside of combat and dangerous areas. When you realize you need a thing in someone else's inventory and have to go back to camp, talk to someone to make them stay, talk to someone to get them to join, check their pack, realize it wasn't them and repeat, well that makes me grumpy.
Water bottle fixes the dirtiness issue. Personally never used those water bottles for anything before, but later opted to use them for quick showers - throw in middle and done, showered. As for fire fields and such, can always jump over them, go around, blast with frost and so on. Keep that water for your hygienic needs.
Yeah, any water surce works apparently, you can also just move into the river for example. Honestly its just such a minor thing, but I feel like a lot of players don't wanna deal with it
To be fair you can throw them to inflict wet status on the enemies or throw it under your feet if you have those boots that give lightning charges if you stay in electrified water
Yeah that has been a major upgrade. The default camera the game has is just not very good to be honest. I'm sure they have their reasons, though. No doubt you can do some weird stuff with it that's not intended
The camera is awful sometimes. Becomes shockingly apparent when trying to super jump or fly to a higher level. Being unable to raise the camera level means you can jump down a hole into a building but cannot target the roof to fly back out.
At first, I thought they locked off the camera because there's just nothing up there, but they actually did model it. This makes me suspect this was another case of someone shouting "that's too complicated for normal people" again...
I find the inspiration limit quite fun, it makes me use them conservatively when low and use them when full. I do enjoy letting the dice fall where they may, but I like having a limited number of "na'ah didn't count" dice.
My problem with the limit is that half the time I end up stacking up 4 of them and not having a chance to use them. So many times I've sat and watched inspiration come, knowing that it's getting lost because I haven't needed to use one. Until that time when the game decides to roll 5 1's in a row, and now I'm upset because I could have had more to get around it, lol.
@@FlesHBoX I do also have the mindset of use it or lose it, and if I haven't had the opportunity to use it then I haven't been challenged. But I can see how it could be useful on repeat playthroughs.
Thank you for these excellent suggestions, I installed the WASD, camera and UI mods and the difference is amazing! You can really experience the setting and enjoy how amazing these landscapes are. These mods should all have been part of the game from the beginning.
For sure, they improve the game so much that I can't play without these mods now and I'd rather wait for mod updates after a patch than play with stock movement!
Slow tear on my face. I have an older laptop and i can barely play the game on medium settings so i really cant afford to look up at all the beauty because then my frames would tank... If i ever get a stronger PC i will definitely try these mods out too, but for now looking down in an isometric view helps me keep a steady frame rate of at least 30... :(
The thing that bothers me the most is moving around in groups. Players don't dodge area damage and simply run over it, even though they don't need to. Or they need to skip something, you give the command, but For some reason someone lags behind. I don't know how many times I've rolled back a save due to players simply stepping over a cloud of daggers, for example.
"Oh it's trapped be careful!" Cool i'll just movr thr characters to the side around the trap bevause if they see it then they don't normally set it off. area of darkness triggers "Okay which one of you did that???"
The game is awful at pathfinding through the lava area. I can forgive walking through a hidden trap that another party member saw in the bushes. They know it's "somewhere" around there. But lava? It's literally glowing! Watch your goddamn step! Ffs
I learned the hard way not to use cloud of daggers or any other persisting AOE spells when civilians are wandering around after the battle. It's like they all turn into lemmings and want to end it all.
@@thebarbaryghostsfjust make sure to end the concentration, when you're concentrating on a spell there's a little button on the bottom left that lets you end the concentration whenever
I wish there was a true transmogrification mod out there that lets you use the stats of one piece of armour but the appearance of a different one, or just hide certain pieces other than your helm. Preferably one that lets you use camp clothing as well as actual armour interchangeably.
you don't even need a mod for that last one. Just click the little symbol on top of the camp clothing and that's what you will see. But yes, I'd love proper transmog in the game.
@@Juggs009 Exactly this. Weapons are also not visible sheathed while you're wearing your camp clothing. What I meant was being able to also transmogrify camp clothing over your armour and boots, letting you wear hats and gloves alongside it. And if it's a mod, it's fully optional, so people like Jeremiah don't have to be scared of a few extra choices ruining their sense of immersion.
2 other mods I recommend adding to this list are Enhanced Leap AOE, and Longstrider AOE. These are ritual spells that normally cost nothing to cast our of combat and this removes the need to cast it on every character individually. Great QoL changes!
@@samaBR333yeah it’s not cheating it’s just streamlining the ritual spell. Longstrider can be cast on everyone in your party but you have to individually cast it on each person where as the mod just lets you cast it as an aoe so it’s just quicker. No cheating here!
I just wish the characters would wash when they get into their civies, not while sleeping. That would fix all that in one fell swoop and---even better---be more realistic.
I might try the inventory mods as I feel like the inventory management is garbage in BG3. Some of the others don’t appeal to me because I think there should be limitations on certain spells but that’s just my preference :). Thanks for sharing these!
I wasn't sure about the Ritual spells either, but at the end of the day you can rest an unlimited amount of times to get the spells or rest, bring a companion that has the spells, and immediately rest again. It's just too easy to cheese for me to be too fussed about it to be honest
@@druidobidon2287same. Every time I play, I have to decide if I want to spend the last 30 mins of my play time to organizing everything, or do it at the beginning of the next time I play. I eventually never do, and my bags become a God awful mess
The camera mods and visible shields mod solve 2 of my biggest mechanical gripes about the game! Been having a lot of fun with my first playthrough and i'll definitely be using those 2 mods at the least for my next one!
I actually really like how dirty and bloody the characters get. Makes it feel like they've actually done something that day. I had a mod in skyrim where I could add tons of blood and bruises to my character that I loved
Bigger inventory window and camera movement have my interest. But when someone comes out with a seamless mod that lets you swap out companions without all the dialog hassle Thats when I get excited! Absolutely every other 'quality of life' fix will pale in comparison.
It's funny how most CRPGs like Pillars of Eternity has the "change party members" as a menu item which you can use anytime out of combat, but with Larian games you have to go through that mandatory dialogue every time. Im sure there will be a modder who will help us with this, but i think we will need a script extender mod before people can start modding menus. To make character selection a menu item that might be required (as it was required for advanced Skyrim menu mods). As a player who uses a buff character, i really want this too. A buff character is a hireling from Withers which you can respec as a cleric/druid (casters) to get the good buffs for your party like aid, protection from poison, longstrider, goodberries, etc (any buff that is a ritual or that has the "until long rest" tag). But to use this guy i have to hear Karlach complaining about eating dirt EVERY SINGLE DAY. XD However, pre-buffing your party with a buff character is just so good, especially if you know you will be exploring some tough areas.
Speak with animals, longstrider, the jumping spell, and many more actually are ritual spells OUTSIDE of combat. So you can cast them out of combat as much as you want.
I don'y usually leave feedback comments, but that was such a usefull video straight to the point with no bs from start to finish, well done man! I just subscribed, I didn't even think about mods untill I saw your video and now I got 5 I must install this moment! 😂
I'm using an increased carry weight mod as well, since inventory management is the bane of my existence in every game that featuress it heavily. There's also a newer one that lets u stack items that don't stack in vanilla, like pitchforks and whatnot. Also a couple mods to make certain things a bit faster, like the scrolldown menu animation (which can be a bit too slow when you right click items to send them to different places) and one to make dice roll animations a little bit faster as well.
this is 100% a skill issue? Press i > sort by latest > click item, hold shift, click next item, right click > send to camp.. Ezpz (can even sorty by equipment, camp supplies etc etc etc)
by holding ctrl you can click and select multiple items at once, or by holding shift you can select ALOT of items at once.. Theres tabs to sort by weight, value etc but also tabs to sort by type (potion/gear/etc). Inventory management is super easy in this game using the intended methods. Making an infinte bag though, can cause insane lag!
I've been playing a lot of BG3 and all of these mods hit exactly what I've been wanting! Thank you so much for making this video! Well except for the showering one, I love having everyone covered in blood and dirt hahaha Also bloodless debuff hehe yessss
About WASD movement (because I was about to use that mod too), you can left-click and hold and the selected character will 'chase the mouse pointer' effectively WASD. *Blood and dirt- standing or walking thru water will clean your characters. Now it doesn't clean up the bruises, which I wonder is what most people assume is dirt. Healing takes care of that.
yeah imma be honest a lot of these mods seem really redundant and also go against the core basis of the game, like the ring for instance, if you didn't spec into those spells with your character or another then you shouldn't have access to it through such simple means. kinda ruins the point of making multiple playthroughs if every character you make starts to have access to to everything when it shouldn't
You can even walk instead of jogging like this by pointing close to the character. The WASD mod is quite pointless, like the no blood one since a water bottle gets you clean, but a full first person mode would be cool instead. Lot of those mod recommendations were not just bad, but also redundant. But a couple were actually interesting and arguably improve the game.
@@crumpetsNskin That's fine. But you're talking about your personal preference to make the game work different that what it's trying to be, while I'm talking about improving what it already is for better immersion and convenience without making it something different, and in that regard that's my opinion, that it's pointless for that goal. But as I said, if you wanna modify the game into something different that's totally fine, it's just a different goal, a different point.
I’m apprehensive about modding a game I haven’t beaten yet that’s still getting active updates, but god that bag of bags would save me a lot of time. Thank you for the video.
Not a mod tip, but this is something I didn’t know that really improved my gameplay: on PC, you can press the “F1-4” keys to select different members from your party quickly.
I was browsing TH-cam and this video got recommended to me. And since I've been playing BG3, it got me interested. But before clicking the video, I noticed that the thumbnail looks familiar. When I opened this, I noticed that I was subbed to your channel, and I don't recall why. But anyway, I brushed it off (since I'm watching at work, hehe) and just continued listen-watching and thought that the voice seems familiar. I paused and checked your channel and boi was I surprised. I have not played FFXIV for a long while now, but I have watched your "How FFXIV's Richest Players ACTUALLY Make Gil" video a lot in the past. I'm glad you're branching out to other games while keeping your style of video. Keep up the good work man! Your videos never fails to give me an "OH IMMA TRY THAT OUT!" moments. You rock!
Small clarification on the ritual spells, any spell marked as Ritual will not use a spell slot if you cast it outside of combat as often as you want. However, it does require the spell being "prepared", so if you cast the spell, say Speak with Animals, and then unprepare the spell to free up a slot for a more combat/utility focused spell, then you lose Speak with Animals. I think (though I have not tested it) that any caster that takes the Ritual Casting feat at level 4 (or 8 or 12) can cast ritual spells without them being prepared. That's how I understand it works from the normal 5E rules, at least, but then again I'm pretty sure only Wizards are allowed to free-cast ritual spells outside of combat if they have it prepared and it's tagged as a ritual spell, if they don't have the Ritual Caster feat. So the feat might work slightly differently in BG3. Does the ring allow you to unequip the ring after you've cast the spell(s) without the spell effects going away? Edit: I should finish the video before submitting comments :D Another small clarification, the inspiration point cap, if you are capped at 4 and do something that would give another inspiration point what you get instead is bonus XP. So that reward isn't lost to the ether. I don't know if the XP bonus scales with level or not, but if it does, removing that inspiration point cap might not necessarily be an ideal option... unless you still get that bonus XP whenever your inspiration points are at 4 or more?
I finished the game talking to every animal i found and only used potions of animal speaking.... (which i still had some left over after i beat the game). The trick is just not long-resting too often.
Thanks my friend, this made the game a bazillion times better, I absolutely love these mods as I was so frustrated with the controls and hug! Thanks a heap you are a legend!
The dye one was huge imo. I wish there was one for saving gearsets as well. I hate having to go back through my huge camp storage when I’m respecing or adapting to the next fight and having to go through piece by piece because I’m not a strength character that can hold it all
I used nexus mods and was suprised by how easy it was to install the mods, on each mod page it tells you how to install the mod and if its using bg3 mod manager its literally download the file and import it to bg3 mod manager, drag it from inactive to active then press export to game and bam done!
for WASD mod, I'm pretty sure you can cancel your movement by right clicking so you can resume wasd controls. That way, you don't have to wait until your character reaches your clicked destination to use wasd
Yeah, you can get out of it, it's just not as intuitive as it is in other games that feature wasd + clicking. It's really not a bad issue at all, but it has caused me, for example, to run into a trap because when I passed the check and saw it, i spammed wasd movement to get away but obviously it wouldn't cancel the click I'd issued before. In my mind they should always override one another
@@Jolsn in an area that you think could be trapped, you shouldn't be clicking that far away from yourself to begin with. You should either be manual walking by holding left click close to your character's feet or moving a few feet at a time Like that's not a mod issue bro. That's a skill issue.
First of all, thank you for making this video, there are some utility mods that I wull definitely add to my game! Now onto my comment: I really enjoy having my companions (and myself) all battered and bloody, I love that depending on the level of damage you recieved you have a degree of woulds or uncleanliness, it also removes a thing that I always have had a problem with that is having your characters be unreasonably clean and perfect all the time. This isn't a movie, and our characters are going though wilderness! I love seeing their struggles on the skin! I love that about the game :)
The blood mod isn't for me, and I couldn't disagree more: you run an entire day in the forest and/or fought many monsters, you should be bloodied and sullied. This level of attention to detail is what adds to the level of immersion that I have not seen in a game for over 35 years of gaming.
I only find it annoying when you get into a minor scuffle shortly after a long rest, but you have much more available left, so you're wandering around the city having dozens of conversations bloodied to shit because one or two dudes decided to be pesky for a moment. Like, who's just casually walking around covered in blood? Wash up dammit! haha
Very good video, and a splendid showcase of truly nice mods! I'm using some of them myself and have been eying others that you're showing here. I'll definitely check out the ones that I haven't been looking more closely at. Thanks for doing this, champ!
After accidentally killing my companions too many times I found out you can click on the portrait at the top where it displays the initiative and choose who to target that way.
Really enjoyed the video and would love to see more as things get released. Not touching mods for playthrough one buy will probably do it on the second time around. Keep up the good work.
Speak with Dead has a necklace accessible in the dungeon with Withers. Almost every vendor in the Grove sells one to three Speak with Animals with the Dwarf woman and her Husband in the Underdark selling three with a ton of acorns that turn into more Speak with Animal potions. On a Long rest, vendors restock on all potions and materials. Honestly, with all the Long Rests i take naturally, rolling up on NPCs with Astarion pickpocketing has kept my Dark Urge always topped up on Detect Thoughs potions and Speak with Animals potions to the point i likely have more than i need.
Thanks so much for this vid! Very clearly explained what every mod does, I installed them all and WOW! What a great difference these mods make to the already awesome game.
11:00 not actually "lost" per se, you get more bonus EXP if you get an inspiration point while at the inspiration point cap, so it's the optimal way to level up the fastest early (staying at cap and not using them).
Hi there! Thank you for sharing. Here is my take on each mod, from a soft of baldur's gate purist / immersion maniac perspective : Native Camera Tweaks: Instant buy. WASD Character Movement: My love for the pure experience of the isometric Baldur's Gate has already been stretched with ease with the current camera freedom. And I can safely assume that a little more freedom will not hurt. :) Aether's Immersive UI: Although with this kind of game, the constant UI does provide a kind of meta immersion if that makes any sense? But I always like having the option of no UI. I'll give it a try and probably end up wishing for more customizability and end up removing it and putting it back a few times before choosing if I want it or not. The worst that could happen is I can't decide and I just wish I never learned of the existence of this mod. Unless I start playing third person all the time with WASD character movement and end up wanting to remove the UI to have a proper third-person experience. That would probably be the worst thing that could happen. Now I'm afraid. Bags Bags Bags: I kinda enjoy ruffling through my things in the back pack, and placing things in it like a person would actually organise his back pack and gear. I think the present simple inventory management is easily rp translatable. I would rather have a mod that allows the inventory of all the characters to have a permanent memory (and never reset even after you change companions a few times) but hey I'm rarely against more options if they make sense. I'll be using this mainly for the potion, book and arrows containers. Better Containers: Yup. Dye Dye Dye: Surprisingly, I'll pass on this one I think. I'll enjoy finding the dyes as I go, at least for my first run. Everybody Dyes (Unlimited Dyeing): Well, ok yes please. Ring of Minor Rituals : Nope. Over my dead body. Visible Shields: The only reason I won't use this one is totally against my immersive and roleplay principles, and it goes only with my instant-to-instant aesthetic appreciation of the game, and it is because I appreciate the designs of the party members, and a shield gives them a dull silhouette. Naturally invisible shields : canon. XD No More Looping VFX & SFX on Buffs: Over my dead body. Mainly because magical and divine buffs are actually visually present in the world (they are also indicators to the player that something is active and may be helpful when you don't want to cast a concentration spell but forgot you already had something important going on.) But I understand some people want less visual stimuli. No More Blood and Dirt: Over my bloody dead dirty body. No Inspiration Point Cap: Nah, already too easy with all those rerolls. 1 inspiration per party member I'd say, even. Customizers Compendium - NPC Options Unlocker: More options. Why the hell not. Just wait for these mods... they are coming. We will soon have packs of hairstyles that will rival the number of stars in the galaxy. Can't wait to see how this game will be, mods-wise, in a few years. It is going to be mindblowing. Again thanks for sharing!
Native Camera Tweaks, Aether's Immersive UI and Better containers are a must have for me. Bags³ seems cool will test it. Everybody Dyes should've been in the base game. The ring of minor rituals is honestly cool but kinda not necessary, I'm playing a sorcerer and bought some potions of speak with animals, but now I got so many I didn't even need to buy them, you can drink one and it lasts until your next long rest, same for mind reading you got potions that don't need concentration and scrolls that need concentration but there are many, speak with dead you get an item in the first dungeon of the game if you explore it and there are ways to get it forever too, disguise self is the more interesting one for me, since sorcerers can't change spells. My recomendations: If you play dragonborn, get Dragonborn and Dragonbreath Unleashed, it allow you to buff the race with many options. If you're used to rolling for stats or just wanna get more feats there's a Feat Every Level mod, that also has many options ranging from an extra feat at level 2 from, extra feat each odd or even level, etc. If you wanna have more companions, Party Limit Begone mod.
Speak with dead you get from successfully reading necromancy of thay and speak with animals you can easily get enough potions to talk to animals or just have best girl (Karlach) in your party (unless you changed her class from barbarian)
Some of these are really good, like the containers and the camera mods. However, there are others included that really just take the breaks off and diminish certain core mechanics of classes like druids for example. I understand the urge to create a munchkin character that can just do everything without missing out on anything, but for me personally doing away with those details just absolutely murders my immersion and incentive to roleplay. Why even bother if you can automatically succeed at all the things that don't even make any sense for a specific character to be able to do? Not being able to talk to animals or the dead changes what you can find out along the way, and changes what information you have available to inform your choices down the line. Each playthrough is gonna be different anyway, and having those little restrictions create little consequences for your understanding of the world makes for a hugely more immersive role-playing experience.
Speak with the dead and animals are fixed infos you get. For example you got this info already, then you came across one of them and they will tell you same info you get from another source.
I really want to install tons of these super helpful mods into my saves or new ones but...As Bg3 is so new it has tons of patches coming these last few days, maybe I'll wait until mod support is given by Larian, I fear that If I start modding right now I'm gonna have to deal with other patch soon that will break my modded save
Welp...I want all of these mods lol. Nice list! Started a coop run with friends but it's time I get a solo run going and these mods look like they'll only strengthen the base game instead of heavily change it, which is what I was looking for. I'll save the whacky stuff for other playthroughs. +1 sub.
I found dirt and blood super cool, finally a game that acknowledges slaughtering leaves your character dirty. Granted a water bucket to wash off in the camp would be nice but if rain or water really cleans you off ( haven't tried that yet) then i'm all the more happy with it.
Omg the bags bags bags one is amazing.. Wish there was a mod that asked you if you were sure when you cast a concentration spell when you're already concentrating.. Can't tell you how many times I've accidentally canceled my own spell
Blood is a water like substance in this game (afaik) and since no dwarf would even touch too much water, you could just use remove water without getting wet. Worked for me.
Thought this was going to be a rundown of all the mods I'm already using... and I never knew of any of them but the last. Thanks for the showcase! Btw Astarion's hair works great on a tiefling because the curls somehow wind around the horns. XD
@@olivierdulac Stuff that is potentially (not what I do, but...) much more cheesing than these: Level 20 options (Level 20 Multiclass but it seems to not be working for me recently, so using UnlockLevelCurve instead), Achievement Enabler, Highlight Everything, Improved UI, Better Hotbar (ultrawide), Customizer, various equip/appearance ones like Tav's Hairpack/Tav's Hair Salon/New CC Presets/Shadowheart Alt Hair (because bowl-cut Dumb and Dumber doesn't suit her)/Basket Full of Equipment + BasketEquipCampClothing (so you get much of the clothing options without the cheatery buffs in them or affecting armor slots). Actually the Basket mod gives you two multiple items w only three of the four abilities that "Ring of Ritual" gives in a single ring item, but Basket's basket is available immediately on the Nautiloid while the Ritual Ring has to be bought noticeably later from the vendor, it seems. Plus I've discovered the wonders of using Multiplayer to create a larger party of my own chars in combination w the party size increase mod (Party Limit Begone (except it has a limit of 16 which I haven't tested)) to not have to sacrifice game companion content in the process. It's all been stable, but I'm finding that being online w Steam seems to affect the stability (poorer on Steam). But you can see from that list that none are in this vid except one... and now my game is further bloated w mods and as yet untested as such. I did have install errors from Vortex about the NativeModLoader-dependent mods during install (Native Camera Tweaks/WASD Movt/Aether's Immersive UI), so we'll see... "Achievement Enabler" is another such NML-dependent mod I already had, and at the very least it hasn't crashed anything... yet. Plus mod order does make a difference, so this new mod batch may require some trial and error... Side note- I was trying to use another mod called FastXP which seemed to pair well w the Level 20 Multiclass since it would boost the early levels and then let the game XP progress normally, but that mod became ineffective as well for some reason w no fix by the modder. I'm not sure if the devs are going out of their way to prioritize in patches the blocking of Level 13+ progression, but those are the mods getting broken foremost. Other than just useful FYI, another reason I mention this is that the FastXP mod grants the XP bonus only to level 6, and the bug w Ring of Ritual seems to be after Level 6, so I'm wondering if they're related- i.e., only those using that FastXP mod AND Ring of Ritual were getting their games janked. I put my Level 20 mod before Ring of Ritual in mod order, so maybe that will help. I might need the order reversed or RoR and Lvl20 mods are inevitably incompatible somehow, dunno, but the RoR looks helpful for content mining, so... I guess we'll see.
Native Camera Tweaks is legit my favorite mod and that's saying something it was the first mod i downloaded alongside basket full of equipment and they're great.
You can find soap and sponge trays in various places throughout the game, earliest is waukeens rest i think, if you pick one up you can use it infinitely to clean dirt and blood off your characters
simple walking on any water source does the trick and if you have the staff that allows free cast create water. After getting back to camp pull it out, cast create water with all the group gathered together and done without having to install mod just to get rid of dirt and blood.
Playing with Party Limit Remover is a must have if you're playing with a full party, or if you want to play with more of your friends (up to 8) This is really good because there are just some quests you can't do without a companion with a full party, though sometimes things can a bit.... silly.
There are some good mods on this list. I especially like the infinite dye and the visible shield mods. It kinda bothered me that my party members who had shields did not wear them on their backs like in other RPGs. Also the multiple hair style mods and NPC faces is a great addition to chr creation. You can never have too many hair styles :). However the "no more blood and dirt" is kinda useless because there is an immersive way to clean your characters. Throughout the world you will find water bottles or other recipients with "water" in the title. When you use these items, the character not only quenches their thirst they will also wash off. So you see they DO like to clean up after a hard day, you just have to use the water bottle. TY for making this video!
The buff VFX is actually really nice to have tbh. After like 500 hours of this game, I don't even really look at the buffs next to the party on the left of the screen anymore. I can visually see what they have on and what's being concentrated on. If a modder really wanted to make my day, make a spell that's only usable outside of combat so you can put all your buffs in it and have the characters knock all those spells out in one go. Like still make the spells cost the slots of course, but just make it more convenient to rebuff the party. I can deal without the ritual ring if I can apply all the buffs I want in one go, and since it's only usable outside of combat it's not even breaking the game's action economy. In tabletop, if I were a player (usually I DM), and I am playing Cleric, I'd just declare that I'm using Aid, Warding Bond on everyone, and Shield of faith on the Fighter/Barbarian/Paladin up front after a long rest during exploration.
I love the mod that lets you add extra action points. It's just the right amount of cheap without completely ruining the game. And allows for a lot of fun flexibility during combat.
@@amarante2993 I don't really care about your opinion. You play your game how you want, and I'll play mine how I want. Why don't you just mind your own business?
The thing I hate the most is that NPCs immediately turn hostile when they enter an area spell: I had to do the fight at the last light many times over to be able to save the priestess, only for her to walk into my cloud of daggers immediately after the fight was over, thus turning the whole inn hostile towards me. I didn't even have time to disable the spell, to avoid this I'd have had to do it during the fight, which sucks
I apparently can't go back to the Grove without having to fight my way. One of the dwarves in grymforge went invisible I think, and ran off to tell on me after I killed Nere and his cronies
disguise self bit: “and with disguise self you can be a smaller character to get into cracks only they fit into. unfortunately I don’t have any of those around me.” he says IN the druid grove where those tiefling kids have exactly that 😂
Camera Tweaks & WASD movement are honestly mandatory mods. At the very least Camera Tweaks is. Being able to more in depth explore and appreciate the surroundings is such a huge gain in immersiveness (oddly enough). WASD movement is just weird that it isn't in the base game. Controllers can already move with the joystick by default so why not KB+M users. One mod I really, really wish existed though is an 'improved keybinds' mod and I'm genuinely shocked there isn't one yet. The fact you can only keybind 12 or so abilities by default, and ONLY on the custom hotbar, is actually crazy.
As someone who has played D&D long before BG3 came out, the cap for inspiration is because each character can only have one inspiration at a time. For me, it feels more authentic to D&D which the game is based on, but I can understand why some people would prefer not to have a cap for the gameplay, seeing as how it's not actually D&D but a video game based on D&D.
Inspiration is a currency. In roleplaying games you're supposed to SPEND currencies, not hoard them. But even in tabletop, players often hoard their currencies rather than use them in play.
Excellent assortment of recommendations! All of these mods are super lightweight and can be inatalled simultaneously, and mid-playthrough. Just make sure to backup your saves fellas, and use Baldurs Gate 3 Mod Manager
The ring of rituals mod seems to be breaking the game past level 6, per the comment section on that mod page. Use at your own risk!
never had any issue with it, even after updating the game, and I'm on act 3 atm. I think I did read some issues with ppl who kinda tried to get rid of the mod at some point(?), but I just never take the ring off myself since it's so useful.
@@Tsugandate It's 99% related to trying to uninstall the mod. As all items are saved by name in the save files and BG3 does not have a placeholder item in case of missing item or item data, leading to a hard crash when that is looked for but can't be found.
So does bags bags bags when uninstalling. You need to keep every item you get from the game (possibly should buy all of them if you are at the same act as the seller) , put all of them on ground and destroy them by right clicking and attacking, or using aoe spells.
Unfortunately this is the workaround for any mod that adds a new item to game. They arent disappear from inventroies when you uninstall unlike many other games.
Better use mod - Underware of rituals
I wouldn't use it because it's actually breaks the immersion. All those spells are situational but still needed and can be quite easily accessed through potions and scrolls. I don't see why you would want to further simplify the game that is already not that difficult.
A mod that highlights Concentration spells when you're already concentrating on one is all I need.
There's an icon on the bottom of the screen near your character portrait I think that shows when you are using a concentration spell. Hope that helps!
this way its accurate to real dnd where the player goes "im gonna cast this!...wait no, shit im already concentrating on something" but instead of retconning you're just fucked
It's shown twice: under your character portrait (allows you to cancel concentration as well) and at the top in the battle order. There's a circle showing the spell being concentrated on, and it shows it for enemies as well.
@@joseywales6168 I'll twin cast Haste on me and on my Paladin friend!
Now i'll cast Hex!... oh wait, fuck, now we're both letargic...
I like it the way it is. You need to remember what you're concentrating on. You might say you need to... concentrate. Combat immersion!
there should be a mod (idealy should be by default) where characters can step forward and take over a conversation or check.
it makes no sense for your expert companion to sit idle next to you, while clueless you is failing on a dialogue or skill check.
This!! I was controling a Ranger's bear and got too close to a conversation point. Was stuck as my freaking bear doing social rolls, wtf!
@@shasvrefirios1536 [Intimidation] *Bear noises*
@@callmemc6 Hehehe!
@@shasvrefirios1536 That's kinda funny! haha.
But yeah, it sucks as a rule.
Pretty much this, or at least find a way to add in another member's bonuses/rolls to substitute your own if character switching isn't possible.
I'm normally against ugliness on the player like blood or dirt, but I found it quite immersive as my characters were reaching the end of the game and visually seeing how much they had to fight through just to make it that far. Gave off an impression of exhaustion or weariness despite needing to continue onward.
Until they step into a shallow puddle and everything is magically washed away as if they'd just bathed 😅
I like it too!
Especially when you just went through a really rough fight and your party actually looks absolutely battered.
The only time it's annoying is when your sex scene triggers on a night like that, BUT I found out you can just throw water onto yourself and others and 'wash' yourself that way. +healing yourself a tiny bit gets rid of the bruises. So if it's really unfortunate timing, you can just take care of yourself before going to bed.
My first playthrough was evil durge though, and it was actually really fitting that he wouldn't wash off blood, so I don't mind not knowing at the time haha
Loved seeing Astarion looking battered at 5hp after a rough fight. I really felt like he got put through hell.
I just wish there was a 'wash up' button.
I don't mind the dirt and I really like how the characters sweat while near the lava in grymforge, very immersive and I love it.
Disguise self is also useful for casting "speak with dead" because many wont talk with the people that killed them, but they will talk if you're disguised as someone else
I never knew this thank you.
@@ainzooalgown9952 You can also do away with the Amulet if you read the necromancy of thay.
@@ainzooalgown9952 Weird gatekeep when BG3 is literally all about playing the way the player wants.
Who cares if they are casual, mind your own business and let people find the qol mods they want.
@@cat-vv9xb Normally I would agree. But BG3 is great because of the RP. DnD min/max character building is limited, combat is easy. The one thing it has (and it's huge) is all the various RP elements and choices you make.
If someone TRULY wants to play with that ring sure, but more often than not it is someone who doesn't realize it will lessen the experience for em.
my stack of 15 speak to animal potions, 8 disguise self scrolls, and the two amulets for DT and SwD @@gregrussell1787 ... all at the midpoint of act-1 isn't enough?
you sayin that not looting anything, and just getting stuff from mods is "playing"?
unless you're long-resting after every single minor encounter, it's more than plenty.
The mod that stops NPC's from running and screaming from your summons is also very nice.
EDIT: Patch 3 has added this mod to the base game. NPC's no longer react to summons.
A tier mod
Yeah, especially since NPCs don't run from other NPC summons. So many situations make no sense neither. Why is Balthazar and his minions running from my undead minion because it's undead? You all are undead and your boss is a necromancer, why is he afraid of another necromancer???
Yeah I had an npc die cause he was running from a bear and run directly into
.... the cursed shadow land.
This also ruined my playthrough, a bunch of npcs in Act 2 ran into the Shadow-cursed lands.
What's the name of the mod?
Ngl I didn’t run around with my summons until about act 3 when I realized I could just make npcs look the other way when I wanted information from a dead body or access to an area I wasn’t suppose to be in. Super helpful especially since you can control the minions and ungroup them from its summoner. It’s only a good thing if you make it a good thing.
I'd love to see a mod that lets you quickly switch party members outside of combat and dangerous areas. When you realize you need a thing in someone else's inventory and have to go back to camp, talk to someone to make them stay, talk to someone to get them to join, check their pack, realize it wasn't them and repeat, well that makes me grumpy.
i just don't let anyone keep their inventories when i send them to camp
100%
Hitting TAB in camp should open all party members located in your camp.
Larian will add it soon, it's one of the most requested features
This. A million times.
@@TenInfi Thank god. I mean, I can understand no access when out in the world, but once in camp everyone should be available.
Water bottle fixes the dirtiness issue. Personally never used those water bottles for anything before, but later opted to use them for quick showers - throw in middle and done, showered. As for fire fields and such, can always jump over them, go around, blast with frost and so on. Keep that water for your hygienic needs.
Yeah, any water surce works apparently, you can also just move into the river for example. Honestly its just such a minor thing, but I feel like a lot of players don't wanna deal with it
@@Jolsn It can get annoying indeed, especially when a minor action or travel distance will make your party look as if they've spent a week in a mire.
if you have lightning abilities you can douse enemies so they take more damage
To be fair you can throw them to inflict wet status on the enemies or throw it under your feet if you have those boots that give lightning charges if you stay in electrified water
the reason why I took ice cantrip. bad companion pathing walking on fire
I'm gonna get that first one for sure. So many instances where I wish I could look up to admire the scenery, but can't.
Yeah that has been a major upgrade. The default camera the game has is just not very good to be honest. I'm sure they have their reasons, though. No doubt you can do some weird stuff with it that's not intended
The camera is awful sometimes. Becomes shockingly apparent when trying to super jump or fly to a higher level. Being unable to raise the camera level means you can jump down a hole into a building but cannot target the roof to fly back out.
Especially once you reach the city...the camera pointed at the ground feels so weird, I want to look around, xD
At first, I thought they locked off the camera because there's just nothing up there, but they actually did model it. This makes me suspect this was another case of someone shouting "that's too complicated for normal people" again...
F10 hides the UI
I find the inspiration limit quite fun, it makes me use them conservatively when low and use them when full. I do enjoy letting the dice fall where they may, but I like having a limited number of "na'ah didn't count" dice.
My problem with the limit is that half the time I end up stacking up 4 of them and not having a chance to use them. So many times I've sat and watched inspiration come, knowing that it's getting lost because I haven't needed to use one. Until that time when the game decides to roll 5 1's in a row, and now I'm upset because I could have had more to get around it, lol.
@@FlesHBoX I do also have the mindset of use it or lose it, and if I haven't had the opportunity to use it then I haven't been challenged.
But I can see how it could be useful on repeat playthroughs.
i have unlimited inspiration, it's called save scumming
@@mengucekli lol, I even save scummed the dyes while trying to figure out which ones I wanted to use.
@@FlesHBoXAfaik you get bonus xp when you go over your inspiration cap? I know it's not big, but it's something I guess :D
Thank you for these excellent suggestions, I installed the WASD, camera and UI mods and the difference is amazing! You can really experience the setting and enjoy how amazing these landscapes are. These mods should all have been part of the game from the beginning.
For sure, they improve the game so much that I can't play without these mods now and I'd rather wait for mod updates after a patch than play with stock movement!
Slow tear on my face. I have an older laptop and i can barely play the game on medium settings so i really cant afford to look up at all the beauty because then my frames would tank... If i ever get a stronger PC i will definitely try these mods out too, but for now looking down in an isometric view helps me keep a steady frame rate of at least 30... :(
The thing that bothers me the most is moving around in groups. Players don't dodge area damage and simply run over it, even though they don't need to. Or they need to skip something, you give the command, but For some reason someone lags behind. I don't know how many times I've rolled back a save due to players simply stepping over a cloud of daggers, for example.
"Oh it's trapped be careful!"
Cool i'll just movr thr characters to the side around the trap bevause if they see it then they don't normally set it off.
area of darkness triggers
"Okay which one of you did that???"
The game is awful at pathfinding through the lava area. I can forgive walking through a hidden trap that another party member saw in the bushes. They know it's "somewhere" around there.
But lava? It's literally glowing! Watch your goddamn step! Ffs
I learned the hard way not to use cloud of daggers or any other persisting AOE spells when civilians are wandering around after the battle. It's like they all turn into lemmings and want to end it all.
@@thebarbaryghostsfjust make sure to end the concentration, when you're concentrating on a spell there's a little button on the bottom left that lets you end the concentration whenever
@@Ytinasniiable Hahaha yeah I knew about this, but didn't even think about it when it happened lol, thanks for the reminder!
I wish there was a true transmogrification mod out there that lets you use the stats of one piece of armour but the appearance of a different one, or just hide certain pieces other than your helm. Preferably one that lets you use camp clothing as well as actual armour interchangeably.
bruh thats so unimmersive
you don't even need a mod for that last one. Just click the little symbol on top of the camp clothing and that's what you will see.
But yes, I'd love proper transmog in the game.
@@mariosblago94I think he means something like camp clothes with helmet still visible. Currently doesn't let you do that.
@@Juggs009 Exactly this. Weapons are also not visible sheathed while you're wearing your camp clothing. What I meant was being able to also transmogrify camp clothing over your armour and boots, letting you wear hats and gloves alongside it. And if it's a mod, it's fully optional, so people like Jeremiah don't have to be scared of a few extra choices ruining their sense of immersion.
@@jeremiah4267.... so?
2 other mods I recommend adding to this list are Enhanced Leap AOE, and Longstrider AOE. These are ritual spells that normally cost nothing to cast our of combat and this removes the need to cast it on every character individually. Great QoL changes!
u can cast them at higher levels without costs but select more targets for Longstrider and Enhanced Leap, no need for an extra mod
Yeah that's just cheating
@@NikiOnii but the mod uses just one click
@@TenInfi How? You can cast the spells on everyone anyway, this just removes the need to click multiple times.
@@samaBR333yeah it’s not cheating it’s just streamlining the ritual spell.
Longstrider can be cast on everyone in your party but you have to individually cast it on each person where as the mod just lets you cast it as an aoe so it’s just quicker. No cheating here!
13:11 in certain camps, you can just go stand in the water for about 5 seconds and it cleans you too
or cast rain
I didn’t even know about the water cleaning ur character. I always thought it was random cleanings during long rest. Thanks!
I just wish the characters would wash when they get into their civies, not while sleeping. That would fix all that in one fell swoop and---even better---be more realistic.
You can also use soap or sponges to clean off without the need for finding or casting water, and they're reusable too
I might try the inventory mods as I feel like the inventory management is garbage in BG3. Some of the others don’t appeal to me because I think there should be limitations on certain spells but that’s just my preference :). Thanks for sharing these!
I wasn't sure about the Ritual spells either, but at the end of the day you can rest an unlimited amount of times to get the spells or rest, bring a companion that has the spells, and immediately rest again. It's just too easy to cheese for me to be too fussed about it to be honest
@@Jolsn good point.
inventory mods are all I really want. I spend sooooooo much time in inventory for no good reason. Feels like half the game.
@@druidobidon2287 Agreed. There’s almost too much crap to pick up…lol
@@druidobidon2287same. Every time I play, I have to decide if I want to spend the last 30 mins of my play time to organizing everything, or do it at the beginning of the next time I play. I eventually never do, and my bags become a God awful mess
"Astarions hair style looks really good on an elf." Wow, you're telling me the elfs hairstyle looks good on elves?
The camera mods and visible shields mod solve 2 of my biggest mechanical gripes about the game! Been having a lot of fun with my first playthrough and i'll definitely be using those 2 mods at the least for my next one!
I actually really like how dirty and bloody the characters get. Makes it feel like they've actually done something that day. I had a mod in skyrim where I could add tons of blood and bruises to my character that I loved
The camera, WASD, and UI mods at the beginning seem so awesome, I'm gonna have to give them a try.
Bigger inventory window and camera movement have my interest. But when someone comes out with a seamless mod that lets you swap out companions without all the dialog hassle Thats when I get excited! Absolutely every other 'quality of life' fix will pale in comparison.
It's funny how most CRPGs like Pillars of Eternity has the "change party members" as a menu item which you can use anytime out of combat, but with Larian games you have to go through that mandatory dialogue every time. Im sure there will be a modder who will help us with this, but i think we will need a script extender mod before people can start modding menus. To make character selection a menu item that might be required (as it was required for advanced Skyrim menu mods).
As a player who uses a buff character, i really want this too. A buff character is a hireling from Withers which you can respec as a cleric/druid (casters) to get the good buffs for your party like aid, protection from poison, longstrider, goodberries, etc (any buff that is a ritual or that has the "until long rest" tag). But to use this guy i have to hear Karlach complaining about eating dirt EVERY SINGLE DAY. XD
However, pre-buffing your party with a buff character is just so good, especially if you know you will be exploring some tough areas.
Speak with animals, longstrider, the jumping spell, and many more actually are ritual spells OUTSIDE of combat. So you can cast them out of combat as much as you want.
Happy to see you banging around in BG3 and making the same kind of helpful content you make for FFXIV. You've improved my QoL more than once!
I don'y usually leave feedback comments, but that was such a usefull video straight to the point with no bs from start to finish, well done man! I just subscribed, I didn't even think about mods untill I saw your video and now I got 5 I must install this moment! 😂
Glad it was helpful!
I'm using an increased carry weight mod as well, since inventory management is the bane of my existence in every game that featuress it heavily. There's also a newer one that lets u stack items that don't stack in vanilla, like pitchforks and whatnot. Also a couple mods to make certain things a bit faster, like the scrolldown menu animation (which can be a bit too slow when you right click items to send them to different places) and one to make dice roll animations a little bit faster as well.
Honestly the carry weight is kind of a meme in this game anyways, because you can just send everything to camp anyways
Where can i find that mod?
this is 100% a skill issue?
Press i > sort by latest > click item, hold shift, click next item, right click > send to camp.. Ezpz
(can even sorty by equipment, camp supplies etc etc etc)
by holding ctrl you can click and select multiple items at once, or by holding shift you can select ALOT of items at once..
Theres tabs to sort by weight, value etc but also tabs to sort by type (potion/gear/etc).
Inventory management is super easy in this game using the intended methods.
Making an infinte bag though, can cause insane lag!
Beware of Starfield then, have awful carry weight
5 mins in and every mod has been a great suggestion in improving quality of life. Great video, liked!
On PC you simply can press F10 to disable the whole UI.
alt f4 disables the whole UI too
@@thescatterpiratesquarepant7935dude 😂
Yeah but you have to press it every time so it's not accessible. This mod makes it accessible by just hovering over it
@@therealzahyraI'd rather have it be a toggle instead of a stupid contextual thing. That mod basically makes the minimap useless.
@@Skaftholu exactly my thought
Right off the bat this camera tweaks mod is precisely what I was looking for, thanks a lot !
I've been playing a lot of BG3 and all of these mods hit exactly what I've been wanting! Thank you so much for making this video!
Well except for the showering one, I love having everyone covered in blood and dirt hahaha
Also bloodless debuff hehe yessss
"Astarion's hairstyle works.. Really well, on an- Elf!" -- My Boy Astarion has native cantrips for a reason, you know.
About WASD movement (because I was about to use that mod too), you can left-click and hold and the selected character will 'chase the mouse pointer' effectively WASD.
*Blood and dirt- standing or walking thru water will clean your characters. Now it doesn't clean up the bruises, which I wonder is what most people assume is dirt. Healing takes care of that.
yeah imma be honest a lot of these mods seem really redundant and also go against the core basis of the game, like the ring for instance, if you didn't spec into those spells with your character or another then you shouldn't have access to it through such simple means. kinda ruins the point of making multiple playthroughs if every character you make starts to have access to to everything when it shouldn't
You can even use Q and E to move left and right while holding down LMB. Just scroll close to your character and you can see what's in front of you.
You can even walk instead of jogging like this by pointing close to the character. The WASD mod is quite pointless, like the no blood one since a water bottle gets you clean, but a full first person mode would be cool instead. Lot of those mod recommendations were not just bad, but also redundant. But a couple were actually interesting and arguably improve the game.
@@Leongonit’s not pointless. It feel more comfortable for people like me who aren’t use to CRPG point and click controls
@@crumpetsNskin That's fine. But you're talking about your personal preference to make the game work different that what it's trying to be, while I'm talking about improving what it already is for better immersion and convenience without making it something different, and in that regard that's my opinion, that it's pointless for that goal. But as I said, if you wanna modify the game into something different that's totally fine, it's just a different goal, a different point.
I’m apprehensive about modding a game I haven’t beaten yet that’s still getting active updates, but god that bag of bags would save me a lot of time. Thank you for the video.
I waited until my second run too, makes the mods feel even better because by then you can really feel the advantages they bring
Not a mod tip, but this is something I didn’t know that really improved my gameplay: on PC, you can press the “F1-4” keys to select different members from your party quickly.
Yup. Clicking on them in the UI is a pain. Just hotkey them.
I was browsing TH-cam and this video got recommended to me. And since I've been playing BG3, it got me interested. But before clicking the video, I noticed that the thumbnail looks familiar. When I opened this, I noticed that I was subbed to your channel, and I don't recall why. But anyway, I brushed it off (since I'm watching at work, hehe) and just continued listen-watching and thought that the voice seems familiar. I paused and checked your channel and boi was I surprised.
I have not played FFXIV for a long while now, but I have watched your "How FFXIV's Richest Players ACTUALLY Make Gil" video a lot in the past. I'm glad you're branching out to other games while keeping your style of video.
Keep up the good work man! Your videos never fails to give me an "OH IMMA TRY THAT OUT!" moments. You rock!
Small clarification on the ritual spells, any spell marked as Ritual will not use a spell slot if you cast it outside of combat as often as you want. However, it does require the spell being "prepared", so if you cast the spell, say Speak with Animals, and then unprepare the spell to free up a slot for a more combat/utility focused spell, then you lose Speak with Animals. I think (though I have not tested it) that any caster that takes the Ritual Casting feat at level 4 (or 8 or 12) can cast ritual spells without them being prepared. That's how I understand it works from the normal 5E rules, at least, but then again I'm pretty sure only Wizards are allowed to free-cast ritual spells outside of combat if they have it prepared and it's tagged as a ritual spell, if they don't have the Ritual Caster feat. So the feat might work slightly differently in BG3.
Does the ring allow you to unequip the ring after you've cast the spell(s) without the spell effects going away?
Edit: I should finish the video before submitting comments :D
Another small clarification, the inspiration point cap, if you are capped at 4 and do something that would give another inspiration point what you get instead is bonus XP. So that reward isn't lost to the ether. I don't know if the XP bonus scales with level or not, but if it does, removing that inspiration point cap might not necessarily be an ideal option... unless you still get that bonus XP whenever your inspiration points are at 4 or more?
I finished the game talking to every animal i found and only used potions of animal speaking.... (which i still had some left over after i beat the game). The trick is just not long-resting too often.
Thanks my friend, this made the game a bazillion times better, I absolutely love these mods as I was so frustrated with the controls and hug! Thanks a heap you are a legend!
The dye one was huge imo. I wish there was one for saving gearsets as well. I hate having to go back through my huge camp storage when I’m respecing or adapting to the next fight and having to go through piece by piece because I’m not a strength character that can hold it all
Excellently curated list! Gonna use this setup for my next playthrough, it looks very immersive. I hope installing mods is not too hard with BG3
I used nexus mods and was suprised by how easy it was to install the mods, on each mod page it tells you how to install the mod and if its using bg3 mod manager its literally download the file and import it to bg3 mod manager, drag it from inactive to active then press export to game and bam done!
for WASD mod, I'm pretty sure you can cancel your movement by right clicking so you can resume wasd controls. That way, you don't have to wait until your character reaches your clicked destination to use wasd
Yeah, you can get out of it, it's just not as intuitive as it is in other games that feature wasd + clicking. It's really not a bad issue at all, but it has caused me, for example, to run into a trap because when I passed the check and saw it, i spammed wasd movement to get away but obviously it wouldn't cancel the click I'd issued before. In my mind they should always override one another
@@Jolsn in an area that you think could be trapped, you shouldn't be clicking that far away from yourself to begin with. You should either be manual walking by holding left click close to your character's feet or moving a few feet at a time
Like that's not a mod issue bro. That's a skill issue.
usually G does the trick
@@Jolsn I agree with you. With version 1.8.0 you can now cancel the clickmoves with WASD! (And disabled them altogether if you want.)
First of all, thank you for making this video, there are some utility mods that I wull definitely add to my game! Now onto my comment: I really enjoy having my companions (and myself) all battered and bloody, I love that depending on the level of damage you recieved you have a degree of woulds or uncleanliness, it also removes a thing that I always have had a problem with that is having your characters be unreasonably clean and perfect all the time. This isn't a movie, and our characters are going though wilderness! I love seeing their struggles on the skin! I love that about the game :)
The blood mod isn't for me, and I couldn't disagree more: you run an entire day in the forest and/or fought many monsters, you should be bloodied and sullied.
This level of attention to detail is what adds to the level of immersion that I have not seen in a game for over 35 years of gaming.
for me the issue was going through a long rest after hours of playing. I enter a tiny one turn fight right after and all the blood is back
I only find it annoying when you get into a minor scuffle shortly after a long rest, but you have much more available left, so you're wandering around the city having dozens of conversations bloodied to shit because one or two dudes decided to be pesky for a moment. Like, who's just casually walking around covered in blood? Wash up dammit! haha
Very good video, and a splendid showcase of truly nice mods! I'm using some of them myself and have been eying others that you're showing here. I'll definitely check out the ones that I haven't been looking more closely at. Thanks for doing this, champ!
Immersive UI need to be in the game in the next update same with the camera mod for zooming in and looking up.
I am happy with that W A S D. it's so awesome.
we need better targetting because MANY times we think we are NOT targeting our friends just to find out they are targeted and get nailed by spells
After accidentally killing my companions too many times I found out you can click on the portrait at the top where it displays the initiative and choose who to target that way.
there is a highlight key , its really good
you just need to look at their feet, if their circle has little spikes on the inside it means youre targeting them lol
Really enjoyed the video and would love to see more as things get released. Not touching mods for playthrough one buy will probably do it on the second time around. Keep up the good work.
Speak with Dead has a necklace accessible in the dungeon with Withers. Almost every vendor in the Grove sells one to three Speak with Animals with the Dwarf woman and her Husband in the Underdark selling three with a ton of acorns that turn into more Speak with Animal potions. On a Long rest, vendors restock on all potions and materials.
Honestly, with all the Long Rests i take naturally, rolling up on NPCs with Astarion pickpocketing has kept my Dark Urge always topped up on Detect Thoughs potions and Speak with Animals potions to the point i likely have more than i need.
Thanks so much for this vid! Very clearly explained what every mod does, I installed them all and WOW! What a great difference these mods make to the already awesome game.
11:00 not actually "lost" per se, you get more bonus EXP if you get an inspiration point while at the inspiration point cap, so it's the optimal way to level up the fastest early (staying at cap and not using them).
Whaaaaaa? I had no idea about this! TY 🤗
I mean, I had enough XP to get to level 16 at the end of my playthrough…and the cap is 12. Don’t really need to worry about that stuff.
@@ianoneill8392 It's mainly useful in Act 1 and Act 2 on Tactician when you want to be as topped up on EXP as possible.
It's not often that I want to use basically all of the mods from a video. Nice list!
Hi there! Thank you for sharing.
Here is my take on each mod, from a soft of baldur's gate purist / immersion maniac perspective :
Native Camera Tweaks: Instant buy.
WASD Character Movement: My love for the pure experience of the isometric Baldur's Gate has already been stretched with ease with the current camera freedom. And I can safely assume that a little more freedom will not hurt. :)
Aether's Immersive UI: Although with this kind of game, the constant UI does provide a kind of meta immersion if that makes any sense? But I always like having the option of no UI. I'll give it a try and probably end up wishing for more customizability and end up removing it and putting it back a few times before choosing if I want it or not. The worst that could happen is I can't decide and I just wish I never learned of the existence of this mod. Unless I start playing third person all the time with WASD character movement and end up wanting to remove the UI to have a proper third-person experience. That would probably be the worst thing that could happen. Now I'm afraid.
Bags Bags Bags: I kinda enjoy ruffling through my things in the back pack, and placing things in it like a person would actually organise his back pack and gear. I think the present simple inventory management is easily rp translatable. I would rather have a mod that allows the inventory of all the characters to have a permanent memory (and never reset even after you change companions a few times) but hey I'm rarely against more options if they make sense. I'll be using this mainly for the potion, book and arrows containers.
Better Containers: Yup.
Dye Dye Dye: Surprisingly, I'll pass on this one I think. I'll enjoy finding the dyes as I go, at least for my first run.
Everybody Dyes (Unlimited Dyeing): Well, ok yes please.
Ring of Minor Rituals : Nope. Over my dead body.
Visible Shields: The only reason I won't use this one is totally against my immersive and roleplay principles, and it goes only with my instant-to-instant aesthetic appreciation of the game, and it is because I appreciate the designs of the party members, and a shield gives them a dull silhouette. Naturally invisible shields : canon. XD
No More Looping VFX & SFX on Buffs: Over my dead body. Mainly because magical and divine buffs are actually visually present in the world (they are also indicators to the player that something is active and may be helpful when you don't want to cast a concentration spell but forgot you already had something important going on.) But I understand some people want less visual stimuli.
No More Blood and Dirt: Over my bloody dead dirty body.
No Inspiration Point Cap: Nah, already too easy with all those rerolls. 1 inspiration per party member I'd say, even.
Customizers Compendium - NPC Options Unlocker: More options. Why the hell not. Just wait for these mods... they are coming. We will soon have packs of hairstyles that will rival the number of stars in the galaxy.
Can't wait to see how this game will be, mods-wise, in a few years. It is going to be mindblowing.
Again thanks for sharing!
ecks dee
Native Camera Tweaks, Aether's Immersive UI and Better containers are a must have for me. Bags³ seems cool will test it. Everybody Dyes should've been in the base game.
The ring of minor rituals is honestly cool but kinda not necessary, I'm playing a sorcerer and bought some potions of speak with animals, but now I got so many I didn't even need to buy them, you can drink one and it lasts until your next long rest, same for mind reading you got potions that don't need concentration and scrolls that need concentration but there are many, speak with dead you get an item in the first dungeon of the game if you explore it and there are ways to get it forever too, disguise self is the more interesting one for me, since sorcerers can't change spells.
My recomendations:
If you play dragonborn, get Dragonborn and Dragonbreath Unleashed, it allow you to buff the race with many options.
If you're used to rolling for stats or just wanna get more feats there's a Feat Every Level mod, that also has many options ranging from an extra feat at level 2 from, extra feat each odd or even level, etc.
If you wanna have more companions, Party Limit Begone mod.
Speak with dead you get from successfully reading necromancy of thay and speak with animals you can easily get enough potions to talk to animals or just have best girl (Karlach) in your party (unless you changed her class from barbarian)
or make her a bezerker like you should...
@@AyaWetts Er um... no Zerker is super mid unless you're going tavern brawler with a dip in monk.
I'm going full wildheart because it's more versatile
Pretty good video! Most of the mods featured I either used to use or I have them installed, great recommendations!
Some of these are really good, like the containers and the camera mods. However, there are others included that really just take the breaks off and diminish certain core mechanics of classes like druids for example. I understand the urge to create a munchkin character that can just do everything without missing out on anything, but for me personally doing away with those details just absolutely murders my immersion and incentive to roleplay. Why even bother if you can automatically succeed at all the things that don't even make any sense for a specific character to be able to do? Not being able to talk to animals or the dead changes what you can find out along the way, and changes what information you have available to inform your choices down the line. Each playthrough is gonna be different anyway, and having those little restrictions create little consequences for your understanding of the world makes for a hugely more immersive role-playing experience.
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Speak with the dead and animals are fixed infos you get. For example you got this info already, then you came across one of them and they will tell you same info you get from another source.
this is such a good showcase, definitely about to go install the camera and wasd movement mods at the very least and probably the bag related ones
I really want to install tons of these super helpful mods into my saves or new ones but...As Bg3 is so new it has tons of patches coming these last few days, maybe I'll wait until mod support is given by Larian, I fear that If I start modding right now I'm gonna have to deal with other patch soon that will break my modded save
This is a huge risk potentially. Good point
These are amazing!! Thanks to all of the modders and thanks for sharing!
I have watched a couple of your videos now (subbed too), I like the quality of the content keep up the great work! : )
Welp...I want all of these mods lol. Nice list! Started a coop run with friends but it's time I get a solo run going and these mods look like they'll only strengthen the base game instead of heavily change it, which is what I was looking for. I'll save the whacky stuff for other playthroughs. +1 sub.
I found dirt and blood super cool, finally a game that acknowledges slaughtering leaves your character dirty. Granted a water bucket to wash off in the camp would be nice but if rain or water really cleans you off ( haven't tried that yet) then i'm all the more happy with it.
Omg the bags bags bags one is amazing..
Wish there was a mod that asked you if you were sure when you cast a concentration spell when you're already concentrating..
Can't tell you how many times I've accidentally canceled my own spell
These are very helpful. I'm on my first playthrough and like modding so I'm heading to Nexus to pick up a few. Thank you.
Blood is a water like substance in this game (afaik) and since no dwarf would even touch too much water, you could just use remove water without getting wet. Worked for me.
dude, I watch ur xiv vids and am so glad to see u here c:
Inventory management truly is a nightmare in vanilla, was just looking for this
Thought this was going to be a rundown of all the mods I'm already using... and I never knew of any of them but the last. Thanks for the showcase! Btw Astarion's hair works great on a tiefling because the curls somehow wind around the horns. XD
Now you got me interested to know what other mods you are using...
@@olivierdulac Stuff that is potentially (not what I do, but...) much more cheesing than these: Level 20 options (Level 20 Multiclass but it seems to not be working for me recently, so using UnlockLevelCurve instead), Achievement Enabler, Highlight Everything, Improved UI, Better Hotbar (ultrawide), Customizer, various equip/appearance ones like Tav's Hairpack/Tav's Hair Salon/New CC Presets/Shadowheart Alt Hair (because bowl-cut Dumb and Dumber doesn't suit her)/Basket Full of Equipment + BasketEquipCampClothing (so you get much of the clothing options without the cheatery buffs in them or affecting armor slots). Actually the Basket mod gives you two multiple items w only three of the four abilities that "Ring of Ritual" gives in a single ring item, but Basket's basket is available immediately on the Nautiloid while the Ritual Ring has to be bought noticeably later from the vendor, it seems. Plus I've discovered the wonders of using Multiplayer to create a larger party of my own chars in combination w the party size increase mod (Party Limit Begone (except it has a limit of 16 which I haven't tested)) to not have to sacrifice game companion content in the process. It's all been stable, but I'm finding that being online w Steam seems to affect the stability (poorer on Steam).
But you can see from that list that none are in this vid except one... and now my game is further bloated w mods and as yet untested as such. I did have install errors from Vortex about the NativeModLoader-dependent mods during install (Native Camera Tweaks/WASD Movt/Aether's Immersive UI), so we'll see... "Achievement Enabler" is another such NML-dependent mod I already had, and at the very least it hasn't crashed anything... yet. Plus mod order does make a difference, so this new mod batch may require some trial and error...
Side note- I was trying to use another mod called FastXP which seemed to pair well w the Level 20 Multiclass since it would boost the early levels and then let the game XP progress normally, but that mod became ineffective as well for some reason w no fix by the modder. I'm not sure if the devs are going out of their way to prioritize in patches the blocking of Level 13+ progression, but those are the mods getting broken foremost. Other than just useful FYI, another reason I mention this is that the FastXP mod grants the XP bonus only to level 6, and the bug w Ring of Ritual seems to be after Level 6, so I'm wondering if they're related- i.e., only those using that FastXP mod AND Ring of Ritual were getting their games janked. I put my Level 20 mod before Ring of Ritual in mod order, so maybe that will help. I might need the order reversed or RoR and Lvl20 mods are inevitably incompatible somehow, dunno, but the RoR looks helpful for content mining, so... I guess we'll see.
Native Camera Tweaks is legit my favorite mod and that's saying something it was the first mod i downloaded alongside basket full of equipment and they're great.
Hey thanks for linking all the mods, great video. Ill be using like 90% of these :)
Ooohhh, I think I'll be adding several of these to my next run, thanks!
Thank god for wasd and camera mod shown, now I can enjoy bg3...the clicking around was doing my head in.
Thank you very much ! Some will definitely be using by my team and I ! Thank you !
You were right, now I want all the mods you showed! 😊
Missed opportunity not calling the Arrows bag a quiver
You can find soap and sponge trays in various places throughout the game, earliest is waukeens rest i think, if you pick one up you can use it infinitely to clean dirt and blood off your characters
simple walking on any water source does the trick and if you have the staff that allows free cast create water. After getting back to camp pull it out, cast create water with all the group gathered together and done without having to install mod just to get rid of dirt and blood.
wow. I didn't even realize mods were already out, but most of these mods are getting downloaded today for my game.
If you don't like blood and dirt, just use one of the thousands of jugs of water in the game to wash off? Not to mention the create water spell.
Playing with Party Limit Remover is a must have if you're playing with a full party, or if you want to play with more of your friends (up to 8)
This is really good because there are just some quests you can't do without a companion with a full party, though sometimes things can a bit.... silly.
There are some good mods on this list. I especially like the infinite dye and the visible shield mods. It kinda bothered me that my party members who had shields did not wear them on their backs like in other RPGs. Also the multiple hair style mods and NPC faces is a great addition to chr creation. You can never have too many hair styles :).
However the "no more blood and dirt" is kinda useless because there is an immersive way to clean your characters. Throughout the world you will find water bottles or other recipients with "water" in the title. When you use these items, the character not only quenches their thirst they will also wash off. So you see they DO like to clean up after a hard day, you just have to use the water bottle.
TY for making this video!
Taking everything other than "Blood & Dirt". It takes away a big part of the fun & immersion IMHO :D
The buff VFX is actually really nice to have tbh. After like 500 hours of this game, I don't even really look at the buffs next to the party on the left of the screen anymore. I can visually see what they have on and what's being concentrated on. If a modder really wanted to make my day, make a spell that's only usable outside of combat so you can put all your buffs in it and have the characters knock all those spells out in one go. Like still make the spells cost the slots of course, but just make it more convenient to rebuff the party. I can deal without the ritual ring if I can apply all the buffs I want in one go, and since it's only usable outside of combat it's not even breaking the game's action economy. In tabletop, if I were a player (usually I DM), and I am playing Cleric, I'd just declare that I'm using Aid, Warding Bond on everyone, and Shield of faith on the Fighter/Barbarian/Paladin up front after a long rest during exploration.
I was sceptical, but damn you are right... I didn't know I needed those mods.
Second playthrough here I come
I had several of these mods from my first play but there were a couple (dyes) I’m adding. Thanks.
I love the mod that lets you add extra action points. It's just the right amount of cheap without completely ruining the game. And allows for a lot of fun flexibility during combat.
@@amarante2993 I don't really care about your opinion. You play your game how you want, and I'll play mine how I want. Why don't you just mind your own business?
@@amarante2993 Dude, the mod is literally in the "cheats" section, so thanks for your pointless comment.
The thing I hate the most is that NPCs immediately turn hostile when they enter an area spell: I had to do the fight at the last light many times over to be able to save the priestess, only for her to walk into my cloud of daggers immediately after the fight was over, thus turning the whole inn hostile towards me.
I didn't even have time to disable the spell, to avoid this I'd have had to do it during the fight, which sucks
Some really good mods here, I'll be getting a bunch. Some of them will be for the next playthrough though, some things happened to my druid grove...
I apparently can't go back to the Grove without having to fight my way. One of the dwarves in grymforge went invisible I think, and ran off to tell on me after I killed Nere and his cronies
some of them break the integrity of a run imo but some are amazing i am so sick of blood on my face always, thank you for that
disguise self bit: “and with disguise self you can be a smaller character to get into cracks only they fit into. unfortunately I don’t have any of those around me.” he says IN the druid grove where those tiefling kids have exactly that 😂
Camera Tweaks & WASD movement are honestly mandatory mods. At the very least Camera Tweaks is. Being able to more in depth explore and appreciate the surroundings is such a huge gain in immersiveness (oddly enough). WASD movement is just weird that it isn't in the base game. Controllers can already move with the joystick by default so why not KB+M users.
One mod I really, really wish existed though is an 'improved keybinds' mod and I'm genuinely shocked there isn't one yet. The fact you can only keybind 12 or so abilities by default, and ONLY on the custom hotbar, is actually crazy.
As someone who has played D&D long before BG3 came out, the cap for inspiration is because each character can only have one inspiration at a time. For me, it feels more authentic to D&D which the game is based on, but I can understand why some people would prefer not to have a cap for the gameplay, seeing as how it's not actually D&D but a video game based on D&D.
Inspiration is a currency. In roleplaying games you're supposed to SPEND currencies, not hoard them. But even in tabletop, players often hoard their currencies rather than use them in play.
These are all small nuisances I came across! This is crazy!! Thank you modders!!!!
Such a useful video some of these mods are a relief. Thanks!
Great list, there are at least a few of these I'll check out.
At 4:10 I actually raised my hands to my face and exclaimed in relief at the bag bag bag categories. Praise the lord.
All of these seem super useful, thanks!
"If any of you remember DA:O" as if im going to forget my favorite RPG of all time
I can't play without WASD and Native Camera. You sold me on installing Immersive UI.
They are just awesome, thenk you a lot! I'm downloading all of them
Only last two mods are worth this video. Every other mod I said out loud “this is DND, think of it like that”
Excellent assortment of recommendations!
All of these mods are super lightweight and can be inatalled simultaneously, and mid-playthrough.
Just make sure to backup your saves fellas, and use Baldurs Gate 3 Mod Manager