Incline What mods do you recommend that are better than the core game?

[CancerUnlimited]

What mods did you play that enhanced the gameplay in such a way that the original game pales in comparison?
Also, recommend your favorites mods.

So far I have:
* Darkest Hour (WW2 mod for Hearts of Iron) --> Kaiserreich (alternative history mod for Darkest Hour, a mod of a mod so to speak)
* Stalker Anomaly (mod for Stalker: Call of Prypyat)

 

[Morenatsu.]

inb4 ash recommends his own mods

 

[Doctor Sbaitso]

Arx Liberatis.

 

[CancerUnlimited]

Arx Liberatis.

Care to explain more?

 

[Morenatsu.]

Arx Liberatis.

It removes visual effects because the modders broke/didn't like/were too lazy to fix them. Modders gonna mod!

 

[Atlet]

sworflight, the aielund saga, a dance with rogues - nvn

enderal - skirim

There is one for Stalker Chernobyl that I fogot the name also

 

[octavius]

Sword Coast Stratagems for Baldur's Gate.
The HD-Mod for HoMM 3.

 

[ADL]

ACE for ARMA
Darkest Hour for Red Orchestra 1
Dark Souls Daughters of Ash
Dark Souls III Cinders
Elite Force for SWAT 4
Infinite Heaven for Metal Gear Solid V TPP
ISMC for Insurgency Sandstorm
Third Age Total War
https://shardsofdalaya.com/ for Everquest
Star Wars Movie Battles II for Jedi Academy
UO Outlands
Some of these are total conversions, some just massively improve the games they're a part of but I wouldn't play any of them without these.

 

[Gregz]

Median XL 1.F9
Prophesy of Pendor
wesp’s mod
JA2 1.13
ZAngband

 

[Arryosha]

Some say the Nameless Mod for Deus Ex. Same for Nehrim for Oblivion.

 

[GrafvonMoltke]

AMK is supposed to be the definitive Shadow of Chernobyl exprience according to fat people in the Shoutbox.

 

[Baron Dupek]

Enderal
Nehrim
The Hell 1 for Diablo1, even better with TH1 HD if you find it

Painkiller Supernatural 2.0 because it merge maps from other PK games (they all sucks) with better balance and without other issues that plague eastern spinoffs.

I like Anomaly and some Misery-themed mods but saying they're better than originals is bit of a stretch.

Arx Liberatis.

Care to explain more?

It's more like a mandatory patch like ZRP or SRP for Stalkers. Good riddance casting anything without it. Game was designed for classic mouse and 4:3 like 800x600, any exception and games is unplayable.

 

[Taka-Haradin puolipeikko]

Piratez for X-com.
Last Days of 3rd Age for M&B:Warband (that said I'm Tolkien fan).

 

[Puukko]

GMDX.

 

[Doctor Sbaitso]

Enderal
Nehrim
The Hell 1 for Diablo1, even better with TH1 HD if you find it

Painkiller Supernatural 2.0 because it merge maps from other PK games (they all sucks) with better balance and without other issues that plague eastern spinoffs.

I like Anomaly and some Misery-themed mods but saying they're better than originals

Arx Liberatis.

Care to explain more?

It's more like a mandatory patch like ZRP or SRP for Stalkers. Good riddance casting anything without it. Game was designed for classic mouse and 4:3 like 800x600, any exception and games is unplayable.

It also adds crafting, inventory improvements etc. Basically if you are going to play Arx today, you probably want to use Liberatis.

 

[Ivan]

Misery (1.2) for STALKER: CoP
Ziggy's Mod for Far Cry 3

 

[spectre]

Not sure if the same is already true for Bannerlord, but you should pick pretty much any mod for Mount & Blade over the base game. It's so barebones there's no point in bothering.

Then there's 1.13 for Jagged Alliance 2.

 

[Sandro Botticelli]

wesp’s mod
JA2 1.13
ZAngband

These definitely. I can't remember what base JA2 is even like anymore.

Is ZAngband considered a mod though?

 

[Dodo1610]

HDoom

 

[Gregz]

Is ZAngband considered a mod though?

Technically it's an Angband variant (or fork).

 

[unseeingeye]

The Ur-Quan Masters, which I only just this past weekend got around to checking out.
Also recently tried Might and Magic Merge which makes it possible to play MM6, 7 and 8 as one continuous game under MM8 mod.

 

[Data4]

Desert Combat for Battlefield 1942. Yes I'm old. Get off my fucking lawn.

 

[Atlantico]

Ultima V: Lazarus for Dungeon Siege.

 

[CancerUnlimited]

Not sure if the same is already true for Bannerlord, but you should pick pretty much any mod for Mount & Blade over the base game. It's so barebones there's no point in bothering.

Prophesy of Pendor is my goto mod but right now I'm trying Dark Age for Viking Conquest and I have to say i'ts pretty good. It seems to fix all the gripes I had with the game and enhances the graphics and ui. The only thing I don't like is the music (it has ambient sound in battles) wich I'm modding.

 

[what am i doing]

Most Victoria 2 mods. They all have upsides and downsides but the main issue is that vanilla Vicky 2 has some gross historical inaccuracies to the starting map (Japan being a unitary state, for example, or the weird Qing substate breakdown) as well as extreme balance/realism issues (1840 German unification, for example, or 70-millionen-reich with no containment wars against it, or the way you can easily conquer Chinese states without any special requirements or limits). Most of the common mods fix all these issues. I think Pop Demand Mod was the one that started with the majority of those fixes, although nobody plays PDM by itself. There's no reason to ever play vanilla Victoria 2, even if it's your very first time playing. It feels like a different game, and honestly not a very good one.