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#1 the bigg

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Posted 25 December 2010 - 12:19 PM

Just got DA:Ultimate Edition on Steam thanks to the discount (50% for today, 25% until 2nd of January). Are there any must-have mods that I should get for my first run? I'm not interested in content, gameplay or balance changes/additions, mainly in bug fixes and (if that's the case) non-intrusive removal of outright bad/annoying features.

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#2 Jarno Mikkola

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Posted 25 December 2010 - 01:53 PM

Just got DA:Ultimate Edition on Steam thanks to the discount (50% for today, 25% until 2nd of January). Are there any must-have mods that I should get for my first run? I'm not interested in content, gameplay or balance changes/additions, mainly in bug fixes and (if that's the case) non-intrusive removal of outright bad/annoying features.

Well, there's a few End dialog 'fix' mods, 1, 2, 3, and the too small backpack annoyance lesser-ner(it doesn't remove it), mod link, I used the max.

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Posted 25 December 2010 - 10:22 PM

Quinn's Fixpack

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Posted 26 December 2010 - 01:29 AM

I say this with some trepidation, because (a) it's not usually my thing and (b) I don't want to derail this thread, but I do think it's worth installing some (minimal, tasteful) nude mod, at least for female characters. In the vanilla game, "naked" characters continue to wear underwear, but there are several points where this seriously breaks immersion. In particular, one female character is seen "naked" in a plot-critical scene and clearly is wearing underwear which she could not have been wearing under her standard outfit. I used this one, which is about as minimal a change as is needed to restore immersion.

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Posted 26 December 2010 - 08:30 AM

Thanks for your replies.

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#6 Archmage Silver

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Posted 27 December 2010 - 10:20 AM

I wouldn't play the game without these now:

Essential:
Nukenin's Stealing Fix - Restores Tactics Functionality
Nukenin's Dog Find Fix - Fixes Patch 1.04 Bug
Vigilance-Starfang Fix v2
Qwinn's Unofficial Fixpack
Find Vitals Fix (Awakening)
Nukenin's +Healing Received Fix
Blackblade Armor Dragon Drop Fix (Awakening)
Sigrun's Roguish Past & Law and Order Fix (Awakening)

Optional:
DLC Transfer To Awakening Patch

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Posted 27 December 2010 - 03:32 PM

Damn, I hoped to download a single fixpack rather than 50 individual fixes :/

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#8 Archmage Silver

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Posted 29 December 2010 - 11:14 AM

Damn, I hoped to download a single fixpack rather than 50 individual fixes :/

If Qwinn hadn't made his fixpack, you'd be downloading a lot more than this. That said, it would be nice to have a single package, but the Dragon Age modding community isn't as open as the IE one, like Qwinn found out (page 2 and so on).

Most of the mods are just drop-in override files though, so you can just zip them up in an archive. The dazip ones are pretty much optional when it comes to fixes, with the exception of Qwinn's fixpack.

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Posted 29 December 2010 - 11:37 AM

If Qwinn hadn't made his fixpack, you'd be downloading a lot more than this. That said, it would be nice to have a single package, but the Dragon Age modding community isn't as open as the IE one, like Qwinn found out (page 2 and so on).

Well, that's shortsighted (even worse than what I recall from Oblivion). Reminds me of a certain somebody.

Most of the mods are just drop-in override files though, so you can just zip them up in an archive. The dazip ones are pretty much optional when it comes to fixes, with the exception of Qwinn's fixpack.

I used DAModder to install them. And boy, do I (*especially* I :) ) hate when people release their stuff in a .rar I'm supposed to drop in the override when the Builder natively outputs nicely packaged .dazip mods.

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Code dumps: Detect custom secondary types - Stutter Investigator

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#10 Archmage Silver

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Posted 29 December 2010 - 12:32 PM


If Qwinn hadn't made his fixpack, you'd be downloading a lot more than this. That said, it would be nice to have a single package, but the Dragon Age modding community isn't as open as the IE one, like Qwinn found out (page 2 and so on).

Well, that's shortsighted (even worse than what I recall from Oblivion). Reminds me of a certain somebody.

Yeah, it's not that sociable of an environment to work in. You really have to keep track of the credits section... ;)

But yeah, they're obsessive about their "rights and entitlements". I said the same to Qwinn in a PM back then, because I really hadn't expected such a response for all the good work he put in the fixpack.

Most of the mods are just drop-in override files though, so you can just zip them up in an archive. The dazip ones are pretty much optional when it comes to fixes, with the exception of Qwinn's fixpack.

I used DAModder to install them. And boy, do I (*especially* I :) ) hate when people release their stuff in a .rar I'm supposed to drop in the override when the Builder natively outputs nicely packaged .dazip mods.

Dazips would be an ideal medium to deliver the mods in, but apparently override files remain ever-popular even though something else is already available. I really can't see why though, this time nobody even had to wait for the modders to develop a toolset with a save as dazip function.

I also hate rar archives... they should use 7z! :P

#11 Jarno Mikkola

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Posted 29 December 2010 - 12:49 PM

Dazips would be an ideal medium to deliver the mods in, but apparently override files remain ever-popular even though something else is already available. I really can't see why though, this time nobody even had to wait for the modders to develop a toolset with a save as dazip function.

I also hate rar archives... they should use 7z! :P

Well, the .dazip's are bad for the stand point of total review on compatibility, how in the cheese can you decide which .dazip to use when you cannot see what's inside the darn things... well, not without a tool that can be used to unpack them. <_<
And what comes to the archive formate, it's both, a .zip in small files, or .rar in large files. Because of the time consumption and compatibility... so why the .7zip's, I just ask.

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#12 Archmage Silver

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Posted 29 December 2010 - 12:54 PM

Apparently you don't know that much about 7-Zip. Look into it, and then come back.

#13 the bigg

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Posted 29 December 2010 - 01:24 PM

He doesn't know that much about anything. For instance:

how in the cheese can you decide which .dazip to use when you cannot see what's inside the darn things

.dazips are .zip with a difference extension, hence they can be opened with 7-zip (E.G. using 'Open With...' from the context menu).

Italian users: help test the Stivan NPC!

Author or Co-Author: WeiDU - Widescreen - Generalized Biffing - Refinements - TB#Tweaks - IWD2Tweaks - TB#Characters - Traify Tool - Some mods that I won't mention in public
Maintainer: Semi-Multi Clerics - Nalia Mod - Nvidia Fix
Code dumps: Detect custom secondary types - Stutter Investigator

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#14 Jarno Mikkola

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Posted 29 December 2010 - 01:34 PM

.dazips are .zip with a difference extension, hence they can be opened with 7-zip (E.G. using 'Open With...' from the context menu).

Well, .dazip... including WinRAR. <_<

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