u/Zoberk

Hello there 😊

I'm running an Edge of the Empire Beginner Game with Foundry. Due to all the modules I'm using, my modules folder is 1.64gb, whereas my assets folder remains smaller than 50mb.

I was looking to put this on the cloud so I can edit and add to my world from anywhere, and to have a backup in case something happens to my PC.

I have been looking at the membership tiers on Forge, and the storage limits seem restrictive. It's 5gb for assets and 500mb for modules. I would just expect it to be 5gb total. So I would need to get the highest tier, which feels overpriced for this kind of data limit.

Can anyone suggest a reasonable solution for this? Or is the information on the forge site misleading?

Thanks 🙂

Update: Thank you for the suggestions. I really appreciate it. I'll be looking at some of those alternatives.

Hello there!

I would like to share with the community the mods I use while playing Dragon’s Dogma 2. I find the experiences created by the combination of these mods to be very refreshing, and they make this game significantly replayable. I will list these mods in order of importance (somewhat), and provide a brief description of what they do and why I chose to use them. Make sure you read up the descriptions of these mods on their Nexus pages to get a clearer picture of what they do. That will surely help you decide if you want to keep them or skip them. This is kind of a personal list and it’s what makes the experience almost complete for me. Things may feel different for others. I hope the information here helps you start modding your experience the way you see fit.

Have fun!

Note: I wanted to post into the DD2 subreddit as well, but it got auto deleted for some reason.

Essential

1. Fluffy Mod Manager: Not quite a mod but a mod loader. This is the best way to install and load mods to the game. It even has its own RE Framework installation tool so you don’t need to download it separately. Adding mods is pretty easy. Simply drag and drop the zip file that you download into the app screen and everything is done for you. You can toggle the mods on and off using this tool. Fluffy also has a link to the Nexus mods website, where you can list mods by last updated and see if any of your mods need an update. To update, simply uninstall the old version from Fluffy, then drag and drop the new one.
2. RE Framework: This is a commonly used modding framework with Lua scripting support. It is a tool that is absolutely required.
3. NickCore: This is needed to use the mods made by Nickesponja. Those mods make up the backbone of the whole experience.
4. ScriptCore: Similar to NickCore, as NickCore was a custom alternative of ScriptCore. However, ScriptCore is still needed for a lot of other mods.
5. Unofficial Dragon’s Dogma 2 Patch: The name says it all. Every moddable game has an unofficial patch that is the official patch of the modding community, and it becomes the most essential patch to have with a variety of fixes and improvements.
6. Dullahan: This is a modular vocation overhaul and one of the core mods that change the experience. It makes changes to all vocations in DD2, expanding their gameplay options and reworking skills to make them work better. Some skills become available by default without using a skill slot. Vocations even have new skills to use. It may sound like a bad idea to toggle with the design so much, but I assure you that this mod does things in a very balanced and reasonable way.
7. Simple Difficulty Tweaks: This is, in my opinion, a much more user friendly version of Custom Difficulty Tweaks. It is also newer and more supported by the other mods mentioned here. With this mod, you can adjust the damage and stagger the enemies take or deal, the experience and DCP you gain, and even manage each creature individually to fit your needs. Thus, you can create presets for different difficulty settings. I will also share my presets after this list is done.

Great

1. Durnehviir: Durnehviir makes changes to the monster culling quests. This makes the encounters more dynamic and can feature bosses with packs of enemies. I found that this mod made a lot of encounters more memorable.
2. Bestiary and Bestiary Variant Spawns: This mod makes changes to the moveset and aggression level of many enemies in the game. As a result, combat becomes more challenging and varied. In addition, more than 20 new variants of existing enemies were created and now have the possibility of spawning. Thus, you can have more elite versions of enemies that can use abilities that are otherwise not seen in the game. More stuff is being added with each big update and this mod is actively updated at the time of writing this list. Once again, I assure you that everything done here is balanced and implemented properly. If you didn’t know these were mods, you’d think CAPCOM released a DLC.
3. Gear Progression Overhaul: I put this in the “Great” category because I personally find it to be a refreshing change in the overall progression system of the game. In vanilla, most good gear is bought through the stores. This mod created the possibility of spawning loot as a boss drop or from chests in the world. As a result, you have more reasons to explore and engage with the environment. You can adjust chest respawn and item drop rate to your liking. I will also share some of the adjustments I have made to these mods to turn it into a more favorable experience.

Good

1. Better Monster Infighting: This mod makes different types of monsters fight each other whenever one receives a certain amount of damage from the other. You can customize the threshold and the types of enemies that are friendly or hostile. Although I do not come across a lot of such incidents, it does make a difference and create a more enjoyable shitshow when there are multiple types of enemies in the field.
2. Additional Pawn Commands: I can’t express how many times I looked up to a chest and got frustrated because I couldn’t tell my pawn to just launchboard me there. With this mod, you get an additional set of commands that activate by double tapping the command input. The most important of these is the ability to have them launchboard me at any time.
3. Guild Contracts and Content Editor: Guild Contracts adds contract items to the vendor in the Pawn guild. You spend RC to get one contract from a variety of different difficulty contracts to go monster hunting. It creates more opportunities to make some gold and add replayability to the game. I mentioned Content Editor with this mod because it is a requirement and the only reason I have ever installed Content Editor. Please keep in mind Content Editor will come with 6 sub categories. These are content editor, event editor, item editor, parameter editor, shop editor, and weathers editor. I also remember there was a quest editor that messed up the quests in this game. You do not need all of them. Only toggle on content editor, item editor, and shop editor. Leave the rest uninstalled or toggled off in the Fluffy Mod Manager.
4. Lenient Stagger and Exhaustion: Staggering can become very punishing and annoying in the base game. This will become even more noticeable if you decide to toggle with it using Simple Difficulty Tweaks. This mod makes these effects more forgiving and decreases the time you lose control of your character.

Nice To Have

1. Balanced Augments: Tweaks a few augments so more of them are worth using.
2. Boss Healthbar Overhaul: Changes how healthbar display works for bosses. It has better targeting so that the healthbar displayed is for the boss you are actively engaging rather than anything else that is closer to you. It otherwise becomes annoying for ranged classes. Additionally, the displays the emptied dots for bosses with multiple levels of healthbar. This was not clear in the vanilla version.The overall experience with healthbars becomes more satisfying.
3. Enemy Resistance Overhaul: Tweaks various parameters on a number of enemies, so they have clearer resistance and weaknesses where applicable. In some cases, they get a net buff to toughness & immunity to debilitations.
4. Weaponlord: This mod gives more weapons some unique effects, making them more interesting to use and more preferable depending on the situation. As a result, your weapon choice is not just bound to the stats they have or pure physical damage they deal.
5. CharacterManager: Allows you to save and load character files. This is useful if you want to save your character appearance as a preset, and load it later for a fresh playthrough.
6. Shield and Mantle Clipping Fix: Prevents or reduces the clipping caused by the shield and the mantle worn by characters.
7. DD2 Save Manager: This allows you to have multiple saves and backups. You can easily switch between your active save. It is basically the modding community’s solution to not having multiple save slots. This mod runs separately. You may need to launch it and keep it active whenever you want to backup your current save and start a new game.

This list ended up being a little longer than I expected. I tried my best to keep descriptions brief. You can read more about them on their pages. Thank you for your time.

Everything below is optional. If you want to stick around, I’ll share with you my configurations for two of the mods listed above. These mods are Gear Progression Overhaul and Simple Difficulty Tweaks.

Gear Progression Overhaul

This is a great mod and changed the way I approached the game. However, some of the default choices were not to my liking, so I made some changes to the config file. By default, chests respawn after 7 days. While I like the idea of this game becoming like an infinite game, I don’t think I want it to this extent. Thus, I removed the chest respawn. I also reduced the drop rates from bosses. The mod also has bad luck protection where the chance to drop an item increases by a certain amount until you get gear, and then resets. I slowed down that increase. I also increased the number of unique items you get until a repeat item drops. As a result, finding loot becomes a more exciting experience.

If you want to make these changes, go to the steamapps -> common -> Dragons Dogma 2 -> reframework -> autorun -> GPO folder and right click on the config file. This file is read-only. Toggle that off so you can make some changes. After you save your changes, go back and make it read-only again.

Here are the changes I made. I did not touch the sections involving prices or anything. I just focused on drops.

- Chest respawn and shop randomizer
RESPAWN_TIME = -1 -- Chest respawn time in days. Set to -1 to disable chest respawn.
RESTOCK_TIME = 7 -- Shop restock time in days. Set to -1 to disable shop randomization.
APPEAR_CHANCE = 0.25 -- Chance that any given item will remain in its shop

-- Random loot
CHEST_GEAR_CHANCE = 0.20 -- Chance that a chest will drop a piece of gear (on top of its usual loot)
BOSS_GEAR_CHANCE = 0.4 -- Chance that a boss will drop a piece of gear (on top of its usual loot)
WEAPON_CHANCE = 0.3 -- Assuming you get a piece of gear, how likely it is to be a weapon vs an armor piece
VOCATION_GEAR_CHANCE_PLAYER = 0.3 -- Chances that you'll get an item your vocation can use
VOCATION_GEAR_CHANCE_PAWN = 0.3 -- Chances that you'll get an item your pawn's vocation can use
RECENT_ITEMS_CACHE = 20 -- The mod keeps track of the last few items you've received to avoid giving you duplicates. This is how many to keep track of
LUCK_INCREASE = 0.05 -- Loot gain chance will increase by this amount for every time you don't get loot

Simple Difficulty Tweaks

The Default profile is what the vanilla game comes with. I have added three additional difficulty profiles to match my current and future needs. These are Tough, Hard, and Grigori.

I play on Tough right now, but I imagine using Hard in a new game plus run. I don’t want to increase the difficulty at certain level thresholds because I still want to feel like I’m earning that power. You can do things differently, of course. I did not touch individual enemy scales and just made a general adjustment. I created the Grigori difficulty profile to have a self-torture difficulty option because why not…

I also reduced experience gain, but did not touch DCP gain. As a result, I don’t get overpowered too fast as there are now more things to do in the world thanks to all the listed mods, but I also get to go through vocations at a normal rate so I can max them all and decide what to stick with. I did not want to create a huge difference as the difference between player level and vocation level might be noticeable and your pawn might be banned from being available online. So if you want to stop exp gain, but keep levelling vocations, do not do this at level 1-10. Get to at least level 20-25.

[Tough]
Damage Taken Multipliers
Player - 1.3
Pawns - 1.3
Regular Enemies - 0.7
Boss Enemies - 0.65
Affect Debilitation Damage - On

Stagger Received Multipliers
Player - 1
Pawns - 1
Regular Enemies - 0.8
Boss Enemies - 0.7

Healing
Prevent healing while at 0 HP - Off
Wakestones don’t heal loss gauge - Off
Curatives heal over time - Off
Stamina curatives restore over tie - Off

Experience
EXP multiplier - 0.65
DCP multiplier - 1

[Hard]
Damage Taken Multipliers
Player - 1.5
Pawns - 1.5
Regular Enemies - 0.6
Boss Enemies - 0.5
Affect Debilitation Damage - On

Stagger Received Multipliers
Player - 1.3
Pawns - 1.3
Regular Enemies - 0.65
Boss Enemies - 0.5

Healing
Prevent healing while at 0 HP - Off
Wakestones don’t heal loss gauge - Off
Curatives heal over time - On
HP healed per second - 100
Stamina curatives restore over tie - On
Stamina restored per second - 100

Experience
EXP multiplier - 0.65
DCP multiplier - 1

[Grigori]
Damage Taken Multipliers
Player - 1.75
Pawns - 1.75
Regular Enemies - 0.45
Boss Enemies - 0.35
Affect Debilitation Damage - On

Stagger Received Multipliers
Player - 1.5
Pawns - 1.5
Regular Enemies - 0.5
Boss Enemies - 0.4

Healing
Prevent healing while at 0 HP - Off
Wakestones don’t heal loss gauge - Off
Curatives heal over time - On
HP healed per second - 75
Stamina curatives restore over tie - On
Stamina restored per second - 75

Experience
EXP multiplier - 0.65
DCP multiplier - 1

That is all. Take care everyone! See you around.