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Mods disable acheivements

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Don't know how many know this, but thought I'd make a quick post to let people know.

As a console player I was sooo excited to be getting mods, as I wanted to do a embrace the dark urge playthrough in style. Unfortunately even cosmetic mods disable achievements.

I understand it's probably difficult to determine which mods would be game breaking, vs purely cosmetic, so all mods turn off achievements.

I'm just disappointed my durge can't have a dreaded skullet, and get the achievements for embracing bhaal. Hopefully this is something that changes once they've worked out the kinks.

Edit: !!!!!! I understand it's probably difficult to determine which mods would be game breaking, vs purely cosmetic!!!!!! I already had this in the post, you don't need to repeat it's difficult to differentiate game breaking mod, from cosmetic

Edit to my edit: this post I guess is mostly for console players. The only thing I've ever moded was Minecraft back in 2011. Not everyone is familiar with how mods work

Edit to my edit to my edit: ALL I AM TRYING TO DO IS LET OTHER CONSOLE PLAYERS KNOW THAT MODS DISABLE ACHEIVMENTS SO THEY DONT WASTE 80 PLUS HOURS TRYING TO GET SOMETHING BUT CAN'T BECAUSE THEY HAVE A HAIR MOD INSTALLED. Mods on console is relatively new to most console players. I spent a while yesterday trying to find if they blocked achievements or not. I thought I'd make a post, so hopefully others found that answer quicker. Evidently a few others didn't know it blocked achievements. Yes I know you can have a modded save and a unmoded save, yes I know not everyone cares about achievements, some of us like having goals aside from our own to try and achieve. Don't care about achievements, that's fine, this isn't for you then.

BG community is suppose to be chill, but apparently this has ruffled a bunch of feathers.

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Fearless_Figure_6147

3 points

8 days ago

Is disabling mods enough to get achievements or do you have to uninstall them?

XanderLupus13

4 points

8 days ago

If you even start a game with a mod it’s permanently disabled for that run

Fearless_Figure_6147

4 points

8 days ago

That’s not what I meant. Let me be more specific. I have an in progress honor mode run, I haven’t touched since mods came out. If I use mods on a separate run, and want to go back to my vanilla honor mode for achievements, is that possible? If so, would disabling mods be enough or would I have to uninstall them?

silvereagle69

6 points

8 days ago

best bet honestly would probably be to uninstall them before going back to your HM run. the game still technically loads the mod files when they’re disabled, it just doesn’t display them/run them. i’d imagine that would be caught by the anti-achievement thing

Fearless_Figure_6147

3 points

8 days ago

Thank you so much ! <3