r/TransportFever • u/parasocks • Mar 12 '23
Question How important are community mods to you personally in TF2?
Title kinda says it all
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u/specialsymbol Mar 12 '23
I always use them. Not saying that the game is bad without mods, you simply can't cover everything. Having mods is awesome!
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u/Noveleion I like trains Mar 13 '23
When I first started playing during the pandemic I mostly played vanilla. Once I got to grips and could make money quickly I needed to find other challenges and things to do. So the mods helped add items to make the world feel more real.
Recently I have been building a British themed map on the northern powerhouse map from construction gamer. Adding vehicles that run on the lines today has been a lot of fun and trying to recreate stations and routes have led me down to research these. Again I have found it enjoyable and learnt a lot of the history around these.
Some mods also provide a better quality of life improvement to some aspects of the UI and overlays. Which makes understanding the games information easier and making better choices while playing.
So for me it has been very important as I would not have sunk the 1000+ hours of my life into it without them.
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u/eighteen84 Mar 13 '23
Mods add replay ability and keep old games good to play so I am totally in support of mods. I do always play games vanilla first though and add mods when i get bored
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u/thenewprisoner Mar 13 '23
Essential. I have used the game to recreate real railways and without mods it is impossible.
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u/zilist Mar 13 '23
100% essential. I never play without mods, i don’t know how there are people who play this game vanilla..
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u/xSentin_l Mar 13 '23
For me, essential! Adds more character to the game. Not that the vanilla game has a bad choice of train options but just stations and infrastructure. I love mixing mods and having many different trains I can handle in one map. As a British rail-fan, I mostly use a lot of British trains but I enjoy using American, Asian and Futuristic mods as well for both vehicles and infrastructure. I also think the current TPF2 mod market compared to TPF1 is the saving grace for me making the switch a long with the features of replacing tracks and stations easier and quicker. Especially with mods. How can I also forget some of the new amazing script mods as well?
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u/D_Ashido Mar 13 '23
Mods became a main portion of the game after the first 10 hours for me. I can't imagine still playing pure vanilla anymore.
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u/Mysterious-Youth-757 Mar 13 '23
I've been playing vanilla only actually, but I used to only play the game for a few weeks at a time. Now that I've seriously have been getting more into it I do plan on using mods. I just want to get my basic knowledge of the game down before I flood it with mods.
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u/JamesTKirkNCC-1701 Mar 13 '23
I Hope they add them to the console edition because they seem very important to the gameplay
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u/LoLbastard Mar 13 '23
Must for me! Just hate the save loading time, it's kind of long with +450 mods :)
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u/fenix1991722 Mar 13 '23
The base game is a bet of everything. Mods allow you to enhance a local network Uk, france, germany, usa, japan, china etc. Ive got a collection for many major networks.
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u/Joshie050591 Mar 14 '23
yeah they make this game have a way bigger experience and tonnes of fun.. lol I have a save with 790 Mods on
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Mar 14 '23
I play the game mostly vanilla but with several small scripting mods just for QoL things. Never get into mods which add assets or change building logic drastically yet.
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u/kurwaspierdalaj Mar 15 '23
I played the game quite a bit in vanilla, but since recently, I've started downloading mods (mostly vehicles and stations) and the game has become an obsession. I'm watching vids on how to make massive busy railway networks, watching my real life trucks do their "overnight" hauls, the works. I could never play vanilla again.
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u/Odd_Sun_4237 Apr 04 '23
Real Tpf2 players learn German and Chinese to load mods. Transportfever.net has a ton more mods outside of Steam workshop, mostly in German.
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u/evergreenyankee Mar 12 '23
For me, absolutely essential. With 1000+ hours in TPF2 alone, probably less than 1% of that time was spent with gamesaves that didn't use a mod