Hello! I'm an old SHS user who made last mega mod attempt with BWS a few years ago. Today, since I was feeling nostalgic for the good old days of RPG madness, I have bought steam version of both BG and BG2 EE, and came across this EE-Mod-Setup-Master tool with which I'm attempting the new megamod install.
I did these steps:
1) clean install of both BG and SoA (in C:\steamapps located outside program files's folder so I have full access)
2) started a new character and made a savegame for BG, BG2 and SOA
3) unzipped Mod Merge inside BGEE folder and loaded it. It made its things without any error message.
4) I ran Mod tool updater first and then the problems start.
Problems:
1) Does the mod tool (and mods) work with 2.5 beta version or do I have to use 2.3 version?
2) How does the collection files work exactly? I have run the mod tool but it doesn't show a menu where I can select a collection (despite the readme inside the tool says there should be one), it just displays the list of mods I have to choose from and that's it. Did I do something wrong?
edit: I've solved this by myself, didn't notice I could click on options (/facepalm).
3) This is related to the previous one. I remember that BWS used to let you choose between several kind of megamods (green safe one, orange tactics one, red experimental, etc.). Is this present also with the new tool?
edit: solved this too, apparently I'm blind (double /facepalm).
Since my first attempt failed miserably, with a plethora of order issue/duplicated entries/incompatibility between single mods that I wasn't able to fix because I wasn't sure which option to choose, do you have any advice on how should I proceed? That would be very appreciated....