Without digging into your other questions since I never installed many of the mods, install the game and the expansion and just start playing the expansion.
The game will start you out the same way as the vanilla version, but with the added mysteries and other improvements available. There’s no reason to play vanilla at all if you have the expansion.
Also, Steam says that their version is single-player only.
It shouldn’t be. There should be peer to peer cooperative play. At least there always was.
@Keafloppy: From what I’ve read, you definitely want the expansion. I never played without the expansion, but I read about it before purchase and, IIRC, the expansion added a number of basic usability features with the stash and other stuff.
As for mods: If you look through the last couple pages of this thread, I’ve posted suggestions on two types of mods:
- Difficulty mods (like XMax and ‘Uber’ and others) that increase the number and strength of enemy monsters. Chief among the additions are more and tougher monster ‘champions’, which can be very exciting when they come in sets of 3-4 (one super skeleton lich can be a little tough, but a random mix of four of them, each with different powers and damage/defense profiles can really keep you on your toes).
- The Lilith total conversion (which is the only total conversion I played). I highly recommend it, especially since it had an adjustable difficulty system, many new and creative types of enemies that use cool abilities, and new character classes with new abilities for you to explore. However, it has a few bugs, and my girlfriend hit a bug near the end that forced us to abandon our co-op campaign. I don’t want to make it sound like it’s a buggy mod though. On the contrary, it’s very well polished and well worth it.
When my girlfriend and I played, I got really bored during Act 1 because the game was just way too easy (though I didn’t even realize it at the time). All we did was plow through the enemies. There was very little risk of death so you barely needed to leverage your class abilities or watch out for enemy abilities. After we installed the various difficulty mods, I found the game much, much more enjoyable.
I know. I have two disc copies, one on Steam, and another on some “other” service. Looks like LAN still works, but there are no internet games to link to.
malkav11
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The one I’d recommend is Underlord - way more monsters, reworked skill trees, some other miscellaneous improvements and additions, but still essentially the same game content rather than being a total conversion.
I will test this weekend. For science!
copet
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If LAN works then I guess Hamachi would still be an option.
Joe_M
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I’m trying to decide whether to play a modded TQ or Fallout 2. I find that Obsidian tends to compromise their games with wack design decisions otherwise I’d probably try to bang out FO2 first. Decisions, decisions. Is Underlord really that good?
Becoming
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Tastes vary. I was hooked for a long time making different character builds because the options with the mastery system are so flexible.
malkav11
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It’s a little rough in the early going because you start Titan Quest with no skills whatsoever and Underlord substantially increases the number of monsters, but once you get a little firepower going I find it significantly more satisfying and I already liked Titan Quest a lot. And I could not possibly recommend it over Fallout 2. Dear god.
If you’re new to TQ you absolutely need the Immortal Throne expansion (launch through it instead of the old TQ too). I liked the xmax mod that threw in more monsters to the base as a “vanilla” way of playing it, because you get to enjoy your powers more when exploding a horde. Just remember to save, quit, and shut it off before pulling out your bow to shoot Typhon to death, otherwise it might drop three of him in there. After you’ve tried most of the vanilla skills and gotten tired of them I think Underlord is the one I played that replaces all the skill trees with completely new ones for more variety. You might want to read up on it though, since back in the day there were some Underlord skills that didn’t function properly and/or were totally useless in every way.
Underlord reworks the skill trees but they are the same trees as the original game. There’s some other mod that gives completely different skills.
You’re right, the Paths mod is the good one. The other mods just kind of fool around with TQ’s masteries but Paths invents a whole new set of nine masteries that are probably even more interesting than the standard masteries.
There’s also the unofficial patch, which is something that TQ kind of requires to run properly even without mods.
malkav11
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It looks to me like the comprehensive Titan Quest experience would involve running TQ+IT with Underlord mod to satiation, then running the Lilith TC with Paths. (IIRC they’ve been patched to be compatible.)
Titan Quest is coming… to iOS?
Gendal
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That was posted on April 1. I still don’t know if it’s a joke or not. I hate April Fools day.
LeeAbe
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It’s posted on TA, so I would have guessed it is a joke, but the article does link to something last June showing TQ on an iPad.
Clay
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Not to mention that it seems like a pretty lame April Fools joke.
I didn’t realise there was any other kind.
