Morrowind

Oblivion

Shadowrun Returns

Skyrim

Fallout 3

Fallout New Vegas

Dragon Age: Origins

Dragon Age 2

The Witcher

XCOM: Enemy Unknown

The Witcher 2

X: Rebirth

World of Tanks

Legend of Grimrock

Dark Souls

Fallen Enchantress

Far Cry 3

Chivalry: Medieval Warfare

Dungeon Defenders

Neverwinter Nights

Neverwinter Nights 2

Mount & Blade

Mount & Blade: Warband

Mount & Blade: With Fire & Sword

Left 4 Dead 2

Minecraft

Knights of the Old Republic II

Warcraft 3

Mass Effect 3

Sins of a Solar Empire

State of Decay

Saints Row 4

Savage XR

Faster Than Light

Knights of the Old Republic

Mass Effect

Starbound

Deus Ex

Torchlight II

Grand Theft Auto IV

Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis

Mafia 2

Zoo Tycoon 2

Thief 2: The Metal Age

Mass Effect 2

Halo: Combat Evolved

Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver

Kerbal Space Program

Game Dev Tycoon

Battlefield 2

DmC: Devil May Cry

Madden NFL 08

Batman: Arkham Origins

Black and White 2

X3: Terran Conflict

Just Cause 2

Disciples 3: Reincarnation

Towns

The Sims 3

RPG Maker VX Ace

Remember Me

Crysis

Team Fortress 2

Jade Empire

Euro Truck Simulator 2

3089

Star Wars Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast

Drox Operative

Risen

Crysis Warhead

Crusader Kings 2

Half-Life 2

Borderlands

Myst Online: Uru Live

Naruto Ultimate Ninja Storm 3

Thief 3: Deadly Shadows

Doom 3

Arx Fatalis

Batman: Arkham City

Star Trek Voyager: Elite Force

Command & Conquer: Generals

Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead

The Elder Scrolls Online

Rimworld

Men of War

Borderlands 2

Fallout 2

South Park: The Stick of Truth

ArmA 3

Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines

Resident Evil 4

Rodina

War Thunder

Star Wars: Empire at War

Sacred

Tabletop Simulator

TUG: The Untitled Game

Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Colonization

Fallen Enchantress: Legendary Heroes

Space Engineers

ABOUT THIS COLLECTION
Note: this is a repurposed and self improved version of Nostaera's Collection. So props to him/her for the time put into getting the right setup. My intent with this collection is to really make great changes to DAO & DAA; to make it look like a game that was released in 2020 instead of 2011. Hopefully you guys enjoy ;P

In short:

Dozens of hairstyles and some body morph updates, including quanari, human and dwarfs (always felt dwarfs were quite left out, now they are majestic and stoic as they should be ;). Other changes to the character generator gave me a unique looking Warden every time. I included mods which address most, if not all, of the little bugs and odd notes.

Perhaps the biggest change, though, is to combat and game visuals. A plethora of mods which alter, improve, and debug existing combat and graphics to meet a more well balanced game style and appearance.

I hope you enjoy the improvements.

SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS (copy paste from Nostaera)

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After installing, make sure the fonts.erf is in Documents\BioWare\Dragon Age\packages\core\ data and not your override folder.

If you don't already have it, download and install the ChargenMorph Compiler. After all your mods are deployed and before you start the game, run the ChargenMorph Compiler, remember to click 'Remove Bad References...' before you close the Compiler, and re-deploy so you can enjoy all those options in the character creator.

When downloading Tucked Hair and Neutral Teeth, make sure to hit the Red Download Now below the file information. (Watch out for popups with download buttons).

Another thing about Tucked Hair,
this is what I call a 'Master' .zip, meaning this .zip files contains the 3 actual .zip files you need to install. It might be easier to download it first to your "...Vortex\downloads\dragonage" directory, then extract the 3 zip files inside it to that same directory. Install.
Or you can wait and after you finish downloading the collection, go to your mods tab and click the 'Open...' icon and 'Open Mod Staging Folder.' Find and open the folder 'tuckedhair'. You'll see the 3 .zip files. You can just extract the contents right there in that folder, even delete the .zips if you want (earring\_hair.zip, tucked\_hair.zip, and tucked\_hair\_chargenmorphcfg.zip). Go back to Vortex and Deploy mods again. Now the right information is in your override folder. You'll need to run the ChargenMorph Compiler, and re-Deploy.

FYI, many people find it a good practice to install a Collection in a new profile so you start on a cleaner slate. Then, when that's up and running, if you want to install other mods you can better incorporate them with the Collection.

About Slinks S3 RAVAge: the Origins and Awakening versions cannot be enabled at the same time.
Ready to play Awakening? Do not uninstall the Origins version, just disable it and run 'Deploy Mods'. Any Slinks items in your inventory should transfer to the new campaign. Do the reverse when you want to play Origins again. At this point the Collection is technically 'incomplete', but that's okay. The changes to your .ini file (see below) won't need to change between Origins and Awakening.

I persoanlly didnt find the need to add the movie intro and removed that. If you wish to add it again, navigate to Nostaera's collection and find it among his mods (make sure to add the ini text as he explains). Anyway, go to Documents\BioWare\Dragon Age\Settings and find DragonAge.ini. Copy this file and paste it on DT, or somewhere safe to keep as a backup.

1st add a new section so you can take advantage of Slinks s3 RAVAge's additional capabilities. At the bottom of your DragonAge.ini, add the section, \[RAVAge] (including the brackets). Below \[RAVAge] you need to add the parameters below. These settings are the settings I use and are maximum difficulty. Once you copy and paste into your .ini file, you can change the difficulty settings - anywhere from 1-5. :
⠀ \[RAVAge]
⠀ Difficulty=5
⠀ ExtraDifficulty=5
⠀ NoExtraMobs=0
⠀ NoMobEq=0
⠀ NoBossExtra=0
⠀ NoItems=0
⠀ NoAutoLoot=0
⠀ ItemsPerHolder=5
⠀ DropRate=6
⠀ PropRate=10
⠀ NoNegative=0
⠀ NoAutoAdjust=1
⠀ NoVFX=0
⠀ EliteOnly=1
⠀ NoFloaty=1
⠀ NoFade=0
⠀ ImStuck=0
As you can see, the settings don't just refer to combat difficulty. Read the document in the Slinks S3 RAVAge archive for more information about what these settings mean and how to tweak them to suit your gameplay.

2rd, if you choose to install Lock Bash
Here's the information from the mod page (there is no other readme):

"add the following lines to the bottom:

\[xatmos]
⠀ BashChestsOnly=0
⠀ BashJustBash=0
⠀ BashAchievement=0
⠀ BashEXP=1
⠀ BashCanRogue=1
⠀ BashCanWarrior=1
⠀ BashCanWizard=1
⠀ BashCanOther=1
⠀ BashNoRequirements=0
⠀ BashItemBreakNotice=1
⠀ BashItemBreakChance=MEDIUM
⠀ BashStatRogue=DEXTERITY
⠀ BashStatWarrior=STRENGTH
⠀ BashStatWizard=MAGIC
⠀ BashStatOther=STRENGTH
⠀ BashDifficulty=NORMAL

Most of these options are self-explanatory but here are some details on the less obvious ones:

BashNoRequirements will always allow bashing regardless of stats (applies to doors always, but chests only when BashItemBreakChance is set to NONE).
BashItemBreakChance has four settings, LOW (~20%), MEDIUM (~33%), HIGH (~50%), and NONE. When set to NONE there is no chance of breaking items, however you will instead have to pass a "bash" check, unless BashNoRequirements is also set.
BashAchievement causes bashing to count towards the lockpick achievement.
BashJustBash will cause the player to bash away even if there is a chance to break items and an eligible lockpicker (other than yourself) present.
BashDifficulty has three settings, EASY, NORMAL, and HARD, which correspond to the stat requirements to bash the most difficult locks in the game (31, 46, and 61, respectively)."

MY CHANGES

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I primarily added many graphical and quality of life mods to the existing collection. These come with some specific instructions:
Firstly you must download a handy reshade from here: https://reshade.me/
Using this software select dx9, followed by the reshade preset once you have extracted it. This preset is provided here: <https://www.nexusmods.com/dragonage/mods/5793>

Lastly make sure to download this 4gb patch to allow the game engine more room for performance. This patch must be copied to, and then replaced with the Dragon Age executable found in your DAO Bin\_ship folder. Usually this is found in C:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\Dragon Age Ultimate Edition\bin\_ship  OR  C:\Program Files (x86)\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\Dragon Age Ultimate Edition\bin\_ship

PATCH LINK: <https://www.dropbox.com/s/f20a06alvt0ymeu/LAA%20DA-O%201.05%20.exe.zip?dl=1>

For those who think the file contained in this guide may be a virus:\
<https://www.virustotal.com/en/url/3dbef9b8f797495c848bde034cadea001eaba077798127b07b5241b1891b6833/analysis/1426291679/>

Thats It!

Mods requiring manual deployment.

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- Natural bodies all in one (i recommend this one for adult users, so be advised)\\- Follow their instructions: <https://www.nexusmods.com/dragonage/mods/554?tab=description>\\- Note: for those of you who dont want to use DAO mod manager simply exract the file until you are left with packages and/or addin folders. Copy and replace here: C:\Users\username\Documents\BioWare\Dragon Age. If left with only an override file, just go into packages/core and paste over override folder.
- Better Sex scenes\\- Follow these instructions:<https://www.nexusmods.com/dragonage/mods/548?tab=description>\\- Simply put: download Zesty (my pref) and extract until left with a file named 'Luchaire', paste this into Override folder ;) enjoy :P
- Dragon Age Redesigned (make sure to have tucked hair mod mentioned above if you go for aestethic or recommended options)\\-<https://>[www.nexusmods.com/dragonage/mods/686](https://)\\- instructions are all included with the downloaded file. Make sure to check the dependencies are fulfilled, otherwise you might end up with upset character meshes (black skin textures etc)
- Dragon Age unofficial Remaster -- a recent work that you can optionally add great immersivity to the game (I recommend it)\\-<https://www.nexusmods.com/dragonage/mods/5728>\\- Dont forget to download the LAA, large address aware in order to unlock your exe if you havnt done so already.\\- Note: since it had been labelled 'unfinished', it is by no means bug free, so only do so if your feel its worth it or you know what youre doing.

P.S I included skip the fade as my own preferance. 2h weapons like greatswords, hammers, and 2h axes, etc; now have a cleave affect in a cone shape for angular hits.

So yeah, hope you guys have a blast with the game that got me into gaming xD

If you guys are feeling benevolant, and want to buy me a coffee :) <https://paypal.me/Medieval1Modder?country.x=DE&locale.x=en_US>

TOOLS etc

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This Collection will install (or try to install) 3 tools to your Vortex dashboard: The ChargenMorph Compiler mentioned above, the DAO launcher with console enabled, and Dragon Age Mutator. DA Mutator allows you to apply a variety of small tweaks w/o having to install several different mods. Each tweak has a description that includes how safe or risky it is to apply. You can download it and set up the tool in Vortex yourself or the Collection will try to install it to your D:\ drive.

You might want to try setting these up yourself before downloading the Collection, especially if you don't have a d:\ drive or your game setup is somehow unusual. Since the ChargenMorph Compiler can be used for both DAO and DA2, I installed it in "...\Documents\BioWare\DAO-DA2 Chargenmorph Compiler". Open the 'DA\_CharGenMorphCompiler.exe', select a game and go to Path Configuration to make sure it finds the" ...\Documents\BioWare...packages\core\override folder' for your game(s).

Set up the tools in Vortex as you would any other game tool.

THE OPTIONAL FILES
Most of these are origin related. Best practice is to only install the one(s) you need for your next playthrough because they are not all compatible. One not on the list, but I can highly recommend, is the Human Commoner Origin and its optional weapons and armor archive. However, it is definitely not compatible with Dalish Mage Origin, for example.

Of Noble Cast is a mod for the human noble origin. Since it contains both a .dazip file and an override folder (called 'armor tints'), only the .dazip will be installed. Manually add 'armor tints' to your override folder; it contains alternate colors for your noble armor. I would also download the readme to 'armor tints' for easy reference later.

Farewell Ser Gilmore is for the human noble origin. Ser Gilmore companion NPC - Fully Voiced is completely independent of any origin and you can add him as a full party companion in Lothering. If you want Ser G in your party, remember, you will need to install "ZDF Dialog Fix - Ser Gilmore Compatible" file in options. It will/should overwrite "ZDF Dialog Fix"

Tweaks, Fixes, and More (Edited)

A reworked version of Nostaera's Collection to include some more depth in Graphics, ray tracing, reshades, textures, etc. Hence the drastic increase in size.

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