State Of Decay 2 - Best Mods In 2024!

hello and welcome everybody State of Decay 2 the game that is what the day before wanted to be is still going very strong in 2024 in terms of player count and modding community and while the base game is fun it could do with some quality of life improvements to make it less tedious more Nuance difficulty scaling and tools to reduce the randomness of some elements so here are some mods that are still being updated and working in 202 before which do exactly that for those who are new to adding mods I will start with a brief step-by-step tutorial how to install mods all mods on this list except one make use of the mod manager for the game which makes it super easy to handle your favorite mods you can use the chapters below if you want to skip the little tutorial I sorted the mods into the following categories quality of life features difficulty scaling gameplay overhaul and save file manipulation the last one can be used to cheat but you don't have to and apart from that I avoided any big cheat mods you can find all links to the mods in the video description all right then first off register a free account on nexusmods.com here you will find all of the mods log into your account and type into the search bar State of Decay 2 mod manager this is a self-running program no no need to install it into a specific folder the program can handle any zip file you download most mods already come as a zip file so you only have to select add mod after launching the mod manager go to your download folder TCH the zip file and voila the mod is now added to the manager you can now turn this mod on and off easily without extracting files into the games folder one mod on this list does come as a r R file this one needs to be extracted for which you can use a plethora of free programs before you can access the zip file just download the file extract it into your download folder and from there on it is the same process as before with the mod manager the one mod on this list that has no mod manager integration has a tutorial on how to install it on the mod page but I will also explain the process when I get to the mod in this video let's start with the quality of life improvements the first one add a health gauge for plague Hearts which I found to be very useful once you come close to a play card the health gauge will pop up in the top right corner extremely helpful to measure the damage you inflict and avoid Overkill scenarios where you frantically throw explosives onto a play card and waste precious grenades it is a very simple but helpful quality of life Improvement next up is a brighter flashlight and improved car headlights the author has different versions available and I would recommend using the less improved flashlight version this one is still very bright especially in small rooms but less blinding than the full version which I found to be too bright this is another simple but impactful quality of life Improvement to the game speaking of light I also use a mod that shortens the nighttime in the game how it originally works is that one in-game day lasts 90 minutes of game time 45 minutes day and 45 minutes night now it can be fun to sneak through the darkness with your flimsy vanilla flashlight and I totally understand people who prefer this experience but the longer I played the game the more annoying I simply found the nighttime experience now be careful here there are some different mods that Tinker with the length of the day night cycle make sure to use the link in the video description this one is still updated and offers three different night lengths 7.5 15 and 22.5 minutes take your pick and make sure to only activate one of the mods otherwise you will run into conflicts I especially like how this mod also lengthens the Dawn and dusk time which make for some of the most interesting Lighting in the game next is the one mod that you have to unpack and place manually but I found this quality of life Improvement one of the best for the game this mod doubles the trunk space of any vehicle which makes it much more realistic without adding an absurd amount like 100 spaces from other mods for me this is an essential mod to enjoy the game a lot more and be less frustrating the author has a description where to place the file on the page what you do is you unzip zip the downloaded file which will lead you to a folder named cooked take this folder and place it in the location the author describes at the bottom of the mod page notice that the Steam and non steam version have slightly different Target locations but both are in the description the final quality of life Improvement I recommend is the instant fast search mod now some people might look at this as a cheat but honestly the SE search mechanic is a neat idea but also makes the game a lot more tedious and after a few hundred hours with the game I enjoy the freedom to choose between the basic search speed which is still Untouched by the mod and the optional ability to fast search without the crash mechanic another neat thing is the deletion of empty containers now this will not increase the loot on the map but on higher difficulties you will encounter more and more empty containers those those are simply removed without touching the total amount of available loot overall I would call this a quality of life Improvement but certainly a more impactful so stay away from this one if you enjoy the slower Pace from the original experience now let's move on to two mods that I found very helpful to adjust the difficulty of this game in a more nuanced way I think the early game difficulty is excellent but especially on dread and low at some point you always overpower the game the jump from dread to nightmare on the other hand is a big one and some adjustments to zombie spawns are not always what I want you get a lot more special zombies and packs of three ferals for example but the basic zombies don't deal a lot more damage to achieve a better scaling for the dread difficulty or to even further increase the difficulty Beyond nightmare lethal or to slightly decrease increase the higher difficulties you can use these two mods one will adjust the amount of zombie spawns over all and one the damage dealt by standard zombies both mods have several versions again make sure to only activate one version of each mod but the two mods work Flawless together zombie spawns in general are managed in a way that you get more and more spawns the further you progress through the game but as I said on dread and Below you will overpower the game by a lot in the end if you take the dread difficulty and increase the spawns by Factor 1.5 or more the game will feel a lot better balanced and combine this with three times more standard zombie damage and you will have a nice in between difficulty between dread and Nightmare you need to be a lot more careful and use a lot more ammunition in the late game because three hit hits from a normal zombie will nearly kill you I found this to be very enjoyable especially in the later stages of the game if you change the spawn rates or damage you don't need to start a new safe both mods work perfectly fine with existing safe games of course you can also ramp up higher difficulties or even decrease zombie spawns just make sure to only ever activate one version of the mods in the mod manager now what about playing as a lone wolf without the hassle to manage a community there is a pretty well balanced mod for this while the community features are an integral part for a lot of players some enjoy playing with a single character I do enjoy both and played through Maps as Lone Wolf and with a community the Lone Wolf mod enables you to settle in any base and removes the population restrictions it also enables the community skills like chemistry in a very nice way tied to your progression with every up upgrade of your command center you will unlock more Community skills with the final upgrade you will have access to all Community skills the mod enables a sleep function where you can end the day to counter the increasing fatigue levels another neat thing is that you can now only heal partial blood plague infection with the according medicine which keeps plague samples much more relevant throughout the game the only Buck I encountered with this mod is that it's somehow override the trader Legacy Boon and deletes the 4,000 influence that come with it upon mod activation but make sure with this mod to not load into an existing community that you wish to keep because upon activation it will disband all community members this happened to me once and while you can disable the mod with a hotkey when switching between a lone wolf safe and a normal Community safe you can easily forget to do that so I would recommend disabling the mod entirely in the mod manager every time you do not want to play with your Lone Wolf save just to be safe final appearance on this list makes the community editor this is like the mod manager a self-running program so no need to extract the files into a specific location just unpack the zip file and run the program this one can be used to cheat big time like spawning specific Vehicles Tinker around with the Playard on the map and most notably add and delete specific traits hero bonuses and so on for your characters now I use this only to sometimes activate dormant plague hearts in later stages of the game to give me a challenge and I'm not big into the community managing aspect of the game so I usually just delete negative trades before looking forever around to find a fitting character another thing I do is to slightly alter the characters for my Lone Wolf saves so that I don't have to endlessly roll a character with a fitting setup as I said this can be used to cheat a lot but also to make the game harder or just reduce some tedious aspects like searching for a fitting Community member so be warned that you have to restrict yourself a bit here before making the game an uninteresting Cakewalk and stay away from this one if you don't want to take away the randomness of character encounters vehicles and so on because these things are a big part of the game's appeal to some people you have been warned this concludes the list of mods for State of Decay 2 in 2024 I hope you enjoyed this video and thank you for watching feel free to link your favorite mods in the comments and explain why you like them right now I still s an absurd amount of hours into this game so expect more content coming soon for now this is all take good care of yourself and enjoy hunting down zombies

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Length: 12min 3sec (723 seconds)

Published: Sat Jan 13 2024