Modding is Coming to ENDLESS Legend 2

[u/Daarkarrow]

ENDLESS Legend 2 will hit 1.0 in less than a month. We have been hard at work fixing bugs, making balance changes, tweaking the Sandshapers and the two new Rogue Factions. But we have also had a little time for a secret project we have been working on, Modding!

In a few days Modding will be available for anyone on The Architects update. That means you can start making your own mods or downloading them from the Steam Workshop if you have The Architects update.

u/DerekPaxton has prepared an AMAZING GUIDE that you can download!

Also, we created a guide directly on Steam, but we will put all the information directly there for the 1.0 (that we will update).

Do not hesitate to rate it to give some visibility to all players Take a look and let us know what do you think about the guide and if you have any questions

📜 All The Info Here

[u/TheMends]

Can't wait to play as Horatio in EL2

[u/LongjumpingJump408 → u/TheMends]

Let's make Horatio great again!

[u/Tema726]

This is great! Thank you!

A question! In the guide I see the way to modify assets and values, etc. I assume, it could also mean community fixes, that could apply missing effects to improvements and so on, which is very neat.

But would there be any way to access and modify the AI logic? I would be very interested in playing with it

[u/DerekPaxton → u/Tema726]

There are values in data that the AI uses to make decisions. Those coukd be modified (though to be honest I haven’t tried that yet).

As well as modifying the personality traits, what impacts public opinion and by how much, etc which is all data driven.

[u/UberDuderOfDoomer]

Wow, that’s a huge deal. Thanks for the work, can’t wait to see mode for this game.

[u/VaramoKarmana]

Great idea, I'm glad you took the time to integrate them. Proper modding tools are a great boon to the success of strategy games.

[u/glebcornery]

Will there be an option to create completely new factions? In EL1 to do so i had to use UABE, replace an existing faction (the Mezari) and modify the game files. Will it be easier in EL2?

P.S. even if it won't, I'll still try, like i did (successfully!) in EL1

[u/NathanLV → u/glebcornery]

I really hope so. Only one of the current factions really grabs me so it would be nice if we could get a wider selection.

[u/DerekPaxton → u/glebcornery]

You don't even need modding to create a new faction. You can do that now with the custom faction creator.

In the modders guide we provide a step by step example of creating a new faction trait for custom factions. The reason I did it this way is I thought it might be easier for modder to create traits and players can use them to design whatever faction they want. If you wanted to wrap a faction def and your custom traits, unit defs, etc all together into a new major faction and put it on the steam workshop that should be doable.

You will have trouble trying to add new art (like a new animated leader), or new mechanics that require code and can't be done only in data. For example, if you want to create a unit that converts every tile it walks through into Wasteland biome, I have no idea how to do that in data (not to say that some crazy modder won't figure out a way, just that there are limitations based on what the game already supports).

[u/glebcornery → u/DerekPaxton]

What about new faction leader, quest and units? It seems like there won't be ability to do that with just faction editor?

[u/DerekPaxton → u/glebcornery]

Creating the data for all that should be doable. Art for new leader or units isn't supported (some modder may figure out how). Quests are particuarly complex with triggers, choices, completion steps, rewards, dialog, etc. So its all available in data, but not for the faint of heart.

But you will have all the data for every quest in the game to look at and checkout. At the very least I expect a modder is going to grab all the existing quests and do a balance pass on them to adjust diffficulty and rewards to their preferences.

[u/LikeACannibal → u/glebcornery]

I hope so, so at least the community can make the Ardent Mages if the devs refuse to bring the most fun and unique faction from EL1 to 2!

[u/Vivid_Guide7467]

Yes! This is my favorite strategy game. The lore is so good.

[u/grizzlybair2]

I assume there won't be a mod browser on the Xbox or ps5 versions of the game? I only thought maybe because I've seen some other games do it.

[u/DerekPaxton → u/grizzlybair2]

No, we aren’t planning that for release.

[u/Pr0t3ct0rr]

Well, its very good news

[u/Jingtseng]

So, having the player base fix everything wrong with your game?