Anyone got any advice to playing with the Boned mod? Having a lot of trouble just getting started with the first few areas, it certainly doesn't help when enemies easily destroy you and you get next to little exp to get those starting level ups.
I'd generally advise to just skip the boned/hardmode mods.
While the idea of these mods is in the right direction the execution is awful. Not only are the monsters given 3-10x more hp on average, their flinch rate is non existent. Several rooms are nearly impossible to fight through because 6+ enemies come at you at once and all it takes is one enemy to hit you to put you into a vulnerable state where you'll game over being repeatedly fucked.
Coupled with the severe limitations you get on your mobility makes the game borderline impossible to beat given how your mobility is how you're expected to beat later bosses (such as the turret boss you get your shield from.) Your primary means for fighting and evading damage are taken away from you or hamstringed in such away that you can't play the game normally.
If you were absolutely insisting on playing, I'd suggest either using Cheat Engine to get yourself a few hundred if not thousand skill points to apply early on, or grind out the first few rooms killing the blobs and fliers before you reach the zombies and use the save platform to heal. At this point you're talking several hours just to get to a point where you can start playing the game and make your way to the first boss.
TL;DR I don't recommend it at all, boned mod has no understanding of balance and I'm fairly certain the guy who modded it never got past the 2nd boss in the base game, let alone played his own mod.
