Except that's not true at all for such small game with not many mods so your advice doesn't make sense for this game.
It makes sense because even if you arent installing 300 mods a mod manager gives you the advantage of better organizing your mods and applying eventual compatibility patches between those mods without messing something up(which is much more likely to happen with a manual install especially with patches)
in the rare case something goes wrong with the mod manager you can simply remove the patch/mod from the load order with a simple click
And again size of the game/mod is completely irrelevant in this topic
Especially when not all mods are integrated with it
If a mod is already integrated into the game then it doesnt require an installation in the first place
And we were talking about methods of installation and mods that require it
So i dont see how this is related to the topic
so it's not even really automated, you still need to do things manually for the mod manager.
It's automated because the only user input the mod manager needs to install a mod is telling it what to install and thats it
Even if we say that in layman's terms it's still making a manual install the process is automated because in a regular manual installation the user needs to know where the files should be installed and the structure of those files
The mod manager knows that and installs the mod in the right place automatically(and removes the part that arguably can cause most issues)
My point was that mod manager for this game is completely unnecessary since manual install requires you to learn nothing if you have the basic knowledge of how to operate a computer
Installing a mod manager doesnt require you to learn anything either
You install it like any other program and setting it up is incredibly easy(MO2 gives you pointers when you open it too
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And if you need a guide to do it just watch any youtube video about the mod manager(if the user refuses to read),the actual setup is literally 2-3 minutes
which I expect you to have if you're already pirating games. If not, you won't be learning a mod manager either which requires more knowledge.
Not the same
If we take f95zone as an example you download a game from any file hoster and extract it it wherever you want
Doesnt apply to manual install of a mod
Yes you are still extracting something
No you cant dump the mod's content wherever you want
The mod manager removes this part and it doesnt need an absurd amount of pc knowledge to make it work
A normal person loses nothing by not using a mod manager in this game. To the contrary, they save their time due to how easy 1 step install the mods are and they don't need to mess around with learning any third party tools.
And a normal person loses nothing from using a mod manager either and he can actually use it with other games if he wants to
he saves time only if he manages to do the manual installation correctly
If he doesnt the time he saved at the start of the process is lost trying to fix whatever mess he caused
Setting up a mod manager takes less than 5 minutes and saves you from a lot trouble(and saves time) that you could have later.
All of this without learning pretty much nothing you dont already know
Only the obsessed ones that needs to update the game/mods as soon as a new patch is released are the ones who need a mod manager for this game.
No?
You can install mods with a mod manager and never update them
If vortex with his auto-update feature is the problem just use MO2 where this wasnt implemented on purpose
I dont see why you wouldnt want to update your mods tho but to each their own
If you are a normal person who doesn't need every single minor update for the game and mods, then you do not need a mod manager for this game and you should instead manually install and play with vanilla and modded installation separated.
Already said that you dont necessarily need to update your mods with a mod manager and if you want you can keep a modded version with a mod manager(with no significant expense of time to set it up compared to manual install) and a vanilla one separated from each other
Funnily enough with MO2 mods are stored in the mod manager folder instead of the game directory so if you run the game with its exe file you can play it vanilla if you want(just a bit of trivia here
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Edit: I have also seen people complaining about MO2 having issues and that switching to Vortex was better, so you're probably wrong with mod manager recommendation too.
And I've seen people complaining about vortex and not being able to manually install mods
Your point being?
