REnhanced Modpack

TL;DR It's an "Enhanced Vanilla" experience with a lot of quality-of-life enhancement mods, minimal balance tweaks*, and vanilla compatibility. Feel free to use it as a base for your modpack with friends or do whatever with it, but if you do a like on Thunderstore would be appreciated!

Better explanation

First and foremost, this is a modpack made to pair my particular proceeding preferences:

• Overall vanilla flavored experience with some sprinkles :)
• Must maintain vanilla compatibility both when hosting and as a client
• Balance changes should be avoided or at most, imperceptible*
• Performance over resource usage†
• No deprecated mods!
• Nothing should be too jarring to anyone coming from the unmodded base game
• Nothing "chocolate", nothing should feel modded. It should be conceivable that all of the mods could be added to the base game.

The way I see it, there's a lot of small tweaks (both flaw fixes and feature furtherance) that make considerable improvements to what it's like to sit there and play the game. I much prefer a lot of very small independent tweaks that add up to a better experience instead of overhauling large/prominent parts of the game- I want to play Risk Of Rain 2, not a fan-made redesign and refactor.

Where I draw the "vanilla flavored" line

This is of course a balancing act. There are some mods I was on the fence about and chose to keep, and others that I decided not to. Since they're borderline and you might have different opinions, I'll list the iffy ones below.

The ones I kept

TooManyFriends by wildbook

Allows you to play with more than just 4 players per lobby. The base game's player count-scaling wasn't designed with greater-than-4-player lobbies in mind, however since the mod only introduces that edge case once the mod becomes necessary, it's somewhat of a "necessary evil" with no better alternative.

The ones I didn't

All of these are in my companion modpack, REnhanced_Extras!

GoldChestForAll by DestroyedClone

While I do use this in my day-to-day and subjectively in my opinion it makes item distribution more fair, it does objectively affect balance in a meaningful way (4 reds on your team instead of 1 on Stage 4 can be pretty impactful).

Aerolt by Lodington

A cheating mod menu that can serve as a helpful utility and is very useful for testing, but also by nature is a cheat which can be frowned upon by some (to each their own I suppose).

SillyItems by TheTimesweeper

Even though you could argue being able to visually see how many items each player has does serve a purpose, if we're being realistic this mod is a much more "for fun" and not really a utility.

RiskOfRave by RuneFox237

Plays the song Caramelldansen and adds rainbow post processing effects during teleporter events. The only utility it has is indirectly reminding you to stay inside the teleporter circle by muffling the music when you're outside of it. Also volume preferences will differ from setup to setup and it needs to be adjusted in the config which is a bit obtrusive.

NoLockedInteractables by Cuckson

Prevents 3D printers, shrines, etc. from being locked when the teleporter event starts. Originally I saw this as a quality of life improvement. However since there's zero drawback, it really just means you can accomplish more within the same time period, which very obviously does affect balance.

NeverEndingRun by Cyro

Spawns a portal once mythrix has been defeated, allowing you to leave Commencement and continue your run. This again is something I saw as a QoL improvement at first, but thinking about it now, it lets you access all of the interactables Commencement has to offer.

RealerCheatUnlocks by prodzpod

Known Issues

None currently, if you run into anything please contact me on Discord either by DMs (@femboyfin) or in my Discord Server Discord server (you'll have to give me some time to give you permissions!). Alternatively you can open an Issue on GitHub but you'll definitely get a slower response compared to Discord.

Notes

• * Balance tweaks that do exist should be imperceptible without a direct 1:1 comparison (you'd fail a blind test)
• † I have a beefy computer, my friends have beefy computers. If you don't have 8+ gigabytes of RAM free for the game to use, disable StutterStunterFork. DO NOT complain to the StutterStunterFork maintainers, you will run into issues, you have been warned

psst, if you read this far you should like the modpack on Thunderstore, it really would mean a lot to me ♥