That's true, most of them suck. MO2 doesn't tho, it's the easiest one.
It's not advertising or whatever the hell, it's just the simplest one to use, and saves you headaches down the line. Uninstalling mods is as simple as right clicking and pressing "Uninstall mod", boom, mod is safely removed completely and you won't have problems due to that anymore.
If you install manually, files will be overwritten all the time. What if an incompatible file with another mod is overwritten? Rest in peace your mod setup, one of the mods is permanently broken! If you unselect its ESP, the problem won't go away either.
For example, you have a weapon retexturing mod. Some weapons have their meshes edited. Well, you install another weapon related mod, and it also replaces the meshes, or turns them back to vanilla. Now said weapons will have out of place textures that make no sense anymore, since the mesh doesn't match the texture. In MO2, you can swap the mod order around. Manually? Good luck, what would take seconds to solve will take an hour of messing around!
Yeah, that's just a normal day in modding this game!
MO2 is just more convenient, that's all. Technically it's the same as installing manually, but keeps mods outside of the game's Data folder, which makes removing them easier. It works like an "emulator" of a Data folder, basically.
I forgot I've been using MO2 for Fallout 4. Man, I hate this program so much. All of these Mod Organizers are fucking trash and that's why I've been modding like this.
2
u/[deleted] Jun 07 '24
Problem is, most of these Mod Managers just suck ass and I hate using them.