Arena enhancements

by Leuthil·v1.0.2·Updated 2025-12-15

The Arena Enhancement mod modifies all arenas to feature a new, more diverse and challenging set of enemy waves.

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About this mod Machine translation

The Arena Enhancement mod modifies all arenas to feature a new, more diverse and challenging set of enemy waves.

Arena Plus

🎮 **Make every battle in Hogwarts full of surprises and challenges! **

Tired of the monotonous enemy configuration in the original arena? Arena Plus mod brings you a whole new combat experience!

✨ Core Functions

  • **More Waves**: All arenas (including the Black Magic Arena) will now spawn **18 waves** of enemies, significantly extending the combat time!
  • **Diverse Enemies**: Introducing a richer variety of enemies, including swamp diggers, wolves and pensieve guards, so your combat strategy needs to be constantly adjusted.
  • **Optimized performance**: **Removed loot drops**, which helps alleviate frame rate issues when a large number of enemies appear and makes combat smoother.
  • **Reasonable layout**: The game's original enemy spawning positions are used, including high platforms set up for remote enemies, and the battle scenes are reasonably designed.

⚠️ IMPORTANT INFORMATION

  • **Uniform configuration**: All arenas will use the same enemy wave configuration.
  • **Enemy Types**: The arena will only spawn generic enemy characters/creatures, **named or plot-specific characters/creatures are not supported.
  • **Development Status**: ** Please note that development of this mod has been discontinued and the version is older. **

🐛 Known issues

Although the combat is fun, please note the following minor flaws:

  • **Rare monster spawning point**: There is a very low probability that enemies will spawn outside the arena area.
  • **Residual Creatures**: When retrying after death, creatures summoned by other enemies (such as Acromantula) may remain in the field but become non-hostile and can only be removed using ancient magic or leaving the arena and reentering the arena. (**Note: This is actually a loophole that exists in the original arena of the game**)
  • **Summon drops**: When creatures spawned by summoned enemies are defeated, they **will still drop loot**.
  • **Wave ends early**: If the only enemies left in a wave are summoned, the wave may be judged to be completed "early".
  • **Counting Issue**: The number of enemies defeated will remain at 0.
  • **Completion Status**: **After completing an Arena using this mod, it will not be marked as "Completed" in-game**. It is recommended to complete the arena challenge of the original game before enabling this mod.

📥 Installation Guide

This module can be loaded via **BP Apparate** (currently recommended)** or** **UE4SS v2.5.0+**.

**Use BP Apparate (v1.0.1+ recommended)**

  • Extract the module files (.pak, .utoc, .ucas) to the `Hogwarts Legacy\Phoenix\Content\Paks\~mods` folder.
💡 **Tip**: This step is done automatically if using Vortex Manager.
  • After entering the game, press **F8**, enter `ArenaPlus` (without quotation marks) and press Enter.
For the latest installation instructions, check out the "How to use(users)" section of the BP Apparate mod page.

**Using UE4SS v2.5.0+**

  • Extract the mod files to the `Hogwarts Legacy\Phoenix\Content\Paks\LogicMods\` folder.
💡 **Tip**: This step is done automatically if using Vortex Manager.
  • Enable UE4SS's BPModLoaderMod by modifying the `Hogwarts Legacy\Phoenix\Binaries\Win64\Mods\mods.txt` file and setting `BPModLoaderMod` to `1`.

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🙏 Special thanks

Thanks to the following people and community for their support:

  • Narknon

*UE4SS Team

  • Various members of the Hogwarts Legacy Modding Discord community

Install & use Install: follow the bundled instructions

  1. Unzip the archive from playbuff and read the bundled readme / instructions first.
  2. There is no universal mod manager for this game: some mods replace game files directly, some go into a game-specific Mods folder, and some need a game-specific community loader or tool first — follow the bundled readme.
  3. Place the files exactly as the readme says; mods with listed dependencies need those installed too.
  4. Launch the game to confirm it loaded; some games require enabling mods in settings or an in-game mod menu.

Install locations vary a lot between games and mods — the bundled readme is the most reliable guide.

File & checksum

Filename
ArenaPlus v1.0.2
File size
30.7 KiB