NewGamePlusDE
Outward Definitive Edition - New Game Plus Mod
About this mod Author’s original text
Ported and maintained version of the New Game+ by Kek | Kekasi
DISCLAIMER: Still undergoing tests, install at your own risk!
Original Description
Credit to Sinai for his tools, IggyTheMad for the icon, and everyone in the Outward Modding Discord for their help.
This mod allows you to reset your character, like most New Game Plus systems.
When you select a Legacy Character, your new character will also gain all the Skills, Recipes, and Equipment of the selected Legacy Character.
To make things easy, your character creation options will be auto-filled to match your Legacy Character.
In addition, by triggering New Game Plus, your character will gain a "Stretched Thin" Debuff, which will make you deal less and take more damage.
This will stack up with every New Game Plus, but it's effects can be mitigated with skills and buffs, so prepare carefully.
Features of New Game Plus:
- Breakthrough Points are set to 3, and all previous Breakthrough Skills are kept
- All Skills from your Legacy Character are transferred and are crossed out on the Skill Tree Menus
- These skills no longer block other skills, so you can finally get both Infuse Fire and Infuse Frost
- Players of different NG+ Levels can play together!
- You can rescue your Exalted Character and get another chance.
Note: By default, Exalted is removed, but you can turn that off and see how far you can go.
How to use:
- Select New Game
- Select your Legacy
- The Name and Character Creation Options will be auto-filled based on the Legacy
- These Options can be changed, and are only there to provide an easy way to recreate your character, if you can't remember exactly what they look like.
- Select Create
- Your Character will be created as normal, and put in the starting area, but will now have the Legacy Character's Skills, Recipes, and Equipment, and will gain a Stack of "Stretched Thin".
Options:
- Disable Legacy Character Creation - Return Character Creation to the vanilla method. No skill or equipment transfer.
- Delete Keys - By Default, Keys will not be transferred as they act as psuedo quest items. This can be turned off in the Shared Config Menu.
- Transfer Exalted - By Default, the Exalted Skill is removed on Legacy Creation. This can be disabled, but a new Character will gain Exalted AND Life Drain.
WARNING: If you decide to Transfer Exalted & Life Drain, they will be transferred with their current state. This may shorten your gameplay.
Install & use Install: BepInEx plugin
- The archive from playbuff is the mod itself — usually a BepInEx plugin (a .dll or a plugin folder once unzipped).
- Recommended: use a community mod manager (such as r2modman) — pick this game, import the mod, and the manager sets up BepInEx and its dependencies for you.
- Manual route: install the BepInEx loader in the game folder, then drop the unzipped .dll or plugin folder into BepInEx/plugins/.
- Launch the game — the BepInEx console logs every plugin it loads; seeing this mod in the log means it is installed.
Mods with listed dependencies need those installed too, or they will not load. Options are usually changed in-game or in the plugin's config file.
Install these first, or the mod will not work: