Summary
- NieR: Automata has a bustling modding community with various mods to enhance gameplay and visuals.
- Mods like Automata Gadget offer cheats & HD Texture Pack improve visuals.
- Free Roam mod opens up exploration & Nier Automata Mod Helper troubleshoots conflicts.
Modding is an ever-popular way of playing video games. While many games have active modding scenes, RPGs tend to get a lot of mods made for them. Ranging from older games that are still going strong thanks to the modding community, to newer games that have created passionate modding scenes.
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NieR: Automata possesses a decently active modding community as well. As a JRPG, numerous mods change different aspects of the game. From mods that alter visual aspects, to mods that more so change the direct gameplay of the game, to mods that help with modding in general, there are a good number to choose from.
1 Automata Gadget
A Mod That Lets Players Cheat
- Mod Author: Asiern
- Mod Page Link
NieR: Automata is quite an expansive game. With of hours of gametime already present, it also highly encourages multiple playthroughs.
A mod that can help players who have already spent numerous hours in NieR: Automata is the Automata Gadget mod. This mod gives players different options to mess around with the game, essentially serving as a cheat mod. It allows players to spawn weapons, to perform different healing effects, and to change various parameters, such as the ability to turn on noclip and infinite double jumps.
2 NieR Automata Re-Encoded Movies
A Useful Mod That Helps Storage And Stuttering
- Mod Author: 660th
- Mod Page Link
Many expressed dissatisfaction with the PC version of NieR: Automata, and numerous mods have been created to fix this. The NieR Automata Re-Encoded Movies mod helps in one particular area by sorting out the movies in the game.
The movies present in the base game are uncompressed and take up a huge amount of space. This mod replaces the movies with new, re-encoded versions that reduce the amount of space they otherwise occupy, and helps with stuttering issues as a result.
3 Free Roam - Complete Map Collision Rework
Opening Up The World For More Freedom
- Mod Author: RaiderBV
- Mod Page Link
NieR: Automata takes place in an open-world. Despite this, there are some barriers put in place that don't allow players to fully explore as they might wish to.
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The Free Roam - Complete Map Collision Rework mod changes this, opening up parts of the world to allow freedom of exploration. It removes invisible walls, allowing players to explore different routes instead of taking ways to game forces. Players can go through windows, can climb on top of buildings, and take direct paths they want to.
4 9S Player Model Replacement
Letting Players Change The Appearance Of 9S
- Mod Author: xxk_
- Mod Page Link
Of course, there are playable characters in NieR: Automata, as with any game. Becoming incredibly popular characters, one is 9S, with many mods that change his appearance.
The 9S Player Model Replacement mod allows players to play as different characters in place of 9S. The mod offers different characters, some being Devola, Popola, and Adam. Other mods offer a single model replacement for 9S, but this mod adds a range of models that can replace 9S.
5 2B Player Model Replacement
A Mod To Change The Model Of 2B
- Mod Author: xxk_
- Mod Page Link
There are numerous mods for NieR: Automata, and mods that replace a character's model are among the most quantitative. As the face of NieR: Automata, there are such mods for 2B that allow players to change her model.
The 2B Player Model Replacement mod does just this. The mods comes with different models for 2B, such as 9S or Emil, for example. Each model comes as its own file, allowing players to pick who they precisely want to play as.
6 HD Texture Pack
A Mod To Improve The Visuals
- Mod Author: GPUnity
- Mod Page Link
While NieR: Automata isn't an old game, some of the textures in the game don't exactly have the highest quality, and can do with a bit of a makeover. There are different mods that address this, and the HD Texture Pack mod is one such mod that alters the visuals to a higher quality.
Part of the mod alters textures found in the world, such as crates, walls, and just in general areas that see lower quality. It also changes how some of the characters look, by adjusting the textures for 2B and A2 to a higher quality.
7 Nier Automata Mod Helper
A Mod To Significantly Help Modding NieR: Automata
- Mod Author: Petrarca22
- Mod Page Link
Obviously, there are numerous mods available for NieR: Automata. As is kind of the nature of modding, there will inevitably be differences in some of the deeper details of a mod which can possibly cause problems for the player in one way or another. The Nier Automata Mod Helper is eponymous in that regard, and helps users to mod the game.
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It helps by installing the necessary dependencies needed for modding NieR: Automata. It can solve conflicts between mods, mods that are used in conjunction with other mods, and are just neat to have in general, are installed, and so on. It is a very convenient and helpful mod that can be crucial for modding.
NieR: Automata
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OpenCritic Reviews
- Top Critic Avg: 89 /100 Critics Rec: 93%
- Released
- March 7, 2017
- ESRB
- M for Mature: Blood, Partial Nudity, Strong Language, Violence
- Developer(s)
- Platinum Games
- Publisher(s)
- Square Enix
- Engine
- Proprietary Engine
- Franchise
- NieR
