Is this compatible with synergy

Appreciate the transparency, I'm familiar with basic mod merging in GUTS, does Reiners need any extra work for compatibility, or will a simple merge do the trick?

Hi dr.h17 and thanks. Yeah that's a nice mod!

I'll be honest and say I don't think I'd merge that in. Reason being that for mods that obviously had a lot of love and blood put into them, it seems merging them into something else just disregards all of that. It's the same reasoning why I didn't put in any of the LAO mods. Hope you can accept my position on this.

If you want to do it for yourself I'd be happy to walk you through the process.

Any plans to include Reiner's Gears?

Bless you @Yarmoth. If you feel like chatting with others still playing, the original Runic Games discord is actually still up and running https://discord.gg/JyRVEvZ

It warms my heart to see some of the OG Torchmodders still updating mods for Torchlight 2. It's such a phenomenal game. As soon as I'm rich, I'll buy the rights back from Perfect World and get the original crew back together to make a proper Torchlight 4.

Some of the item names are very weird. "Mortar Minigun"? I would suggest variations on the word "Minigun"; Gatling Gun, Rotating Autocannon, etc etc. Instead of adding one of the words from the cannons to miniguns, same with flamethrowers. There is a hundred ways to say flamethrower and "culverin flamethrower" is just a headscratcher!

Otherwise great work!

Hi @ghosty you can use "steamworkshopdownloader.io" just input the workshop page URL of the mod you want to DL.

Is there no manual download for the version 23

You are doing well, well done.

Okay so a medium-sized update here... The "throwing weapons" from Synergies mod have finally been folded-in to this mod. We got permission to break out these weapons from Salan like maybe a year ago now, but just never got around to actually merging them here and and uploading it.

This should be useable even if you have Synergies in your load order, since the unit files have all been re-GUID'ed ;P

@ Skaith : Some modders have disappeared or retired such as Doudley, Korzeam, Kebbek, Aherin, and Salan. However we do have some names that still update mods or maintain some form of presence in the communities such as Torchmodders, Turton, Corley, Drewrobi, and Tukkek. Not as active as before without the Far East Team, Synergies Team, TL1CP Team yet TL2 as a game has never been updated with any patches that breaks older mods so no issues there unlike the Minecraft game that suffers the opposite problem ironically.

oh damn I wasn't expecting a response, ah that's fine. breaks my heart fearing that the modding days for this game is going to draw to a close at one point seeing most of my favorite mods that stopped updating and going out of date.

Ahaha hey @Skaith. Ye im not closing the door on more updates, but im afraid i have no idea when those could be. Its mainly having the time and then also the inspiration *at that time* kind of thing...

Will this get future updates?

Thanks so much @steffire!

@ TorchModders (author): Congrats on the latest wave of updates!

quick follow-thru update just now, to change the model used for the flamethrowers ;)

Wow, that's fast. Actually legit. Will try it out later then

Okay the flamethrower is working now :P
Also changed the minigun sound slightly ;) hope you all like :wave:

Hi toxxxic. Ran into tech issues with the flamer way back when and kinda set it aside. Guess i should finish that and get it out there.
Will look into the minigun sound (i dont like it much either lol).
Thanks for trying the mod

Whens the flamethrower coming? The railguns don't make any sounds when firing, and also, please change the minigun sounds, its too loud and gets old after awhile.

Hi Dark Acheron. Thats a good question that hasnt been asked yet. Unfortunately i dont know the answer for sure because i dont play with Essentials (but im aware it adds some weapons like Arkham's Armory).
But in the best case you would end up with multiple spawns of duplicated items, and in the worst case you could get crashes. Give it a shot and let me know; id be okay to adjust this mod due to the greater popularity of Essentials but pls understand i cannot commit a time frame.

Hey there, really good looking mod by the premise, but I've a question; Is this safe to use with T2 Essentials?

It also has stuff like Arkham's Armory, but I like to have more weapon variety so stuff doesn't get boring.

I'm so sorry if this has been answered already, it's late and my head is a little groggy <:)

Hi @Feelgood :) do you mean faithful to modding? I guess it"s just because I enjoy it so much. I truly wish I had more time for it <3

Merci beaucoup d'être fidèle après toute ces années ;D

Youre welcome @Syndaryl! I had fun making it

Thanks for your work on this!

Thank u very much Lexi-Nowak!
Actually I really need to work on this mod some more - thanks for the encouragement

Echt schöne Mod gut geamcht weiter so :-) its Nice mod

NP @Magic Knakki, glad its working now

Ah thanks that worked thanks man!

ye i do
so i should delete those chars and try restarting with variant items on?

hmmm do you have chars which were saved while those other mods were active? cos the game can crash if it doesnt find all the stuff a char was saved with...

hmm currently nothing because i wanted to see if it worked without the other mods installed.
However, usually i have installed

synergies
FEP+
Essential synergies
LAO 2.0

even after deactivating these mods i couldnt get my torchlight to start.

Thanks for the quick response!

Hey no need to say sorry @Magic Knakki!
What other mods are u running and in what order?

hey sorry my torchlight keeps crashing when i activate this mod.

Hey @Graeystone! Im not sure but those are basically unitthemes - should be possible if neither is set to "exclusive:true". Will check it out when i have some time (hopefully this weekend)

An idea I had for the longest time but don't have the skills to pull it off -
In Final Fantasy X, when a weapon had multiple element attached them, both elements would show instead of just one. For example a sword with Water and Fire would show swirling Fire plus blobs of Water on the weapon at the same time while in battle.
Would it possible to do that for TL2 weapons? Instead of showing just one element it can be any element that's attached to the weapon.

Hey @Graeystone! Yup it works fine. I removed the need for coolants from evilneko's version of miniguns, but it will still "overheat" then u have to wait 10 seconds before it will fire again. The damage still needs balancing tho imo (needs better sound too)

Does the minigun work without crashing the heck out of the game?

Hi Spoony thx for checking out the mod. Its purely items now so nothing that binds to and makes chars unplayable. Yes, u should only lose the items if u take out this mod

Does this have a mod in it that BINDS to Characters? Or is it just a "auto-removes" Items involved for on/off use?

ok tried to force it to update and i worked - so now its at version 18 (the version 17 change notes still apply)

okay if updating this page is taking too long, you can get version 17 here...
https://www.torchlightfansite.com/mod_downloads/items-tl2/download-1552-variant-items.html

I just updated this mod workshop page to version 17, but it isnt showing as updated yet.

Anyway, this version is supposed to fix the minigun attack always fumbling.

Hey @Star-X! That's not a stupid question at all ;)

Am not very familiar with all that Essentials does, but as long as it doesn't alter weapon base-files, there should be no problems using these 2 mods together.

So yeah it *should* work just fine XD

Stupid question time: will this work with Essentials?

ha! finally got the latest version (11) uploaded!

Version 11 change notes
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I. Newly added
- nothing yet / still working on stuff

II. Fixes
- fixed a bug that caused the tl1 rifles, sniper rifles and railgun to have very poor hit consistency

Thanks @Steffire3!

Mod is updated to version 7. Notes:
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I. Newly Merged Mods
(Nothing new yet. still working on some more)

II. Fixes
- Fixed conflicts between items in the Variant Classes and TL1CP mods
- Fixed poor accuracy of TL1 rifles by shifting to the rifles weapon-skill by Viz (thank you Viz).
- Fixed poor accuracy of Sniper rifles by shifting to a sniper rifle weapon-skill based on the rile skill by Viz (thanks again Viz!).
- Added 1H versions of the Frostmourne sword model by Liakad. Also expanded the number of 2H Frostmourne versions.