The archive posted here contains two files: "manymonsters" (author Terminator) - significantly increases the number of opponents, and "90Reduct" (author Trulight911) - reduces the amount of experience gained by 90% (I recommend for adjusting the balance - so that your character does not pump, but you haven't lost interest in the game).

Features of the "Many Monsters" mod:

1. Increases the number of monsters on all maps, as well as on MapWork Maps (up to level 105).

2. On each map you will meet champions.

3. Battle with the boss on each map after passing the starting location “Echo Pass”.

4. Battles with gangster groups of people consisting of different class characters.

5. The number of potions dropped (replenishing health and mana) after killing champions is limited. Regular monsters only give equipment or gold after killing them.

6. Contains a seller with items from the "MapReworks mod" mod (mod author: Tiny)

7. Works both in single player and multiplayer (more players - more monsters).

As a result you will get: higher difficulty, more kills, more loot, more fun from gameplay

Installation:

1. Unpack both files from the archive into Users*username*DocumentsMy Games Runic GamesTorchlight 2mods

2. Open ModLauncher (located in the folder with the game installed) and check off the ManyMonsters mod in the list (activate it) - the screenshot below shows where to do this. You haven’t checked the “90Reduct” mod yet (this will need to be done later - see point 4 below).

3. Start the game with the mod and start the game again, creating a new character (although the author recommends starting with a character already dressed or who has completed the game, but I don’t see the need for this - I’m going through the game for the first time and taking the “Engineer” class "on the easiest difficulty and have already reached level 22 and continue to play).

Recommendations:

From the author: play with this mod not from scratch, but with a sufficiently equipped character or a character who has completed the game, as the battles will be serious.

And my recommendations are the following:

1. Start of the game and priorities when choosing clothes. As I indicated in paragraph 3 of the instructions, I recommend starting the game from scratch - with a new character (if you have already played with all the characters, then I advise you to try one of the classes in the "Drew's Class Pack" mod, especially since these classes will simplify the passage with the ManyMonsters mod). To avoid any difficulties when playing one of the regular characters with the ManyMonsters mod, it is advisable for you to start the game on the easiest difficulty (the first has an increased gold drop rating, and the rest differ in the strength of the enemy, and also when playing on the same difficulty, you cannot change it, only online game - via LAN or the Internet) and in the shortest possible time put on things that increase health points (the more, the better). For example, if you play as an “engineer” (at the beginning of the game, only melee combat is available until you unlock the ability to use the “Cannon”), then you, like me, will feel an urgent need to increase your health level (I won’t say about other classes, but a mage would rather In addition to your health, you will also need to increase your mana reserve as quickly as possible). The next priority (when you already have enough health) is to take care of bringing all resistances to a sufficient level (my “engineer” at level 20 already had all resistances at least “30” except for “physical” - it was “100”) . Throughout the entire game (except for the beginning, when you are without money and good clothes), collect only yellow things (if you identify them using an identification scroll, then when sold they are often more expensive than an identification scroll - I always use this to enrich myself). If you don’t have enough money (I always didn’t have enough for all possible needs), we collect only the most expensive things (skulls and pebbles). In the "Backlight" settings, uncheck all the boxes except "Stones" opposite the lines "Normal", "Magic" and "Rare". Remove “rare” items if you no longer need to search for the simplest things and things that can be bought from a merchant (most things in the store are “rare”, and at level 10 you will already have enough money for any things).

2. Reduce the amount of experience gained. Upon reaching level 20, I recommend launching ModLauncher and activating the "90Reduct" mod and continuing through the game with it (that is, playing with two mods - "MoreMonsters" and "90Reduct"). The latter does not reduce the amount of experience gained by "90%". If you turn on the "90Reduct" mod after level 20, then you will be over-leveled - the game will become easy, which is why you may lose interest in it. From my own experience and from the experience of others (walkthrough on Youtube), I learned that you reach level 20 with the “More Monsters” mod already in the “Emberite Mines” location, when when passing without this mod in this location you will only have level 15 , that is, you will already be 5 levels ahead of the usual passage, which personally made me need to slow down the leveling using the “90Reduct” mod (since the monsters no longer posed a threat if you are well dressed and know how to fight). Perhaps it makes sense to slow down the leveling later than level 20 - I don’t know this yet, since I haven’t reached the end of the game (I’m still playing), but I already know that on Youtube, at the end of playthroughs from scratch in Torchlight 2, an ordinary player can have 50 -55 level.

In the comments under this topic I will write what level I finished playing at, whether there was any point in slowing down the game later, and I will describe my impressions of playing as an “engineer”. In terms of the “Fame” parameter, you will also be pumped up - at level 22 I was already in the “Fashionable” status, and with each level of status it gives points of main characteristics and skill points (you will definitely have enough of them, even taking into account the slowdown in experience gained using "90Reduct"), but I did not limit "Glory", since this is not critical.

Compatibility with other mods: The mod for increasing the number of monsters is unlikely to be compatible with other global or private mods that control the balancemonstersexperience - you can read about this in the reviews of the mod.