I don't think there's a 'feel' about add-ons.
Maybe some believe it's a hassle? Although i think it's pretty easy.

If anything you can play without them for a couple of hours and see if you'd like anything added or changed.

If you check my characters, i have a ton of add-ons applied. Most if not all are quality of life add-ons that don't change gameplay, but make my playthrough smoother, for me at least. The most uh unobtrusive one being simply a visible clock.

I would say to go through the add-ons list and just read some of em that interest you. There are ratings as well.

I downloaded this and it says that the .zip is in an unknown format or damaged. My DL didn't entirely work; would that be why?

I'm using Windows 7 and version 61.0.2 of Firefox if that helps anyone trying to figure out my problem.

This just begs for a shotgun, it's too bad the Shotgonne is two handed. Definitely what I was looking for when I saw a steamtech class called the Enforcer. :D

Congratulations on getting this far.

Yeah, this. I'm not even good at the game, but I generally feel like it's my fault when I die. If I knew what resistance I needed, didn't take a stupid risk, etc.

Actually, all the great roguelikes are that way in my opinion. It's all probabilities - even if you can't predict everything, once you know the game you should be able to win it frequently if you understand what threats are most immediate and what items to have around. Even Nethack, notoriously brutal and deep, is fair.

That's probably the source of the issue, I did a large rewrite to support the escort re-selection menu in 2.1 and the escort counts in 2.0.5 so your game probably originally had different or missing values (or none at all if your previous installed version was old enough).

I see in the save you uploaded that it was created on July 19, 2018, which is when the very first 2.0.0 version was uploaded. I made a lot of bug fixes/improvements on July 22, 2018.

Anyway, I'm documenting the changes I make on the Steam Workshop item change notes.
I can't guarantee that upgrading in the middle of a play-through will have no issues.

Sorry for any inconvenience.

Hmm in 2.1.1 I don't have an option to close the dialog without modifying your selections. The only choices are to manually reselect the remaining escorts, or set them all to random.
Are you sure that's the version you have installed? In an earlier version I had a cancel option but I replaced it at some point with [all random].

Anyway, I'll look into adding some safeguards for this situation, like just choosing a random escort.

Sorry for the late reply, I was on vacation without access to my development computer.
I inspected your save and the game state variables that I use are missing.

I'm going to try to reproduce it, but these steps don't give me an error with the addons I currently have applied:

1. Select all 9 escort types at game start.
2. Lead 1 escort to the portal.
3. Open game menu (Esc) and select the "Addon: Select your Escorts (again)" item.
4. Select the 8 remaining escorts.
5. Find another escort.

Do you remember if you did anything else or if anything else occurred? Ex. terminating the game (or the game crashing) or exiting the game/loading it.

Bugs

• Paean of Glacial Ice has fixed description.
• Fixed typos and bad descriptions in Paeans.
• Paeans have real requirements to be learned.
• Paeans are sustained with negative energy, not positive.
• Voltaic chain can heal the caster

Changes

• Paean Maelstrom gives penetration for all 3 basic elements automatically. When you switch it should be to protect yourself, not to help your minions.
• Paean Adept gives less affinity at higher ranks.
• Tectonic Rift does more damage and inflicts Spellshock instead of pin. Ice already has a pin and lowering resistances sets up your minions to succeed more than keeping an enemy in place does.
• Astromancers start with a point in Chants.

te4.org keeps all versions of addons that have been uploaded, but you'll only need the most recent: the link on te4.org/addons/tome to the right of the name of the addon, or the topmost link on the addon's page.

Change tiles names (to mts_)
Improves workable with others tile-modifications

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Изменены имена тайлов (на mts_)
Улучшена работоспособность с другими тайл-метовыми модификациями