Yea, unsurprisingly facts are not really that hard to "guess". It's kinda like if you made an addon that just makes the player invincible and wrote "But wääh, now there's no challenge in the game as the player can't lose" as one of the "objections"

…wow. I think you managed to hit every single one of the objections I anticipated in my initial write-up:

Objection #2: "Oh, but you don't need to do Nur. You can always just carry around 200 pounds of potential swap-in gear in your pack for the entire game. I mean, what did you think the I Can Carry the World prodigy was there for?" Storage is what you need the fortress for.

Objection #3: "Water breathing? Pfft. Wimp. You're supposed to just hold your breath really hard and hope you get lucky and find the down stairs before you asphyxiate." Water bubbles run out, especially in a protracted fight. A resource (air in this case) that's finite and non-renewable is useless.

Objection #1: "Aww, but where's the fun if you can't randomly miss out on vitally important gear?" If I can't sit in that water buble and rest my life and resources all the way back to full and my cooldowns down to zero, as many times as I need to, then no, water breathing gear is not optional in Nur.

Water levels as "challenge" is the most boring approach known to man. (And for the record, water breathing gear is an in-game tool; all I'm doing is arranging for that tool to be available when the player needs it.)

Completely is accurate. You don't need to do it, and I'm really curious what you might think a player gains from it that will help them progress in the game. You can access the item vault there if you are a donator, but using vaulted items is expressly not the way the game is intended to be played and if anyone feels they need vaulted items to succeed, they really should spend more time mastering the basics (how to engage tactically, which tools are available universally and when they are useful, when to abandon a fight as a lost cause, which talents and effects to look for when inspecting an enemy and whether they are particularly debilitating to your current character, how and when to prioritize certain stats on gear, etc.).

To the original point of the post, playing on Adventure mode is fine, but if your aspiration is to beat the game on rougelike, then you should play on rougelike to reinforce the habits that will actually make that possible. Learning which zones are worth skipping would be a good one, for a start.

Whenever i use the scorpions stealth skill and the turn it off the stealth never goes away and can be toggled to stack infinite stealth

Nur is a completely optional zone + it spawns water bubbles you can use to replenish air. You don't need a waterbreathing tool for it (also modding out a problem instead of using ingame tools to solve it is the most boring approach known to men)

Loving the concept of this mod, but I'm having a big issue and a small one.

For the big issue: Made a Sun Paladin, and when I left the starting city in the Far East, a forest has replaced half of the mountain range, including the city, so there's no way to go back in. I don't know if this is only occurring when starting on that continent, but I don't really have enough skill/knowledge to speedrun a character to the Far East to see if characters that start in the west have the same problem.

The small issue: Mulfar (IIRC, the shadowy guy with hands) has his final option as ?lua_error FORCE RESTART or something along those lines.

I am running other addons, but ran it with only this one (and official DLC/addons) and still had the same errors. I also tried unsubscribing, deleting, and resubbing to see if maybe the download was corrupted with no luck.

Posting this here and on the Steam workshop for visibility. I'll definitely be keeping subbed for use in the future, though!

Scaling is a bit of a work in progress. Hopefully the next version will be somewhat better? Where are you noticing a problem?

Portable font should be possible then!

... I'm so lonely down here :(

Along with the addition of Freeks and Psionic/Mindstar combat, the v1.2.0 update also reworked the starting dungeon with an aim to reduce the threat of enemies in the dungeon. Full details of the changes are listed in this forum post: https://forums.te4.org/viewtopic.php?p=247129#p247129

Your mod is based on "newEntity{ base = "BASE_NPC_" (giving new functions to normal npc-s) and that causes the game to not work, as soon as you load into normal locations.
The game will work in intant-dungeons, such as Fearscape, when you start as an awakened demonic worshipper, but will go into black screen the second you decide to load to quagmire with the troll.

The incompatibility lies in "npc-lua files" and "class files". It would be great, if you fixed the mod)