Ajax Presents Again - Most Comprehensive Combat Extender Config for UNSO

The heavy caveat before getting into this: These Combat Extender files are balanced around the gameplay experience of Listonomicon. Listo has a level 20 cap, expects players to use a party of 4 to 6 characters, earns feats every 3 levels instead of 4, etc etc etc. In addition, it relies on many, many mods to distribute abilities, spells, and features that do not exist in the vanilla game. If you lack any of the "required" mods, the Combat Extender config will still work, and it will safely ignore any spell, passive, or enemy it does not recognize. In other words, you can drop these files into any mod setup and it will do something, but it won't do everything in the ways it was designed and tested for.

The absolutely necessary mods to get ~80% of Combat Extender to behave as designed are Action Resource Passives by ckalp67, Goon's Passive Library by BaldursGoonsack, and Ultimate NPC Stat Overhaul (also by Goon).

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Update 22 June 2025

Several play test passes have been made to try to keep this config as big and thorough as possible, while finding and eliminating every change that leads to CTDs (such as certain unintended config combos resulting in a single enemy being overloaded with more spell options than their AI can handle).

Furthermore, going forward this CX now takes advantage of Cat's Library to give various enemies ally spawns, to help balance encounters against players using parties larger than 4 heroes.

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Update 24 April 2025

The download is now packaged with an "Easy CombatExtender.json" and "Hard CombatExtender.json" alongside the regular one. Only use whichever file appeals to you, make sure it is named (or renamed!) "CombatExtender.json," and install it to %appdata%/local/larian studios/baldurs gate 3/Script Extender, or install it to SE_CONFIG (if using MO2).

Easy Mode slightly increases the stats and HP of allies, and slightly decreases the stats and HP of enemies. Many strong abilities, resistances, and tweaks made to enemies are removed, and overall less pre-encounter strategy/prep (or reloading a save and trying a fight again) will be necessary compared to the base file. The most powerful spells and rule-breaking/cheating abilities are taken away from enemies.

Hard Mode noticeably increases the stats, HP, and rolls of bosses. It slightly increases the stats and HP of regular enemies, and slightly reduces the benefits for allies (though they will still be better than pure vanilla). Hard mode also removes many of the intentional buffs that the baseline file uses to offset certain enemies, such as adding psychic vulnerability to many Act 1 enemies or Aversion to Fire to many undead, animals, spiders, and plants.