NVHM-TVHM Area Scaling

Overview

This mod makes all areas and side-missions progressively scale up according to your advancement in the main mission, in Normal mode and TVHM. Level restrictions on the DLCs are lifted, so they can be played anytime during NVHM/TVHM, and they will also scale up according to the progress in the main game story.

This means that you can for example go back and farm Knuckledragger for a Hornet at level 18. Or start Tiny Tina's DLC at level 8, do a couple missions before coming back to the main game, and return to finish the DLC at level 28. Or farm the snowman over and over and over and over. Unlike UVHM (or the "Level 1 UVHM" mod), the areas/missions will not always be exactly at your level (but close enough, as long as you keep up with the main story). However, this mod does not change anything else about the Normal and TVHM playthroughs and their balance.

Installation and Compatibility

Use BLCMM to install NVHM-TVHM Area Scaling:

• []Install BLCMM

  []Since the recent updates, BLCMM is no longer able to setup the game files for mods. So you need to hexedit manually, using Cody's Hex Multitool, for example.

  []Open NT-AreaScaling.blcm in BLCMM (or use File > Import mod file(s), if you want to combine it with other mods)

  []In BLCMM > File > Save as: select "Open BL2 Binaries Dir", and save it under any name you like (e.g. mymods.txt)

  []Launch your game, and get to the main menu with New Game, Character selection, etc.

  []Press "Esc" to exit to the title menu with "Press any key to continue" (this step may not be necessary, depending on your platform).

  []Open the console (using the key you selected when setting up your game files for mods in BLCMM), and type e.g. "exec mymods.txt".

  []Close the console and you're good to go.

  NVHM-TVHM Area Scaling should be compatible with any other mods, as long as these mods do not touch the area level definitions, but there are not many mods that do. If you are using the UCP, disable the directory "Enemy Changes > Make Terramorphous level 40 in Normal mode".

  NVHM-TVHM Area Scaling can be applied before loading any save game: it should automatically scale up the relevant areas. If you reload the save later on without NVHM-TVHM Area Scaling, the areas will go back within the acceptable limits in vanilla.

  It is a relatively big file (>2 MB, more than half the UCP), so it may take a few seconds to load. The DLC sections may be disabled at will using BLCMM (in case you don't own some of the DLCs, or if you don't want to play them with the NT-AreaScaling modifications). This mod does absolutely nothing in UVHM, so there's not much point loading it when playing in UVHM.

  Detailed changes

  • []Turning in one of the main story missions (not all of them, but most) will make all previous areas and non-accepted side missions scale up to your level, within certain limits (for example, after finishing Wildlife Preservation in Normal mode, all areas should scale up to 19-21).

    []Some areas will scale up directly, others may require a save/quit.

    []Missions that have already been accepted (and their rewards) will never scale up, but the areas in which they take place, and the enemies you fight, should scale up.

    Normal mode

    • []Finishing the main story and killing the Warrior will make all areas scale up to level 30.

      []The mission You. Will. Die. (Terramorphous) will be between level 30 and 35 (depending on your level when you finish the main story). Completing this mission should make all areas in the main game and headhunter DLCs scale up to 35.

      []Some areas like Caustic Caverns or Lynchwood have a special behavior in the vanilla game, which is mostly conserved here. But they will also scale to 30/35 after killing the Warrior/Terra.

      []All DLCs will scale to your level (when you first travel to the area), at any level between 5 and 35 (5-38 for the Lilith DLC).

      []Progress in the main game story will scale up the already visited areas in the DLC. A save/quit generally seems to be required for the DLC areas.

      [*]The DLC raid boss missions (as well as some arena fights like