Just want to say thanks to @Captainnana and the rest of the FTB staff for bringing this modpack out. I appreciate the diversity and hard work 
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Yup. I second your "WTF ?!" emotion. No ETA on Fusion Reactor for GT 5 or anything like it. The best there is end-game is UU-matter and the Naquedah reactor, but those aren't quite as cool as the Fusion Reactor.
Well that... Sucks. I was going to see if I could set up a server for me and some friends to play this but forget that now.
If you haven't tried GT 5, it's very good/fun. It's an overhaul of GT and not just a port from MC 1.6 to MC 1.7. I think it's better than GT 4 for 1.6.4, honestly.
But my favourite features in mods is invariably having an end goal to reach. Having a point where you can say you have accomplished something with this mod just completes it in my opinion.
@HeilMewTwo
UU-matter requires even more work. Just getting enough Osmium cable to make UU-matter is an accomplishment.
UU-matter requires even more work. Just getting enough Osmium cable to make UU-matter is an accomplishment.
I know, but when I know that a mod specifically has an end goal in mind and then won't let me get it will just f*** up my OCD.
@HeilMewTwo
I haven't played this pack yet, but another GT 5 pack I'm playing tweaks Galacticraft (Mars) as an end goal.
I haven't played this pack yet, but another GT 5 pack I'm playing tweaks Galacticraft (Mars) as an end goal.
Thats the end goal, I guess but its not in GT 5, but for me it all about getting everything and automating stuff with Applied energistics and get unlimited power and allot
With GT5 and AE2, that's an ambitious goal indeed ! Not easy, but certainly possible.
We don't know if there will be a Monster equivalent. When this set of packs was announced Direwolf20 was going to be the "kitchen sink" pack and all the rest were going to be smaller with specific themes. Resurrection wasn't even on the radar.
One day I decided to watch Slowpoke's twitch stream as he had been playing DW20 on the Forgecraft servers and they were testing the very first version of Resurrection for the very first time... Very funny, I might add, as they found and fixed things. I enjoyed the spontaneous "Bedrock parkour races" they held while trying to troubleshoot a lack of vanilla ore ( 1 Iron in 4 chunks ) by removing all the stone and gravel blocks from the map.
Back to the point... Someone may be working on a Monster analogue... Slowpoke and his group blindsided us with Resurrection after all, but I'm not holding my breath.
With GT in a pack, it's very difficult for it to be a "kitchen sink" pack since GT is the center and many mods don't balance well at all around GT. TiCo is a good example, and not because of the infamous personal/code drama, but because TiCo is all about powerful tools and easy/early-game ore doubling. A couple of the key tiering mechanics of GT are the tools and ore multiplication (or lack thereof).
And, to avoid picking on just GT, the same is true to Reika's mods. They play very well as the center of a pack, but not well in a "kitchen sink" pack. Other mods throw Reika's mods completely out of balance and vice-versa.
And, to avoid picking on just GT, the same is true to Reika's mods. They play very well as the center of a pack, but not well in a "kitchen sink" pack. Other mods throw Reika's mods completely out of balance and vice-versa.
That wasn't really my intention with the post, my point was that everyone in this thread is everyone saying what should be in the modpack and everyone is saying something different for the most part. There is no solid answer to what should and shouldn't be included in this or any modpack, what I don't really like is when people, as happened quite a bit in this thread tell us that we are incorrect for not including or indeed including a mod.
We made these decisions for a reason and while suggestions are welcome there is no correct way to do this, there is however a correct way to suggest things. And it's not by telling us we've done it wrong.
Don't get me wrong we're not afraid to admit when we've made mistakes (as I've done in this thread, we should have made a kitchen sink pack sooner) but there needs to be solid reasoning and a bit more time spent before we blindly include mods.
On another note thank you for the kind words guys but you really have @tfox83 to thank for this pack more than me!
So, if I manually add in a couple of Reika's mods to aid my quest until I'm resourceful enough to shoot for GregTech, will I have screwed up things completely? Will it even work?
Not sure exactly what you mean, but assuming the game boots and runs, you won't be getting the gameplay experience that Greg or Reika intended.
Talking of Reikas mods, I'm looking for a good modpack centering it, but I didn't found one yet...
FTB Orbis, please
None that I know of yet for 1.7.10, but for 1.6.4, Horizons is a good one.