New player here and from what I gathered it seems that modding got disabled somehow in a recent’ish patch.
I tried to get mods from nexusmods to work, nothing. I tried making my own mods with the tools provided, same thing.
I modified countless games in the last 20 years by myself on PC, I love tweaking games to suit my gameplay tastes and I read the guide for this one, did exactly as I was told for a start to get a feel for it. Nothing.
Anything I put in the mods folder gets totally ignored and has zero effect on the game. Any guide that I follow to the letter to make one of my own mods has the same result.
Well, I’m not trying to play a custom map, simply the main game/compaign with mods in singleplayer. So no, I’ve not changed the settings before creating a character from the main campaign one.
As for selecting mods, I don’t know what you mean, there are no menus ingame to select any mods and there are no launchers to select any prior to starting the game exe either.