What are the must have mods for someone starting?

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leo1434 said: What mod/mods do you recommend to play a good challenging SE4 solo game? Besides is the last game version (1.95, I think) the best one to play with, or anyone of the older versions fare better?

A lot of people never upgraded past v1.91 (the last Shrapnel release). Whether you want to go beyond that depends mostly on how annoying you found the few minor bugs that were were fixed after that, and whether you want the features that were added.

There really isn't a big difference in play between any of the versions, IMO. When you're ready to try multiplayer, PBW supports both v1.91 and v1.94/v1.95 (those last two are equivalent as far as PBW is concerned.)