How to downgrade the game to make mods work again

[CEOofCBT]

Hi everyone, so turns out you can just downgrade the game instead of waiting for mod developers to update to the new version. This is only for PC on steam and is a bit technical so if there's any questions I'll attempt to answer them in the comments.

The first step is going to be pressing Windows Key + R, it should bring up a Run box at the bottom right. You're going to type steam://open/console

This will open a console inside steam where you have a box you can input commands. You're gonna want to paste "download_depot 1557740 1557741 8703385561169526803" (everything inside the quotes, not the quotes themselves). What this does is it is fetching an older version of the game to download.

Press enter and let the download start, there is no output until it is finished downloading, so in the mean time let's disable updates on the game. Go to your library and right click on Rounds, then properties, then updates. In the top box, under automatic updates, change that setting to "Only when I launch the game." This prevents it from updating once we downgrade it. You're also going to want to right click Rounds again and go to Manage > Browse local files, this will open an explorer window were going to want later.

So, after this we can go back to the console window in steam, it should be a couple tabs to the right of your Library. Once it finished, it should display " Depot download complete : X (300 files, manifest 8703385561169526803) " I placed an X in my output because most likely it would have downloaded to another location on your computer. Go ahead and copy everything inside the quotes that starts with C:\, should be pretty long and should end with depot_1557741.

Press windows key again, paste that path into it and it should open another explorer window with some rounds files inside of it. Now you're gonna wait to delete everything from the steam Rounds directory (the one we right-clicked rounds, manage, then browse local files) and after deleting, moving all of the files from the depot into where we deleted the other ones from.

Assuming everything was done correctly, modded should begin working again as normal, and the game should not update as long as you don't tell it to. I'm not used to typing out tutorials so if it isn't clear let me know and I can hopefully clarify it.

[『 Root 』]

just so you know, I wrote up this guide explaining the same thing, Idk if that is easier to read then yours or not, so i figured share as well. (:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3165380704

[Shiquah]

god, 1 year late but thank you man