New to game: can't load profile due to non essential mods incompatible

[Maestro (it)]

I started playing this game 3 days ago and I started liking it, today I got the new update and now I can't load my profile because of a non compatible mod (Google navigator GPS voices), why is this? If the mod is not there just load there profile with no voices, not mark the profile as unloadable...

If mod management is like this, I will avoid playing a game that might break my profile for the most stupid reason.

[Maestro (it)]

PS. Mod installed from the workshop

[xFetusx Block11Radio.ca]

You are Fully warned By the Game that Mods can and do cause problems . Thats on YOU , Not the developer to make the choice t o use it or not . Either you Learn or you Burn . Go back to the previous game version until the mods are updated (Which is Not the developers problem Either) or you do like most and have 2 different profiles and/ or opt out of updates . Very simple .

[Wolfgang]

Remove the mod. And be glad the mod author marked this in the "Manifest" file. Some don't do this which creates crashes and other problems.

Mods are incompatible after bigger update like the recent update to 1.38.

But the game told you: Mods are not from SCS and get no support from SCS. Every problem you have on a profile that has or ever had mods is nothing SCS is responsible for.

[Maestro (it)]

Originally posted by xFetusx:

You are Fully warned By the Game that Mods can and do cause problems . Thats on YOU.

Ok, I understand that, but also keep it on me to be able to load a profile after i remove a mod.

From what I've seen, once you load a game with a mod active, you can't deactivate that mod, the profile will not load, even if the mod is not adding things to the main game.

for example, I added one mod to increase the xp (ok i cheat in a single player game...), found it increases the xp way too much, wanted to remove but it I couldn't load the profile again.

This is a bad management in the game itself, not me, for example in Kerbal Space Program I can remove a mod that adds some extra functionality, and the same profile always work, even with missing extra additions, it will warn on loading this thing is missing, will load without, and continue.....

[HunterKiller]

If the updates were made correctly, when the update runs, it should disable the mods automatically. If it can detect the incompatible mods, it should be able to detect them during the update and return the game files back to vanilla. Once this is done, all mods will be disabled via the vanilla game and then need to be reinstalled if, compatible.

My game updated automatically without my permission and there's no function not to update the game. Steam gives 3 options and none of them give you the choice not to update yet, you have an option to roll back the game to another version via the game and by that time, it's too late. My game is so screwed up now, I have to use Task Manager to exit it because mods are missing and it crashes.

The only other simple way to play it is, to start all over from the beginning and lose over 1K+ hours and 100's of thousands of miles already placed on my trucks. Not to add, mod creators have removed some of their mods from the Workshop, making it impossible to go into the game and fix the individual profiles. The ones with the missing or, incompatible mods causing the game to crash for each profile I try to connect to.

[vonMoo]

Originally posted by HunterKiller:

If the updates were made correctly, when the update runs, it should disable the mods automatically. If it can detect the incompatible mods, it should be able to detect them during the update and return the game files back to vanilla. Once this is done, all mods will be disabled via the vanilla game and then need to be reinstalled if, compatible.

My game updated automatically without my permission and there's no function not to update the game. Steam gives 3 options and none of them give you the choice not to update yet, you have an option to roll back the game to another version via the game and by that time, it's too late. My game is so screwed up now, I have to use Task Manager to exit it because mods are missing and it crashes.

The only other simple way to play it is, to start all over from the beginning and lose over 1K+ hours and 100's of thousands of miles already placed on my trucks. Not to add, mod creators have removed some of their mods from the Workshop, making it impossible to go into the game and fix the individual profiles. The ones with the missing or, incompatible mods causing the game to crash for each profile I try to connect to.

I may be wrong, as I don't really know much about how ETS2 works, but I think the game automatically makes a backup of your profile when you open the game after it updates. These should be somewhere in the Euro Truck Simulator 2 folder in your documents folder. You could try to roll back to the old version, restore the profile backup from that version, then remove the bad mods (before you try removing the mods maybe remove modded parts on your truck or sell the truck itself, if it's a mod, if you need to remove truck or accessory mods). Some googling may help with restoring a backed up profile, or perhaps someone who knows more about this sort of thing.

The way steam handles updates for games like this is suboptimal. I have it set to not automatically update, which means an update can't stealthy happen if I forget to constantly check; after manually allowing the 1.38 update I rolled back the game to 1.37 before starting it and had no issues. There's probably a better way though...

[HunterKiller]

The mods have been removed and I can't find 'em listed in game or, in the workshop. I don't know where else to look. I know nothing about where it would be located at in files. I was also deleting auto-saves in hopes to go back to an earlier saves and that made it even worse. There's nothing I can remember as to how many hours in game, I had used that mod and now, others are missing and they're no longer in the workshop to re-subscribe to, to reinstall them then, go in game and remove them from my profiles/trucks that are using those mods. I had no idea the game had updated when I started playing it other than it was screwed up and that was when I noticed the change in the game version. Idk how you got it set not to auto-update, either. I see nothing of the sort in my properties window for it.


I did roll it back to an earlier version, however, the missing mods are still, crashing the game. I have one new profile not affected because, it wasn't using those mods.