New launcher and problem with mods?

[Lemur]

So it's just after midnight and I wanted to boot up EU4 for a quick 1-hour session before I go to bed and I immediately noticed there's a new launcher (I also launched the game like 4-5 hours ago and it was still "semi-old" one, you know).

Aaaand there's no mods. Not much of a problem right now, I am playing umodded campaign anyway.

Just wanted to ask if anyone else is experiencing the same thing?

[Lemur]

so... same old, same old?

[grotaclas]

What do you mean by "no mods"? The 2020.17 version of the launcher was released sometime on Jan 19th (probably installed in your 4-5 hours ago session and became active now). I have used the beta of that version for a few weeks and I didn't have mod problems.
But in this version the section "Mods" was split up into "Playsets" and "All installed mods". Maybe you have to add your mods to your current playset.
Or did you get any error message from the launcher which complained about missing access to the Documents folder. In that case you have to grant access to the new version of the launcher.

[Azazel]

i have no mods and the game isnt startin anymore

[iago2723]

Same

[Lemur]

Originally posted by grotaclas:

What do you mean by "no mods"? The 2020.17 version of the launcher was released sometime on Jan 19th (probably installed in your 4-5 hours ago session and became active now). I have used the beta of that version for a few weeks and I didn't have mod problems.
But in this version the section "Mods" was split up into "Playsets" and "All installed mods". Maybe you have to add your mods to your current playset.
Or did you get any error message from the launcher which complained about missing access to the Documents folder. In that case you have to grant access to the new version of the launcher.

I'm not sure now which one I had earlier when I made the post, but I had only one of these sections, I guess "All Installed Mods" and it was empty, with only options to browse mods on paradox website or create new mods (launcher didnt even see my own local mods).
Anyway, now everything seems fine. Maybe it's one of those things that require a PC restart.

Originally posted by Azazel:

i have no mods and the game isnt startin anymore

It's crashing right after launching? After around 3 tries my antivirus warned that launcher tried to edit some file, after I let it the game launched.
Oh, maybe that was the thing that allowed the mods to be loaded in? not sure now

[Azazel]

"a java script error occured in the main process" is the headline of the error box popping up-never happened before...

[Azazel]

and the game is shown as "running" inside the steam menue and i cant stop it,just now im playing hoi4, eu4 and ck2 all at the same time...

[Vetgirig on Linux]

According to Paradox:

Launcher .17 is broken. Upgrade to .17.1

Should work as .16.

[Azazel]

when i tryed to start the game i recognized that there is another "update" and hoped that they have fixed their "work" -nope,isnt working

[Azazel]

and i have emptyed the downloadcache and repaired the i dont know-i did this steam troubbleshooting suggestions things

[tonypa]

Once they have fixed the broken Launcher, PDX should post it here:
https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/threads/unplanned-launcher-release-of-2020-17.1453117/

Until they do, you can still play by running eu4.exe directly from the folder:
Steam\SteamApps\common\Europa Universalis IV

[Azazel]

thanks