You cant play offline with mods in this game and other steam games... Complain to Valve...

[B4mdk]

https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?threads/cities-skylines-steam-no-mods-assets-ressources-offline-steam.1084217/page-4

[yell_oo]

which game

[MarkJohnson]

Cities: Skylines

Probably others.

EDIT:
With Steam Workshop that is.

[grapplehoeker]

I can play online with all of my regular mods, update or not. No complaints here ;p

[B4mdk]

Originally posted by grapplehoeker:

I can play online with all of my regular mods, update or not. No complaints here ;p

Then try without Internet!

[grapplehoeker]

Originally posted by Bam:

Originally posted by grapplehoeker:

I can play online with all of my regular mods, update or not. No complaints here ;p

Then try without Internet!

Why on Earth would I want to do that?

[B4mdk]

Not everyone with Internet everywhere they go, so they might want to play in a cabin by the lake or something, but cant, because Steam dont allow it.

[grapplehoeker]

Originally posted by Bam:

Not everyone with Internet everywhere they go, so they might want to play in a cabin by the lake or something, but cant, because Steam dont allow it.

If I had the good fortune to be able to enjoy some time at a cabin beside a lake, the last thing I'd be doing is spending time playing computer games. I'd rather be rowing a boat, fishing or hunting moose. Gawd... even simply enjoying sitting beside the fire with my dog would be more entertaining and memorable.

[ChillCore]

@OP:

Copy your mods from the workshop folder to the username/Appdata/Local/Colossal Order/Cities Skylines/Addons/Mods folder to use them offline.
Enjoy. ;)


Don't expect too much help from grapplehoeker ... actually argueing with him is pretty pointless as as far as he is concerned EVERYTHING about this game is perfect and it's all just user generated problems, whatever your prob may be. Just saying.

Originally posted by grapplehoeker:

I can play online with all of my regular mods, update or not. No complaints here ;p

Smug useless post is useless ... OP mentioned OFFLINE specifically in his opening post.
Not everyone has the luxury to have internet access all the time and they might still want to play their games in their off-time.

[B4mdk]

Originally posted by ChillCore:

@OP:

Copy your mods from the workshop folder to the username/Appdata/Local/Colossal Order/Cities Skylines/Addons/Mods folder to use them offline.
Enjoy. ;)

Please try that with no internet connection. Not possible. Check the link from paradoxplaza too.

[grapplehoeker]

Originally posted by ChillCore:

OP mentioned OFFLINE specifically in his opening post.

Indeed he did.
For your benefit and his, I refer you to the requirements for the game as stated on the Store Page:
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
Network: Broadband Internet connection

That is quite specific too and therefore there is nothing to complain to Valve about.
Caveat emptor

[ChillCore]

Originally posted by Bam:

Originally posted by ChillCore:

@OP:

Copy your mods from the workshop folder to the username/Appdata/Local/Colossal Order/Cities Skylines/Addons/Mods folder to use them offline.
Enjoy. ;)

Please try that with no internet connection. Not possible. Check the link from paradoxplaza too.

I just did and it (still(*)) works fine.

Here's what I did after unblocking my workshop folder:

- Subscribed to trafficmanager president, precision engeneering and unlock buying 25 tiles.
- Started the game to trigger them downloading.
- Quit the game after they downloaded without activating the mods.
- Copied 'my' mods to my downloads folder (not steam).
- Unsubscribed from all three mods.
- Pulled interwebz cable.
- Pasted mods to the folder I mentioned before.
- Cleaned out all the garbage (controller configs) from my workshop folder and made it nice and clean again ... grrrrr.
- Re-locked the workshop folder for any and all users including hidden accounts.
- Started cities skylines.
- Activated mods that for some mysterious reason do show up.
- Load previously none modded game.
- All three mods show up ingame and work ... offline.

(*) I ususally do not bother with workshop and keep the folder read/write disabled 'cause it hate workshop with a passion. But for testing reasons ... :P

Originally posted by grapplehoeker:

Originally posted by ChillCore:

OP mentioned OFFLINE specifically in his opening post.

Indeed he did.
For your benefit and his, I refer you to the requirements for the game as stated on the Store Page:
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
Network: Broadband Internet connection

That is quite specific too and therefore there is nothing to complain to Valve about.
Caveat emptor

Yeye ...

I only ever play in offline mode 'cause I don't feel the need to be tracked 24/7 ... I don't even have a paradox account.
Either I have a special version or them requirements are a lie.

[bradybrklyn]

Originally posted by grapplehoeker:

Originally posted by ChillCore:

OP mentioned OFFLINE specifically in his opening post.

Indeed he did.
For your benefit and his, I refer you to the requirements for the game as stated on the Store Page:
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
Network: Broadband Internet connection

That is quite specific too and therefore there is nothing to complain to Valve about.
Caveat emptor

Sorry Grap, you're wrong about this. The game is advertised as being able to be played offline as well. The internet connection is only needed to install the game. Many players have bad, expensive, or slow internet connections and prefer to play offline. Although I, too, always play online I do believe that if a game says you can use workshop assets and mods and play offline, then it borders on a fraud if Valve does not enable it. CO and Paradox have both complained about this months ago; Valve, despite it's numerous updates, has not corrected it.

[MarkJohnson]

Originally posted by bradybrklyn:

Originally posted by grapplehoeker:

Indeed he did.
For your benefit and his, I refer you to the requirements for the game as stated on the Store Page:
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
Network: Broadband Internet connection

That is quite specific too and therefore there is nothing to complain to Valve about.
Caveat emptor

Sorry Grap, you're wrong about this. The game is advertised as being able to be played offline as well. The internet connection is only needed to install the game. Many players have bad, expensive, or slow internet connections and prefer to play offline. Although I, too, always play online I do believe that if a game says you can use workshop assets and mods and play offline, then it borders on a fraud if Valve does not enable it. CO and Paradox have both complained about this months ago; Valve, despite it's numerous updates, has not corrected it.

+1

This did work until a Steam update screwed it up.

Maybe with the next DLC update, they can get it working again?

Other than that, you can try moving workshop to local folders and pray they still work.

Sindar has a way to keep the previous game version running after patches. Maybe it is the same to get offline to work as well?

Post #31

https://steamcommunity.com/app/255710/discussions/0/3397295779072253056/?ctp=3

Originally posted by sindar:

For the technical affine among you here's a very rough outline to give you an idea how to achieve a backlevel game environment on a Windows intallation.

Be aware the below will be completely at your own risk and responsibility, don't expect any support for neither the procedure, gameplay issues or malfunctions you may run into.

If this is too technical for you better stay away. If you are technically affine and can operate with the windows command line then you should have the potential to semi-automize the below with batch files.

Prior to patch release date (October 23rd) perform a full backup up ("snapshot") of your current CS 1.10.1-f3 environment. Performing frequent backups of computers and data should anyhow be somewhat self-evident for various reasons (malware, ransomware, technical failure, etc.).

There are 3 game related key paths and subfolders you need to consider (you will need to adapt to your local installation):

• C:\Users\YourUsername\AppData\Local\Colossal Order\Cities_Skylines
  
• C:\Games\Steam\steamapps\common\Cities_Skylines
  
• C:\Games\Steam\steamapps\workshop\content\255710

Next understand the Steam client on each launch checks for game and custom content updates. If there is anything to update it will automatically start downloading. However, there are no other subsequent update checks unless you exit and restart Steam client or trigger a verification of game files.

This is the "Steam feature" to exploit in order to temporarily restore a 1.10.01-f3 environment:

• After launch of Steam client let any update / donwload activity complete.
  
• Next completely delete any content in following subfolders to avoid mixture of backlevel and updated content:
  
  • C:\Games\Steam\steamapps\common\Cities_Skylines
    
  • C:\Games\Steam\steamapps\workshop\content\255710
    
• Now restore (i.e. copy & paste) from your previously created "installation snapshot" the 1.10.01-f3 game files and custom content to the appropriate installation folders mentioned above.
  
• When you now launch CS the loading screen should show the 1.10.01-f3 version as well as in Content Manager > Mods those which display a version should show their pre-patch version.

You will not need to go offline and not even need to disable your internet connection to achieve the backlevel environment. But you will have to repeat this procedure every single time you restart Steam or your computer.

[B4mdk]

I see there are possibilities but very difficult to do.

Paradox just needs to stop cooperation with steam. Then Paradox makes their own workshop and control how things will be. Lets suggest that on paradoxplaza.

[MarkJohnson]

Originally posted by Bam:

I see there are possibilities but very difficult to do.

Paradox just needs to stop cooperation with steam. Then Paradox makes their own workshop and control how things will be. Lets suggest that on paradoxplaza.

That would cost a lot of money to maintain several servers for a game that doesn't sell a lot.

But simtropolis and others have mod databases you can install them

Or just outsmart steam and manually move your workshop folder to the local offline folder.

If it were up to me I'd never make it this easy to use workshop. More than 90% of the forum posts are of workshop issue of people using it because they can and have no idea what they are doing.

But that's me.

See everyone back in a couple days with tons of, game won't load, my game keeps crashing, I keep getting error ####, etc.

Sounds like a good time for vacations. lol