Any way to "turn off" DLC content?

[Neoco]

I know that there is the option to disable the introductory missions to the DLC content but that's not what I want. I want to play the XCOM before the DLC was installed, without the new enemies and gear. Any way to disable DLC content (without having to uninstall parts of my game)?

[conantheimp]

Pretty sure you can just ignore them entirely.

For Anarchy/Resistance Warrior(if you have that) DLC you can just, y'know, not use any of the extra options.

For Alien Hunters and Shen's Last gift, just never play the missions. The Rulers will never activate as long as the mission is still in your queue. Make sure the DLC is activated, though, or the Rulers will just start invading you anyway.

[Kalsu]

Me it's the contrary.
I want to play the dlc but my game behave like i didn't check them at the beginning and doesn't give me the missions.
That last patch sure seem to have ♥♥♥♥♥♥ ♥♥♥♥ up!

[Fringehunter7719]

You can just right click the game in your steam games library and go to "View Downloadable Content" and disable it all, can't you?

[conantheimp]

Disabling it doesn't uninstall DLC much of the time, it just flags whether or not the content is activated.

For the Anarchy/Resistance Warrior DLCs, this means that none of the content is available, but in a strange quirk the mechanics that let cosmetics have certain types of features from the DLC is in the vanilla game. This makes mods a lot better.

For the SLG DLC, everything is disabled if you disable it. However....

I don't know if it's a glitch or on purpose, but for the Alien Hunters DLC at least, merely disabling it has potentially disastrous consequences on a campaign. The Alien Rulers are activated by owning the DLC, but only show up after you complete the linked story mission. Disabling the DLC doesn't stop Steam from telling XCOM 2 that you own the DLC, however, and what gets disabled is the story mission. The Alien Rulers are still enabled, but without the mission flag the monarchs themselves can then appear at any time in your game after Gatecrash.

Meaning if you disable the DLC, you are in for a world of hurt.

[SamBC]

Originally posted by conantheimp:

Disabling it doesn't uninstall DLC much of the time, it just flags whether or not the content is activated.

For the Anarchy/Resistance Warrior DLCs, this means that none of the content is available, but in a strange quirk the mechanics that let cosmetics have certain types of features from the DLC is in the vanilla game. This makes mods a lot better.

For the SLG DLC, everything is disabled if you disable it. However....

I don't know if it's a glitch or on purpose, but for the Alien Hunters DLC at least, merely disabling it has potentially disastrous consequences on a campaign. The Alien Rulers are activated by owning the DLC, but only show up after you complete the linked story mission. Disabling the DLC doesn't stop Steam from telling XCOM 2 that you own the DLC, however, and what gets disabled is the story mission. The Alien Rulers are still enabled, but without the mission flag the monarchs themselves can then appear at any time in your game after Gatecrash.

Meaning if you disable the DLC, you are in for a world of hurt.

If you disable them in the Steam client, it's as if you don't own them.

If you do what many people seem to think is disable them when setting up a game, because they don't read the tooltips, then Alien Hunters will do what you describe, and Shen's Last Gift will allow you to build one SPARK cheaply as soon as you have a Proving Ground.

[conantheimp]

Ah, good to know if/when I buy those DLCs. I only know what other people have talked about.

[Fringehunter7719]

I just spent ~two hours testing that because I found it so hard to believe, came back to post that it didn't seem to be true and found someone had already confirmed it. I don't know whether to laugh or cry!

I think what's happened is you've read about someone disabling the DLC from within the game, which has that effect (sort of, the alien rulers can show up, but not from day 1), not about someone disabling the DLC within the steam client, which does have the effect the OP wanted, although if you want to re-enable it you have to download it again.