Mods dont load in WOTC

[Newb.]

soo my mods arnt loading for wotc but they are for the vanilla xcom any ideas on how to get them working?? any help is appreciated

[Arckie]

Here is how I solved this problem.

1. Open ModLauncherWPF.exe. It's located in XCOM2/Binaries/Win64/Launcher.
2. Old launcher will appear. Select wanted mods.
3. Start the game. Red screen will appear, but this is okay.
4. Close the game with alt+F4.
5. Open new launcher.
6. Select wanted mods in new launcher.

After that new mods will work.

[LeFrench]

Originally posted by ThePureNewb:

soo my mods arnt loading for wotc but they are for the vanilla xcom any ideas on how to get them working?? any help is appreciated

WOTC mods are not loading even for WOTC. i'm here hunting for a solution too. Hopefully the above works.


edit: nice. it worked. Thanks Arckie

[TheTHX]

thanks Arckie

[Lavrans]

Originally posted by Arckie:

Here is how I solved this problem.

1. Open ModLauncherWPF.exe. It's located in XCOM2/Binaries/Win64/Launcher.
2. Old launcher will appear. Select wanted mods.
3. Start the game. Red screen will appear, but this is okay.
4. Close the game with alt+F4.
5. Open new launcher.
6. Select wanted mods in new launcher.

After that new mods will work.

OK. so this finally worked for me. Many thanks @Arckie for graciously sharing this with us.

I even reinstalled the game last night...I was so at a loss for how to fix this. 8-10 hours later, I now realize that if I'd come here the next morning, I'd have never had to do this...

In my situation, I was trying to reactivate my mods on a saved game, in which they'd all been mysteriously deactivated, I guess by the new launcher. One thing I noticed about this fix is that it seems like the new launcher is so buggy that if you use enough mods (I'd estimate that I use about 2 dozen mods) you may find yourself having to repeat the process several times until you can remember all the mods you use standard in all your campaigns. There was one mod I forgot to enable using the above fix, and it didn't matter that I remembered to check it off on the new launcher, after running the fix. So I had to do it a second time.

I also wonder if I'll have to do this every time I use a new mod...

Devs seriously need to patch all the bugs with the new launcher, or give us the option of launching with the original, which I think we all preferred...

[Newb.]

Originally posted by Arckie:

Here is how I solved this problem.

1. Open ModLauncherWPF.exe. It's located in XCOM2/Binaries/Win64/Launcher.
2. Old launcher will appear. Select wanted mods.
3. Start the game. Red screen will appear, but this is okay.
4. Close the game with alt+F4.
5. Open new launcher.
6. Select wanted mods in new launcher.

After that new mods will work.

will i have to do this everytime i add a new mod??

[Old Ben]

@Arckie, good work around. By doing what you describe it populates the XComModOptions.ini file with the WOTC mods which the new launcher fails to do. The new launcher has a file path issue and hope they will patch it soon. Thanks.

[Nenad]

Originally posted by ThePureNewb:

Originally posted by Arckie:

Here is how I solved this problem.

1. Open ModLauncherWPF.exe. It's located in XCOM2/Binaries/Win64/Launcher.
2. Old launcher will appear. Select wanted mods.
3. Start the game. Red screen will appear, but this is okay.
4. Close the game with alt+F4.
5. Open new launcher.
6. Select wanted mods in new launcher.

After that new mods will work.

will i have to do this everytime i add a new mod??

yeah!

[Shift]

New loader is just not working for mods and looks like there's no hope that they'll ever fix the thing. So that basically this, load on old launcher to add them to the load list and then you can use new launcher to start the game proper.

[cknapp1]

Thanks!

[OweN]

I prefer the offcial update can solve this problem
but tbh, this new launcher are so stupid

[Newb.]

agreed they had no actual reason to change it in my opinion

[Kirill_Neko]

I don't know - shows me a black screen. Not responding. Solution doesn't NOT work.

[Newb.]

Originally posted by Kirill_Neko:

I don't know - shows me a black screen. Not responding. Solution doesn't NOT work.

arckies solution worked for me dude.

[LeFrench]

Originally posted by Kirill_Neko:

I don't know - shows me a black screen. Not responding. Solution doesn't NOT work.

it worked for a lot of us. and i've been cycling in mods all day. each time i redo the procedure. never failed. Try delete all your file saves, etc (in mydocuments) and verify the steam files, or delete the game fully and reinstall. your issue sounds like something else is up.

[CloudSeeker]

Originally posted by nm9311:

Originally posted by ThePureNewb:

will i have to do this everytime i add a new mod??

yeah!

It seems the launcher is so bad that it can't even install workshop mods.