How the hell can you bypass the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ awfuil launcher this game is cursed with.

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Without having to use alternative sources...

[WillieSea]

From your Steam library, right-click on "Mafia III: Definitive Edition" game, and choose 'properties'.

In the pop-up window, make sure you are on the 'LOCAL FILES' tab. (left side of window)

Click on the button at top right that says "Browse..."

This should open a Windows file explorer window that shows the location of your Mafia 3 game. Click in the address/folder bar and copy the contents.

For example, mine is this:

D:\SteamGames\steamapps\common\Mafia III

Now, back to the pop-up window, make sure you are on the 'GENERAL' tab. (left side of window)

on that window, at the bottom is:

LAUNCH OPTIONS
Advanced users may choose to enter modifications to their launch options.
( empty text entry box )

In the empty text box you will paste your game file location along with the game executable name. "\Mafia3DefinitiveEdition.exe"

D:\SteamGames\steamapps\common\Mafia III\Mafia3DefinitiveEdition.exe

And wrap that in double quotes and add %command% to the end, outside the double quotes.

Like this:

"D:\SteamGames\steamapps\common\Mafia III\Mafia3DefinitiveEdition.exe" %command%

Now you can close that window and start the game, and it should bypass the 2K launcher.

If not, verify you entered the correct directory path to your game, that you did not misspell anything, and that you have the double quotes on both sides of the game directory path.

[Papagenox]

Does skipping the launcher bring back some of the missing options that apparently used to e in the game menu, like simulation driving mode and non-lethal takedowns? Videos from years ago show that there were a whole mess of things available there, including subtitles.

[WillieSea]

Bring back? They never went anywhere.

They are in the (ESC) >Options >Game menu.
-Driving Mode
-Melee Takedowns
-Subtitles

[Papagenox]

Originally posted by WillieSea:

Bring back? They never went anywhere.

They are in the (ESC) >Options >Game menu.
-Driving Mode
-Melee Takedowns
-Subtitles

Okay, my bad, somehow I hadn't glommed on to the fact that when you hit options the pictures that you scroll through laterally are different kinds of options. I'm used to seeing options presented vertically. In most games they are.