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BobTheBot Nov 16, 2022 @ 1:44pm
Start workshop maps easily in Old Game UI without using the console?!
Is there a mod or a guide that lets me click on the maps I downloaded from the workshop instead of using the console, just like the new UI but when using the old UI?!
I saw this mod (https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2867611331) does this, but you want to be able to launch the maps that's not included without using the console!
and there's also this one (https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2853652804) but it's for the Hazard Course and Further Data only!
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Here are your links without the parenthesis touching.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2867611331
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2853652804

Edit: The new, current menu has a Steam Workshop section. For years this wasn't the case so many old mods don't support it. I have not used any new modded maps (other than the official Xen Museum) so I don't know how it handles stuff. Could you link some workshop maps that have the issue you're describing?
Last edited by Define Brackish Water; Nov 16, 2022 @ 1:55pm
BobTheBot Nov 16, 2022 @ 2:05pm 
It's just I like the old UI more so I was asking if it was a way to make this Workshop Maps Selection Menu in the old UI. I am not looking for a specific map mod that's incompatible.
The new UI works fine with all the maps I tried so far.
But for example, The map "We are not alone" done by Cursed Gman (Dany)
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2849936938
I have not found a way to launch this map in old game UI other than using the console.
Last edited by BobTheBot; Nov 16, 2022 @ 2:21pm
Got it. I completely misunderstood.

I just tried out -oldgameui in my launch options and WOW! It is pretty nice. I've gotta say that the number one improvement I like is that the console functions like the usual Source engine game console. I may use that someday. Otherwise the functionality seems to be mostly the same. The playermodel selection menu for multiplayer is so much better and has some face customization options, but it seems like the skin selection menu has some unused options and doesn't have anything unique to it.

It has a Workshop Addons button... but you can't launch the mod from there. Darn. Personally, I'd just use the new UI. You're not losing anything except the multiplayer face customization.

I'm not about to do any work here because I have nearly no applicable skill but I'd say the optimal trick would be to figure out how the new UI handles workshop maps and attempt to retroactively add that feature to the old UI. I see the workshop addon you linked earlier solved this by adding support for workshop mods manually. I'd assume by putting them in a list of things to look for.
Last edited by Define Brackish Water; Nov 16, 2022 @ 2:34pm
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Date Posted: Nov 16, 2022 @ 1:44pm
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