how to downgrade version and more

[shade00]

https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/81471
mod was found via a friend which sounds like should work

methods for downgrading games are common these days on steam
various guides on how too

https://www.thewindowsclub.com/how-to-downgrade-steam-games-to-previous-versions
if one guide isn't enough there are various ones out there some outdated
had to do this myself for one game after they tied a specific service in after an update
which made it very unpleasent

make sure to make the manifest file if i recall read only after downgrading
either that or play offline mode fo4, read only would mean it would stop checking for updates for the game

https://steamdb.info/app/377160/
the steam db info which youll grab the depot from to downgrade
manifest files im not 100% sure where there located on computers
nor which one would be for fallout 4 but that should should be searchable online

goodluck and cheers


more information
https://www.reddit.com/r/fo4/comments/1c1vii8/preventing_autoupdates_for_steam_users_disabling/
the manifest id information and more

[Drizzt]

here is a guide (on Steam) on how to roll back to 1.10.163 using in built Steam functions
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3232095313

[shade00]

Originally posted by Drizzt:

here is a Steam guide on how to roll back to 1.10.163 using in built Steam functions for those who need or want to
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3232095313

same function of downgrading
so many of those guides are around these days on steam
plus on other websites on how too

rather sad some are forced to revert to older versions at times

[Poorlaggedman]

Bethesda is hot garbage for this..... i'm minding my own business and they throw this turd at us so I can't even play my campaign.

[Drizzt]

Originally posted by shade00:

Originally posted by Drizzt:

here is a Steam guide on how to roll back to 1.10.163 using in built Steam functions for those who need or want to
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3232095313

same function of downgrading
so many of those guides are around these days on steam
plus on other websites on how too

rather sad some are forced to revert to older versions at times :ALgloomEmoji:

yeah - figured i would post it so that people can have access to a guide on steam if they don't want to make a nexus account to ask questions etc - most people seem to be finding the guide useful

and as a bonus many of us are learning how the steam console works for downlading games - so we can all preserve preferred version of all of our games - all we need to do is save the manifest file - as long as the game does not need to go online of course - those games have everyone locked to the latest

either way - at least some positive came out of what should really have been a console only update - or a real PC update that fixed the loading times and physics being tied to the frame rate

[shade00]

Originally posted by Drizzt:

Originally posted by shade00:

same function of downgrading
so many of those guides are around these days on steam
plus on other websites on how too

rather sad some are forced to revert to older versions at times

yeah - figured i would post it so that people can have access to a guide on steam if they don't want to make a nexus account to ask questions etc - most people seem to be finding the guide useful

and as a bonus many of us are learning how the steam console works for downlading games - so we can all preserve preferred version of all of our games - all we need to do is save the manifest file - as long as the game does not need to go online of course - those games have everyone locked to the latest

either way - at least some positive came out of what should really have been a console only update - or a real PC update that fixed the loading times and physics being tied to the frame rate

some will understand some will learn
but there will always be a large amount sadly which will not learn anything
they'll follow the guide and forget about what they learned
but for now atleast its helpful to them, then there is also the ones who wont understand what there doing.

if only more would retain the information
as its critical with various games these days
dungeonlands had an update from the devs broke the full access dlc
saints row one of them had a forced upgrade tieing in epic?
some games break sadly when updates appear
there was a penguin one snowball fighting where previous update achievements worked
newer one did not so the dev put the older version in beta if recall

developers and publishers should make it easier to downgrade via adding the versions to beta incase anyone wants an easy downgrade

[Drizzt]

Originally posted by shade00:

Originally posted by Drizzt:

yeah - figured i would post it so that people can have access to a guide on steam if they don't want to make a nexus account to ask questions etc - most people seem to be finding the guide useful

and as a bonus many of us are learning how the steam console works for downlading games - so we can all preserve preferred version of all of our games - all we need to do is save the manifest file - as long as the game does not need to go online of course - those games have everyone locked to the latest

either way - at least some positive came out of what should really have been a console only update - or a real PC update that fixed the loading times and physics being tied to the frame rate

some will understand some will learn
but there will always be a large amount sadly which will not learn anything
they'll follow the guide and forget about what they learned
but for now atleast its helpful to them, then there is also the ones who wont understand what there doing.

if only more would retain the information
as its critical with various games these days
dungeonlands had an update from the devs broke the full access dlc
saints row one of them had a forced upgrade tieing in epic?
some games break sadly when updates appear
there was a penguin one snowball fighting where previous update achievements worked
newer one did not so the dev put the older version in beta if recall

developers and publishers should make it easier to downgrade via adding the versions to beta incase anyone wants an easy downgrade

yeah i locked Space Engineers to a beta when they added Epic Games integration and mod.io - all to support console players - and they also tied the update to a previous one that included paid DLC, effectively locking customers from their paid DLC if they did not install the update

but at least they kept the betas available

and same with Kerbal Space Program when their last few updates broke a nav aid and never fixed it - but that one i was able to just copy the older version elsewhere and uninstall from Steam - since surprisingly Take Two apparently failed to notice that the indie devs had left the game entirely un copy protected

etc

but i understand why devs and especially publishers don't want to let people use older versions - since if everyone is on the latest version they can all be sold the latest DLC or in game content etc

for Fallout 4 this is very accurate - since their whole thing is the Creation Club - and everyone needs to be on the latest to use the CC

either way it is good that Steam has a mechanism for downloading older versions of games