Pause updates / play older version?

[DoopForces]

I have game in progress, with recording on (in the save file)
but a darn update comes along.


How to disable steam updates for this game?
Can I play any older version as needed? Please add this option! Or at least from now on or so.
Some games offer this, I know The Long Dark has Time Capsuile for that - play any released version of game (in steam).

[Chindraba]

The WUBE website has most of the older versions able to be downloaded and installed. Including the ability to install a second copy without affecting your Steam game data at all.
You Steam purchase includes full access to their web site and content. In their version of the game updates can be completely disabled.

Steam's version can be 'locked' to specific versions using the 'beta' version option. How well that works and what other effects it has, however, are beyond me as I briefly investigated it and then went with the other option.

One big point, however, is the blueprint library. If you have saved any game with the new version the older version will refuse to read the library. There is "help" for that, but it can be a bit tricky and is best dealt with IF you need it. Just remember to keep an older save of the game untouched by the new version of the installed game.

[Khagan]

Chindraba eredeti hozzászólása:

Steam's version can be 'locked' to specific versions using the 'beta' version option. How well that works and what other effects it has, however, are beyond me

Steam only allows a limited number of 'beta' versions, so only the more recent (stable) versions are available this way.

[kremlin]

Khagan eredeti hozzászólása:

Chindraba eredeti hozzászólása:

Steam's version can be 'locked' to specific versions using the 'beta' version option. How well that works and what other effects it has, however, are beyond me

Steam only allows a limited number of 'beta' versions, so only the more recent (stable) versions are available this way.

They'll probably dedicate a slot to the last 1.x releases once 2.0 has dropped.

[Drizzt]

kremlin eredeti hozzászólása:

Khagan eredeti hozzászólása:

Steam only allows a limited number of 'beta' versions, so only the more recent (stable) versions are available this way.

They'll probably dedicate a slot to the last 1.x releases once 2.0 has dropped.

i would suggest that one is a practical certainty - and that the final 1.x version will remain possibly indefinitely - especially since it will initially have terrabytes of mods hosted for it on the mod portal - and many of them will likely get entirely new versions for 2.0 and SA - rather than up revving the original

plus we can still get every stable beta back to the 0.12 - so it would be weird if 1.x was retired any time before 2030 lol :-)

[Drizzt]

just checked and here on Steam we have 1.1 stables going back to 1.1.87

OP - check the version on your save - if it is since 1.1.87 then you will likely find the stable version you want in the betas menu - and you can lock to that till you finish your game

[Chindraba]

In this case it looks like the current version, 1.1.109 is the problem, and the last stable before this, 1.1.107, or perhaps even 1.1.104, is the one used to make the playback save. Both are available on the website and both are probably available on Steam's beta option.

Once downloaded from the website, no matter which version is used, it can be locked to that for as long as the computer remains functional. The beta option, from my understanding, keeps changing what is available, and the 2.0 update just might clear out many of the currently available 1.1.x versions.

My general advice is that the more important the replay is the more the non-Steam option ought to be pursued. Of course, both options can be used. Keep the Steam version locked as long as possible. If Steam changes the options then the WUBE version can be used as a fall-back.

As an extra step, for the one game I want to keep the replay save useful for, I have saved the install file for version 1.1.107 in the same place I have the savegame stored. Even after the release of 2.1 or the loss of Steam's services, I can still load the replay.