Addons Resetting

[Pegasis-Vera (She/They)]

No matter how many times I do it, no matter what addons I disable, no matter what order I disable them, all my addons reset to the original on setting for ALL of them... It's getting rather annoying since I spent a half hour disabling them to begin with, and then another 10 minutes redoing it and still getting the exact same result. Does anyone know how to fix this, or do I have to just stop playing this game now?

[x-y]

I just recently returned to playing this game, my addon folder was fresh empty, luckily I had saved a backup copy before I reformatted, I pasted it and everything works fine.

Now when I went in the game, obviously ALL of them were enabled, I disabled the overlapping ones, and been playing fine ever since. Never had your problem, but I'd imagine your game has a problem with Steam cloud, it seems it's not saving for the addons portion.

[x-y]

Also after little research, it seems people are reporting that if you mainly use workshop addons, try to only sub to a new one while the game is open. If you dl a workshop addon without being ingame [game open] it apparently re-enables all your workshop addons. Again, I never went through that, but I do agree with that notion, whatever workshop items I subscribe to, I always do while in game. Addons from sites like gamemaps are the ones I do while the game is closed.

I hope it works for you.

[Pegasis-Vera (She/They)]

Originally posted by x-y:

Also after little research, it seems people are reporting that if you mainly use workshop addons, try to only sub to a new one while the game is open. If you dl a workshop addon without being ingame [game open] it apparently re-enables all your workshop addons. Again, I never went through that, but I do agree with that notion, whatever workshop items I subscribe to, I always do while in game. Addons from sites like gamemaps are the ones I do while the game is closed.

I hope it works for you.

I've been doing that, but I downloaded one mod in-game before this post, and EVERYTHING broke.

[x-y]

Which mod did you get? If you don't mind me asking.

[Pegasis-Vera (She/They)]

I downloaded the BF4 hand grenade because my current one was from WWII, and I wanted the RE2 campaign to seem as realistic as possible.

[Pegasis-Vera (She/They)]

Also, uninstalling the mod does nothing.

[x-y]

No I imagine uninstalling wouldn't make a difference.

K, try this if you haven't already; Close your game and navigate to your addons directory, copy all of the items in your addons folder and save them elsewhere. Then open your game, go unsub from all of the workshop items you're currently subbed to. When done, delete all of the items in your addons folder, then move the saved items back into your addons folder.

What we just attempted to do is, 'memorize' all your mods, and put them in a separate place. Go ingame, and unfollow all the mods so everytime you run the game, they don't reload themselves due to the subscription. Close the game, delete everything in the addons folder, which is originally backed up from step 1, then move everything back into the addons folder.

All your mods now are saved WITHOUT any subscription. Put them all in, reopen the game, wait for the addons symbol to complete, then do your checking/unchecking, join a random game, then leave, close the game, open it again, and check if they are reset.

[Stark Raven]

Have you tried manually editing the addonlist.txt in the Steam/steamapps/common/left 4 dead 2/left4dead2 folder?

[x-y]

Sorry edit;
After you unsub from workshop mods, and delete all of your mods in addons folder, start the game, and close it, so it's refreshed, then proceed with rest.

[Pegasis-Vera (She/They)]

See, the addons that aren't on Workshop are doing it too. And I'm not editing that file manually because... oh my god, so many addons that I don't know what they are for the most part.

[x-y]

Hmm, interesting.

Try what I suggested anyway. Then we'll see what we can do next.

[Pegasis-Vera (She/They)]

I have a good couple GB of stuff to move and delete then...

[x-y]

That's alright, I'm not asking you to selectively move and delete. Just select all.

[Pegasis-Vera (She/They)]

I know. I have a good couple hours of stuff to move. And I'm on an HDD, not SSD so this'll take a bit longer.

[x-y]

Then just copy and delete, do everything, then paste, for the most part you'll just have to wait for the pasting to finish.