Modding with nexus

[Theoneandonlytruekyle]

I'm having an issue adding nexus mods to mw5 I've looked online and followed all the directions and the mods are still not showing up in the in-game mod menu

[Explore]

Starker님이 먼저 게시:

Explore님이 먼저 게시:

If you want to use Nexus for mods, I highly recommend doing it through Vortex, which is their program for downloading and installing mods (you'll find it on the Nexus site). It also manages mod updates.

Please don't install mods manually by copying files. It quickly becomes a nightmare, especially if you need to uninstall them.

As far as mod load order goes, Vortex automanages that, but it can be overriden. More info here https://wiki.nexusmods.com/index.php/The_Vortex_approach_to_load_order_sorting.

^ THIS IS WRONG ^

Please, do not spread misinformation. Mods are contained in a single folder which must be placed in...

\steamapps\common\MechWarrior 5 Mercenaries\MW5Mercs\Mods

...then activated in the in-game mod manager. Uninstallation is simply the reverse of that process.

Sources:

https://www.riotbits.com/mechwarrior-5-mercenaries-complete-modding-guide-162960/

https://www.reddit.com/r/Mechwarrior5/comments/o4lcvt/how_do_i_install_mods/

It's not misinformation, and I'm talking to someone new to PC gaming and modding. It is far better to use their tool (Vortex), which also auto-manages the download, installation, uninstallation, and updating. After using it for an extended time for many different games, I see no reason why anyone wouldn't, Why you think posting sources on how to mod the game make your point, confuses me.

A lot of these problems we hear about mods not working, occur because the workshop has updated a mod, but their other mods are not updated accordingly because they were installed manually through Nexus. Just more trouble for more trouble.

[Theoneandonlytruekyle]

ya funny thing was that was the exact process i used to download the mod but it never showed in game until i used vortex then it instantly showed up. also for the comment about updating it was a fresh download of my first attempt at modding the game there wasnt any others to update just the one i downloaded today

[Explore]

Theoneandonlytruekyle님이 먼저 게시:

also for the comment about updating it was a fresh download of my first attempt at modding the game there wasnt any others to update just the one i downloaded today

Yeah, I was just talking generally. People would have less trouble with mods (from Nexus), if they all used Vortex. I think some people are just a bit wary of programmes like that, but Vortex is solid, and so was its predecessor mod manager.

Anytime you want to check for updates, you can just launch Vortex.

[phfor]

Explore님이 먼저 게시:

Starker님이 먼저 게시:

^ THIS IS WRONG ^

Please, do not spread misinformation. Mods are contained in a single folder which must be placed in...

\steamapps\common\MechWarrior 5 Mercenaries\MW5Mercs\Mods

...then activated in the in-game mod manager. Uninstallation is simply the reverse of that process.

Sources:

https://www.riotbits.com/mechwarrior-5-mercenaries-complete-modding-guide-162960/

https://www.reddit.com/r/Mechwarrior5/comments/o4lcvt/how_do_i_install_mods/

It's not misinformation, and I'm talking to someone new to PC gaming and modding. It is far better to use their tool (Vortex), which also auto-manages the download, installation, uninstallation, and updating. After using it for an extended time for many different games, I see no reason why anyone wouldn't, Why you think posting sources on how to mod the game make your point, confuses me.

A lot of these problems we hear about mods not working, occur because the workshop has updated a mod, but their other mods are not updated accordingly because they were installed manually through Nexus. Just more trouble for more trouble.

There is one part that is completely incorrect of your statement - Vortex can't manage load order (thankfully!). Outside of that, you're correct.

[Explore]

phfor님이 먼저 게시:

Explore님이 먼저 게시:

It's not misinformation, and I'm talking to someone new to PC gaming and modding. It is far better to use their tool (Vortex), which also auto-manages the download, installation, uninstallation, and updating. After using it for an extended time for many different games, I see no reason why anyone wouldn't, Why you think posting sources on how to mod the game make your point, confuses me.

A lot of these problems we hear about mods not working, occur because the workshop has updated a mod, but their other mods are not updated accordingly because they were installed manually through Nexus. Just more trouble for more trouble.

There is one part that is completely incorrect of your statement - Vortex can't manage load order (thankfully!). Outside of that, you're correct.

I've done some more looking. I was correct when I said that Vortex sorts the load order for you. Check this out:

https://wiki.nexusmods.com/index.php/The_Vortex_approach_to_load_order_sorting

However, I was wrong when I said that you can't customise load order in Vortex. I've gone back and corrected that part.

[[‡]=Storky=[‡]]

Explore님이 먼저 게시:

Starker님이 먼저 게시:

^ THIS IS WRONG ^

Please, do not spread misinformation. Mods are contained in a single folder which must be placed in...

\steamapps\common\MechWarrior 5 Mercenaries\MW5Mercs\Mods

...then activated in the in-game mod manager. Uninstallation is simply the reverse of that process.

Sources:

https://www.riotbits.com/mechwarrior-5-mercenaries-complete-modding-guide-162960/

https://www.reddit.com/r/Mechwarrior5/comments/o4lcvt/how_do_i_install_mods/

It's not misinformation, and I'm talking to someone new to PC gaming and modding. It is far better to use their tool (Vortex), which also auto-manages the download, installation, uninstallation, and updating. After using it for an extended time for many different games, I see no reason why anyone wouldn't, Why you think posting sources on how to mod the game make your point, confuses me.

A lot of these problems we hear about mods not working, occur because the workshop has updated a mod, but their other mods are not updated accordingly because they were installed manually through Nexus. Just more trouble for more trouble.

Man, I am new and have tried to install a mod via Vortex.
Numerous registrations, agreements and connections with apps. After 15 minutes of that I just dragged the mod folder from zip to \steamapps\common\MechWarrior 5 Mercenaries\MW5Mercs\Mods and been ok.

Aftermath it left 5+ garbage folders in AppData and system, took a while to clean up.

[Explore]

‡=Storky=‡님이 먼저 게시:

Explore님이 먼저 게시:

It's not misinformation, and I'm talking to someone new to PC gaming and modding. It is far better to use their tool (Vortex), which also auto-manages the download, installation, uninstallation, and updating. After using it for an extended time for many different games, I see no reason why anyone wouldn't, Why you think posting sources on how to mod the game make your point, confuses me.

A lot of these problems we hear about mods not working, occur because the workshop has updated a mod, but their other mods are not updated accordingly because they were installed manually through Nexus. Just more trouble for more trouble.

Man, I am new and have tried to install a mod via Vortex.
Numerous registrations, agreements and connections with apps. After 15 minutes of that I just dragged the mod folder from zip to \steamapps\common\MechWarrior 5 Mercenaries\MW5Mercs\Mods and been ok.

Aftermath it left 5+ garbage folders in AppData and system, took a while to clean up.

I'd love to know what you're talking about lol. Been a while since I installed it, but I can't remember having those (or any) sorts of issues, and OP who is completely new to PC gaming had no issues.

Obviously you need to be registered to Nexus (which you also need to do to download the mods manually), there would be an agreement you have to click yes to (like with any program), and then after that it should automatically detect what games you're running.

Edit: Please don't take anything I said to mean you're not competent - I've had a bad day and I might not be using the right words.

[[‡]=Storky=[‡]]

Explore님이 먼저 게시:

‡=Storky=‡님이 먼저 게시:

Man, I am new and have tried to install a mod via Vortex.
Numerous registrations, agreements and connections with apps. After 15 minutes of that I just dragged the mod folder from zip to \steamapps\common\MechWarrior 5 Mercenaries\MW5Mercs\Mods and been ok.

Aftermath it left 5+ garbage folders in AppData and system, took a while to clean up.

I'd love to know what you're talking about lol. Been a while since I installed it, but I can't remember having those (or any) sorts of issues, and OP who is completely new to PC gaming had no issues.

Obviously you need to be registered to Nexus (which you also need to do to download the mods manually), there would be an agreement you have to click yes to (like with any program), and then after that it should automatically detect what games you're running.

Edit: Please don't take anything I said to mean you're not competent - I've had a bad day and I might not be using the right words.

All good.

Yep, registration, connect Nexus profile, find the game. I have 2 steam stores, one on laptop, and one on external HDD. Probably that confused Vortex.
Well, I have a bad memory, Vortex attracted me that I don't gonna bother with finding an actual steam folder. But to help it I opened it from steam. Since I have found the MW5 folder, I knew that I need simply drag and drop the mod, and I did it.

tl dr
It is easy and simple to install a mod by myself. If there are 10+ Nexus mods, then it is worth to bother with Vortex to have functionality of Steam subscriptions.
I have only 4 yet.

[Explore]

‡=Storky=‡님이 먼저 게시:

Explore님이 먼저 게시:

I'd love to know what you're talking about lol. Been a while since I installed it, but I can't remember having those (or any) sorts of issues, and OP who is completely new to PC gaming had no issues.

Obviously you need to be registered to Nexus (which you also need to do to download the mods manually), there would be an agreement you have to click yes to (like with any program), and then after that it should automatically detect what games you're running.

Edit: Please don't take anything I said to mean you're not competent - I've had a bad day and I might not be using the right words.

All good.

Yep, registration, connect Nexus profile, find the game. I have 2 steam stores, one on laptop, and one on external HDD. Probably that confused Vortex.
Well, I have a bad memory, Vortex attracted me that I don't gonna bother with finding an actual steam folder. But to help it I opened it from steam. Since I have found the MW5 folder, I knew that I need simply drag and drop the mod, and I did it.

tl dr
It is easy and simple to install a mod by myself. If there are 10+ Nexus mods, then it is worth to bother with Vortex to have functionality of Steam subscriptions.
I have only 4 yet.

I forgot Vortex needed to link to Steam - I guess if you have more than 1 account, that could confuse it. I guess that explains why it co-exists so nicely with the workshop.

In this game, it's not as hard as others to manage a few mods installed manually (though even with 4 I'd contend it ends up taking a bit longer). However, Nexus has mods for a lot of games. I think I use 7 mods for this game, but it's hard to find a Skyrim player who has less than 50 lol . That was actually the game LOOT (a fan made app to manage mod conflicts) was made for, and it was then integrated into Vortex.

That's not to say you must use Vortex if you don't want to. What you're doing is fine, and you know the option is there if you ever need it :)