Disable dlc

[Grace1957]

I am new to the game and I wanted to play it without the dlc at first.I have unchecked all of them,but everytime I play they are all checked again.Is there a way to keep them disabled until I am ready to play them?

[Crixus]

Are you saying you can play with them unchecked but the settings reset each time ? If so I get that too with some options, mainly quick combat and movemeant. I think some things don't get remembered for some reason.

But why would you want to play without the dlc though ? I bought the game without them first and trust me the dlc make it 1000x better. They add so much to the game. They also change stuff too so it might also be better to not learn the base game if your eventually going to play the dlc anyway.

[The Rock God]

The only real reason to play without DLC is for the achievements that you can't get using the expansions. The majority of the DLC is just additional things in the game, but God & Kings and Brave New World are full blown expansions that significantly alter the way you play the game.

Since you have a lot of hours in Skyrim, I'll put it this way: Most of the DLC is Hearthfire. Something new for you to play with. G&K would be like if Dawnguard not only added perks for vampires & werewolves, but totally changed the levelling system and magic. Dragonborn would have then seriously nerfed the money you can make from crafting while making the joinable factions something you don't want to ignore.

[Grace1957]

I just wanted to get a feel for the game and I am tired of having to uncheck all the dlc everytime I play.

[Damsteri]

You can disable DLCs from Steam library, but I won't recommend it. Vanilla Civ V only decent game and have lots of bugs af fails. Expansions really made this game great. And.. if you learn to play vanilla well, then you have to unlearn it and learn totally new mechanisms, because expansions change the game creatly. You can forget anything about at least from combat, culture, economy, diplomacy and city states from vanilla when you move over to expansions, all of those have been overhauled in expansions. I recommend using at least Gods&Kings, but preferably all. Main thing that G&K gives you is some control over randomness, like better combat mechanisms (don't lose units randomly so often) and use of religion to mitigate bad starts.

[Grace1957]

It shouldn't be too hard to relearn since I have no idea what I'm doing anyway!

[Jambie Lionheart]

I'm assuming you've only tried disabling them from steams library page, but have you tried disabling the DLCs from ingame as well? That might require a restart, though I doubt it, since that would defeat the purpose.

If you have tried using the ingame settings to turn them off, then you can also try disabling them from the library page, and restarting steam (as opposed to going straight back into gameplay).

[Damsteri]

Btw. DLCs stay disabled in save games, if you disable DLCs when start a game and then load the game from a save game. Selected DLCs are stored in the save game file, so you need to manually set up DLCs only when you are starting a new game.

[Grace1957]

So even if all the dlc are checked off in game,I can continue my game and they won't be there?I'll have to give that a try.

[KalkiKrosah]

Originally posted by Grace1957:

I just wanted to get a feel for the game and I am tired of having to uncheck all the dlc everytime I play.

One of the victory conditions gets changed when you don't have Brave New World installed. Cultural victories incorporate tourism into the mix. Basically you win by generating a higher tourism value than the cultural value of your enemies. The old way involved you completing 5 trees of the social policy branch, which is a far more boring approach if you ask me.

And the DLC adds a few things but the most complicated thing they add is religion. Religion can be ignored if you wish but it does make things easier by giving small bonuses and giving you an additional source of revenue to work with.

There's also new civilizations but since you can predetermine the civilizations that will be in your game by accessing the additional settings this is a moot point.