You guys are killing me (updates)

[Grunewald]

I should be happy that you (Paradox) are still bringing new stuff to HoI4... But i hate it.
I have so many flavour mods running. And every small or larger update most of them get useless. Sometimes i'm lucky and those amazing guys who made them are still on them. But after a year and more they get less and less. Understandable with all those upcoming games. But i feel like i'm loosing here.
Like now.
In my rare spare time i would love to play for a couple of hours - not to put my game back to order...

 

[minderbart]

you could go back to a previous version

 

[Grunewald]

you could go back to a previous version

This, my friend, was a very fine hint! I researched it and went back to1.9.3. Good thing: close to all mods are back to work - but 2. This saves me some work.
Thanks, mate!
ps: Paradox - you are still killing me

 

[DystopianAlphaOmega]

you could go back to a previous version

Exactly this. They keep all major versions available as Steam “beta versions” for just this sort of situation.

 

[Grunewald]

Exactly this. They keep all major versions available as Steam “beta versions” for just this sort of situation.

Any hint for me, how to keep my steammods also at 1.9.3?

 

[jumbi]

ps: Paradox - you are still killing me

It's really on the side of Steam and not Paradox. It auto-updates your game and pulls the latest version of mods with no way of using older versions of mods after updtes being forced short of a direct download being made available.

 

[GSP Jr]

Give the mod owners a chance, most haven't gotten a look at it until today either.

If a mod was up to date with 1.9.* the owner might be working on it at this very moment.

 

[KubiG37]

I think you overestimate the impact of updates on mods, I can still use some mods last updated for patch 1.5* , and they don't cause any issues ever, especially the graphic/flavour ones. At most some new country tag might be missing a picture, or a symbol, or a focus won't have any effect.

The focus tree mods - they work 95% just as they did before, they work by REPLACING vanilla files, so if it's say soviet mod there will likely be almost no changes affecting it. Maybe 1 new vanilla event won't fire, maybe AI won't select 1 focus, but it will work. This game is extremely resilient to bugs in mods.

And last note: It's not a 5 min work to check every single mod file and compare it with vanilla for off-record changes made by PDX.

 

[marxwasright]

HOI4 hardly ever updates. Try playing imperator where they rehaul the whole game every few weeks

 

[brissyger]

I also noticed that even if the launcher says the mod is not compaitible with the current version sometimes that mod will still run. I uninstalled and reinstalled Kaiserreich many times on a previous patch before realising it actually worked despite the error message.

This is especially true for an update like this which is mostly content and very little in the way of mechanics.

 

[GSP Jr]

I also noticed that even if the launcher says the mod is not compaitible with the current version sometimes that mod will still run. I uninstalled and reinstalled Kaiserreich many times on a previous patch before realising it actually worked despite the error message.

This is especially true for an update like this which is mostly content and very little in the way of mechanics.

There is supported_version= parameter in a .mod file that the Launcher uses to say if a mod is "compatible".
It does not check the mod at all, it takes the modder's word.