Patch 5 erased my mods

**PunchDrunk** · October 18, 2013, 03:52 PM

I had a turn per year mod, a victory conditions mod and one of Radious' unit packs. The turn per year/ victory conditions were all edited through an ESF editor and my startpos.esf was reset back to normal. Now I have to get the mods to work all over again. Now I'm pissed. Has this happened to anybody else?

**Xylitol** · October 18, 2013, 04:09 PM

Patches many time do that (In generic terms, not just this game). It totally depends what files game developers modified in that case. In my case, game didnt even start with my installed mods, but thats ok as I know how "mods" works.

**Alexmcm13** · October 18, 2013, 04:12 PM

The Startpos had to be updated to make the Seleucids playable, nothing much they could do about that. As for the unit pack disappearing, open up the new mod manager in the launcher, and make sure that the .pack for it is enabled.

**PunchDrunk** · October 18, 2013, 04:37 PM

Originally Posted by Alexmcm13

The Startpos had to be updated to make the Seleucids playable, nothing much they could do about that. As for the unit pack disappearing, open up the new mod manager in the launcher, and make sure that the .pack for it is enabled.

What if I had a pre-patch 5 save game with the unit pack enabled? If I reinstalled the unit pack and continued the saved game would it cause problems?

**Americanus Supremus** · October 18, 2013, 04:46 PM

Will most likely cause problems. With the patch they overwrote almost every file that mods have used to fix this game... These fixes should have been there at release, but again I digress this game is well hopeless

**PunchDrunk** · October 18, 2013, 05:23 PM

Originally Posted by Americanus Supremus

Will most likely cause problems. With the patch they overwrote almost every file that mods have used to fix this game... These fixes should have been there at release, but again I digress this game is well hopeless

That pisses me off >:O Now I'm going to have to wait until they completely stop patching the game in order for me to play again.

**Humble Warrior** · October 18, 2013, 05:52 PM

Yea, makes using Mods difficult.

**krisslanza** · October 18, 2013, 06:15 PM

Aren't those mods upload into Steam Workshop already? If not, you just have to wait for them to be added. Either way, you either do that, or wait for the mod maker to make a version that works with Patch 5.
This isn't anything new, it isn't unusual for a game to update and break mods due to the files that get changed. Every company does it.

**wulfgar610** · October 18, 2013, 06:38 PM

With the changes to the game loader it appears the mods have been disabled rather than erased. They'd would have to be re-enabled if suitable for patch5. I wish they'd stuck to doing it as a beta first.