It’s so baffling that something is not only broken but you can’t even find a workaround because the system itself is terrible design.

What I meant was that I’d love to download the files directly so that I could place them into the local folder and just be done with dealing with their broken mod manager. Maybe that’s true if you have the Windows Store / Game Pass verion, it’s certainly not true in my case. “I have heard, that you can subscribe to mod on website and then game automatically downloads it.” “Does the mod still have red exclamation mark in “Installed mods” list?” Latest version of the game with the December update. So please, a developer or another user who managed to figure this thing out: help me because I have no clue how this stuff is supposed to work.

I don’t know where the files are getting downloaded because the game is simply not telling me (that is even if the mod does get downloaded, I mean I can’t check that). Why can’t I just download a mod THROUGH MY BROWSER from the official site? You have to use the broken in-game mod manager instead of MS letting me to just you know, do things the old fashioned way in order to get around bugs like this. That I managed to do by downloading the files after another user shared them with me and then I just manually copied those files into the “local” folder inside my Windows user directory where Age 2 DE’s mods directory is located. So far the only things I could get working were some custom campaigns. Here’s what I’m doing or rather trying to do on video:Īm I doing something wrong here? What does the exclamation mark mean next to the mod’s title? What does the green checkmark mean? That it finished downloading? Why doesn’t the “open directory” option work? Why does the tooltip tell me this weird ■■■■ about subcribed mods “living” inside Steam directories instead of just telling me the path of the directory where I can find it? I’ve tested it again with the “2019 Winter Celebration” mod since that’s an official one then I guess at least that one should work but nope. I’m having an issue with mods since the game launched: they are just not working, no matter what I do.

Age of empires 2 mods steam