Getting old AS2 mods to work tutorial

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A quick tutorial on how to play old AS2 mods. For those of you, who miss playing their old mods because they don't work anymore, here is a guide how to get them to work.

Posted by Buzztr0n on Oct 12th, 2015 - Basic Starting a mod

For mods that are no longer in development, and/or mods who aren't working on a fix for the update, you have two options:

1) Using outdated mods with update 3.200.0

This can lead to errors in the mod tho, since you are using the mod version which is not optimized for the patch. It depends on the content of the mod, if it will work without any problems or not. Good luck!

Go to "...\Men of War Assault Squad 2\mods\modname\" and open the mod.info file with an text editor. Now change the MaxGameVersion to the current patch version, or up to 10 numbers higher (for future updates). So for the current patch 3.200.0 the maximum you can insert would be: {MaxGameVersion "3.210"}

2) Downgrading (back to the old patch)

Going back to the previous patch will restore the game as it was without the last major engine update. So every mod that broke with the update, will work again!

Right-click on the game in your steam library, click on "Properties" and go to the "Beta" tab, there select "previous_patch" and wait for your game to re-install the old files.

Not tested, just theory: Back up all the files from that previous game build (so everything except for the "mods" folder). In case the "previous_patch" option becomes unavailable, you should be able to copy over the content from your backup folder (make sure to delete everything in the game folder except for the "mods" folder first!) and play that way.

Cheers,

Buzztron