Nightshade: I think I've got my mod folder in the wrong spot, over and above the question of a mod launcher.

Rengaru: Since this version doesn't come with a launcher, you have to do everything manually.

If you are playing the base game (no WotC), first go to the game folder and create a mod folder.

XComGame\Mods

Then drop the mods into that folder, make sure the .XComMod file is present in that folder

XComGame\Mods\YourMod\example.XComMod

Finally you have to manually enable each mod by going to

XComGame\Config\DefaultModOptions.ini

and type an entry for every mod you wish to enable

[Engine.XComModOptions]
ActiveMods="example1"
ActiveMods="example2"
ActiveMods="example3"

If you are playing WotC the instructions are mostly the same, but everything has to be done in the WotC game folder i.e.

XCom2-WarOfTheChosen\XComGame\Mods
XCom2-WarOfTheChosen\XComGame\Config\DefaultModOptions.ini

Oathed: Can you confirm or deny that this process works without crashing the game on startup?

Nightshade: I don't seem to have this working. Perhaps someone can take a look at what I'm doing and tell me how I've gone awry?

I've got this placed in XCOM2/XCOM-2WarOfTheChosen/XComGame/Config

This is the DefaultModOptions.ini file:

[Engine.XComModOptions]
ActiveMods="1126395106 Evac All - WotC"
ActiveMods="1183474335 [WOTC] EC Map Pack"
ActiveMods="1220718459 [WOTC] EC Map Pack 2"

Nightshade: Within the folder, which part is the actual mod name? I tried the one on the .XCOMMOD file, and it still does not appear to work.

For reference, that appears to be EvacAll_WotC.XComMod. I tried it both with and without the .XcomMod portion just in case that was causing a problem.

I'm also making the assumption that this should normally be operational even if a given save did not have it engaged when you made it; that could, of course, be an unwarranted assumption.

Nightshade: The title with the number in front of it was the folder name; as you note, its different than the name of the file, over and above the lack of the number. Is that liable to be a problem (i.e. is there going to be a difficulty in the program finding the file in the mods folder if the subfolder does not have the same name?)

(Note, I didn't change any of these, far as I know, and they've worked with the Steam version of the game on another machine that has the mod manager).

To make it clear, I tried that both with and without the extension; neither seemed to work (I've been using the Evac-All because its the easiest one to test in game; as I've changed things, I'd get back into the game, pull up my latest save, call for an evac, and then see if both evac buttons show up. They haven't on any of the three versions of the .ini line I've used.

Nightshade: For some reason my reply to the above post is not, well, posting, so let's simplify this:

The current version of the .ini file is:

[Engine.XComModOptions]
ActiveMods="EvacAll_WotC"
ActiveMods="[WOTC]ECMapPack"
ActiveMods="[WOTC]ECMapPack2"

The mods are in XCOM2/XCom2-WarOfTheChosen/XComGame/Mods

The.ini file is in XCOM2/XCom2-WarOfTheChosen/XComGame/Config

The ini file was produced with GetDiz, buut if that's a problem, it'd be the first time editing an .ini file with it was.

I did a test with a newly started mission, and it did not work. Those mods are from either the Nexus or Skymods; I don't have access to the Steam versions. They've worked on a pre-GOG version of the game, however.

Given the above, where have I gone astray?