how to download steam workshop files without the game

Feel free to post any questions/suggestions in here as well, as I'll check the thread once or twice a day. I'll be keeping this thread updated each release as features get put in, so check back if you are curious as to the state of workshop support. This post is targeted both towards those of you making levels/mods and those of you that are running servers.

Some of you know me as 'That Turkey Story' in-game on lerkmore/on steam/on SA. Sorry, guys!Ī quick introduction before getting started as this is my first post on the forums - I'm Matt, I've been adding in the Steam Workshop support to NS2. I'm going to try to get in touch with Valve and see if something can be done with hldsupdatetool to accommodate workshop mods (but that would almost certainly take at least a little bit of time, pending they even decide to support it), otherwise, I'm going to see if we can get build 211 out a little sooner than planned so that I can at least restore the ability to copy mods manually for now in the case where no Steam is available. Update: The underlying problem is that the downloading of workshop mods requires Steam, so people just using the hldsupdatetool can't possibly retrieve the workshop files. Hopefully this is an isolated occurrence. If everything works for you without problems, let me know. If there are problems, the only current 'workaround' is to not use workshop mods (sorry, guys, this build was supposed to make things a lot easier for servers, not break them). If you encounter this problem on your own server, please let me know what it printed to std out - it should print information about each mod when it begins and finishes updating and then the server should start up as normal. It seems as though it's a problem with the build, although I can't seem to reproduce the problem locally when running server. At the very least, I'm having problems getting them to work on servers.

Important Information Regarding Build 210īuild 210 recently went out, and of course, it seems like there's a problem hosting games that use workshop mods.

How to download steam workshop files without the game