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Spalls Hurgenson  <spallsh...@gmail.com> wrote:
>The biggest problem I had with the game this month had less to do with
>the title itself and more to do with Steam and its idiotic and
>gamer-hostile policy of forcing updates on players. ETS2 has a
>significant modding community despite the fact that updates to the
>base program frequently break the mods, and this problem is
>exacerbated by the fact that you can't prevent Steam from applying
>patches. This stupidity hit me hard this month, as just as soon as I
>had finished downloading and installing the latest versions of my
>favorite mod, Steam patched the game and I had to start all over. Long
>story short, it was two frustrating days before I could play a game I
>usually rely on to bring me zen tranquility. This resulted in a rant
>of which this is a blessedly edited and shortened version. But damned
>if I don't hate Steam.

I haven't tried it but there is actually one way you should be able to
stop Steam from updating the game and breaking compatibility with mods.
If you bring up the property page for the game and select the BETAS
tab, you should see a drop down box where you can select from various
"beta" versions of the game.  Most of them are actually old versions
of the game, namely the ones prefixed with "temporary".  Select the
version that your mods work with and you should stay at that version.
If you pick the latest one  you might still get minor updates, but you
shouldn't get any major mod breaking ones.

					Ross Ridge

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