Originally posted by 100_o/o_f@ke:

And another three more problems solved!
As for the other two problems, Motanum and GShock could you please confirm that they are still there, still exist?

Just checked and the game still checks for updates when offline and doesn't ever load addons that were downloaded from the workshop..

Maybe a problem-
Anyone else notice that when an update is loaded now the download graph doesn't show the correct addon updating and the bar doesn't progress now?

I updated my addon part 4 and when it shows downloading it shows Back to School part 2 with no progress happening. If i wait a short while it instantly finishes.. And my part was updated..

I wonder if valve is getting it ready for general release? If what they posted on their twitter is correct looks like everyone will have it next week..

Guess all our issues are fixed then?

Originally posted by Kerry:

Similarly, scripts in a campaign addon will override the base game only while you're playing that campaign.

I still don't think this is true.

I have modded talker scripts for each character in my campaign and when I just played a stock campaign I can issue a custom concept rule command and it fires and speaks the lines in dead center as its modded in my campaigns scripts...

So what is going on there??

I never even loaded my campaign up to play i just started l4d2 and created a dead center local lobby..

If you want to test it start a stock map (map c5m1_waterfront) with my campaign downloaded to your system.

Then issue the command: ent_fire director fireconcepttoany MTEllisStories

MTEllisStories is a custom concept line added to the talker scripts(thanks to hrcspkla for the scripts)

Yes to be sure like 100_o/o_f@ke said. For scripts or models can it conflict with another campaign or even when the player is not playing effect the Stock gameplay(scripts ect)

Kerry you said in a past update that:

- Don't report file conflicts between campaigns - only the active campaign is loaded during game play so the conflicts don’t matter.

Does this mean if a campaign now has scripts that might overwrite stock settings, like talker scripts or population.txt files that its unloaded now after the campaign is played? Or is this still not the case with the workshop?

Or was this more checking done on the workshop side to disable conflict checking only on campaigns but custom scripts ect still might conflict with other content?

Issue:
Working in offline mode game still checks or at least appears like its trying to check for updates. And doesn't appear to load addons while in offline mode..

On top of this is there a way to disable update checking in game via a cvar or add a menu option? I know your wondering why would you want too but some people may want to disable it if they have slow or limited bandwidth available. This is kinda like how you can disable update checking for any steam game..

Suggestion:
I see revisions next to an item but no way to show whats changed from one update to the next.

I suggest a way for publishers to have notes to each upload either from the workshop item page or from the publisher program..

This way if something is updated users know if a problem was fixed or content added ect..

Originally posted by 100_o/o_S@nta:

Kerry, romasm's email - cosik100@yandex.ru and profile

GShock, i'm totally agree! I love that we need to split up campaigns in several vpk files (i can update only one map, and users don't need to download full 1.2 Gb campaign one more time, just 100-200 Mb, AWESOME!), but i think that Workshop will be a mess with a bunch of separate parts of campaigns.

Left 4 Dead 2 has 188 custom campaigns right now (acording to l4dmaps.com). I know that maybe half of them is dead, but anyway, this will be insane!

OMG and i was thinking this was bad about spliting up your content in to multiple vpk's.(its bad now that the workshop doesn't require users to download the other parts) I'll have to look at doing something similar to my campaign because it sure would be eaiser and faster for users to download a small Part versus a big pack when I have to make an update!

I think i'll setup the parts right now so each content type is a part!

Originally posted by Kerry:

Kerry Dec 17, 2012 @ 6:06pm
Regarding dependencies between workshop items, that is a feature that has been discussed for the future, but doesn't currently exist. Collections are the closest thing we have to that right now.

Suggestion #5 was talked about back on the 17th.

I think this is something that needs to be addressed ASAP because just looking at the items screen Link [dl.dropbox.com] is both a mess and could be confusing to some..

Why not something like this when items can be made to require other parts.. Example[dl.dropbox.com]

What do you think?

Yes my photo editing skills are lacking :P

PS.

OR why not have a section for campaigns/maps?

Items/Collections/Campaigns/Maps... Just ideas..