How are you playing Solo game matters.

Choosing any NWI playlists to start solo game will practically block any advanced server modding.

Originally posted by Arc:

How are you playing Solo game matters.

sv_playlist custom
mp_theater_override

the arsenal mods i downloaded by subscribing work fine on solo, i just want to know how to activate the ones downloaded when joining custom servers so i dont have to redownload them

Where the custom theaters are (the ones you want to try out) ?
There might be some forced paths the command is not looking into.

Originally posted by Arc:

Where the custom theaters are (the ones you want to try out) ?

same place where all the server downloads go, C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\workshop. but there is no theater files in any of them. my guess is the theater file is hosted on the server and the game only downloads the assets needed

Originally posted by Gran Autismo:

same place where all the server downloads go

Not quite, Steam Workshop has ..\SteamApps\Workshop for ISteamUGC, ..\Insurgency2\insurgency\custom\workshop (or "..\Insurgency2\insurgency\maps") for ISteamRemoteStorage (the old workshop), ..\Insurgency2\insurgency\custom for FastDL and various folders in "insurgency" dir by servers forcing files via SourceMod.

Originally posted by Gran Autismo:

...theater file is hosted on the server and the game only downloads the assets needed

The theater has to exist on client in order to properly load on such, hence why this game has so many issues when you connect to the server with modded theater for the first time and it has not pushed it yet to the client, forcing it to reconnect (welp, there are even more bugs with the way Theaters are handled on client, but I digress :3)

If the mod is in current Steam Workshop, for theaters, sounds, skins, models, etc. it will be in VPK file which the game seamlessly loads in.
Mods from old workshop has to have filepath attached to them.


Might be that because the client isn't technically subbed to the item it does not look for that mod ID, hard to tell.

So the mod, and its location, origins, etc. all matters.

in other words, i have to subscribe and download the mod all over again. effectively having 2 copies of the same mod.

That largely depends on how the mod was delivered, but I already said that.

It would help to know what mod are you even trying to load in. Is it on workshop ? If so, sub it manually (there won't be 2 mod files in this case).
If not, you need to investigate where it is and how it was delivered to your client.

Originally posted by Arc:

That largely depends on how the mod was delivered, but I already said that.

It would help to know what mod are you even trying to load in. Is it on workshop ? If so, sub it manually (there won't be 2 mod files in this case).
If not, you need to investigate where it is and how it was delivered to your client.

Mods are delivered here (C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\workshop\content\222880) when joining a custom online server.
Yes, the mods i want are also in workshop. But since i already have all the files downloaded from when i joined the custom online server; I'm trying to find a way to activate them for solo offline play.
If i subscribe to those same mods, I have to download a new copy of the same mod, but it goes to (C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\insurgency2\insurgency\custom).

Send me the workshop link of the mod you are specifically trying to load in.

Originally posted by Arc:

Send me the workshop link of the mod you are specifically trying to load in.

https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/workshop/filedetails/?id=2419546189
any of these armory mods, i am subscibed to one and it works fine for solo, i have somo of the others already downloaded from the online servers but i cant start them solo offline, console says the theater file does not exist

Assuming the servers actually did use Steam Workshop for these, it should work.
If it doesn't, it might be because you still need to subscribe to them (we didn't really test this case back when I was at NWI).

Originally posted by Gran Autismo:

If i subscribe to those same mods, I have to download a new copy of the same mod, but it goes to (C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\insurgency2\insurgency\custom).

The only Workshop items that dupe files are the legacy items uploaded by ISteamRemoteStorage (uploaded/updated earlier than 2015).
In which case a binary blob file is downloaded to ..\steamapps\workshop\content\222880 then the actual data is extracted and copied to ..\insurgency2\insurgency\custom\Workshop

It seems all of the theaters you linked are ISteamUGC items meaning the only files you will have will be in ..\steamapps\workshop\content\222880, and assuming you connected to the server using exactly these item IDs from Steam Workshop, there won't be a second copy if you subscribe.

That's why I keep asking you about if you are certain about the server mods you are trying to use.

For solo, you must subscribe it or put it in custom folder (this 100% works). Not just auto downloaded it from custom servers.