Races i downloaded a year ago work fine, but any new steam workshop items i subscribe to are not showing up in the actual game. I have tried:
Items appear to be downloading, but races never appear in the menu when i click New Game.
Is there anything else i can do? I've been trying this for hours for something that should "just work". Getting very frustrated.
thanks in advance.
Other players have reported that subscribing to a workshop item while ingame fixed the issue. Have you tried that?
Same problem here. Playing the latest beta and saw this and thought I'd try and see if it affected me and it does. Doesn't matter whether I'm accessing the workshop through the Steam app or the game, adding a race and then restarting the game the newly added race does not show up.
I hate those "works for me" posts, but here's another one. Last night I subscribed to two races from the workshop (from inside GC3) and they downloaded and are available in the game.
Yeah, me, too, except when I'm posting them...
I've tried a few times a few different ways but they don't show up... Wondering if it has something to do with some really old ones I've had from the beginning days... clueless at this point... story of my life... lol
When i'm on the new game / race selection screen, i click "Steam Workshop" (or whatever) button in the lower left corner. It opens up a web browser, not the steam client, and not any kind of in-game selector. Is this what everyone else is getting?
I've tried subscribing and unsubscribing from both the web browser and the steam client with no affect. They show as subscribed and the files seem to download, but never appear in the game.
I have also tried v3.0, 3.0.1 and subscribing and unsubscribing from beta builds (currently 3.0.2). Nothing has worked.
The only thing i can think of doing next is the nuclear option of just uninstalling steam itself. I'm afraid that will just make things worse.
I can only get the new races to show up in GalCiv3 if I use the Steam Workshop button in the race selection screen to open the Steam overlay. I then find the race I'm missing, unsubscribe from it, subscribe to it, then click on Click here to return to game at the top of the screen. If that is what you are doing and it doesn't work, here is another possible solution.
When I subscribe in Steam, all the data get downloaded to my computer, but it doesn't get transferred to the GC3Crusade directory in Document\My Games. This is a bug introduced recently, maybe in 3.0 or the last one before 3.0
It is downloaded into C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\workshop\content\226860. If you go there and sort by date with the new ones listed first, you should find the missing race listed first. It will be in a folder with a series of numbers as the name. Open the folder, then open the Factions folder to see the name of the race. If it is the correct one, close that folder. Open the folder Document\My Games\GC3Crusade. Go back to the folder that has a series of numbers as the name. You should see only folders with names like Designs, Factions and ShipStyleSet. You may not get all of these, and you may get more. It depends on what is included with the race. Select all of these folders, right-click in the selected area and choose copy. Select the GalCiv3 folder in Document\My Games, right-click in it and choose paste. If you prefer another way to do the copying, that will work. You will be asked if you want to merge folders, so choose yes.
The race should now show up in the race selection screen.
I have not had to use this method, but I believe it will work. It's just copying data from one location to another that the game uses.
SOLVED! (sort of)
SUMMARY:
Game only syncs data if you have steam overlay enabled in-game.
SOLUTION:
GalCiv3 should now say "hot loading game data" and your goodies should now be available.
@StarDock:
Please consider adding an additional check for downloaded assets for persons who do not have the steam overlay enabled. Otherwise you get frustrated users wasting their time and making posts like this one
Thanks everyone for the tips!
That does explain it, thanks. I do have the overlay enabled, so when I clicked on the "Steam Workshop" button it brought up the Steam overlay, not a web browser.
Nice, leiavoia, thanks for the fix!
By reading this topic, I found a "worked for me" solution:
Go to "new game" and click on "steam workshop", subscribe to any race (I did unsubscribed just after), then go back to the game. A loading screen should appear.
Does not work every time, can may have to try sometimes.
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