@Deuterium Oxide
Hello everyone!
I'm the author of the Italian Language Pack mod for AOW: Planetfall. As its title implies, the mod translated the game into Italian (it also includes all expansions). I've spent a good portion of 2020 working on it.
On 7th of September, I've started receiving numerous reports from other users saying that the mod wasn't working anymore. Some of them had been playing the game in the morning, then came back to it in the afternoon to find out that it had inexplicably gone back to the English language. I tried to help them in various ways (reinstalling the game or the mod didn't help) to no avail. I also tried updating the mod through the modding tools... and that's when the mod stopped working for me as well!
The "Italian" option still appears in the languages menu, but selecting it does nothing. Once the game is restarted, the selected language is still "English".
A couple days ago, a friend was able to solve the problem. Basically the only way to make the mod work is this:
1 - Load the game via Steam, select the Italian language from the option menu, as always.
2 - Quit the game.
3 - Restard the game via the AowPF exe file in the Planetfall directory.
This immediately load the game without opening the launcher, and makes the mod work correctly. This method seems to be working for everyone who was affected by the issue.
I suppose there's some sort of conflict between the launcher and my mod? I've tried updating it but that made no difference. Just opening the launcher, immediately closing it and THEN launching the game via .exe is enough to make it go back to English and ignore my mod.
My launcher is using version 2021.7.1 and I've never opted into any betas, so I'm not sure where the problem is coming from.
Any advice? Thanks!!