Surviving Mars - Deleted/unlinked mods

[Tavdy79]

Description
Deleted/unlinked mods


Windows


Steam

What is your game version?


Do you have Space Race installed?
Yes

Please explain your issue is in as much detail as possible.
Following an update to the game this morning, all the mods that I'd previously installed were gone. According to my account on Steam I'm still subscribed to them all, they're just not showing up within the game. While I can reinstall many of them with the mod manager within the game (which I usually avoid since the one in the Steam app is better) the list there is not complete, so I reckon there's up to two dozen mods I had been using which are currently unavailable.

I've tried unsubscribing/resubscribing to mods on the Steam app, and that didn't work, which suggested the fault may be a break in the link between the game and my Steam account, so I tried uninstalling/reinstalling the game - but that didn't work either.

(N.b. this is the second time in a few months that an update to Surviving Mars has broken the game in some way - last time it was so completely borked that I could neither run the game, nor access the page on the Steam app to figure out what the problem might be. I realise game updates are necessary, but they're a PITA when they break the game.)

Can you replicate the issue?


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[AndrewT]

That's a very strange report as this game has had no patches for more than a year (249,143 2019-10-10) ! Are you. sure these were game updates (somehow!) or perhaps mod or Steam updates?

Please attach here the latest (ONLY!) game log file, from here:
C:\Users\{Username}\AppData\Roaming\Surviving Mars\logs\
To see the AppData folder you'll need to enable View Hidden Items in File Explorer.

 

[Tavdy79]

The update was listed in the Steam dialog box or mini window that comes up when the game is starting to load. I noticed it because it was on screen a lot longer than usual.

To me that doesn't look like a Steam update (those look completely different, take longer, and require me to log in to my account again afterwards) and I wouldn't expect a mod update to be listed in a Steam window, i.e. outside the game itself, although that's just an assumption. Plus it claimed to be a game update, and I had no reason to assume otherwise, since updates happen all the time for any number of reasons. Civ VI - a much older game - also had an update recently.

Here's the log file:

 

[AndrewT]

You can see in that log:

*** executable info
Timestamp: 5d766754
Date: Mon Sep 9 15:53:08 2019

Which tallies with the last update version and date I posted.

Mod updates are run through the Steam Download screen, certainly. And you have a lot of mods! What I'd suggest is a full clean reinstall of the game:

- move any valued save games elsewhere; they are under
C:\Users\{UserName}\AppData\Roaming\Surviving Mars\{large number}\
- "uninstall" in Steam-Surviving Mars
- unsubscribe from ALL mods for this game in the Steam Workshop
- delete the Steam mod folder ...\Steam\steamapps\workshop\content\464920\
- manually delete both the Steam/SteamApps/common/Surviving Mars AND C:\Users\{Username}\AppData\Roaming\Surviving Mars\ folders
- re-install game in Steam, run a Steam Verify when done.
- add MarsSteam.exe to the exceptions list/whitelist of your antivirus app
- start the game with no mods active and test

In particular you need to make sure there are no files or folders left under either the Steam SM or AppData SM locations, before installing again.

Assuming it works okay then, you can start re-subscribing to mods again.

Good luck with that!

 

[Tavdy79]

It's worked, so thankyou!

(I did have a slight panic when in my next game I'd scanned a quarter of the map without finding a single anomaly, but it turns out it was just the rules of random chance. They were all there, I just needed to deep scan to find them.)