How To Download Steam Mods Manually

Mods you don t download through the workshop usually come as zip 7zip or rar file.

How to download steam mods manually. Find a mod you like and click download keep clicking the download button until it downloads the file 4. If you did everything correctly the mod should appear in the game s launcher in the mods tab. Easy lockpicking click on files and download it manually 2 it s a rar file just extract it and drag it into data folder now you have to check plugins search and find appdata folder. You don t need to be logged in to view the workshop. Open the rar file by double clicking.

Unpack that file and you will get a folder and a file with the modname or a folder thatincludes these two depending on the settings of the unpacking zip program. In both cases you can download mod directly trough the manager when you have been logged in nexus with your browser. Put your mods in the addons folder. Download the mods you like to have open your favourite webbrowser and go to the steam workshop page. Rename the descriptor mod file to whatever the rar file s name is.

Then you will have to activate the mod in the manager and that will set them active. There s alot of l4d mods in non steam so you ll manually download and installed it.