

You can also find mods related to a game by checking for the "Community-made Mods" section on its store page. Many games support mods through the Steam Workshop, where you can easily browse for new content and have it automatically appear in your game. You may just stumble across the next big thing and help it grow. Counter-Strike, Dota 2, and Team Fortress all began their life as mods. Some mods can even grow into full stand-alone commercial products. Supporting mods means supporting their authors, and encouraging them to update their existing mods and make more and better mods in the future. Other mods may add expansive community-created content equaling hours of new gameplay and storyline, or even an entirely new game built from the ground up. Many mods are free and range in scope from smaller changes here or there to entirely new items, characters, maps, or missions. Steam makes it easy to find and try these mods for any game in your library that supports modding.

Whether it's adding new graphical features, crafting new items, or creating new stories, mods can breathe new life into games of all types. Fans, hobbyists, and aspiring game developers from around the world can add to or modify their favorite games by creating "mods". It could have been helpful for someone else struggling with the same situation.Your favorite games don't need to end just because you've finished them. It is a crying shame that the root cause for this was not found. God only nows, what caused this change: The new installation "touched" my Steam account and fixed it? Or maybe some auto-diagnostic at Steam servers detected the corruption and fixed it? Maybe someone from Valve read my woes and sorted the thing out.? This the took place with every mod i subscribed to - one by one - so everything appears to work just fine now. This was new! So I launched C:S - and the mod is there! This time Steam reported it downloaded a few kb of data. So, I tentatively subscribed to the "81 Tiles (Fixed for C:S 1.2+) " mod and launched Steam. (I hadn't even realised, that those were supposed to be listed there as well.) There were no more the two mods only, that I had left subscribed since I tested this problem last time - instead there were all the assets I had subscribed to long time ago. Having installed C:S on the other PC, I logged in the Workshop - only to find that the view of my subscribed items had changed 100%. (I don't presume you'd have a similar short-list of items to check on Steam, do you.? ) So it looks like my Steam account is somehow corrupted. The same problem there - no mods, assets only.


Just completed a fresh install on another PC.
