CANT LAUNCH DOWNLOADED WORKSHOP SCENARIO.

[MihaiMunteanu 0]

Hi all. I just want to say that i recently purchased the game, downloaded a workshop scenario and I CANT LAUNCH IT.

Can someone (with a good reputation or some devs.) tell me if i need to buy ALSO THE DLC FOR THE WORKSHOP SCENARIO TO START/RUN. There is no such information on the internet.

 

Thank you in advance.

[pierremgi 4850]

Hi, Welcome on forum.

On Steam, if you are interested in a scenario (or even a mod) you may have a look at the "required items" at right of the "subscribed" button, i.e. the mods which are mandatory for running what you aim.

Perhaps some scenarii don't mention these required items... You could check what is missing, reading the report file (.rpt) in your ... \users\...\appData\local\arma3 folder (appdata is hidden by default)

 

Roughly, the DLCs and mods are mandatory if they use specific modded objects (units, vehicles, crates...), or map, or specific modules... Just because your configuration must "understand" what is your scenario is made of. Especially, if you don't own the map of the scenario, no joy for starting it. For example SOG prairie fire or CSLA Iron Curtain. In many cases, if just one unit or else coming from these DLCs (same for CUP or RHS mods) is missing, your scenario is unplayable (missing at star) or will throw a script error (spawning unit during play).

 

That said, some DLCs are not mandatory for running a scenario with objects coming from them (usually the official ones like tanks or Jets), as far as the player(s) doesn't have any interaction with them.

These maps or objects are present in your system, even not owned, but access is limited. For example, a kart coming form Karts DLC, a tank issued from Tanks DLC, is working (moving, firing or destroyable,  inventory accessible) but player(s) can't board, so can't drive or can't fire with it. Usually, you can see a popup with "Vehicle locked. This content is part of  XXX DLC. Purchase it to enter this vehicle".

Press Lshit + P for opening DLC page.

 

Recently, Rotators Collective has issued a DLC : Reaction forces, with a free downloadable part for non-owers. You can tick it in mods list (not in DLCs one). See the link if interested.

Enjoy!