The update broke my cities :(

[poshbakerloo 186]

I downloaded the update from Steam which came through today - load my game and I get a load of error messages. Load a city and everything has gone

Anyone else seen this?

[kegsmr 144]

Yep, only about a quarter of my mods even show up. I don't even want to try to load a game. It would be great if they added a 'revert to previous update' thing, because I didn't even want this update that much, and I would just like to wait until the modders make the mods compatible. After all, I payed for the game. My game got pretty f***ed up after the snowfall update, but this is way worse.

[industrial6 0]

Same problem here.
I run 50+ mods and only see 3 of them now, and a nice error message with no information about the fault.

Paradox - we love this game, but please understand that we are getting very tired of this. The entire Youtube broadcasting community (Flux, Strict, Fresh etc.) will be at a stand-still while we try to fix what you broke.
Please keep in mind that the vanilla game to us is no longer sufficient. i.e. We will not play the game without the Network Extensions Mod at the very least.

EDIT:
Many mods are broken, but namely the Network extensions mod is broken.
I was able to bring up all my mods by killing the Ambient Sounds Tuner mod, which was throwing a fault and causing the list to not display (for me):

A Mod caused an error [System.Exception]

Details:
System.Reflection.TargetInvocationException: Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation. ---> System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object
  at NetworkExtensions.Mod.OnSettingsUI (UIHelperBase helper) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
  at (wrapper managed-to-native) System.Reflection.MonoMethod:InternalInvoke (object,object[],System.Exception

Don't bother playing the game for a while folks

[industrial6 0]

Update:
Network Extensions Project has just been patched.

Sadly the Loading Screen Mod (kind of necessary when you have 3000 assets, and 25min load times) among others are still not patched.

I get this currently, but it's hard to nail down:

  A Mod caused an error [ModException]

Details:
System.Reflection.ReflectionTypeLoadException: The classes in the module cannot be loaded.
  at (wrapper managed-to-native) System.Reflection.Assembly:GetTypes (bool)
  at System.Reflection.Assembly.GetExportedTypes () [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0 
  at ColossalFramework.Plugins.PluginManager+PluginInfo.GetInstances[IUserMod] () [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0 
  at EntryData.GenerateData () [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0 

 

[kegsmr 144]

I had around 200 mods, 100 activated, now I only have around 60 mods, and 30 of them activated. :/

[kegsmr 144]

They said there are probably technical issues not allowing them to add a revert feature. But if I had even known ahead of time that they were going to update and sh*t was gonna go to sh*t, I could've run my game offline and avoided the update. I didn't know that this update was going to happen so soon.

[industrial6 0]

Still no resolution over here.
I'm sick of trying basic mods (that give no errors) only to wait for 30mins to find that the game still doesn't function properly. All my cities load with massive problems, missing roads etc. - I guess this is what the Natural Disaster DLC brings us. After watching gameplay of this DLC, I see that it is just a another cheap add-on, like Snowfall.

I can't watch Arrowhead Junction videos (which are pre-recorded 3-5weeks in advance), it's way too depressing.

[kegsmr 144]

As of right now, my game doesn't even run. The preparing to launch window opens up, but then a second later, the process disapears. No black screen, no error or anything. Where the f*** is this revert? It's been days and this still isn't fixed. wtf. I can only assume they didn't even test this update before they released it. They must have been in a rush to release the DLC, and earn that dank december cash.

[kegsmr 144]

What the f*** did they do to this game? Has to be more than just disasters and scenarios. 

[industrial6 0]

Use the Steam launch options to resolve that.
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=466981085

Start with disabling the Steam workshop, see if it loads, then use the disable mods option.

I've successfully loaded a blank map that appeared to function. But obviously all of my pre-existing cities (hundreds of gameplay hours, and custom detailing) are absolutely destroyed by these developers forcing another bad DLC to us, and adding nonsense features to the base game, like radio... Among many other tweaks that we have worked hard to resolve (like the loading system), and that glorious 'Don't Crash' mod.

 

[kegsmr 144]

@industrial6 I was doing that before, but I haven't tried it again after I've had this issue. I could try running offline too. But practically everything else has been tried.

[kegsmr 144]

Playing offline without workshop seems to be working. But, I have over a thousand hours playing this game, what's the point playing vanilla? I've already gotten bored of it. Even before I had this specific issue, I already had tons of problems with the game. Only a fraction of my mods would even show up in the content manager. Can they just allow you to rollback your game? I've already waited too long.

[industrial6 0]

I resolved the mods not showing by identifying a mod that was crashing the mod page in the Content Manager (AmbientSoundsMod)
My game loads with an unknown error into the menu screen, but I am able to load a game, and see all of my mods.
I have the majority of essential mods running now, its near impossible to take a screenshot from the Content Manager, so I included a screenshot of active and functional mods below:

 

[kegsmr 144]

I can't load into my game when steam is online, but once that get's resolved, the rest should work (?) . I just unsubscribed to the ambient sounds tuner.

[kegsmr 144]

@industrial6 Do you have any idea on what mod might be causing this? Btw I can only see the game toolbar on the screenshot you sent me.

[industrial6 0]

Launch w/disablemods option then disable all of your mods and launch with only those in the image above. Then work your way from there, look at warnings, examine output_log.txt etc. etc.

I run about 30-40 mods and they all appear to be functioning. I can't imagine why I would ever need over 100 active mods, so I would instantly start by cutting down on rarely supported mods and accumulated garbage.

I have about 3000-3200 assets always, but I try to run with essential mods only to preserve my savegame's functionality.

Also, refer to this list of functional mods:

 

[kegsmr 144]

@industrial6 Oh btw my game has been working for about a week now, I was just too excited to play it when it started to work, so I never notified you. Thanks for all the help.