O.K.
No, your game isn’t fucked. It’s clear you’ve NEVER played a heavily modded Skyrim/Fallout game. It’s also clear this is your very first mod installation. So expect a challenging learning curve where installing, troubleshooting and using mods is concerned. Especially since all existing mods on Nexusmods are PRE mod tool kit and so 100% of these are WIP alpha phase. So know that you’re testing these mods at your own risk. WH can provide zero support because of this. That being said:
1.Installed Dark Horizon with zero issues
Assuming you have a legal copy of the game, this indicates you failed to follow the mod author installation directions based on what you posted earlier. Because you’re clearly missing a language localization file. Download it. And then note that
2.Mod author made a critical omission in his readme.txt file where he talks about backing up the language files. He forgot to add backing up the language.pak file as well by renaming the original language.pak.bak like you did with the original language_xml.pak (which you BACKED UP by changing the filename to language_xml.pak.bak). This way, 100% of your original language files are backed up. So
3.The readme.txt file is incomplete because it didn’t instruct you to back up the language.xml file (100% poor documentation support on modder’s part). Readme.txt lacked uninstall documentation. Modder also gave poor directions on how to manually uninstall. So it appears the modified language.pak file was left in the folder. If this was unchanged from the original file, then the Steam file validation is ok. But it’s also possible Steam could’ve only checked for the existence of the language.xml file. Then went ahead and green lighted it without checking if it was altered from the vanilla file. Regardless
4.You need to post all future game issues (caused by your modification to the vanilla KCD game) over at the Nexus and NOT here in the official WH forum. WH devs didn’t make this mod, sidewayz24 did. So only this KCD gamer/mod author is the expert on any issues adding this 3rd party software will cause. Posting at Nexus guarantees you’ll have the full support of the modder and player modding community which can’t be provided here. Because…
- It’s clear other players have reported similar issues like yours, since the mod author has already addressed them in several stickies at the top of the post forum. This is a direct cut and paste from the mod author’s “Posts” tab. aka where YOU as gamers are supposed to post your questions if you’re having issues with the mod. I highlighted the parts where the mod author directly addresses your issue:
"Please read the install instructions people, I have placed information on how to install the mod properly on the description (twice), in the sticky posts and I believe a quick explanation on the downloads as well.
Blank text for perks is an error from your part by missing the localization files. If it’s not on my downloads that means a translator has translated the localization and can be found in the Translations bar on the description.
Blank text for all in game text is an issue with installing and running the game with a corrupted pak. None of my mod files have been corrupted since I learned the cause (nor have i uploaded any besides the very first upload 0.1 which was removed within minutes), thus my mod alone should never ever cause this. "
So download/install your relevant language localization file.
5.This part will apply to you if you’re using a mod utility manager like NMM, Wrye Bash and/or LOOT. If you don’t know what these are, then don’t worry about them. So the reference sidewayz24 makes in the readme.txt about “Make sure its the last mod being loaded” is nonsensical. None of these utilities have been updated to handle KCD as yet (as the files are 100% manual download and the KCD mod tool simply isn’t available yet):
“If you have used a mod merger or manually edited the files, there was an error either by the merger or by you. Sorry but I can’t offer support for making my mod compatible with others, I add new lines to rpg params, and from what I know mod mergers don’t currently handle this right, nor will I ever offer support for changes outside of the scope of my mods balance, sorry but it’s just a waste of my time which currently is limited, which directly takes away from development of the mod. If you want basic info on how to merge mods, there is a discord that has many users who can help you do that yourself and correctly. But again, I will not offer support to make them work right or balance towards another, that is up to you as you wanted that combo. Also please don’t come to my mod page and complain about imbalances you created by doing such a thing, this is again, not my problem nor will I support it…”
6.Finally in the future: You need to COMPLETELY remove all traces of this mod’s files (i.e delete the zzzz_Dark_Horizon_V0.3.2-BETA.pak file AND the language_xml.pak AND the language.pak files THEN rename your backed up language_xml.pak.bak/language.pak.bak files back to their original names) BEFORE validating any of the files with Steam. It’s always best to restore the game folder back to its original vanilla state first.
If you’ve lasted reading this long: Like I said if this is your first attempt to at using mods, realize your learning curve will be steep.
Welcome to the 50 shades of grey that is the PC modding universe.
