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Tobey Blaber edited this page Mar 18, 2024 · 6 revisions

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All file paths mentioned in this FAQ are relative to your game folder, i.e. BepInEx/LogOutput.log = [game folder]/BepInEx/LogOutput.log, where [game folder] is the path to the folder containing the game's executable (e.g. Chained Echoes.exe).

Steam users can find this folder by right-clicking the game in their Steam library and selecting Manage -> Browse local files.

What is this?

BepInEx is a general purpose framework for Unity modding. This is a BepInEx pack for Chained Echoes, preconfigured and ready to use.

Nothing has changed in-game after I installed this!

Important

At present, Steam users must switch to the kickstarteralphabacker beta branch to use this BepInEx pack!

This pack doesn't make any noticeable changes in-game by itself. This pack simply loads BepInEx plugins and patchers, and it is up to them to make changes to your game!

So, if you haven't yet actually installed any mods, BepInEx is probably working fine. You can verify this by checking the LogOutput.log file which should have been generated in your BepInEx folder.If you don't have this file, you probably didn't install it correctly, so try again, reading the installation instructions carefully.

If you're still having problems, see the below sections as appropriate:

I've installed this with Vortex and it doesn't work!

  1. Ensure that Vortex is up-to-date.

  2. Ensure that you have the Chained Echoes Support Vortex extension installed and that it is fully up-to-date.

  3. Restart Vortex.

  4. Reinstall the BepInEx pack and all enabled Chained Echoes mods with Vortex:

    1. Go to the Vortex Mods tab for Chained Echoes.
    2. At the top left select Enabled under Status to only display mods which are enabled in the list.
    3. Press Ctrl+A to select all mods in the list.
    4. Click the button labelled Reinstall in the bar which appears at the bottom of the list.
    5. Click Deploy Mods at the top to ensure the mods have been deployed.

Make sure to also check any notifications in the 🔔 icon at the top right of Vortex. If any of them are telling you to do something, you should probably do what they say.

BepInEx loads, but none of my mods are working!

First things first, make sure you actually installed the mods to the right place. Refer to the Installing mods section of the README for details.

If you are sure you have everything installed correctly:

  1. Windows users: Make sure you launch the game from Steam, Epic or whatever platform you own it with. Launching via the .exe directly or from a desktop shortcut will not work, unless the shortcut was created by Steam/Epic etc.

  2. Try restarting your computer. Genuinely, sometimes things just go wonky with computers and a reboot will fix it.

  3. Otherwise, refer to the below section: Some of my BepInEx plugins aren't working!

Some of my BepInEx plugins aren't working!

Issues with BepInEx plugins are usually going to be either an installation issue caused by a mod manager, some manner of PEBCAK issue, or a bug with the plugin itself.

At the moment, the best you can do is reach out to the wider modding community for help. At this time there is not a well-known discord server for me to recomend. In the meantime, you can make use of the posts tab of this pack on Nexus Mods, or the disvussions section of this pack's GitHub repository.

I'm running a pirated copy of the game and something isn't working right!

Tough luck. I won't be helping you with that. If you have problems running mods on a pirated copy of a game, 99% of the time it's the pirated copy that's the problem, not the mods.

Mods operate under the assumption that the game is in a specific state, has specific code which does specific things that they can rely on. If these assumptions are proven false, then their mod is not going to be able to function correctly.

Pirated copies of games frequently break these assumptions, and therefore frequently break mods. If you're getting bugs when running a pirated copy of a game, the most likely solution is to run a legitimate copy of the game. No developer is going to want to help you until you try that first, because otherwise you're just wasting their time.

I have a problem that isn't described above!

Feel free to post a comment on the posts tab of this pack on Nexus Mods describing your issue, and I'll try to help you out. But be forewarned: if you're just going to ask a question which could have been answered by reading the instructions or this FAQ, there's a good chance you'll get a snarky response.

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