Hopefully the fixing the launcher path will be more fruitful. the game is soo broken with its DLCs that we have to manually fix this on our own. There is a way to get this to work.but the legality of that is questionable and probably can't be discussed here. How to fix the CK2 DLC Activator not Working Simple and Easy Tutorial. Without that verification, you (mostly) out of luck. However, knowing this to create a shortcut with these parameters will not work, as it does not invoke the magical Steam fairy that verifies the DLC ownership that allows them to load ingame. Regardless, the launcher passes through various parameters to ck2.exe to set which mods to load and which DLCs to exclude:įor example, this would theoretically launch the game with 2 mods enabled and 2 DLCs (Russian and Mediterranean Portraits) disabled: 'C:\Programs\Games\Steam\steamapps\common\Crusader Kings II\ck2.exe' -mod=mod/Realign_Celts_Men.mod -mod=mod/Edits.mod -exclude_dlc=dlc/dlc014.dlc -exclude_dlc=dlc/dlc016.dlc Hoi4 Dlc Activator Hearts of Iron IV: Death or Dishonor Download is 2020 or later (Looking on CK2 with ridiculous amount of DLCs. Launching the game via Steam -> Launcher -> Game appears to do some magic, aka it seems to trigger verification of DLC ownership that launching the game via just ck2game.exe -> Game or just ck2.exe does not.
