You'd be asking the devs to likely spend quite a bit of time and resources into trying to figure the process and requirements out, which might even be against a contract with Steam. Those sites do not appear to disclose their methods for acquiring mods, and likely have a complicated set of requirements for which games they can and cannot pull mods from. However, I would be incredibly surprised if it's anywhere near as simple as 'flipping a switch'. The Nexus is annoying and a pain to use compared to the Workshop. Oh, and OMG you're Russian! You must be an evil commie!Īs a modder who is commonly requested to upload stuff to the Nexus for non-steam users, I would definitely be in favour of it being possible to download workshop mods without Steam. Opening up the workshop api is far from an ideal solution, even then - it's a kludgy workaround for a problem which shouldn't exist - but it seems to me that it's both the solution which requires the least effort on anyone's part, and the one which has the greatest chance of both working now and being a long term solution for people looking for other mods in the future (since I'm sure, that even if I contact every mod author on steam, AND they all happen to respond to me AND they actually go to the trouble to upload on nexus or somewhere, there will emerge new mods in the future, from new modders, who will continue doing things the way they are now and only use steam workshop.) However, I have to deal with the fact that steam workshop is popular, and that many mod authors probably don't want to use anything else. It sucks, frankly, that this is a problem at all, and ideally all mod authors would have their mods available somewhere that anyone can access.

Lofi opening up the workshop api seems to me to be a much simpler solution all round. I have considered the issue, and again, individually asking mod authors to put their files elsewhere requires me to have a steam account, which I'd rather not create just for that purpose, the mod authors need to respond to me, which I have experience from other games to suggest that very few are likely to do so, and it requires those mod authors that do respond to do extra work that they probably don't want to do in making it available somewhere else. Anecdotal evidence from other games is that steam doesn't mess with mod structure. Thanks for the response, and I'm sure you're right about how easy it is to relocate the mods. I liked the assumption about mere partial location on a russian server may be a potential sign of malware threat though 8) I think your best bet would really be to contact mod devs and ask them to send you the files, people would hardly dick about it.

I don't know about other games, but with Kenshi, relocating the mod anywhere is as easy as copy-pasting the folder.

Mods from steam