Mod Manager and load order configuration utility for MechWarrior 5 Mercenaries.
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Changelogs
Version 3.5
Fixed drag & drop indicator line being invisible
Version 3.4
Added UI support for Windows Dark Mode
Improved search box behaviour
Fixed load order numbers sometimes not being correctly recolored by their priority
Fixed error message when trying to load an invalid mod archive. Previously the message failed to display correctly
Version 3.3
Fixed mods in certain circumstances would get assigned an incorrect load order after mouse drag and drop
Disabled the still unreliable mod directory watch feature that resulted in the yellow exclamation mark on the "Reload" button
Version 3.2
Properly support scaled display resolutions (DPI awareness)
Highlight 'Reload' button when changes to local mod files are detected
Support for reading load orders saved by "MW5 Linux Modder" utility
Version 3.1
Fixed issue with incorrect colored load orders after moving a mod in the list
Fixed error when modlist.json did not exist when trying to restore last saved load order
Minor performance improvements.
Version 3.0
Updated list design
Improved mod search
Highlight mod relations on select
Configurable list columns
Window size restore on startup
Improvements in file saving backend
Handling of more obscure but MW5 legal mod.json formats
Fixed override relations sometimes being displayed in wrong order
Version 2.1
Export/Import dialogs now have option to save/load load orders to/from files
Substituted legacy export/import string with a human readable MW5MO-style load order string
Context menu added enable/disable options
Fix displayed load order and sidepanel not updating correctly when using sidebar move buttons
Fix sidepanel overrides not updating correctly when dragging items
Fix "invalid mods" warning when using symlinked mods.
Fix incorrect file size display when using symlinked mods.
Version 2.0
Added option to change mod list display order. Can be either "High to Low" or "Low to High". Can be changed in the settings
Multiple mods can be selected/moved at once
External changes to a mods load order are now tracked. Last applied load order can be restored on startup
Mod list can be automatically restored if it was reset by MW5 after game update
Improved installation path selection. Can now autodetect some common installation paths
Improvements to UI and responsiveness. Reduced some flickering. Improved clarity of some messages.
Fix issues reading the correct load order if other mod manager/load order utilites have been used previously
Various other minor bug fixes
Version 1.3
Mod archive import completely reworked. With support for .zip, .rar, 7z files
Fix mouse re-ordering sometimes being wonky
Additional error handling and bug fixes
Version 1.2
Improvements to mod content display
More checks to receive mod's original load order
Version 1.1
Mod folder & Archive import
Version 1.0
Initial release
Features
Save and load mod presets
Change mod load order by mouse drag & drop
Shows Steam Workshop & Vortex (Nexusmods) information for mods
Inspect file overrides between mods
Share load orders with friends for coop play via clipboard or file
Install mods from folder or file archive
Remove installed mods
Auto restore your mod list and load order after it has been lost or otherwise altered
Installation
MW5-LOC requires .NET 8.0 Framework to run. Extract exe file to any location and run. Configure your MechWarrior 5 installation in the settings.
Overview
The main window
Drag&Drop one or mulitple mods to change mod load order
The mod's current configured load order and original default load order can be seen in their columns
Right click to see additional options
Inspect mod file overrides
Automatically detects external changes to your mod list with the option to restore. Also able to recover your mod list after a game update
Notes
After a new MechWarrior 5 patch is released, start the game once before trying to apply a new profile. MW5-LOC needs to read the correct version information from the files that are updated by MW5 after a new version is once run. Otherwise MW5 will disable your mods again on startup. Always save presets for your mods!
If you are using or used certain other load order utility like LOM the original load order of the displayed mods will be incorrect. LOM destructively overwrites the mod author's configured old load order with no way of restoring it. The original load order display can only be restored by reinstalling the affected mods. Known exception to this is LOTS and Mod Organizer which both backup original load order data. MW5-LOC is capable of restoring the original load order data when LOTS or Mod Organizer have been used before.
You can restore the stock MechWarrior load order by using the Mods -> Sort by default load order command. The mods will be ordered in the same way as MechWarrior 5 would load it without a mod manager
Using the file archive import functionality in LOC omits files that are not within in the required mod folder layout and are not used by MW5. If the mod your are importing has separate readme files or documentation included in the file archive, you have to extract these separately. These files will show as skipped in the extract dialog.
Background
MW5-LOC is a fork of rjtwins' original MW5-LoadOrderManager 1 (LOMv1). Not to be confused with LOMv2, the later version that, despite its release, lacked several key features and had still a user interface that felt pretty much unfinished to this date. I stuck with LOMv1 for a long time despite its shortcomings, I found that other alternative load order managers either lacked essential features, were unstable, broke mods, or just had unintuitive workflows. My goal with MW5-LOC is to have a stable platform, that is intuitive to use, offers advanced features while retaining the integrity of all installed mods.
