MW5 Load Order Configurator (MW5-LOC)

[]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 10. 0 Framework to run.

Extract exe file to any location and run. Configure your MechWarrior 5 installation in the settings.

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

• []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.[/]

  MW5-LOC began as a fork of rjtwins' MW5-LoadOrderManager 1 (LOMv1), but over time it’s grown into a complete rewrite.

  Before MW5-LOC I stuck with LOMv1 for a long time despite its shortcomings, I liked the UI and the way it made sharing mod lists with friends simple. But after running into crashes again and again and mods that didn’t work correctly i began to understand that LOM actually wasn't the best tool for the task.

  I explored all the alternatives available at the time, but for me they all fell short in some way: were unstable, broke mods, broke load orders, or just had confusing workflows. MW5-LOC started as my way of addressing these gaps while building on what these other tools already did well.

  My goal with MW5-LOC is simple: Something that is fast, intuitive to use, easy to set up and is really great at it's core job - load orders. All that while not breaking any mods doing it. Just fire it up, set your load order, and get back to stomping mechs.

  The source code is available on Github.

  https://github.com/DOCaCola/MW5-LoadOrderConfigurator