Category: Modding or Configuration. Languages: English. Guide Index. Fixing the "Manifest not available" check. Choosing the version to download. Accessing the Steam Console. Starting the download. Managing the downloaded content.
Additional material. Not many people know, but you can revert any Steam game to any update publicly released over the course of its existence. Snapshots of the game content are saved in the Steam database and can be retrieved at any time, no local backups are necessary. For some people, sudden big updates may mean the breakage of mods or other user-created content. Depending on the amount of code changes in an update, some mods can stay broken and unpatched for extended periods of time.
It may also be interesting to see what older versions looked like, and their unique features or bugs if any. The following guide will show how to do this specifically for Beat Saber.
Hopefully it is useful in addition to update-blocking methods. Note : this goes without saying, but if you don't own Beat Saber in your Steam account then the commands provided below will NOT work. In February , Valve released a Steam Client update that arbitrarily prevents downloading older versions of games from the Steam Console.
Fortunately, ways to circumvent this exist. The most popular way is Depot Downloader, however we will specifically focus on the built-in Steam Console downloader as it does not require you to provide your Steam credentials, is a simple patch, and easy to use.
Download SteamDepotDownpatcher. If everything is good, you should see " Wrote the patch to memory " at the end. If you are getting the " Manifest not available " error when trying to downgrade, that means you have not yet run the patcher in the current session.
Steam must be running in order for the patcher to work as no files on your disk are modified, only the running process memory. This is an unfortunate requirement as Valve no longer officially allows downgrading thanks to the checks introduced in February You run the program at your own risk. In order to downgrade we first need to know what version we want to install.
Version numbers 1. Luckily, I have complemented the list with its corresponding version numbers below, so you don't have to guess. I will freelance write the living heck out of video game articles. See that I don't. Goal in life: Find a horror game that makes me soil myself. Steam Beta update indicates that downloading from old depots will be removed.
Share Share Tweet Email. Andrew Paul Heaton Articles Published. Read Next in industry. Step 9. Step Russian Translation. Donate a coffee! This is made possible because SteamDB keeps track of updates to all games, so as long as the version you want was available after the game has been publicly released, this should work.
Go to SteamDB [steamdb. Click on the app ID of the game you're looking for. This will take you to it's details page. On the left of the screen you'll see a menu. Navigate to "Depots", and then click on the depot ID of the one you'd like to download. Clicking your chosen depot ID will take you to a new page. Now click on the "Manifests" tab. Look at the list and find the version that you want to download. Record it's manifest ID. A launch application should pop up. Select the Steam client and open the link.
This will open the Steam console in your Steam client. Wait for Steam to download the depot. You won't see any indication of progress, but you can tell it's downloading by looking at the network usage on your downloads page. After the download is done, Steam will show you where the files were downloaded to.
Go to the original game's installation directory, and move the files somewhere else. Then go to where the depot files were downloaded to, and move everything over to the game folder. You may have to rename the game's EXE file if the dev changed the launch options recently.
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