#Torchlight 2 mod load order Patch

Until then, Skyrim's launcher is the only way to change load order. In time, utilities may be updated to handle the new system as their programmers become aware of it. This is because nothing currently released knows about the change in load order system. The bad news: Any utilities that you use to manage load order may stop having any effect. This provides a common store for the total load order in lieu of the plugin timestamps used by the other games. Modding utilities would then perform their changes on 'loadorder.txt', updating 'plugins.txt' to reflect any changes to active plugin load order as required. 'plugins.txt' would be kept in synchronisation with 'loadorder.txt' so that the order of plugins that the game loaded was the same for both files, but the latter would allow the load ordering of inactive plugins. The solution agreed on by Lojack (Wrye Bash), Kaburke (Nexus Mod Manager), WrinklyNinja (BOSS) and Dark0ne (owner of the Nexus sites) was that total load order would be stored in a 'loadorder.txt' file, itself stored in the same location as 'plugins.txt'.

Perhaps most pertinent is the following information: With this in mind, WrinklyNinja of BOSS fame has written a comprehensive thread both here and on the official forums that helps to explain what load ordering is, what's changing and what this means for all of us.

#Torchlight 2 mod load order Patch

However, it does mean that any mod managers using the old method of ordering mods are not going to work without changes once the changes from patch 1.4.26 are committed in earnest. A change to the load order methods is probably a good thing, as Bethesda's system is quite out-dated now.

Originally load orders were decided by the timestamps of files on your file system, but the Steam Workshop integration for Skyrim has caused numerous issues (most notably the issue where updating your load order using NMM/Wrye Bash/other managers would cause those files to be re-downloaded by the Workshop), and so Bethesda and Valve have had to change this system. With the recent beta release of Skyrim version 1.4.26 on Steam, Bethesda and Valve have decided to change the way in which Skyrim handles the load ordering of mod files.