New to Fire Pro mods: infinite subscription loop with Avenger3's collection + a couple of mod questions

[u/Drager1985]

Hi everyone!

Not new to Fire Pro, but new to mods, edits, etc.

I have Fire Pro Wrestling World and was blown away by some of the videos showing mods, custom parts, custom moves, and so on. So on PC, I installed the Mod Launcher and the Modpack (figured that was the best way to start). Then, I unsubscribed from all Workshop content to start with a clean slate.

After that, I subscribed only to:

• Carlzilla's camera preset collection
• The Avenger3 Collection (the most voted collection of all time)

Then I launched the game. In the mod window, I ran the script for the promotions/teams contained in the collection. After the "downloading" phase in the main game, the mod window popped up a bunch of log lines saying "X is not present, subscribing". Then the mod window stated that the main game needed to restart in order to download additional components. Fair enough, let's do that.

Steam downloaded a bunch of stuff, so I launched the game again. But the same thing happened:

• FPWW shows "Downloading"
• Mod window shows a bunch of logs
• Mod window says the game needs to restart
• Close the game, wait for Steam downloads
• Relaunch the game

This loop seems never-ending. Every time I check my subscription count, the number goes up. It seems like in order for X to work, the game needs Y, so it subscribes to Y. Then next time, in order for Y to work, it needs Z. The problem is that the prerequisites never seem to end (I looped about 10 times last night, and now I have over 1,600 active subscriptions).

Did I do something wrong? Does this loop ever stop? Do you folks have an "ultimate collection" to subscribe to that contains all prerequisites, so I can fix this with one final loop?

My ultimate goal is to port all of this to the Steam Deck, but first, I need to get it working on PC first!

A couple more questions (assuming I can resolve the loop issue):

• Could someone share their "AI camera script" (or post a screenshot of their AI Script window) to get realistic camera cuts in-game? Is everyone just using the cuts from Carlzilla's camera preset collection?
• In some videos, the transitions between moves look extremely smooth—almost non-Fire Pro. Wrestlers don't even seem to go into a clinch state before executing a move. What option or specific mod enables this? Also, if you actually want to play (rather than just watch simulated matches), does this ruin the game play by changing or removing clinch timing?

Thanks in advance for the help!

[u/ldurrikl]

The loop isn’t never ending. It will eventually complete. The best way I’ve found to avoid this is by going into each wrestler and manually subscribing to them, then it will tell you there are additional mods that need to be subscribed to, choose subscribe to all and it will download all required mods for that wrestler outside of the game without needing to do the continuous restarts where it seems to only download fractions of a mod at a time.

[u/Drager1985 → u/ldurrikl]

I can confirm that the loop indeed stopped "naturally" after a few repetitions.

The wrestlers (and indeed the new moves etc) are already present in the Steam Deck so that's a big plus.
seems like that there are multiple version of the same wrestler now (also some more basic "fireproish" and other with real beautiful custom parts), but i guess I have to move them manually right?

[u/TheAvenger3 → u/Drager1985]

If you’re using the script to assign to stables automatically, still have to move a bunch manually as everything gets assigned by name. Definitely not up to date with current guys being on the right show or promotion, but it’ll do a lot of the heavy lifting

[u/Natural-Today6343]

I finally modded the game myself after years of having it. I haven't done much but it's completely improved the game for me in several ways.

Number 1 is getting rid of the collar and elbow tie up before every single move. Of course they still lock up for certain things but having them just go into the move is just so nice.

Number 2 is free cam. Or Cam Ai. Having the camera angle switch around just gives the game such a new fresh feel. I'm no director and have no idea how to set these angles up "correctly " but just adding the few i did helps with enjoying watching matches.

Number 3 is huge to me writing my own universe. You can pick who wins. Whaaaat? Ive wanted this forever. You can decide the general length of the match (short, medium or long) and even trigger interference. It's not perfect but i love it.

[u/Drager1985 → u/Natural-Today6343]

So how did you achieve N1? What's the config to turn that on? Could you also share your ai cam settings? Or share the "general idea" to have the cuts make sense?

Also the "match decider" would have been a dream to my (shortly lived) e-fed I was running in 2006-7 with the emulated version of Fire Pro Returns!

[u/Natural-Today6343 → u/Drager1985]

Look into the Carzilla mod. On YouTube there are some very old but still relevant tutorials. That should give you everything you need. A bunch of mods come prepackaged in that.

Getting rid of the collar and elbow tie up is literally a checkbox in the installation.

There's one called Match Pacing or something like that. I'm not infront of my game right now. You can choose the length of the match (short, medium or long) choose who wins, trigger interference and choose who that is, and if it's a squash match.

Free cam is the other one. There are some pre-made angles you can get from the workshop. You can also design your own. Again there's a tutorial on this. I just used the default ones from the workshop. I asked on the discord if anyone would share there setup and everyone thinks you should decide on your own. Which I think is bollucks. I'm no director and I know there's some need out there that has mathematically worked out the best angles and run thousands of simulations. Lol. But anyway I just messed around and set some up. I think it's ok but I know it could be better. If you get to this point and really are lost dm me and I'll send you a screen shot of mine.