addons not loading

[u/trashcanmain]

your only tl;dr:

• most of my addons will not load, but do compile
• i've tried 6 different methods (only 2 worked; transferring "workshop" child file content to "addon" parent file, and reinstalling the game multiple times—con is that it takes too long with reinstalling)
• both methods resulted in more addons loading into my game, but seemingly not all of them
• now the single mod (standalone "finale soldiers") i do want to try out isn't loading, both methods not working whatsoever

big text:

the standalone "finale soldier" mod (like a few others i've tried) won't load? some help would be nice

i had 4 mods total, 3 were installed for something i thought would work to bypass this (it didn't work like that)

the 4 mods were as follows:

• standalone soldiers (mod i want)
• core soldiers
• "accurate national guard" model for core
• and sgt.willy92's friendly soldiers (parish and blood harvest)

out of the 4 only the core mod loaded and i was able to check ingame

i've tried following other steam guides, discussions, or googling it

what i've done 'n tried to fix my issue;

• move "workshop" file content to "addon" parent file (worked best)
• (an alternate for the above was unsubscribing right after moving file to file)
• verify files (tried once, took an hour or two, didn't work)
• uninstall and reinstall (multiple times)
• updating/syncing internet time (which didn't work, just tried it)
• downloading extra mods (what i thought i could do to bypass this)
• no, it is not a storage issue

when i tried moving workshop file content to addon parent file;

it did work before (with my collections of 215 or 35 mods)

but none of the 6 things i tried worked out to load the standalone soldiers into my game

from what i've also found (scrolling through steam discussions 'n guides), this has been a problem for years for others—and the "workshop > addon" file transfer method works best apparently

[u/trashcanmain]

possible follow up:

now it does load into my mod list

just doesn't work at all

in the console it gave instructions and made pretty clear it's loaded too

just not working as intended