Now manually installing via the offline install. Have you LOOKED at the Solasta list of installers? there are like, 12 or 15 of the things. Undated of course, so, who knows the proper sequence...

I assume Part 1, the n2, then 3 thru Part 7, then.....the lowest update patch and up in sequence????

Anyone KNOW for certain????

How about you take a look at the version numbers? Then you see that the full install is the most recent one, so for a new installation you don't need any patches.
For the main files, the first one is the executable and the rest are data files split to max size of 4G so that owners of slow systems don't have one huge download that might take days.

yeah, looking at version numbers says FROM vers X.XX.XX TO X.XX.XX

which says to me, you need to already have the 1st vers installed, before you can install that one, so do you start with Part 1 and proceed thru 7, then do each update patch n order? Then the 2 DLC?

You only need the patches if you already have Solasta installed, but not in the most recent version. Then you have to download and install the patches, starting from the one that updates your currently installed version of the game to the next one. Then continue until you have the most recent version.

If you don't have the game installed yet, forget the patches. Then you download the (in this case) seven main game files and when you're done with downloading, go to the download directory and run the exe file, i.e. the first and smallest of the downloaded files.

TY!

After the Galaxy update I started having some issues. I played with the CE mod and never had an issue. After the update the game would error out the mod when ever I tried to delevel my characters. It had always worked perfectly before. So I wiped and updated and I still had some problems. Additionally I have errored out while choosing spells for my wizard.

Then I had a really strange error where I saved the cleric from the city guard and went into the cutscene. Then the guards respawned and locked me into combat mode. I could not get back outside to engage in combat, so I am going to wipe again and install without Galaxy. Just hard to figure out why the Galaxy update would have change so much between the game and the mod.

Just to be sure, you updated the CE as well as the game? Oterwise there are incompatibilities.

Yeah the CE got overhauled, about the same time TA released a HUGE patch last week. The new CE, is not compatible with saves from the old CE, and the new Solasta is not compatible with the old CE. So old CE save games, are now toast. The new CE is supposed to work fine with the updated Solasta, however I had 3 early CotM quests bug out on me yesterday:

Sorak Relics...took the relics from inv on turn in. gave me no XP, the quest does not sow n the journal as completed, nor does it show as incomplete/yet to do or failed. Its just gone.

Angbi's Bones...won't let me turn them in

Apprentice's Master...wont let me talk to the master at Caer Lem, meaning I cant take him into the fallen tower so he can search for his books/texts etc. He is AT Caer Lem, the quest shows in my Journal, I can click on him but he is not "interactable".

I'm parking the game for a month, maybe 2. See what happens after TA has time to sort this thing out; cause right now, it's a monumental clusterfck.