For Steams stuck on newer version and cant play on revival or escape (SOLUTION)

[Ralphatron 19]

For the steams who cant either play on revival or escape, I found this solution, downgrade the game to the previous build and wait until the server upgrade is completed. Heres the solution, not credited to me:

How to downgrade

Found this on the valve forums and works for me:

Originally posted by Raymond the cat: If you want to downgrade this is how, thanks to Joel at KSF discord for this:

How to downgrade successfully. Everything is done via the “Properties” menu. Right click css on steam and click “Properties.

1. Go to “Betas” and select previous previous_build. Wait until downloaded in steam...

2. Go to “Installed Files” and click “Browse”. Rename hl2.exe to cstrike_win64.exe

3. Go to “General” and in “Launch options” enter: -game cstrike

Just step 1 worked for me, when you finish downloading the previous build select it and apply, otherwise youre still stuck on the newest version. Hope this works for the people on the same situation, wish I had found this sooner. CheerZ ^^

[CrazyChris 106]

I'd like to add an alternative:

For players without Steam accounts, you can download the game via 7Launcher or any other application that supports the game & be able able to play on the server while it still runs on the previous version. I'd like to add that there's no ETA as to when ZR will be compatible with the latest version, as a large number of players play from no-Steam, so the updates form 7Launcher & other apps that support the game will be at the discretion of their respective devs (which is beyond the control of the NiDE devs team).

[DJSpider-MaN Suleiman 2025 114]

@ Ralphatron  Thank you man it worked ! you are the Real GOAT W 

[Ralphatron 19]

Glad to help. ^^

[DJSpider-MaN Suleiman 2025 114]

On 2/25/2025 at 7:59 PM, Ralphatron said:

For the steams who cant either play on revival or escape, I found this solution, downgrade the game to the previous build and wait until the server upgrade is completed. Heres the solution, not credited to me:

How to downgrade

Found this on the valve forums and works for me:

Originally posted by Raymond the cat: If you want to downgrade this is how, thanks to Joel at KSF discord for this:

How to downgrade successfully. Everything is done via the “Properties” menu. Right click css on steam and click “Properties.

1. Go to “Betas” and select previous previous_build. Wait until downloaded in steam...

2. Go to “Installed Files” and click “Browse”. Rename hl2.exe to cstrike_win64.exe

3. Go to “General” and in “Launch options” enter: -game cstrike

Just step 1 worked for me, when you finish downloading the previous build select it and apply, otherwise youre still stuck on the newest version. Hope this works for the people on the same situation, wish I had found this sooner. CheerZ ^^

I would like to add a small note regarding this solution. : 

so guys after you do all these steps, Then when you run the game some people might encounter the error message like in this pic here  :
  
, because this is exactly what happened to me when I applied all the steps correctly, but don't worry, the solution is very simple for this. all you have to do is delete the " cstrike_win64.exe " and then Open your game and Choose ( Play Previous Build Branch ) and Play : 
That's it, that's what I did and it worked for me, so I hope it works for you guys too,

(Note: This step is only for people who received the error message. If you didn't receive any error message, then you don't need to do this step at all.)

gg and CheerS!