How to install the Call of Duty: Black Ops4 Project Shield mod and have offline progression

In this guide I'm going to show you how to install Project Shield mod.
With this mod you are safer to play Black ops 4 online, you gain the ability to unlock all Black market guns without spending money/years of gambling, you can level up in multiplayer, Blackout and zombies while against bots, can level up and progress (level, camo, ect.) offline/disconnected from the internet.

Now you will need to get the game first as it isn't on Steam.
As far as I know it's only on Battlenet, but you don't need any DLC, that comes with the mod.
We can add the game later as a non-Steam Game.
Link: https://us.shop.battle.net/en-us/product/call-of-duty-black-ops-4

Go to: https://github.com/NotNierPea/shield-launcher and scroll down till you see on the right Releases.
Click that and download the latest version. (Project_BO4_Launcher_Update_1.0.4.zip as of writing this guide)
Now open the root folder of Black ops 4;
If you added Black ops 4 as a non-Steam game, then just right-click the game in steam and click manage files.
If you haven't added it as a non-Steam game, then you will have to manually find where the game is installed.

Now go to your download folder and extract the contents from the folder you just downloaded.
Move all the contents from the folder into your root folder of Black ops 4.
Now we can Launch Project BO4.
It will bring up a menu that will allow us to play vanila/offline/online.
Select what you want to play and it will load up the game.
Here you can also go to the mod maker discord.

Setting up bots for Multiplayer is easy, click on find match in the playlist you want.
Then wait for it to load up the lobby, on the right it should show ''Add bots''.
Click it as often as you want to fill the lobby, then click start game and have fun.
If you click on options, you can edit the map/mode and all the settings like a custom game.

For Blackout, Select the mode you want (Recommend only play Alcatraz, the standard map didn't work last time I played).
Then Click Shield options, Misc settings and at the bottom you can Blackout settings.
Here you can mess with the amount of bots you want, it's recommended to not go higher then 40.
Now launch the game and when you land in the pre-lobby, open the option menu and there will be a button on the bottom right to launch the match.

Setting up zombies works the same as it normally would.
Go into a lobby and click add bots and you are good to go.

Click on the left bottom and click ''Add a Game''
Now click ''Add a non-Steam game''
Most likely it won't show the Shield launcher in the list, so click browse and locate the Shield launcher and select it, now add selected programs and we can now launch it from steam.
DON'T add ''steam_appid'' text folder to the game to have it track ''Steam'' playtime as this will break the game fully.

You can from the launcher play vanilla, offline or online with the shield servers.
Just click the option you want to play with from the Launcher.
If you play offline, just search for a match and add bots to fill the lobby.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3498442654