managed to get download depot working, currently downloading 1.1 and so forth. I'll report back later - I really want to test out speedserver first, since that works on the earlier versions. I'll upload to mega or other hosting sites on request.
EDIT: good news, version 1.1 of the game still works with the older version of sider, and speedserver too. still running some further tests. shocking how differently the game plays when you take out the ebb and flow mechanic...
EDIT2: all right, so getting a bit lazy and my upload speed is terrible, so here's the way to get depot working.
1. download this repository and unpack to wherever :
https://github.com/SteamRE/DepotDownloader
2. run the depotdownloader dll from this directory:
DepotDownloader-master\DepotDownloader\bin\Release\netcoreapp2.0\DepotDownloader.dll
use the command as follows:
dotnet DepotDownloader.dll -app 996470 -depot 996471 -manifest 4740911837254756499 -username <your username> -password <your password>
4740911837254756499 manifest refers to the 1.1 version of the game. you'll have to run the command a second time for the second set of files with 996472 for the second depot , but with the same manifest for 1.1. it's about 30GB for the files, so get some coffee while that finishes.
make sure your stateflag in the appmanifest file is set to 4, but it should be already set if your game is up to date. What you're doing here is overwriting the files and reverting to 1.1.
sider 6.0.1 from juce is confirmed working, at least with speedserver
https://mapote.com/pes/sider-6.0.1.zip
still working on the evo web patch but that should be working too.