🚀 go-pugleaf

thewises <thewises@enter.net> wrote:
>Bateau <Bateau-is-a@MAN.invalid> wrote in
>news:j6jbs1tecp16oe205ua4m331ucqr6j327h@4ax.com: 
>> thewises <thewises@enter.net> wrote:
>>>How do you modify MISSIONS.DAT? I found some information about other
>>>X-COM save game files, but I couldn't find anything on this one. My
>>>understanding is that it controls what missions the aliens are doing.
>>>So if you hack this file, could you change what missions the aliens
>>>do? 
>> 
>> Try Scott Host, author of XCOMUTIL.
>
>I don't think that XCOMUTIL has any options for modifying MISSIONS.DAT. It 
>seems to me that every time you start a new game, it selects what missions 
>the aliens do, and in what region. The only way to get a different set of 
>missions is to start a completely new game. I want to know if you can 
>modify this file so that you can force the aliens to do a specific mission 
>in a specific region. For example, I could cause floaters to conduct a 
>terror mission in Australia. Or whatever mission I want.
>
>Apparently it's not just MISSIONS.DAT that has to be modified. There's 
>another file, ZONAL.DAT which (I think) controls what regions the aliens 
>are operating in.

But he'd likely know who knows.