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Started by thewises
Wed, 11 Jan 2006 20:01
missions.dat
Author: thewises
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 20:01
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 20:01
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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?
Re: missions.dat
Author: Bateau
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 03:28
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 03:28
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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.
Re: missions.dat
Author: thewises
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 19:40
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 19:40
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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.
Re: missions.dat
Author: thewises
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 19:40
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 19:40
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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.
Re: missions.dat
Author: thewises
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 21:00
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 21:00
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Ooops. I must have posted the same message twice. It was an accident with my newsreader.
Re: missions.dat
Author: Bateau
Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2006 06:53
Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2006 06:53
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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.
Re: missions.dat
Author: thewises
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 20:16
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 20:16
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> But he'd likely know who knows. Since I don't seem to be getting any answers here, where should I ask this?
Re: missions.dat
Author: Bateau
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 03:39
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 03:39
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thewises <thewises@enter.net> wrote: >> But he'd likely know who knows. > >Since I don't seem to be getting any answers here, where should I ask this? Scott Host.
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