Editing Single Player games?

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Assmaster

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Hi,

I am trying to figure out how to hex edit my single player saved game file (UVX) in UT2004. I have searched long and hard but had no luck, does anyone here have any info or some pointers?

Thanks a lot in advance! :)
 

Assmaster

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Thanks for the reply - I'm trying to change the default difficulty level since I'm really struggling with the ladder games.... In the original UT, this was stored in the INI file from what I remember, but now it's in that UVX file from the looks of it! :(
 

SyK0

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u can open it with notepad but after that i have no idea on what to do so if u do u might wanna try that
 

SyK0

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tell me about it i had to cheat a few times to beat some lvls like the assault but im not worried about unlocking the hidden characters cuse i cheated to unlock them to :D
 

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n00bkillin said:
It comes up in a load of unicode symbols (I know, unicode is used in word but this comes up in symbols you can't use in word) for most things so I will try another text editor.

There is some text in the file but mostly binary characters, which will show up as gibberish. So you need to use a hex editor to view it properly - I use Hex Workshop myself...
 

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BooGiTyBoY said:
What difficulty are you playing on? It gets much harder as you go along so don't be ashamed to start at novice or average ;)
Trust me.. if you have a problem and you start haxing it you'll never improve your gameplay.

I agree. :) Currently playing on Experienced, but I didn't realize the bot skill scales up as you progress along the ladder, so I should have selected something slightly less ambitious at the start.... :p
And I don't want to start using cheats, so I thought rather than start from scratch, I could just shift down a difficulty level and enjoy the game a bit more!
 

LactroX

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Norway.
When i first got UT2k4 i started with masterfull. It's ok a little bit, it may be hard to beat your team in a ffa deathmatch, but after that, it's hard. It's like the bot's on your team is novice, and the bot's on the enemy team is godlike or something. It just suck!

So after starting on a new game on skilled, the bot's still got owned, but now I had a chance win. After a while I just gave up on playing skilled. And just because I wanted to finish the game atleast once. I played on novice. It was pretty easy. But i can't believe the last course (boss level)
If the novice boss had minigun, and you where in his sight, You were dead. I mean it. I'm shure he had constant double damage+++.
It was the first match on novice where i had to time both 50 and 100 shield. It was right before I needed to time the adrenaline. Because he was hard!!!

All that was a while ago. And now a days, my ping suck from time to time. When it does, I'm trying to finish the game on godlike ;) Can't wait for the boss lvl then :p

So my advice to you. Start easy. It's hard enough out there. Just because of your stupid team.
 
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gades

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Behind you biatch!!
Hmm, picking the better bot teammates helps to a degree, you just have to do some bloodrites to get some of them. Also, all the characters make thier way into the freepool towards the end of the game, even characters like Xan, Malcolm, Brock etc.

The toughest levels do seem to be the assault levels, Robot factory and Mothership are tough.

As for the final boss (Xan, Malcolm, ClanLord), yes, timing the shields is essential, plus the vials near the super shield are important. And remember, you can drop down from the top of the ship right next to the super shield, and you can dodge jump into the ramp from the bottom level to the super shield as well (the boss does this too).

To beat the boss comfortly, play a defensive game, in other words, stay away from him while blasting him with your shock rifle. If he gets to you, he'll go flak monkey on your ass everytime. Also, try to have some cover nearby incase he pulls out his minigun (the only weapon he can kill you with at long range). Keep playing a defence game till the time runs out.

I beat him 6 to -4 this way (yes, he fell into space all 4 times!).
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