Tutorial: Softening Leliana In Your Save Game (In HEX! It's Easy!)

[flairtorc]

Okay, so I managed to get three of the four strings through, but every time I try to replace the fourth string, it claims that the string is not found.

 

I used:

 

FD01163BF71374DBC977FA355D801D7,BOOL,DAO/Class/Rogue? and CE01323A17870C4E95283D747263019A,BOOL,Leliana did not kill agent == TRUE

79CF236575D34940A7CF12865342012E,BOOL,DAO/Romance/Leliana? and DADF5B4FCEAAA749AC724875AFD601D6,BOOL,??? == TRUE

F12631D0508FE54ABA1EB6F3683A01E0,BOOL,DAO/Romance/Alistair? and 0E8105EDBBB9694DBC4A913ADE0301C5,BOOL,??? == FALSE

 

But everytime I've tried to replace the fourth string, the string isn't found. I've used Morrigan and Zevran, as well as some other strings that were all false, but nothing works.

 

I was an elven female mage, but I never finished the game/ got very far into it. What do I do?

 

Sorry friend for taking a hot moment to check this out. I was very ill for a little bit when this came in but I am ship shape now.

 

I have two questions for you.

1. Are you able to locate these values normally inside the save flag editior? If so they should exist no matter what.

2. Are you going back to the very first character at the very top in the hex editor before performing each string search?

[Nassin]

Hi,

I hope you might check this still. I played Dragon Age Inquisition upon release but somehow lost interest halfway through. Trying to play it again, I didn't spend as much time doing side quests and running around trying to finish everything, so I was actually able to stay interested and I'm quite loving it so far. Unfortunately, that meant I somehow missed that conversation with Leliana in Haven and did in fact not talk to her at all in Haven because she's skulking in her tent, so... I'm apparently screwed at this point without your help. It just completely sapped my enjoyment when she suddenly turned into a raving lunatic and slit a defenceless woman's throat (wtf, Leliana??)

 

I'm impossibly bad at this kind of thing, but I've tried to follow your steps. I've managed to get so far as to use the hex workshop to find, and replace, the strings suggested.

45FE541FAFB6B54CA1D6C9143209017E

0A1A5BF0A764264EB067A4F6E3BD016A

79CF236575D34940A7CF12865342012E

3BC3E7F9CB37F54E9002A2F89AB9016A

(Those are the ones I THINK I'm supposed to replace - I play as a rogue, and I used to romance Alistair). Mind you, I've never done this sort of thing before, but I found the files after six block shifts, edited them, and then went back six block shifts again and saved as a new file.

 

However... I can't for the life of me open this file in the save game editor again, so presumably I'm messing up somewhere. I'd really appreciate the help as I'm feeling lost and completely out of my depth here. I've tried it a few times now, and enlisted a friend to help as well, but no luck... and I really don't want a Leliana-shaped monster in my canon save.

 

[Edit] Never mind :) After some more input from my friend, I realised I'd been answering 'yes' to a question after replacing the strings, and that messed everything up. Now it's working as intended. Thank you SO much for de-freakifying my Leliana.

Edited April 19, 2018 by Nassin

[Deleted53195051User]

Hey, thanks for helping out so thoroughly with this!

 

I'm having an issue in HEX: So I find my first string, which is 45FE541FAFB6B54CA1D6C9143209017E

and I scroll all the way up to the beginning of the file and hit replace. I type in the new value in replace box, which is - CE01323A17870C4E95283D747263019A

and then 2 boxes pop up. One has simply - Replace option in it and another on top of that says - ''The specified search string was not found''.

btw, in the game, I did have the event at the camp where Leliana decides to kill the agent, but I didn't interfere - so it didn't show up in SaveGameEditor search.

I also tried clicking on the very beginning at every search and block shift.

 

Oh, also! Do I have to search and replace all of the values you suggested? (1 class and 3 romance), or just one and then Block Shift Left ?

Edited April 25, 2018 by Guest

[Chastane]

Hey guys,

 

For those of you who realised that sacrificing the Chargers in the base game makes Iron Bull betray you in Trespasser (and for those who didn't realise in playing the base game that the Qun are massive a-holes and now subsequently regret that choice)...here's how you fix it, based on the method described in this post but changing the below plot flags (random FALSE plot flags from DAO - you should check that these are FALSE in your game as well).

 

Thanks to this post https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/daitools/iron-bull-plot-flags-mild-trespasser-spoilers-t1141.html?sid=538fb6638623e80a5f5ca02786ef9f89#p9652 for helping out with the correct flags.

 

6B6C7ACA31388C4E8F4DD6A5596E01CB replace with 95BEB0B6F392304DB5931ED8771701F4 (should already be set to TRUE) - this is the plot flag for whether the Chargers were sacrificed

6FD01163BF71374DBC977FA355D801D7 replace with 292474F208403B4F96299D455DDC986C (set to TRUE)

DDD0A0C9FFE76248A1B017E4DF9501FD replace with 3C63063D570EDF4889B1FF9D59B4BCBA (set to TRUE)

C577583C0B5F59488070943AA0330164 replace with 65E4511191EC1C43B1119023B8EFD770 (set to TRUE)

C64E8267B1F5A3468BA9A35724F5015C replace with 81D0DD140905B24BA8F6258FC3AF0123 (set to TRUE)

FB864FC585EC3C44A9BFA242D65A01F3 replace with 94E65D9565C1BE4196D73EB1A870018B (set to TRUE)

F66FB0F75080D944828E43DF935401BE replace with CF94BCCC29D9324581FB091A6502B149 (set to TRUE)

4D5EFE79996E884E8387550D3B370195 replace with D80CAA11D597844E89CF149E34ABD382 (set to TRUE)

Also check that these are set to the correct values:

013B5973E7E7554C9C1B66FE3D390151 set to FALSE

1B23E30B47C605479E16917AC6550138 set to FALSE

2774FC9A8B3CD5448E4D778095F40165 set to FALSE

6BA0BA99D4E845439A12C8A45149018D set to FALSE

FD6B3D27DA996E45B13D25F053370175 set to FALSE

5F10D17D232D984B9FA753E2711C0181 set to TRUE

9C832F925F50BE4D85BCA7CFC54601E6 set to TRUE

Just an FYI as I spent a few hours trying to work this out - was heartbroken at losing Iron Bull :sad:

Edited May 1, 2018 by Chastane

[Deleted53195051User]

It WORKED ! :D i noticed in the bottom right corner of HEX interface typo -Cursor 00000 and values changed when I moved cursor (or clicked of course) , so that helped me make sure that the Cursor value was always 00000 before I clicked Ctrl+H to open the Replace window.

As for "The specified search string was not found" error that I got every time I clicked replace, it turns out HEX automatically searched for the old value that was replaced and complained that it was gone :D i made sure of this when I searched for the new value string and found it , so just ignored the error!

If anyone else is wondering about Block Shift, you will only need to Block Shift Right until you find the first value, the rest of them should be in that block. after you replace all 4 values you just Block Shift Left the same amount of times and Save! Thats it! So happy to have Leliana de-lunified and back from the dark side! Thank you ! :D

Hey, thanks for helping out so thoroughly with this!

 

I'm having an issue in HEX: So I find my first string, which is 45FE541FAFB6B54CA1D6C9143209017E

and I scroll all the way up to the beginning of the file and hit replace. I type in the new value in replace box, which is - CE01323A17870C4E95283D747263019A

and then 2 boxes pop up. One has simply - Replace option in it and another on top of that says - ''The specified search string was not found''.

btw, in the game, I did have the event at the camp where Leliana decides to kill the agent, but I didn't interfere - so it didn't show up in SaveGameEditor search.

I also tried clicking on the very beginning at every search and block shift.

 

Oh, also! Do I have to search and replace all of the values you suggested? (1 class and 3 romance), or just one and then Block Shift Left ?

[flairtorc]

Look at this cheeky little bugger coming up with something neat to cheat the game ;). I might link this in my reserved second post.

 

 

Hey guys,

 

For those of you who realised that sacrificing the Chargers in the base game makes Iron Bull betray you in Trespasser (and for those who didn't realise in playing the base game that the Qun are massive a-holes and now subsequently regret that choice)...here's how you fix it, based on the method described in this post but changing the below plot flags (random FALSE plot flags from DAO - you should check that these are FALSE in your game as well).

 

Thanks to this post https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/daitools/iron-bull-plot-flags-mild-trespasser-spoilers-t1141.html?sid=538fb6638623e80a5f5ca02786ef9f89#p9652 for helping out with the correct flags.

 

6B6C7ACA31388C4E8F4DD6A5596E01CB replace with 95BEB0B6F392304DB5931ED8771701F4 (should already be set to TRUE) - this is the plot flag for whether the Chargers were sacrificed

6FD01163BF71374DBC977FA355D801D7 replace with 292474F208403B4F96299D455DDC986C (set to TRUE)

DDD0A0C9FFE76248A1B017E4DF9501FD replace with 3C63063D570EDF4889B1FF9D59B4BCBA (set to TRUE)

C577583C0B5F59488070943AA0330164 replace with 65E4511191EC1C43B1119023B8EFD770 (set to TRUE)

C64E8267B1F5A3468BA9A35724F5015C replace with 81D0DD140905B24BA8F6258FC3AF0123 (set to TRUE)

FB864FC585EC3C44A9BFA242D65A01F3 replace with 94E65D9565C1BE4196D73EB1A870018B (set to TRUE)

F66FB0F75080D944828E43DF935401BE replace with CF94BCCC29D9324581FB091A6502B149 (set to TRUE)

4D5EFE79996E884E8387550D3B370195 replace with D80CAA11D597844E89CF149E34ABD382 (set to TRUE)

Also check that these are set to the correct values:

013B5973E7E7554C9C1B66FE3D390151 set to FALSE

1B23E30B47C605479E16917AC6550138 set to FALSE

2774FC9A8B3CD5448E4D778095F40165 set to FALSE

6BA0BA99D4E845439A12C8A45149018D set to FALSE

FD6B3D27DA996E45B13D25F053370175 set to FALSE

5F10D17D232D984B9FA753E2711C0181 set to TRUE

9C832F925F50BE4D85BCA7CFC54601E6 set to TRUE

Just an FYI as I spent a few hours trying to work this out - was heartbroken at losing Iron Bull :sad:

 

[smithersjoe]

My current play through (Origin, game version 1.0.0.12), I distinctly remembered offering Leliana my sympathies and then stopping her from killing the traitor (the latter happened immediately after I finished the sympathy conversation), but I couldn't find the plot flags in my save game. I decided to do some troubleshooting, so I loaded a save from before the sympathy conversation, then created a new save right after the sympathy conversation, and another new save right after stopping her from killing the traitor.

 

Using the save editor to compare save files, I found that there are different plot flags being added (the initial "A," before the plot flag ID means "Added"):

 

Not offering sympathy:

A,F5A6D3E9B5B2D541B440A63D7E6D01E7,TRUE
A,A995B01D49AAD33F8B3595DC6005212A,FALSE

 

Offering sympathy:

A,8B77DDD3D17D5D439D8E1504E6D6773B,TRUE
A,F5A6D3E9B5B2D541B440A63D7E6D01E7,TRUE
A,A995B01D49AAD33F8B3595DC6005212A,FALSE

 

Difference for offering sympathy:

A,8B77DDD3D17D5D439D8E1504E6D6773B,TRUE

 

Telling her to kill the traitor:

A,5A235882025E3C4D84EA686E4AF2013A,TRUE
A,97409E2AC3738648AE7C87FC29600107,TRUE
A,AAFB1EDDA030D84D9744DAB293210147,TRUE
A,F10E489BE6F372479F6CF1B5743CEBF0,TRUE

 

Stopping her from killing the traitor:

A,5A235882025E3C4D84EA686E4AF2013A,TRUE
A,97409E2AC3738648AE7C87FC29600107,TRUE
A,DADF5B4FCEAAA749AC724875AFD601D6,TRUE

Difference for stopping her from killing the traitor:

A,DADF5B4FCEAAA749AC724875AFD601D6,TRUE

 

FWIW, both of those plot flags are different that the ones listed in this thread.

[Playbahnosh]

 

 

 

FWIW, both of those plot flags are different that the ones listed in this thread.

 

That could have something to do with the save file structure. It's still not clear what a lot of the flags do, and the file changes a lot between the different milestones. It could be that the flags from the Haven part change for the Skyhold part, I don't know.

 

What I do know is, the guide works perfectly. Like many others, I also screwed up the Agent dialogue back in Haven (I did the other dialogues right, but apparently that one bad choice screws up everything). I did her personal quest and quite predictably, she went psycho. I didn't wanna restart after a 122 hour game just for this, so I yoinked a save right before I did her quest, followed this guide, and it worked like a charm! This time I could convince her not to kill the spy and she got softened.

 

One thing to note:

I tried to swap in the "CE01323A17870C4E95283D747263019A,BOOL,Leliana did not kill agent" flag alone, since that was the only part I screwed up, but that alone did not work. I had to swap in all 4 flags for it to work.

Now, this could be because I'm so far into the game that flags got changed around, or maybe the above flag description is actually not true, or maybe the other flags are required no matter what, I cannot know at this point. But if you swap in all 4, you can soften Leliana if it's done on a save before you start her personal quest.

[Audra5967]

It worked! Like a charm! Thanks so much!! :happy:

[Widlicka]

I just wanted to say.... thank you so much! I may have shed a tear when it was all done and it worked on the first try. You are amazing :)