Kitako Posted November 8, 2012 Share Posted November 8, 2012 (edited) That worked, thanks dreadylein. Exact procedure to get it right is from page 8 of this thread, if that helps someone else: Hey gus, try this Deleting the backup file and orignial fileLet steam check Try patching again This didn't work at first, but adding one extra step solved it for me:1. I deleted both the patched and the original backup .exe file2. had steam 'verify game cache' to re-download the original .exe3. ran the game once first! this brought up the 'completing installation' window and modified the .exe that was just downloaded4. exited the game and patched and now it seems to work. So it looks like maybe people who were re-validating to get a fresh .exe and then immediately patching it had this problem, you have to let Steam launch the game and finalize it first, then patch. Edited November 8, 2012 by Kitako Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enferno00 Posted November 11, 2012 Share Posted November 11, 2012 It seems with the latest steam/xcom patch that only part of the defaultgamecore.ini works. The 1st part where you can edit/change the items, gear and weapons doesn't work anymore. I can change the starting cash, monthly income, xp to lvl, etc. Just about everything at the base seems to work, but the field (items, gear, armor, weapons) doesn't. Anyone else notice this? Did they move the items/gear/armor/weapons to another file with the latest patch? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drake1Storm Posted November 11, 2012 Share Posted November 11, 2012 I can edit items fine so long as I run steam in offline mode. It seems like steam "fixes" all changes to items when it goes online. Likely to make it harder to cheat in multi-player. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
omega3kaa Posted November 12, 2012 Share Posted November 12, 2012 I accidently and stupidly allowed the exe to connect to the internet once and now no matter what I do if steam is in online mode it undoes all the item changes. If I try to re-patch the exe it requires being connected online to "complete installation" and undoes the changes again. Finally I said hell with it, patched the exe, made it read only, and it just says "Steam is too busy" to complete the installation. I give up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dreadylein Posted November 12, 2012 Author Share Posted November 12, 2012 try deleting all binarys (backup and original) , let steam update, restart and apply patches Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bman654 Posted November 12, 2012 Share Posted November 12, 2012 try deleting all binarys (backup and original) , let steam update, restart and apply patches After the "restart", then launch XCOM. This makes Steam happy that game is up to date. Then quit XCOM and apply mod patches. Also make sure you modify your host file to block further attempts by XCOM to phone home. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
omega3kaa Posted November 12, 2012 Share Posted November 12, 2012 Yay it works again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willssi Posted November 17, 2012 Share Posted November 17, 2012 (edited) Is it possible to 'dump' the DefaultGameCore contents of the .exe to a text file? I ask because with the recent patch, the DefaultGameCore.mod file packaged with modpatcher is probably out of date, and whatever changes I make, I'd like them to be based on the current settings of the game. EDIT: nvm, resource hacker was what I was looking for. For anyone else who wants the default Nov1 "DefaultGameCore" settings: http://www.mediafire.com/?3wwik5j2ir3em5c Edited November 17, 2012 by willssi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FMod Posted November 17, 2012 Share Posted November 17, 2012 Yes, it's also a better way to do it. Also, just a suggestion: You don't have to call every mod's file "defaultgamecore.mod"! Modpatcher accepts any name at the command line, so you can call your mod's ini e.g. "MyGameCore.ini" (I prefer ini or txt because they are then opened in notepad on double-click), and make MyMod.bat that says "modpatcher MyGameCore.ini". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlackAlpha Posted November 18, 2012 Share Posted November 18, 2012 (edited) Is it possible to 'dump' the DefaultGameCore contents of the .exe to a text file? I ask because with the recent patch, the DefaultGameCore.mod file packaged with modpatcher is probably out of date, and whatever changes I make, I'd like them to be based on the current settings of the game. EDIT: nvm, resource hacker was what I was looking for. For anyone else who wants the default Nov1 "DefaultGameCore" settings: http://www.mediafire.com/?3wwik5j2ir3em5c You can simply open the EXE in a text editor. Scroll down to the ini file bits that are used in the .mod file. Copy them to the .mod file. Done. But no, there's no differences since the game patch. Except maybe some minor tweaks to existing variables. Edited November 18, 2012 by BlackAlpha Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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