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The in-game descriptions are on the line with the skill name, change those and you change the description.

How do I add new skills to the tree? Do I just crate a new tree and it will work, or do I add to the existing tree, and do I have to remove other skills from the tree to get more?


Also, how do I increase the "certain items drop at certain points" as far as I've seen, items have been random.

[Edited by Draco856, 9/10/2011 1:42:18 AM]

I havnt done much with the skills yet, can you actually add skills, or just replace them with others?

open, and extract Data1.pak, inside are the maps for the game. Inside those folders are the loot tables, and the probability percentages of the items chance of dropping in the area. 'prob = 0.3' for example. They seem random, based on the percentage that they will drop. But some have higher chance rate than others. Not sure its a good idea to make them all higher chance.

Maybe if you after certain items, you could temporarily change the prob of that item to say 0.99 (99%) then change it back after you got it. Havnt tested it yet. I altered my skill of chance of upgraded items dropping to 99% in my skills, which is good enough. I might play more with it on 2nd play thru.

My fav alteratino to skills, is the chance of boomerang abiltiy. Now, everytime i throw a weapon, it always auto returns to me

[Edited by rcboothman, 9/10/2011 2:02:34 AM]

[Edited by rcboothman, 9/10/2011 2:17:49 AM]

I think I'll mess around with the container loot instead of map loot. I'm gonna see if I make the Orange item number high like 2000 it'll give me only orange items.


Edit:

Well I got orange weapons to appear in the metal boxes, but it doesn't seem to be all I get. I don't know why either. But it's mostly orange weapons. I just changed the numbers of the Lockpick 1,2,3 and Default to 2000. The only downside I can see is that I find mostly alcohol and if you like using molotovs that's not really a downside. Crafting parts have become scarce, so I'd just buy them and use the trainer to give 99 of them.

[Edited by Draco856, 9/10/2011 5:14:12 AM]

so did you touch this attribute aswell:

export int Color_Orange = 4;

did you change it to 2000?

or just these:

export int ColorSet_Default = 0;
export int ColorSet_LockPick1 = 1;
export int ColorSet_LockPick2 = 2;
export int ColorSet_LockPick3 = 3;

which file are you seeing these values in btw? its no good telling people to change these values, but not what file to change them in

[Edited by rcboothman, 9/10/2011 3:22:21 PM]

I hate to be a noob here but can someone help me out? I want to do some basic editing with the skills. Say I have this skill line;
< skill id="DJKeenEdge" cat="Tree2" max_level="3" tier="4" desc_params="+4%;+8%;+12%" >
< tier_req tier="3" cat="Tree2" value="1"/ >
< effect id="CutCriticalChance" change="0.04"/ >
Lets say I want the critical chance from this to make it be say 50%. What line am I going to change and what would I be changing? If it has 3 levels do I need change different lines to affect those levels of skill too or what? It's mainly the multiple levels for the skill that confuse me with what to change.