Any way to skip text, enemy movement, animated sequences, and so on?

[demontrace]

I am already aware that you can skip the movies that play before or after battles by hitting enter. What I am referring to are the briefings before battle, as well as the scenes that play for potentials or combat, like for example when ted does his show off move. In addition the enemy movement. The animations like a train moving from one spot to another.

This game is really bogged down by the constant animations and I'd love to speed up this game. If you're playing a battle multiple times, or even having to see the same stuff many times over in just 1 battle, it gets really tedious. I like the game a lot, but the constant text before battles, the animations, and everything that isn't instantly skippable is killing the game for me.

[DoomyDoom]

Originally posted by demontrace:

What I am referring to are the briefings before battle

All dialogue should be skippable line-by-line (enter or whatever, I don't play VC with kb&m).

Originally posted by demontrace:

as well as the scenes that play for potentials or combat, like for example when ted does his show off move.

The only option you have is to mod the game to disable all of the "face close-up" animations for each individual potential. If you're interested, I can explain further.

Originally posted by demontrace:

In addition the enemy movement. The animations like a train moving from one spot to another.

No, the option to skip/speed enemy movement was added in VC2.

[demontrace]

Yes I'm very interested in disabling all that stuff. Please tell.

[DoomyDoom]

Ok then. Sorry it took a while to make screenshots :3

First step - get a hex editor. We'll need to go through the file that contains most game settings and change stuff there.
The file in question - "steamapps\common\Valkyria Chronicles\data\mx\game_info_game_param.mxe".
When you open it, you will see something like this:
https://postimg.org/image/idgj0kbft/

The file is comprised of a lot of entries. First there's a lot of references what is where, as explained on picture above. We need to find all entries for potentials and change them.
All potentials have 00 00 00 30 as their Entry Type.
https://postimg.org/image/z3wi3mz8p/

Let's follow the first potential, which is located at 01CE40 + 20 = 1CE60. Next image explains what's what.
https://postimg.org/image/rmipaokbt/

Now you need to go through all the potentials (they all go together one after another) and change every single "animation" byte to 00 00 00 00. Be careful to only replace bytes, don't insert anything new.

Of course, make a backup copy of the file before changing it (the game won't load with a broken one, but you can always run game check from steam to fix it by getting unchanged version).

If you're not comfortable with hex editing, there's also ValkyrieEdit program which can be used to make those changes, but there are some caveats there as well.

ED: a bit of extra info - you will still get potential pop-ups at the bottom of the screen. I also recommend trying to change one potential to see if it works the way you like (you can give 100% activation for a test run by subbing activation bytes for 42C80000)

[demontrace]

Yeah I've never hex edited before. It always looked a bit unclear to me, as I'm not sure how people know what parts of the code affect what part of the game.

I downloaded that valkyrieedit program from a github link through google. At the moment it's looking a bit complicated, and I think I'm too tired right now to try to figure it out. It seems very much that editing this game to work for you is a power user type of thing, which I sometimes fall into, but it's a very involved process for things like this.

Hopefully I'll take the time to learn it at some point. Then again, the only reason why all this stuff like potentials, and the briefings, and so on is old is because I'm just farming xp on those edy skirmish missions. Trying to get decent items too. The Scout and Sniper challenges are pretty easy for me right now. The Lancer, Engineer, and Stormtrooper ones are a pain in the ass. Haven't even tried the tank one.

[DoomyDoom]

ValkEdit sometimes fails to split non-english lines for Name/Description (happens on lines with asian typography in them), and then when you change something in the file it will refuse to write changes, because there's an empty cell somewhere. You'll have to manually split those, or replace those with some short string like "zzz". Short string works, because ValkEdit can only substitute text strings with the exact same length, everything else is ignored (except empty value, which is the root of the problem).

[demontrace]

Wow, the unskippable stuff gets to an all time horrible experience when you beat the game. You are forced to watch everything. The credits, epilogue, EVERYTHING. I really hated that.