Character editor / stats GUI not working! Help Jimbei!

[Sketcz]

OK, seen this talked about a bit:
https://forum.worldofplayers.de/forum/threads/1512984-Release-Ingame-Cheat-GUI

It's a GUI that let's you tweak stats. It tweaks them, but the game won't let me spend the extra stats I tweak.

I need to use this because I spent 10 hours power grinding to buy the boost XP perks (quests, monsters, reading, attributes +1, etc.), and it turns out these are all garbage. The XP boosters only gain you like one extra level over an entire playthrough. So my save file is now borked. I can either restart those 10 hours or just cheat by giving myself the skill points back that I wasted.

So I use the GUI linked above, v1.4. It shows my stats, and I'm able to tweak them.

So I give myself 100 attribute points and 10 skill points, which should be enough to rebalance the wasted 10 hours.

Except I can't use them. I try moving the attributes to the right, but it's like I have 0. Even though the game shows 100. I reload, exit Steam, nothing fixes it. My save file now shows 100 attribute point, but I cannot assign them?!

I try buying a new perk, but even though the game shows GREEN text for all requirements, it won't let me buy anything.

I tried increasing my XP to 50 below the next level up, then drank a small Elex potion, hoping that it would level me up and basically kickstart the values into working. But I can't level up! It now shows me as having more XP than needed to level up, but I'm stuck on my lower level!

Can anyone help me fix this?

Can I maybe email someone my save file to edit it on their PC, save, and send back to me?

If I cannot edit my stats to fix the last 10 hours, then I'm quitting this game.

In my opinion PB ♥♥♥♥♥♥ up badly with the balancing on this. The game IS broken like people complain. It's ridiculous that they dangle the XP boosting perk, you struggle to get it, and it turns out to be absolutely useless. That's just not right. Everyone knows, in an RPG, you always get the booster perks first, because they pay off in the long run. What was PB thinking with this? I've been playing RPGs for over 30 years, and the only time I've seen mean-spirited ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ trickery like this was in the SaGa series of JRPGs. All that elexit wasted. All that XP wasted. All those skill points wasted. All that time, the quests, the grinding, the potion making. For nothing! I should be seeing 25% to 50% boosts in XP. The levelling graph should be drastically altered in my favour. That's what booster perks are there for! It's like they're trying to punish me for actually thinking strategically!

Dear gods, please, someone help me fix this. I have wasted 10 hours I will never get back.

[D'amarr from Darshiva]

You've posted in the worldofplayers forum topic, which is the right thing to do in my opinion.

Although I know this mod exists, I had never used it before until recently when I wanted to test the "cold value" for a topic. If using the mod to change the cold value, it breaks all subsequent cold related arithmetics completely. Even resetting cold to zero breaks it. Perhaps there is similar breakage with regard to some of the other values it shows.

[Sketcz]

Thanks.

Sadly I've only now just seen that the forum there very seldom gets new posts. So I doubt anyone will come by, or that Jimbei even still works on it.

I then thought about downloading a trainer. But most require you to pay a subscription. The one free trainer I found also didn't allow you to increase be small ammounts, just get infinite numbers. Which breaks the game. I also ended up accidentally downloading a damned ttrojan doing this.

All I want is my life back. By which I mean, I want:
100 attribute
10 skill
8000 elexit

That's roughly what I wasted these last 10 hours chasing these stupid, garbage perks.

[D'amarr from Darshiva]

Originally posted by megacdman:

That's roughly what I wasted these last 10 hours chasing these stupid, garbage perks.

10 hours is nothing in ELEX - unless you want to rush through the game as to see the end quickly.

About the Charisma/Personality abilities - https://elex.gamepedia.com/Personality - yep, there are various pitfalls, since many of them are only worthwhile for the early game. Such as Friend of Beasts. CUN 50 as a high requirement, but only weak creatures are affected? Who would consider that as worthwhile? Attributes +1 per level doesn't look very attractive, if player cannot foresee what level will be reached, and learning it at high priority sounds odd then. I mean, you gain only 10 attribute points per 10 levels, and you can see the very high attribute requirements of equipment and abilities very early. Most of the other abilities require INT+CUN. On the other hand, some people like playing smart, silver-tongue protagonists, and with a focus on INT+CUN+DEX and exploration, one can make a profit early due to hacking safes and picking pockets. Eventually, one must fight, and then anything can be helpful. Even +5% XP for missions and Bookworm to gain XP for reading the many documents one can find.

If you compare the abilities with Elex potions (and the items you can equip to gain a skill), oh well, ...

[Sketcz]

In the end I used the trainer which gave "infinite" points. Technically it locked them at 99, and I wanted 100 attribute, so that was fine. I ended up with 99 skill points, but I'm going to make sure it never goes below 90. And for elexite I just made a simple item infinite temporarily, and sold a bunch until I had 5000.

So I'm good.

I won't be making that mistake again buying the wrong perks.

I think almost all of the complaints with this game would be mitigated if the systems were not so opaque. I hate the game, but only because it tricked me - if it had it quite clear that extra attributes per level, or XP boosters were basically ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥, then I would not have bought them.

Honestly, I was tempted by the weak animal perk too. :(

This whole game is so counter intuitive it's crazy.

[D'amarr from Darshiva]

Do you know what happened during the first week of release of the game? Early adopters, who played it heavily, noticed the crafting recipes for Elex potions, which you can buy very early around level 1-2 already, if you explore a bit inside the separatists' converter. Explorers also found the various items, which grant helpful skills that can also be learned. People also noticed that one can visit the Albs' Ice Palace and enter it due to a glitch in the energy barrier, which has been fixed a bit later by one of the updates.

Originally posted by megacdman:

This whole game is so counter intuitive it's crazy.

Well, you've tried to meta-game the system before gaining all the meta-gaming knowledge, which would back up such a decision. Your stomach ought to have told you that full focus on the Charisma/Personality abilities bears a high risk, because you would be lacking fighting skills and would be unable to complete any dangerous missions. Effectively, starting with CHA/Pers skills increases the requirements to explore even more, search for errand boy tasks and likely become a hacker and a thief before gaining the missing combat skills.

[Revolucas]

If I found this post earlier I would have told you the easy money exploit. But maybe it's for the best I didn't.