Need help with Save Game Editor in VC

[Lymark]

I'm trying to respec my companions in the current save. But once I pressed 'export current save', the stats still remain unchanged ingame, even though the editor numbers have changed.

Also, I'm 'translating' the 4 bits skills value based on a chart, but it just seems off to me. Take skill#3 for example, my value is 222082, which is 0011 0110 0011 1000 0010 in binary. If you look at the chart, there're 8 4bits packs, but mine has only 5.

I'm a math ♥♥♥♥♥♥ and these numbers have been driving me crazy for the pass 2 hours with no success. Please help :/!

*The chart I mentioned https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/57159442/photos/MnBSkillsHowTo.JPG

[Tuidjy]

Originally posted by Lymark:

I'm trying to respec my companions in the current save. But once I pressed 'export current save', the stats still remain unchanged ingame, even though the editor numbers have changed.

Also, I'm 'translating' the 4 bits skills value based on a chart, but it just seems off to me. Take skill#3 for example, my value is 222082, which is 0011 0110 0011 1000 0010 in binary. If you look at the chart, there're 8 4bits packs, but mine has only 5.

I'm a math ♥♥♥♥♥♥ and these numbers have been driving me crazy for the pass 2 hours with no success. Please help :/!

*The chart I mentioned https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/57159442/photos/MnBSkillsHowTo.JPG

OK, first, I know it goes without saying... but make sure that your character is not loaded and in game while you are doing the editing. I've done it, and had to kill the game, because once you exit the save is renamed, and loading becomes harder.

Second, make sure that you are editing the right entry in 'troops'. In my saved game, the companions start at 295. There are at least two more sets of troops which you can mistake for the companion entries. There are the 'false' ones around 1000, and the 'copies' at the end. Don't edit those.

Third, the skills in Viking Conquest match neither the Native ones, nor the ♥♥♥'s, which the linked chart uses. If you want to learn which skills is which, the best way is to use export and import on your man character, editing your skills to find their locations.

Now, to the important stuff. Skills are saved in 6 integer variables for each character, and each skill takes 4 bits. The integers in questions are unsigned 32 bit integers, and thus each can contain 8 skills, for a total of 8x4 bits each.

In your example, assuming you listed the decimal value, 222082 decimal translates into 00036382 hexadecimal which means that the eight skills it holds are 0, 0, 0, 3, 6, 3, 8, and 2. Note that a skill of 10 would appear as the hexadecimal digit 'A".

So you do have 8 sets, but the leading ones are zero. Make sure that you understand the conversions between decimal, binary and hexadecimal. I actually suggest that instead of a chart, you download and use a 'programmer' calculator, i.e. one that easily switches between bases 2, 10, and 16. I really like the Windows 10 one, although I vaguely remember that Microsoft screwed up somehow, so I actually had to install it manually.

Anyway, I hope this gets you started. If you have more questions, ask.

[Lymark]

Originally posted by Tuidjy:

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Ahh It's Tuidjy again! :P Looks like you're the only one who knows stuff around here.

You pretty much nailed every problem I have as I've mistakenly edited the ones at the end.

One last question tho, I've continued my game to sandbox from story mode. Brunhild have left me due to some decision I've made in the storyline, but I'm not sure If she's gone as adventurer(The note said'whereabout unknown'). Will I able to edit some of the numbers so she would reappear in the traven(without disabling achievement)?

[the smoking mค็็็็็n]

as long as you had some reasonable relations(this may not even matter with her) with her she will repawn in a tavern sometime
one of the guides (forget which) that bryt list here on steam shows you what to edit to stop them leaving,but i never had to bother so i don't know wether it actually works with latest updates

[Tuidjy]

I do not know much about achievements, as I've never really paid attention, but I doubt editing anything will disable them.

As for whether she will appear again, it seems to depend on her relationship with you at the time she left. If you have a saved game, you can check.

In my experience 30 is enough to make sure she reappears. Anything below 0 is bound to have her leave forever. As for the 0-30 range, I haven't a clue.

If she becomes an adventurer, editing her in as a companion is tricky. Frankly, I would not look forward to trying to explain how. You'd have to edit at least four objects that I can think of the top of my head - your party, her party, her record, and a few global variables. To make things worse, the indexes would be different between your save and mine, because they are bound to have been started at different times.

So just hope she comes back, and if not, you'd be better of to just edit one of your loyal companions to look like her ;-)

[Lymark]

Thank you for the help guys once again. She has reappeared luckily. So, everything's resolved now :)