Edit Save-Files?

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Has anyone found a way to do that yet? I want to change some specs but if i open the save-files with an editor they are pretty much nonsense.

Why would developers of an SP game even try to hinder players from editing save files?

[Irish Android]

You can edit them, same way you could in Wasteland 2. I figured out how to edit attributes, but not skills, and only for the first character you create. You need to open up your save file with Notepad++. You'll see your character name and a bunch of jibberish. Just read through it and you'll see your attributes with numbers behind them; edit that. Make backup saves, of course.

[Negatiff197]

after any editing game doesnot see save files which were edited how u save them so u can see them in game?

[Fall]

use notepad++ not normal notepad. also it seams if u add too many points the save wont load.
available attributes seams to also add skills and perk points and that is not what i want... any idea how to only edit attributes ? i dont want to play as a 1 int 1 charisma character.

[Negatiff197]

i just wanna some extra money but cant save it to be readed in game
game just dont see file when it was edited and saved in notepad++ even if there were no changes

[Negatiff197]

seems like need to wait for new rangerEditor for w3

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Originally posted by Negatiff197:

i just wanna some extra money but cant save it to be readed in game
game just dont see file when it was edited and saved in notepad++ even if there were no changes

Maybe you used some software that changed some of the formating before/after saving?

[Fall]

managed to edit all the stats but it joins some stats if they have the same value it seams. it does some really weird ♥♥♥♥. you can easily find each person by his equipped weapon and after that its simply trial and error

[BKatt]

Do anybody know how to edit the skills yet ? Im able to edit the attribute without it crashing, but not skills it seems.

Also adding free points to put into attribute seems to make the savegame not load, but setting the attributes to a fixed number works fine.

[Cylaar]

it seems to be that they coded the files to compress and save space (edit: suspect LZF or EXI), but i have been able to edit point values for all my rangers for money, skills, attributes, and perks, along with item counts for inventory, but with the HUGE cavate being that you have to not change the number of bits in the file, and only if and for values that display as a real number and not a placeholder/compressed value such as SPX, SOH, etc.

the value that seems to cause the most problems are 0 and 1. as long as they are not 0 or 1, you can edit them easily. i usually find my rangers data by searching for their name and picking through the garbage values to work out what im actually looking for. since the stat values are in the same order as shown in the game, i can work out fairly easily which value i want to change. for example, one if my characters data is below. name is mercy. it is female, so gender is 1 (male is 0). you can see a few values like charisma, awareness, luck etc. they are in the same order as they appear on screen in the game. as such, as long as you can ID one, you can know what to edit below. again, you can't add or remove any characters or the save wont load.

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the values in game for this ranger are:
7 con
2 luck
6 aware
4 str
4 speed
2 intel
2 cha

as you can see, awareness is easy to spot. just replace 6 with 9 and save, you are good to go. if you want strength, that is after awareness. you can see "gth", the last few characters, and you can see 4. change the 4 to 9 and save. you can see the "ence" for intelligence and see the 2. replace 2 with 9 and you are good. you can also see "<availableAttributePo Ks>0". change to 0 to 9 and you are good on those, but you cant change it to 10. to do so edits the number of bits in the file by adding a character and it breaks. i suspect that can be worked around since the bit count is listed in the file header, but i haven't worked out how it would need to be modied.

for example, when there is only 1 item in a stack, the value returns as "I" rather than one. if the number of items is 10-19, i can only edit the ones place, ie change it from 11 to 19. I suspect the indicies in the file header have something to do with it, but that's just a guess. i am assuming that the game is reading the bit or hex values (with leading zeros dropped or something) of garbage characters notepad++ returns, but haven't gotten anything to work as of yet (not that i tried too hard though). also have been able to tease out likely end of value characters as well, but again, nothing concrete.

below is a snip from my save showing the number of 9mm ammo i have in my inventory along with some context around it. i have 1324 rounds in my inventory. in the xml, you see "324" which has the one in 1000 coded. as such, i can change it to 1999, but not 2000 without breaking it.

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i have yet to work out anything usable for actual items so far, just stackable.

because it has something to do with the compression, the "garbage" values change every time the save file is written by the game, so it can get wonky quick. its usually easier to drop the item you want to edit the value for, save the game, and look for "lootbags" in the save file. if all the items you drop have the same number, you can edit all of them at once.

for example, this is my current lootbag in my save. find quantity, then update it to 9, the largest value you can without changing the number of bits in the file.
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add a few to your rangers quickslots to lower the number, bump the count to 9, reload the save, and move the items from the quick slots back into inventory to get 11+, save, then edit the updated file to be 19, save and load, get it to 21. once its at 21, you can get it to 99. do that again to get it over 101, and you can get it to 199, then get it to 201, then you can get it to 999. rinse and repeat.

not ideal, hopefully someone else finds it faster than i will but thats what i have gotten so far. hopefully that helps.

[Cylaar]

fyi, just found this on reddit, so all credit goes to JitterJohn

https://www.reddit.com/r/Wasteland/comments/ilg5yh/wasteland_3_save_editor/

https://fearlessrevolution.com/viewtopic.php?p=151245#p151245

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Originally posted by Cylaar:

fyi, just found this on reddit, so all credit goes to JitterJohn

https://www.reddit.com/r/Wasteland/comments/ilg5yh/wasteland_3_save_editor/

https://fearlessrevolution.com/viewtopic.php?p=151245#p151245

I think the editor doesn't work with the DLC.
Tested it on old games, before the game tells you about Steeltown (that happens in the world map) and it let me edit the files, but any file after Steeltown is acknowledged, the editor freezes