How to Hex Edit Colony Ship Save files

Hello, everyone.

I am looking for some cheats/console commands type guide the day before, so that I could make some changes in one of my save and enjoy. But unfortunately, I could find any type of guide. Probably because of the game being developed in Unreal Engine. Then on one steam discussion page, I found a person's guide about some changes in the game save file.

So, since there is a chance of some people are gonna miss the discussion page, I am gonna upload those guides here.

And as a disclaimer, I am not the original creator of those guides. I will share the original creator's details and source link below.



Original Creator: Milox
Discussion page link: Console commands?
Source Link: How to Hex Edit Colony Ship Save files [imgur.com]

Guide Content

1. Open the save game file with a hex editor (I use HxD here).
   Mine are located here: C:\Users\Alisa\AppData\Local\ColonyShipGame\Saved
   
2. Click on the Search tab.
   
3. Search for the name of the character you want to change (here it is Evans).
   
4. Click f3 (forward in results) until you reach a region where many dots follow the name of the character. on this savegame, it needed 6x clicking f3
   
   
   
   This is what the Area looks like (the dots are at the decoded Text on the right side)
   
   
   
   
5. These are Evans's Stats in my playthrough. Try recognizing his stats in the Stats Area above.
   
   
   
   
6. Try to use pattern recognition to find the values and change the values to what you want.
   
7. Save the file and reload your game. The values should be changed now.
   
8. You can also change portraits and feats that way. But that is a bit more tricky

[Apocesis]

In case anyone comes looking here for how to edit reputation and faction standing, here is how:
1. As above, in the guide, find your character's name
2. ctrl + f, search for "reputation" in a backwards search
3. Compare your reputation numbers to the integers found in the hex code between "IntProperty" and "Active Char Effects"
4. Profit

[Golden_Duke]

Looks like the game resets the skills back to what they were if a character's bond has increased. This happens to Faythe after the quest with Morgan in the habitat church.

[Hunter]

Might explain why

[Bethrezen]

Works perfectly fine with column width 20, you just need to take into account skill tags. So if you have an in-game Evasion of 6, and it's tagged, you need to look for "04", instead of "06".

[Hunter]

tried it with same result

[antgraf]

To align data in the latest version set row width to 20 bytes instead of 16.

[Hunter]

Is this update up to date? It looks like my values are misaligned

[leonzweihander2008]

Is it possible to add npc feats to the main character? I've been trying to add in Evans' Sniper feat with no success at all, from cheatengine or hex edits.

[MDYH17]

Thank you both authors for posting this guide. I had tried everything from C happen to C engine, but so far, this is the only thing that actually helped

[Damien Wolf (XIII)]

And @Milox I have requested you to be a Contributor for the guide.

Will you please accept?

If that way people will get more help from you.