[MOD] Increase level cap (to level 75)

Do you find the game too easy ? Or too short ?
Here's a guide that can extend your game time by increasing the level cap up to 75.
Players as zombies will be at this level, or not. You can edit the game as you wish.
You define your system.

Step 1. Setup your files

First of all you will need to find the data files in the main folder of the game located in :

C:\Program Files(X86)\Steam\Steamapps\Common\Dead island\DI

In this folder you will find a file called Data0.pak, open it with WinRAR then locate the "Skills" folder inside the .pak file.



Then, inside the "Skills" folder, locate your character_level.xml file and extract it into :
Documents\Dead island\out\data\skills

Create these folders if they are not already.

If you're using Xian, it will be xian_levels.xml,
If you're using Purna, it will be purna_levels.xml
etc.

Step 2. Modifying lines

Open the .xml file with Notepad, you should find this at start:

<level id="1">	
	<prop n="ExpToNextLevel" v="2000"/>
	<prop n="MaxStamina" v="1"/>
	<prop n="QuickSlotsCount" v="3"/>
	<prop n="InventorySize" v="12"/>
	<prop n="MaxHealth" v="120"/>
</level>

Use at your own risk, a wrong value may crash your game or your character may be in a wrong level. If so, just delete the .xml file in the skills folder and everything will come back.
Just remind that the original .xml file is located in the Data0.pak and this one shouldn't be modified.

Don't change any value until the very last level, just copy paste a line and change the value above 50. In the end of the document, you will find this:

<level id="50">
	<prop n="AllowedSkillsCount" v="49"/>
</level>

That means that the level 50 is the max level and it doesn't require exp anymore to level up.
So if you want to increase the level cap, you will need to create lines and a random amount of exp required to level up.

For example :

<level id="50">
	<prop n="ExpToNextLevel" v="325000"/>
	<prop n="AllowedSkillsCount" v="49"/>
</level>
<level id="51">
	<prop n="ExpToNextLevel" v="350000"/>
	<prop n="AllowedSkillsCount" v="50"/>
</level>

Don't exagerate with the numbers, you can be surprised if you set a high value. Take note that to level up to 50, you will need to get 325 000 exp, and to reach level 51, 350 000 exp more.
So, if in your save (that should be lvl 50) you already sum up 3 million exp, you will need to get the exp necessary to level up. (you will find yourself lvl 51 after the modifications though)

The line "<prop n="AllowedSkillsCount" v="50"/>" will add 1 point to your skills count anytime you increase the value to 1.
At the last level you want to stop, just delete the line "<prop n="ExpToNextLevel" v="2720326"/>" and only change the level id but don't forget to increase the value of the skills count.

<level id="69">
<prop n="AllowedSkillsCount" v="68"/>
</level>

Once you are done, save your file into a .txt, and rename your file into a .xml
Open your game, just load your save and enjoy.

I hope you kept much champagne for Svetlana.

Step 3. Increase the Zombie difficulty

To make the zombie level up as far as you, you will need to go back to the Data0.pak file.
Open it with WinRAR and extract 3 folders: Human, Infected and Zombie located in the AI folder of the .pak

Extract these 3 folders into :
Documents\Dead Island\Out\Data

In Human folder, open human_data.scr with Notepad and search, by pressing CTRL+F, the line "ParamInt("max_level", 50)"
Change the value of "max_level", 50 by the maximum level you just modified so they can keep levels with you.

ParamInt("max_level", 69)

Do the same thing with the file infected_data.scr in Infected folder.
Also, same thing with the file vessel_data.scr in Zombie folder.

Credits

Thanks to jayquik03, the author of this mod.
http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2124964

You can use his tutorial if you have troubles.
I hope that you enjoy Dead Island as much as me to increase your level cap.

Happy gaming.

[Chaz]

Sounds interesting, thanks for posting this.

[Est3banSP]

thanksss

[Imanichol]

arigato my friend

[Jäger]

That is freaking sick man

[Leo]

Good!

[Keanz]

dope

[CrakCaillou]

Kool

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