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- Stardate : 2669.95.02.02 User : cblair@tcn.victory.crew
- Name : Commander Christopher Blair
- System : IBM and compatibles
-
- Subject : Object.tre patch for Excalibur and Hellcat NOT Longbow
- (there may be a bug in the german WC3 documentation!)
-
- This file includes former WC3PAT.TXT and adds a patch for Dumbfire Missles !
-
- To all Wing Commanders,
-
- here is a small story about patching your OBJECT.TRE file on your harddisk to
- get more and quicker firepower using less energy for Excalibur and Hellcat V.
-
-
- ATTENTION !!! Everything you do, you do at YOUR OWN RISK !!!!
-
- One day Rachel told me , that it should be easy to modify the gundata in the
- OBJECT.TRE file on some of the ships of the TCN Victory. All you need is a
- good debugger or hex-editor. She said she has never tried it.It is to risky
- for the pilots to fly an instable ship, because of her modifications.
- I answered that i would fly the modified ship at my own risk, and so she told
- me what to do :
-
- 1) Make a BACKUP of your OBJECT.TRE file
- 2) Load it in your Hex-Editor and search for "Reaper"
- 3) There you will find the following Hex patterns:
-
- 23 00 00 00 08 07 00 00 80 02 00 00 3A 00 00 00 23 00
- ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^
- | | | | | | |
- | | | | | | Energy consumption
- | | | | | Refire rate
- | don't know about it (maybe range of guns ???)?
- Destruction power
-
- 4) Modify the pattern to the following:
-
- F0 00 00 00 08 07 00 00 80 02 00 00 15 00 00 00 04 00
- ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^
- | | | | | | |
- | | | | | | less is better
- | | | | | less is better
- | don't modify ....
- more is better
-
- The values shown have a good balance for the gun.
-
- 5) Save the file to your harddisk
-
- 6) Search for "Neutron" Gun to make changes for the Hellcat
-
- 7) You will find the following Hex patterns:
-
- 34 00 00 00 78 05 00 00 80 01 00 00 66 00 00 00 1E 00
-
- 8) You can modify it equal to the Reaper Gun, but don't change the
- unknown bytes , if you don't know what they mean.
-
- Here is Rachels advice:
-
- 80 00 00 00 78 05 00 00 80 01 00 00 15 00 00 00 04 00
-
- ATTENTION:
-
- don't mess around with the other guns, because the Kilrathi
- may have them too !!! It's not funny to meet Kilrathi fighters
- with such tuned guns.
-
- Here is an additional patch for the Dumbfire Missles. Two of them kills a
- Destroyer if you can get close enough. So you can fly the mission instead
- of using the Longbow or Thunderbold VII.
-
-
- 9) Search for "Dumb" to make changes for this type of missle
-
- 10) You will find the following Hex patterns:
-
- 20 03 00 00 15 0C 0F 01 03 05 07 37 ........
- ^ ^ ^ ^
- | | | |
- | | | life in seconds of the missle
- | | |
- | don't modify ....
- destruction power (more is better,don't forget LOWbyte HIGHbyte)
-
-
- 11) You can modify it to the values of a torpedo (or more)
-
- This is Rachels advice:
-
- 40 1F 00 00 15 0C 0F 01 03 14 07 37 ........
-
-
- You can modify the pattern of all other missles too, BUT be careful their
- patterns seems to be different. Rachel was not sure, but she thinks the
- "life" pattern looks like 01 03 LIFE 07 37. Find them by searching for the
- first 3 or 4 letters of the missles name, or search for "MISLDAT" in the
- OBJECT.TRE file to find all missles.
-
- NOTE: After flying several missions with modified guns i'm not sure if
- the modifications really take an effect to the Kilrathi ships, but
- it seems to take an effect to your wingmans ship, because he kills
- all fighters in very short time during the "Nebular mission" while
- i was waiting for that dammed skipmissle to shot down.
-
- -bye- see ya next mission !
-
- Live long and prosper ! 8-)
-
- If YOU have some usefull modifications ,questions or advices please send me
- mail at Compuserve !
-