Small mod for W2 EE
Finished testing my mod, gave to my friends and decided to share it here.
What it does:
1. Item changes
1.1 Weight of all recipes, quest items, schematics, books, junk and ingredients removed.
1.2 Slightly increased weight of all other items
1.3 Removed Minor and Major mutagens
1.4 Reduced all bonuses to max weight by roughly twice or more
1.5 Act 3 dark swords now have +1 to adrenaline on hit
1.6 All Dark silver swords now have 1 rune slot
1.7 Mahakam rune sihil (imported from W1) now have higher damage
1.8 Melitele's Heart now have better stats
1.9 Vitality steal from dark swords now only works when you complete a set
1.10 Changed stats of some mutagens
2. Stat changes
1.1 Replaced talent Impregnation - instead of increasing mutagen effects it now gives vitality regeneration while intoxicated
1.2 Added new stat - vitality regeneration while intoxicated (similar to vigor regeneration while intoxicated)
1.3 Reduced maximum weight Geralt can carry to 100
3. Shop changes
3.1 DLC items moved to Act 1 Mysterious Merchant (no longer available at the start of the game)
3.2 Some quest items can now be sold in shops
3.3 Other quest items can now be placed in player storage
3.4 Most quest related ingredients are no longer tagged as quest and can spawn in some shops
3.5 Price ratio now changes based on item quality instead of a static 50x difference between merchant price and player price.
4. UI Changes
4.1 Improved character stats screen
4.2 Added ability to localize user content package names and descriptions (in config.ini use some generic strings like "my_mod_name", "my_mod_description" and localize them in XX_user.w2strings files)
5. Visual changes
5.1 Built-in Extreme Quality Flora mod by EatChildren
5.2 Built-in Return of the White Wolf mod by Wednesday17
5.3 Increased delay before dead bodies dissappear to 5 minutes
5.4 Non-empty containers now always glow, no need to use medallion
5.5 Fullscreen dark effect is only shown when you do not have a full set (the one that changes colors). If you have a full set only screen border effect and background sound effect is played
6. Gameplay changes
6.1 Medallion cooldown reduced to 2 seconds from 10
6.2 Combat mode wears off after 2 seconds instead of 10
6.3 Non-quest items with zero weight (ingredients and junk) are now auto-looted from corpses (no longer needed to loot manually). You still need to loot other items manually. Auto-loot only works in close range to prevent getting loot from monsters killed by other monsters somewhere on the map.
6.4 Quen no longer completely removes vigor regeneration. Vigor is regenerated while Quen is active at a slower rate (10 times slower in combat and 2 times slower out of combat)
7. Mod fixes some russian tooltips that were poorly translated (hence larger ru_user.w2strings file)
8. Fixed a bug with game talent reset - mutagens were not removed properly (talents are reset when loading a game saved without mod or in act 3 quest)
Mod must be manually enabled by editing UserContent.ini because I do not know how to generate cook.hash file without REDkit. I didn't test it for compatibilty with other mods, but I can definetely say that it's incompatible with most of the mods that change items or gameplay. I completed the game with the mod on both sides to test that I didn't break anything. Mod is only for english or russian version of the game. Russian strings file is a lot larger because I also fixed a lot of tooltips and descriptions in russian translation (there are some poorly translated thing here and there).
I couldn't upload it into attachments so I just uploaded it to MEGA:
Mod https://mega.co.nz/#!bpFB1AIZ!4Mjr5CJFSImh2mAmh9L9FYZ0lyTDR1ALpsnXKcJgO7g
Source https://mega.co.nz/#!H482FQbA!rFHptyBaWR0Vpgt86a-lXRk5I5inREZau5OAAAxXhgY
Launcher https://mega.co.nz/#!foFyCK6Z!ua1AmNZkhzOGIu52_bK5ixMRPEKvF4RnV5J2EBemQ5E
Be aware that if you load your game saved without mod your talents will be reset and you'll lose all your minor and major mutagens. Also if you save the game with mod and then load it without mod your mutagen slots will be lost due to game implementation of mutagens.
I also included my Launcher.exe which can be used as a replacement for launcher. Because it's no longer needed and actually doesn't even work properly (Register game for example will always give errors and so on), so I made a simple app that just runs witcher2.exe. If you do not trust 3rd party binaries (and for a good reason) you can compile it yourself with fasm, code below (I used fasm because it's lightweight and I didn't have anything else on my home pc that can compile win32 binaries):
Finished testing my mod, gave to my friends and decided to share it here.
What it does:
1. Item changes
1.1 Weight of all recipes, quest items, schematics, books, junk and ingredients removed.
1.2 Slightly increased weight of all other items
1.3 Removed Minor and Major mutagens
1.4 Reduced all bonuses to max weight by roughly twice or more
1.5 Act 3 dark swords now have +1 to adrenaline on hit
1.6 All Dark silver swords now have 1 rune slot
1.7 Mahakam rune sihil (imported from W1) now have higher damage
1.8 Melitele's Heart now have better stats
1.9 Vitality steal from dark swords now only works when you complete a set
1.10 Changed stats of some mutagens
2. Stat changes
1.1 Replaced talent Impregnation - instead of increasing mutagen effects it now gives vitality regeneration while intoxicated
1.2 Added new stat - vitality regeneration while intoxicated (similar to vigor regeneration while intoxicated)
1.3 Reduced maximum weight Geralt can carry to 100
3. Shop changes
3.1 DLC items moved to Act 1 Mysterious Merchant (no longer available at the start of the game)
3.2 Some quest items can now be sold in shops
3.3 Other quest items can now be placed in player storage
3.4 Most quest related ingredients are no longer tagged as quest and can spawn in some shops
3.5 Price ratio now changes based on item quality instead of a static 50x difference between merchant price and player price.
4. UI Changes
4.1 Improved character stats screen
4.2 Added ability to localize user content package names and descriptions (in config.ini use some generic strings like "my_mod_name", "my_mod_description" and localize them in XX_user.w2strings files)
5. Visual changes
5.1 Built-in Extreme Quality Flora mod by EatChildren
5.2 Built-in Return of the White Wolf mod by Wednesday17
5.3 Increased delay before dead bodies dissappear to 5 minutes
5.4 Non-empty containers now always glow, no need to use medallion
5.5 Fullscreen dark effect is only shown when you do not have a full set (the one that changes colors). If you have a full set only screen border effect and background sound effect is played
6. Gameplay changes
6.1 Medallion cooldown reduced to 2 seconds from 10
6.2 Combat mode wears off after 2 seconds instead of 10
6.3 Non-quest items with zero weight (ingredients and junk) are now auto-looted from corpses (no longer needed to loot manually). You still need to loot other items manually. Auto-loot only works in close range to prevent getting loot from monsters killed by other monsters somewhere on the map.
6.4 Quen no longer completely removes vigor regeneration. Vigor is regenerated while Quen is active at a slower rate (10 times slower in combat and 2 times slower out of combat)
7. Mod fixes some russian tooltips that were poorly translated (hence larger ru_user.w2strings file)
8. Fixed a bug with game talent reset - mutagens were not removed properly (talents are reset when loading a game saved without mod or in act 3 quest)
Mod must be manually enabled by editing UserContent.ini because I do not know how to generate cook.hash file without REDkit. I didn't test it for compatibilty with other mods, but I can definetely say that it's incompatible with most of the mods that change items or gameplay. I completed the game with the mod on both sides to test that I didn't break anything. Mod is only for english or russian version of the game. Russian strings file is a lot larger because I also fixed a lot of tooltips and descriptions in russian translation (there are some poorly translated thing here and there).
I couldn't upload it into attachments so I just uploaded it to MEGA:
Mod https://mega.co.nz/#!bpFB1AIZ!4Mjr5CJFSImh2mAmh9L9FYZ0lyTDR1ALpsnXKcJgO7g
Source https://mega.co.nz/#!H482FQbA!rFHptyBaWR0Vpgt86a-lXRk5I5inREZau5OAAAxXhgY
Launcher https://mega.co.nz/#!foFyCK6Z!ua1AmNZkhzOGIu52_bK5ixMRPEKvF4RnV5J2EBemQ5E
Be aware that if you load your game saved without mod your talents will be reset and you'll lose all your minor and major mutagens. Also if you save the game with mod and then load it without mod your mutagen slots will be lost due to game implementation of mutagens.
I also included my Launcher.exe which can be used as a replacement for launcher. Because it's no longer needed and actually doesn't even work properly (Register game for example will always give errors and so on), so I made a simple app that just runs witcher2.exe. If you do not trust 3rd party binaries (and for a good reason) you can compile it yourself with fasm, code below (I used fasm because it's lightweight and I didn't have anything else on my home pc that can compile win32 binaries):
Code:
format PE GUI 6.0
entry start
include 'win32w.inc'
section '.text' code readable executable
start:
call WinMain
proc WinMain
invoke CreateProcess, process.lpW2Exec, NULL, NULL, NULL, FALSE,\
HIGH_PRIORITY_CLASS, NULL, process.lpW2Bin,\
process.lpStartInfo, process.lpProcInfo
test eax, eax
jz .error
invoke CloseHandle, [process.lpProcInfo.hProcess]
invoke CloseHandle, [process.lpProcInfo.hThread]
.exit:
invoke ExitProcess, 0
.error:
invoke GetLastError
invoke FormatMessage, [error.dwFormatSpec], NULL, eax, LANG_NEUTRAL,\
error.lpErrorMessage, 0, NULL
test eax, eax
jz .exit
invoke MessageBox, NULL, [error.lpErrorMessage], NULL, MB_ICONERROR+MB_OK
invoke LocalFree, [error.lpErrorMessage]
jmp .exit
endp
section '.data' data readable writeable
process:
.lpProcInfo PROCESS_INFORMATION
.lpStartInfo STARTUPINFO
.lpW2Exec TCHAR '.\bin\witcher2.exe',0
.lpW2Bin TCHAR '.\bin',0
error:
.lpErrorMessage dd NULL
.dwFormatSpec dd FORMAT_MESSAGE_ALLOCATE_BUFFER+FORMAT_MESSAGE_FROM_SYSTEM+FORMAT_MESSAGE_ARGUMENT_ARRAY
section '.idata' import data readable writeable
library kernel,'KERNEL32.DLL',\
user,'USER32.DLL'
import kernel,\
ExitProcess,'ExitProcess',\
CreateProcess,'CreateProcessW',\
FormatMessage,'FormatMessageW',\
LocalFree,'LocalFree',\
GetLastError,'GetLastError',\
CloseHandle,'CloseHandle'
import user,\
MessageBox,'MessageBoxW'
section '.rsrc' resource data readable
; resource directory
directory RT_ICON,icons,\
RT_GROUP_ICON,group_icons,\
RT_VERSION,versions
; resource subdirectories
resource icons,\
1,LANG_NEUTRAL,idMainIcon
resource group_icons,\
17,LANG_NEUTRAL,igMainIcon
resource versions,\
1,LANG_NEUTRAL,version
icon igMainIcon,idMainIcon,'witcher2.ico'
versioninfo version,VOS__WINDOWS32,VFT_APP,VFT2_UNKNOWN,LANG_ENGLISH+SUBLANG_DEFAULT,0,\
'FileDescription','Witcher 2 Launcher',\
'LegalCopyright','No rights reserved',\
'FileVersion','1.0',\
'ProductVersion','1.0',\
'OriginalFilename','LAUNCHER.EXE'
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