Quote Originally Posted by pevergreen View Post
The game files for ETW are stored in .pack files.

If you try to open these huge files in notepad, it won't give you anything.

You need to unpack them. Theres a tool over at TWC that does pretty much everything for you, just still need a hex editor to make sense of the files though. Even if you have a hex editor, its hard.

If the game can find the .pack files, it will run them. If you change main.pack to sadhgkj;ahsdglka.pack it will still find it. However, if you change it to main.back_backup it won't find it.

To edit unit stats, you have two options. The new unpacker, or the older way.

New unpacker is easier, will do work for you, older way is harder and longer. But both require hex editing, which isnt easy anyway.

Have time on your hands, have backups and be prepared for it not to work.
Thanks for the response Pevergreen.

1) It seems next to impossible that I could have accidently edited a unit then huh? (it used to be so easy...just one .txt line)

2) Thanks for explaining this, it makes more sense. This is almost similar to editing World in Conflict. It needs a special tool or else the game will just overwrite your changes as soon as it's loaded up.

3) I wonder why they are forcing us to use a hex editor and not just edit the .txt files. It's not a major issue with me, as you guys will figure out how to mod it anyway, but I just don't see the upside to that decision considering how the community is always asking for more moddability.