Editing, modding...cheating?

Oh damn, I clearly need to edit my own personal perception stat, it must be at 5% or something at this point, ha. Thank you very much.

How would I do that on the Choice of Games Store? They do not have any game files for their games online. I can access the code itself, but I cant edit it for any of their games. How would we be able to modify the game? Do we simply just copy the gameā€™s code in choice script or something like that to make it a file?

I think I found a way to mod in the phone

How would you do it? I used an android phone and Iā€™ve tried but I justā€¦ Canā€™tā€¦

You have to use an app called apk editor

Unzip/ unpack the apk.

Go into web, mygame, scenes.

Ignore the .txt files, edit the (cancerously hard to edit properly) .json respective files (e.g. change *create money 100 to *create money 10000 in the .json file.)

Re-zip, resign/ turn zip into apk.

Run the modified app.

Tada.

Also now donā€™t report errors to COG/HG, deal with then yourself (youā€™d think this would be obvious) and donā€™t be a dick to the creators by sharing the modified apk with people who havenā€™t bought the game

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To do it in phone you have to download apk editor, choose full edit to the apk, go to startuptxt.json, change whatever you want(*create ), save the edited json file, extract it (better extract it outside), get out of the apk, choose simple edit ( it should be marked as file replacement), replace the original startuptxt.json with the edited one, save the apk ( it should be below ), then install it. ( DONā€™T SHARE THE APK WITH PEOPLE WHO DIDNā€™T BUY IT and thank you, also excuse my English Iā€™m not a native speaker)

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To be clear though, you donā€™t really need any 3rd party apps.

Method 1)
Unzip the apk. You can do this yourself at the very least by viewing t he apk file on a laptop.

Then edit

Then rezip and resign into apk (I use zipsigner but manually changing extension should work)

Then run.

Method 2)

Unzip game.

Import .txt files into a game editor/ IDE

Run it, edit it, do what you want

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I have encountered a problem
The editor dosent let me select apks from aps shutting down outright
Also it dosent see some games
Any advice?

How many gigabytes in RAM your phone has

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2.1

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My phone has 3gb and it struggles when opening a startuptxt.json

You need to use the correct tool is all. If youā€™re trying to mod on your mobile, download notepad++. Itā€™s free and works well.

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Thanks

Does anyone know how to keep values constant/frozen/unchangeable over the course of the game? I know it can be done, I just have no idea how.

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I guess youā€™d have to manually remove all stat changes beyond a certain point? You can do this if you know how to edit apks. DM me if you donā€™t.

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You lost me at #5 for Firefox (I couldnā€™t get Chrome to work at all). Normally I use steam because itā€™s insanely simple, but Iā€™m trying to play Lords of Aswick with maxed stats, and itā€™s not on steam, soā€¦ I can open and edit the PSstate file but it wont save. As soon as I click next everything is back to normal. When I go to the console tab Iā€™m greeted with status info (such and such loaded properly or improperly), so Iā€™m officially lost.

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Thanks for your post, I did it.

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Today a friend of mine had a lot of trouble trying to upload their screenshots of Choice of Robots on Steam. As I already posted here on the Choice of Robots Discussion Hub, I hadnā€™t realized just how difficult the process was to non-modders.

So if youā€™re like my friend, and you want to upload your screenshots on any COGā€™s Screenshots Hub on Steam, then this Guide right here is what youā€™re looking for.

I wish you all the very best in sharing your Choice of Games journeys in the Steam Screenshots Hub.

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Iā€™m trying to get maxed stats on zombie exodus safe Haven, but when I change all stats and play, I get this message
startup line 1: Non-existent variable ā€˜new_char_bonusā€™