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 game’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 I’ve tried but I just… Can’t…

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 don’t report errors to COG/HG, deal with then yourself (you’d think this would be obvious) and don’t be a dick to the creators by sharing the modified apk with people who haven’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. ( DON’T SHARE THE APK WITH PEOPLE WHO DIDN’T BUY IT and thank you, also excuse my English I’m not a native speaker)

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To be clear though, you don’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 you’re trying to mod on your mobile, download notepad++. It’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 you’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 don’t.

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You lost me at #5 for Firefox (I couldn’t get Chrome to work at all). Normally I use steam because it’s insanely simple, but I’m trying to play Lords of Aswick with maxed stats, and it’s not on steam, so… 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 I’m greeted with status info (such and such loaded properly or improperly), so I’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 hadn’t realized just how difficult the process was to non-modders.

So if you’re like my friend, and you want to upload your screenshots on any COG’s Screenshots Hub on Steam, then this Guide right here is what you’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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I’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_bonus’