[STEAM]Battlefleet Gothic: Armada

[boston]

what about warhammer total war?

 

[MME]

hope it's ok

got it on greenman earlier today for 45 with WATCH25 voucher code

 

[PyroTeknik]

behold the might of the Imperial Navy!

You really need to stop letting your gauge run out. It takes way longer to recharge.

 

[Goshin]

You really need to be dah orks

 

[Harbinger]

Many heretic, traitor, and alien were slain.

 

[coombz]

You really need to stop letting your gauge run out. It takes way longer to recharge.

yea I learned that fairly early on, think i only burnt it out once in those battles on an escort while I was distracted by the pretty map

gonna play some more today, if anyone wants a game get @ me on Steam

 

[Hellsfury]

Found a saved game editor to edit your offline (solo) admirals so you don't have to level them by grinding out solo/custom or the campaign game if you want.

Steam Forum Post About the tool.


It's a straightforward command line editor with simple menu-driven actions. You can set your Admiral to Level 8 (Max) and give him 100,000 reknown to test out fleet setups.

Spoiler

Readme for BGAEditor v1.4 by Cryptomancer

INTRODUCTION

This is a saved game editor for Battlefleet Gothic: Armada. Currently it supports editing solo skirmish profiles and campaign saved games. It will be updated to support new factions as they're released.

BGAEditor is a purely Command Line Interface (CLI) application written in Python 3.5.1. You do not need a Python interpreter to run this editor as it is distributed in Windows binary form along with this file and the original source code.

FEATURES SUPPORTED

Edit admiral level, ship slots, escort ship upgrade slots, and renown.
Edit deployments and resolve all non-priority missions available in campaign mode.
Edit ship level, captain picture, crew points, crew upgrade levels, upgrade slots, and battles waged.

INTERFACE

The interface is purely CLI. I don't know how to code a GUI and I have no interest in learning. I will not release a GUI for this editor so don't ask.

Input is done through a series of text prompts in the form of:

<number>:<Explanation>
or
<property>:<value>

To select a given option enter everything to the left of the colon verbatim. This includes capitalization and punctuation. If you see a property enclosed in parenthesis then it is displayed purely FYI and is not editable. For example:

(Faction): IMPERIUM -- This is NOT editable
Renown: 100 -- This is editable

NOTE THAT INPUTS ARE NOT VALIDATED. THIS EDITOR WILL BLINDLY EDIT YOUR PROFILE WITH WHATEVER VALUES YOU PROVIDE AND INVALID VALUES WILL BREAK YOUR GAMES!!!

NOTE THAT THIS EDITOR DOES NOT CREATE BACKUPS OF YOUR SAVED GAMES SO TAKE MANUAL BACKUPS
Saved games location: C:\Users\%USERNAME%\AppData\Local\BattleFleetGothic\Saved\SaveGames

If you don't see the AppData folder then enable Show Hidden Folders in Folder Options. This program only modifies files in the form of <admiral name>.sav. Files in the form of <admiral name>_Meta.sav are untouched and do not need to be backed up.

DETAILED EXPLANATION AND VALID INPUT VALUES

Here I will cover non-self explanatory input prompts and provide proper values where appropriate.

Admiral Properties
Level -- For skirmish profiles the max level is 8. Note that setting the level does not give you additional ship slots. For that you need to use the Ship prompt.
Renown -- This is a 32-bit integer so the max value is 4294967295. I suggest setting it to 10000-15000 to allow you to max all your ships.
Deployments -- This is the total number of deployments for a given turn. Available deployments will be this value minus any deployments already used in the current turn. (CAMPAIGN ONLY)
Missions -- This will resolve all non-priority missions and restore control of all worlds to the Imperium. It will also reset the threat counters for all enemy factions to 0. (CAMPAIGN ONLY)
Ship -- This will add a ship slot to your admiral's fleet of the given class for your faction. Valid values are LIGHT_CRUISER, CRUISER, BATTLECRUISER, BATTLESHIP. These are the values as taken from the saved game data and must be entered verbatim.
EscortUpgrades -- Sets maximum number of upgrades for all ESCORT class ships (includes Transports). Valid values are 0-3.
MAXFLEET! -- This will add ship slots your admiral's fleet as if he was level 8. You will have 4 light cruisers, 3 cruisers, 2 battle cruisers, and 1 battleship. It does not seem possible to exceed those limits as even if you add 2 battleships only one will display. These limits must be hardcoded into the game logic.
MAXADMIRAL! -- Same as MAXFLEET! but also sets level to 8 and gives 100K renown.

Ship Properties
Level -- The max level is 10. Note that this does not actually do anything.
CaptainPicture -- Valid values are 0-5. If you find a picture you like, view that ship's properties and then use that value for your other ships.
CrewPoints -- This is the number of available crew upgrade points. A level 10 ship with no spent crew upgrades will have 9 crew points.
CrewCommissar/CrewNavigator/CrewTechPriest/CrewGunner/CrewSoldier/CrewServitor/CrewSquadLeader -- These are the upgrade values for each crew slot on the ship. Valid values are 0-3.
UpgradeSlots -- This is the maximum number of upgrades your ship can have. Valid values are 0-6.
BattlesWaged -- This is the number of battles the ship has fought in. Note that this does not actually do anything.
MAXSHIP! -- This will set UpgradeSlots to 5, CrewPoints to 9, and Level to 10.

CHANGELOG

v1.1 - Fixed a bug on Solo Skirmish Admirals with difficulty set to EASY. Added MAXADMIRAL! and EscortUpgrades commands.
v1.2 - Added campaign support.
v1.3 - Fixed a bug with Admiral XP values being incorrectly displayed. Fixed a bug that would display blank lines in the ship list if you did MAXFLEET! from a level 2+ Admiral. Added ability to edit deployments in the campaign.
v1.4 - Added Missions command which will resolve all non-priority missions in the campaign.

 

[Reggs]

I'll probably get the game.

Kind of hoping there's a Worth-A-Buy review for it out soon.

 

[coombz]

probably too niche for that dude to review, i could be wrong though

 

[Hellsfury]

Bad Habits - Hard to break.

I am a professed filthy-casual when it comes to RTS games... I have always just relied on clicking on things instead of utilizing my keyboard macros. I have found this game to be a bit too much for clicking alone, without the keyboard.... so I have begun striving to break that habit.

I broke out my G13 and bound as many keyboard shortcuts to it as I could... even still, the habit is hard to break and I catch myself clicking the tool bar despite the macro button being under my thumb.

 

[coombz]

I have a mouse with a million buttons too, definitely useful!

I'd recommend sticking with the keyboard for all the maneuvering though - AAF, Retros and HETs are Q, Z and E respectively, which are right next to WASD which you're already using for the camera

 

[Reggs]

I was interested in the Naga, but it feels horrible. The mouse is raised up too much and the buttons on the side are too far back so you only really awkwardly press them with the middle joint of your thumb.

 

[Hellsfury]

Corsair and Logitech make them too. The Corsair has an adjustable button panel that slides to accommodate different hands.

Spoiler

 

[JodoFett]

Eek!

 

[coombz]

all these new 40k releases

I can't stop cumming

 

[Reggs]

Eek!

I hope this is good.

DoW was my favorite RTS of all time. I could not even play DoW2. Horrible game. THQ is gone now. There is no telling how this game will turn out.

 

[Hellsfury]

So many heresy purging games to play... so little time to play them all.

 

[JodoFett]

I liked a lot of what DoW2 did but I also didn't stick with it for nearly as long as I did DoW1.

 

[coombz]

I didn't play dow2 around release, although I watched my little brother play a bit and thought it looked great but too hard for me

got into the dow2 Elite mod a bit recently though, after watching some sick INDRID CASTS youtube vids. I'll post one up when i get to a computer...

 

[Reggs]

I was the best DoW player ever. No one could beat me online.