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In a giant leap forward for the Kane's Wrath community, EA has decided to release all the XML files for Kane's Wrath to the select few who are working on a mod SDK for this game. At this point in time, EA in general and Apoc more specifically is not able to release all these files to the general public, but you can rest assured that they will get into the right hands for the benefit of the community . . .
In addition to the mod SDK team using these files for our shared benefit, Eph2.8-9 will be working to incorporate the data into an up-to-date and even more presentable form. Stay tuned!
This awesome announcement was posted by MrPaul with the promise that there would be updated files delivered to you by yours truly. Well, that promise has been fulfilled, because after hours of feverish de-coding and collaboration with R Schneider, there are updated 1.02 files available for your perusal below! Attached to this post is a ZIP file with 3 Excel spreadsheets that contain the 1.02 armor values, upgrade costs/research times, and support power/ability cooldown times and costs. We have also placed the upgrade and support power information in a list at the bottom of the post.
EALA has generously allowed select Gamereplays.org staff access to the 1.02 XML files and we have been working very hard to bring you the information as quickly and in a user-friendly manner. Our thanks go to Aaron "Apoc" Kaufman and Jeremy "JFeasel" Feasel for helping make this possible.
Frequently Asked Questions
Q: I can haz XML files?
A: Sadly, no, unless you are heavily involved in a modding effort. At this time, Gamereplays.org staff has not been authorized by EA to make the 1.02 XML files public, and even most of the staff does not have direct access to the files at this time. And frankly, as much as we love you all, we would love for a certain vertically-challenged community manager to keep liking us and making stuff like this possible. Don't bite the hand that feeds.
Q: I'm working on a MOD SDK for Kane's Wrath. Now can I have the XML files?
A: Qualified yes. Apoc is definitely for unofficial SDK efforts, but we have to exercise discretion as far as who gets what in order to stick by our agreement with EALA. That said, the person to contact on that is none other than Referee MrPaul.
Q: The files you released don't have {substitute your favorite Kane's Wrath-related statistic here}. Can I have that?
A: Qualified yes. One, there is lots more awesome coming your way courtesy of Eph2.8-9 that uses information derived from the XML files, so that may alleviate a lot of questions. If you have a pressing and simple request for information here that you can't wait to have answered, leave a post here asking politely for what you need, or send a PM to either Eph2.8-9 or R_Schneider. We'll do what we can, but some things are harder to get and take more time. Asking for the damage values of every T-59 unit is unrealistic. Asking for the damage of the T-59 Seeker is much more feasible. Also, stay tuned for the "lots more awesome."
Q: Are the spreadsheets obtained directly from the XML files?
A: Qualified no. The data in them is directly from the XML files, but there's been some creative editing to improve the readability and clarity of the information. For one, a lot of the unit names in the XML are not the actual in-game names. (Example: the Reckoner is actually a "BunkerTruck") Where possible, those have been changed to the in-game names, especially for the Armor and Upgrade spreadsheets. Also, a lot of extraneous information has been removed (single-player, meta objects) from the Excel files in order to prevent confusion. So, the Excel sheets are not just raw imports of the XML files. That's bad if you had some devious plan to reverse-engineer the data and hack Kane's Wrath. It's good if you didn't want to sift through all that to find what you wanted.
Q: Is there any order at all to those spreadsheets?
Yes. Read carefully
- Armor is sorted by faction, and then loosely by game order. Think of your build tabs from Structure to Aircraft, left to right, and that's a general guide to the Armor layout.
- Upgrades is sorted alphabetically. In English.
- Support Powers is sorted alphabetically, but some of the names do not line up well with the in-game names. We may fix that later.
Q: I don't have Excel. What do I do?A: All the information in the Excel sheets and some that isn't has been placed in the forum posts below by myself and R Schneider. The Excel sheets are a simpler, easier-to-read format, but not necessary. If you don't have Excel but still want to see the spreadsheets, we recommend OpenOffice, a free Office suite that will open most Microsoft formats, including Excel.
Q: Something is missing/I've found a mistake. Who do I talk to?
A: Inconceivable! Okay, not really. If this is the case, leave a post here or PM Eph2.8-9.
Upgrades
GDI
Nod
Scrin
Support powers
GDI
Nod
Scrin
- Stasis Shield, Cost: 2000, Recharge time: 360s
- Reconstruction Drones, Cost: 1500, Recharge time: 90s
- Tiberium Vibration Scan, Cost: 300, Recharge time: 60s
- The Swarm, Cost: 1500, Recharge time: 150s
- Lightning Spike, Cost: 1500, Recharge time: 120s
- Ichor Seed, Cost: 1000, Recharge time: 200s
- Infestation, Cost: 1000, Recharge time: 120s
- Phase Field, Cost: 1500, Recharge time: 180s
- Temporal Wormhole, Cost: 1200, Recharge time: 360s
- Wormhole, Cost: 2000, Recharge time: 240s
- Mothership, Cost: 5000, Recharge time: 150s
- Overlord’s Wrath, Cost: 4000, Recharge time: 420s
- Shock Pods, Cost: 3000, Recharge time: 90s
- Rift, Cost: 0, Recharge time: 420s
Thanks to R_Schneider for creating these lists.This post has been edited by Eph2.8-9: Oct 17 2009, 15:30 PM
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