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I was wondering how i would go about changing the starting weapons of my ships, i dont want to change anything else, just what my ships start with weapon wise, how can i do this?

Oh you're the guy from this thread:
http://www.ftlgame.com/forum/viewtopic. ... 108#p21108
I lol'd.

Yea and its still valid, shouldnt take that much to beat the game, not everyone plays games for 12 hours a day and to play a game shouldnt have to be so damn difficult.

So my question remains, how do you change the weapons ships start with?

Moved from Working Mods to Mod Development.

So does anyone actually know? because i would really like to.

* Download FTLdat
* Use FTLdat to unpack data.dat
* Edit blueprints.xml
* Scroll down to PLAYER_SHIP_HARD
* Edit the lines starting "<weapon" to replace "MISSILES_2_PLAYER" and "LASER_BURST_3" with other weapon codes. You can see a list of all the weapon codes here: http://ftlwiki.com/wiki/User:Snow_Cat
* Use FTLdat to re-pack data.dat
* Launch FTL and check that the Kestrel has different weapons

There are other ways to do it, for example hex editing data.dat without unpacking it, or creating a simple GMM mod based on Beginning Scrap Advantage.ftl to change the <shipBlueprint name="PLAYER_SHIP_HARD" ...>.

Yea id like to make it as a GMM mod, because what im planning is a mod im going to release to the public, really all i would need to know is how to make a GMM mod and how to make a custom type weapon, shouldnt be to hard if there was a tutorial or somethin

HamTheBacon wrote:Yea and its still valid, shouldnt take that much to beat the game, not everyone plays games for 12 hours a day and to play a game shouldnt have to be so damn difficult.

So my question remains, how do you change the weapons ships start with?

The game really isn't THAT difficult. Maybe they should have added a new difficulty called "n00b".