Question about ripping/modifying unencrypted CryEngine .pak data files.

[Masquerade]

The pak files are zip files, so if you're making a 7z, the game won't be able to read the files. You can use Deflate on the zip to compress it a bit (although Wolcen: Lords Of Mayhem has no compression).

Both Wolcen and Crysis 3 are encrypted games, and Crysis 3 especially requires all paks to be crypted in order to load. Wolcen will load with decrypted paks, but I never tested rebuilding them.

[L33THAK0R]

Originally Posted by Masquerade

The pak files are zip files, so if you're making a 7z, the game won't be able to read the files. You can use Deflate on the zip to compress it a bit (although Wolcen: Lords Of Mayhem has no compression).

Both Wolcen and Crysis 3 are encrypted games, and Crysis 3 especially requires all paks to be crypted in order to load. Wolcen will load with decrypted paks, but I never tested rebuilding them.

Thank you very much for this information! I'll investigate this a bit more, I will definitely have a look at Deflate, since I was using Reflate and getting a much worse final output ratio than other users were reporting (36.4gb). I'll update this post in a few days to update anyone following this topic.