Best Compression Methods for 'Specific' Games. Q&A

[KaktoR]

Frostpunk 2

kraken is used, no key

Also looks like you can rip chinese language out if you want. I played a bit with ripped language and it's working until now.

How to:
Use quickbms + unreal_tournament_4_0.4.27e_paks_only.bms script and extract only WEM and BNK from "pakchunk0-Windows.pak" (make a backup of this file).

Go to extracted folder and delete all files you want to keep (only keep Chinese files/folders).

Zero all files inside extracted folder

FOR /R %%a IN ("*.wem") DO (fsutil file setzerodata offset=0 length=%%~za "%%a")
FOR /R %%a IN ("*.bnk") DO (fsutil file setzerodata offset=0 length=%%~za "%%a")

Use quickbms reimport feature

quickbms_4gb_files -w -r "unreal_tournament_4_0.4.27e_paks_only.bms" "pakchunk0-Windows.pak" "pakchunk0-Windows.pak_extract"

I tested unpacking the modified pakchunk0-Windows.pak again and all chinese files are zero'd still.

In any case make backups! Any patch for this game is forcing you to redownload pakchunk0-Windows.pak if you don't have a backup.

[Snake288]

Originally Posted by KaktoR

Frostpunk 2

kraken is used, no key

Also looks like you can rip chinese language out if you want. I played a bit with ripped language and it's working until now.

How to:
Use quickbms + unreal_tournament_4_0.4.27e_paks_only.bms script and extract only WEM and BNK from "pakchunk0-Windows.pak" (make a backup of this file).

Go to extracted folder and delete all files you want to keep (only keep Chinese files/folders).

Zero all files inside extracted folder

FOR /R %%a IN ("*.wem") DO (fsutil file setzerodata offset=0 length=%%~za "%%a")
FOR /R %%a IN ("*.bnk") DO (fsutil file setzerodata offset=0 length=%%~za "%%a")

Use quickbms reimport feature

quickbms_4gb_files -w -r "unreal_tournament_4_0.4.27e_paks_only.bms" "pakchunk0-Windows.pak" "pakchunk0-Windows.pak_extract"

I tested unpacking the modified pakchunk0-Windows.pak again and all chinese files are zero'd still.

In any case make backups! Any patch for this game is forcing you to redownload pakchunk0-Windows.pak if you don't have a backup.

Hello KaktoR
Can you share the tools you use?
Is it possible for you to make a video on how to make the last request?