"Halo 4: I Get a Woman!" - Sgt. Mjr. A.J. Johnson, RIP

**Kornman00** · June 13th, 2013 05:59 AM

After about 8 weeks of development, I'm releasing an update today to KSoft.Tool for support for decoding/encoding game type (aka, game variant) files from HaloReach and Halo4. You may have heard of KSoft.Tool before, it's the same command line tool I released for modding Halo Wars archives. This release still has that functionality, but I haven't used/tested it in probably six months. So I can't say for certain that any changes I've made to the KSoft core haven't broken anything related to it.

Anyway, this tool will take a file with a game type blob nested in it and explode it into an .xml file which you can then use to edit the properties of that variant. Note that options/values which are considered 'default' won't be output to the .xml. This is meant as a means for saving space from repetitive or unused data. This is desired because this .xml data is meant to act as a project file of sorts for a GUI application which edits the data you see at a higher level (with proper bounds checking, etc). However, such works won't be made overnight which is why I took the evening to write this command line wrapper.

See this Halomods.com post for more details

Example variant xml (CTF)

**Tnnaas** · July 3rd, 2013 11:22 AM

**ODX** · July 4th, 2013 03:02 PM

Halo 4 got BTB Objective and my live ran out. Guess I'll have to scavenge for trial golds, I did just get 2 days from Halo Aniversary.

**Dozo** · July 5th, 2013 12:17 AM

Nice.
Did they get rid of slayer pro in BTB though? I migrated to CTF after that shit storm.

**ODX** · July 5th, 2013 10:48 AM

I dunno, they didn't make any mention of it. BTB Skirmish is a separate playlist from BTB Slayer though, cause they "didn't want to disturb their most popular playlist" aka they probably didn't take out Slayer Pro. I like Slayer Pro personally, more like the old Halo days with no annoying armor abilities.

BTB Skirmish has the follow:
Big Team CTF – Longbow, Ragnarok, Complex
Big Team King of the Hill – Exile, Longbow
Big Team Regicide – Complex, Settler

**NotZac** · July 10th, 2013 01:34 PM

I know this game is dying on this forum if not already dead but this peaked my interest

Don't really care for the other skins/armor, but Mark V armor and The Pit remake are things that will make me play this game just a little more

**TeeKup** · July 10th, 2013 03:44 PM

Shit Mark V. Need to start playing H4 again. I have fun with it too, just drifted away for other games.

**DarkHalo003** · July 10th, 2013 09:19 PM

Damn, I may just have to revisit this game. That looks like a lot of fun. I love that AR skin (it makes me laugh). Of course, the Pit remake with the Mark V are easily the coolest parts.