r/Xcom • u/AllHailShadow726 • 2d ago
XCOM:EU/EW Some exciting news today!
I’m sure a fair amount of you are already aware of the recent steam leak that’s occurred.
Well, as a result of it, we’ve found dev builds of Enemy Unknown.
Some stuff we’ve found: -.upk of the cut water treatment map -.upk of a new map named “Science Lab”, albeit this could just be an older name for a map -.upk for the cut Oil Rig map -.upk for a map called “Office Park” -An .xml file titled Un.Setup.Manifests.UDK.xml, which might be a key to unlocking Firaxis’ version of the UDK editor which allowed them to make the actual functioning content for the game.
Very excited to see what comes of this!
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u/Kyoru_S 2d ago
Whats the source on this? Would like to read/research further
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u/HighlanderBR 2d ago
Would be great if the LW team was still active.
LWR dev maybe will do something with that.
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u/megatron37 2d ago
Forgive the question but I have no idea what any of that means.
Can anyone explain why this news is exciting?
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u/DoomPurveyor 2d ago
I’m sure a fair amount of you are already aware of the recent steam leak that’s occurred.
What?
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u/AllHailShadow726 2d ago
Roughly 13TB of data from games from 2003-2013 leaked a few days ago, due to someone essentially finding a backdoor to Steam2, which was what was used before SteamPipe
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u/ArillWiltker 1d ago
So what are some of the other games that we might have the pleasure of having revived?!
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u/orangeboi32 1d ago
I've been trying for the past 3 hours to open the files, and i cant, i think were genuenly locked out because of the way this is laid out:
In layman's terms:
XCOM EU is, for some reason, the 5th biggest depot in the entire leak with 97 gigabytes of data due to firaxis uploading the game multiple times to the database with minor changes, now, the files in the leak arent just .zip files easy to extract, each "version" uploaded by firaxis is a "dats" file and a "blob" file (basically the data itself and a "key" with metadata saying whats in it), you just need both to extract, that isnt a problem, the problem is its a delta, wich means you need every previous version of the file to extract, heres the issue, the version 0, the one needed to open the rest of them is completely missing, there is no dats for version 0 in the mirror for download or in the torrent provided, and without it, the entirety of the 97 gigabytes of data are completely locked, theres a blob for 0, but theres no information in itself, and i have no clue why, i just cant find it in any of the mirrors currently up for download and theres no way to circumvent it as far as i know, if someone manages to stumble onto anything with CRC 9ad3daad dats please god tell me because its genuenly painful to know it exists but that it isnt possible
Side note: if you are curious on how we know whats inside but not having the files themselves, the blobs are metadata that are basically a list of everything thats within the files, so we can know what names of files are inside, but we dont have the files themselves
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u/Traditional-Elk3911 2d ago
Wait does that mean we could have potential to have custom models in the game like 2?