Yes, he has said before he is aware of “the list” of UWA limitations that they’ve been called on, but I don’t think they are going to actually work on it in the near future. They are looking for ways to allow modding without losing control of how universal windows apps work or exposing a backdoor.
-“We heard the PC Gaming community loud and clear”
-“You will be able to disable Vsync, enable GSync and FreeSync in May”
Sounds like they are working on it, but at this point I don’t know if it is PR or if they are going to deliver, I don’t want to be naive, but I would like to be able to trust MS. I have many reasons to doubt MS, but I trust Phil, he has not disappointed me yet.
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As of right now I don’t think modding is possible to due the UWP in which all games in it are made. Phil Spencer has spoken about how they plan to make changes and additions to it later on which may make modding possible.
In fact it’s not even possible to access the folder in which games are installed to through the app store
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Damn. So it’s the way the Windows store is set up? I know SFV ran rampant with mods in the first 2 weeks. Is data mining even possible for KI?
Modders like life will find a way.
(Cue goldbloom and Jurassic park theme)
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Ive been taking it apart for the last 2 days while in down time.
So far, it was trivial to get all of the movies (endings, trailers, intros, etc.) and all of the sounds out of it and converted them to MP3 so I could just listen to the entire soundtrack.
I was able to decrypt the pak files (where the graphics like models live) pretty easily, now I am just working to extract them.
So hopefully I should have the models out of it soon, then be able to work to get them back in.
I’ll keep you all posted.
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Excellent, thank you for your efforts!
Be sure to share your scripts/decrypting tools. 
Lol! The way I read this was just in a nonchalant, matter of fact voice.
“yeah…in my off time I took apart this thing and am reconstructing it at my leisure. No biggie.” Lol!
Well, I can’t wait to see what comes out of all this. Not necessarily spoilers and stuff, just mods, and other various things that people find / create. Should be fun and interesting.
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Street Fighter IV has a huge modding community… multiplayer is unaffected.
Why would you not want KI mods for more costumes?
And so what if Xbox players won’t be able to do it, those kind of mods are all local and won’t have any effect on them. It’s just one of the perks of PC gaming.
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awesome stuff. I have a feeling we’ll end up doing it MKX style and have to quickly copy stuff back into the folder after the initial load/integrity check.
Ikr?, all that was missing, was the evil laugh a la Alucard (Japanese version)
That’s amazing man. Looking forward to your extracts.
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Thought games in the Wstore are un-moddable?
The modding community for GOW was massive back in the day for the original Pc release but this HD release can’t be altered in any way or it stops you connecting to the servers.
I read that this is the same for all Wstore games.
I have never been a fan of client side mods where other people can’t see my limited edition costumes. I usually prefer buying them where others can see it for the novelty. Unless its a game like say Skyrim.
But through the years I found that in fighting games in general the devs seem to have bad taste in costumes, for example the SF4 game the community made far better mods of costumes than Capcom ever did its the same as Bethesda remember how Bethesda failed hard at creating mods like the horse armor?
Is data mining even possible for KI?
Yes, data mining is definitely possible as the game files can be browsed fairly easily.
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Actually, it is possible to find the folder that KI is installed to. You have to change the permissions for the folder to be able to access it, changing the files in the folder is a different story. There is a way to extract the PAK files from the GameAssets folder as well yet the BMS file need to fully extract the file is not available yet. There are thing that stand in the way of modding this game yet it is possible .
If anyone could tell me where the game installs to, folder wise, that’d be helpful.
Thanks in advance for your help.
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%ProgramFiles%\WindowsApps\