* Go to " Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Mass Effect 2\BioGame\Config\PC\Cooked\ " ( Or wherever you have it installed. ) * Make a backup of your ini. * Open up the Coalesced.ini with Notepad ++ ( Not with Windows Notepad. )
https://notepad-plus-plus.org/
* Then press ctrl+f and type in MaxProbes= and click search next. * Change the MaxProbes= to 30. ( With the upgrade later in the game that will become 60, which is more then enough. ) * One or two lines bwlow MaxProbes= you will see the line MaxFuel=. * Change it to 1000. ( Personally I changed it to 6000, and with the upgrade later in the game that will become 9000, which I think is more then enough. ) * Then save your Coalesced.ini.
* Do not start playing yet there is another step you must do. * Download ME2 Ini file fixer ... ( If you have not done so already. )
https://www.nexusmods.com/masseffect2/mods/116/?
put the ME2 Ini file fixer in the same folder as the Coalesced.ini and run it, after that the game should run and you should now have increased Probes and fuel. Just buy the probes and fuel you are missing after that. Hope this helped you out.
If I use Max Fuel 7000 and max probe 90 (edited myself cuz 500 probe is too much for me) what happens when you get the in game upgrades for these things?
Will it crash? Add 500 and 30 to fuel and probes respectively?
manually altered MaxFuel and MaxProbes in the coalesceed ini with Notepad++ ran me2 inifixer and the values always reset reagrdless of what i do to default 1000/30 do i ahve to set coalesced to read only or have i missed a step???
EDIT: FIXED i use mass effect ini modder and that was buggering up the changes! only figured it out since i had activated a mod that added casual outfits and it made my femshep have Anderson's body for Kasumi's loyalty!
You need a non-destructive text editor to edit the coalesced file, so use notepad++. Moreover, the coalesced file needs to be the same file size, so if you add a single number or letter to one value, another must be subtracted from another. There are lots of values which has several zeroes at the end, like for instance 2.45000, so if you add one zero to to the probes from 30 to 500, simply remove a zero from some other value, like in the earlier example, make it 2.4500, then it should work.
Worked for me in the simplest way -- without additional "0" -- as in MaxFuel=5000 and MaxProbs=90, which is plenty enough for me not to have to return to base in the middle of a scouting session between systems. And yes, Notepad++ is the way to go.
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Would you please consider recreating this mod for Legendary Edition?
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MaxProbes=30
MaxFuel=1000
* Make a backup of your ini.
* Open up the Coalesced.ini with Notepad ++ ( Not with Windows Notepad. )
https://notepad-plus-plus.org/
* Then press ctrl+f and type in MaxProbes= and click search next.
* Change the MaxProbes= to 30. ( With the upgrade later in the game that will become 60, which is more then enough. )
* One or two lines bwlow MaxProbes= you will see the line MaxFuel=.
* Change it to 1000. ( Personally I changed it to 6000, and with the upgrade later in the game that will become 9000, which I think is more then enough. )
* Then save your Coalesced.ini.
* Do not start playing yet there is another step you must do.
* Download ME2 Ini file fixer ... ( If you have not done so already. )
https://www.nexusmods.com/masseffect2/mods/116/?
put the ME2 Ini file fixer in the same folder as the Coalesced.ini and run it, after that the game should run and you should now have increased Probes and fuel. Just buy the probes and fuel you are missing after that. Hope this helped you out.
Will it crash? Add 500 and 30 to fuel and probes respectively?
ME2 Gameplay tweaks
https://www.nexusmods.com/masseffect2/mods/157/?
EDIT: FIXED i use mass effect ini modder and that was buggering up the changes! only figured it out since i had activated a mod that added casual outfits and it made my femshep have Anderson's body for Kasumi's loyalty!
Edit: Strange... I changed the max value for probes from 500 to 90 and put back the subtracted zero from a "x.xx0000"-value. It works now.
What exactly did you subtract a zero from?
Though it doesn't make sense, but I wonder if there are some stuff that needs all those zeroes, even though they are mathematically useless.
And yes, Notepad++ is the way to go.
http://www.nexusmods.com/masseffect2/mods/116/?
It will fix any errors in the ini ... without removing the changes you just made.