Baranor Fix 1.0 — Middle-earth Shadow Of War

[Tipfy]

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Overview

Give light skin to Baranor's NPC and replaces his loading/splash screen images.

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Downloads

Files	Version	Type	Description
Baranor Fix	1.0.0	Main

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Quality of Life

You can skip ahead to the install section if you want.

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So here are a few quality of life thing that are useful;

I recommend launching the game, setting your UI, Audio and Graphic settings as you want them.
If you plan on doing a new game from scratch, start a new game now before modding.

FYI your save can be located in one of those location depending on the version you use;

Steam -> <Steam-folder>\userdata\<user-id>\356190\remote\<user-id>_ShadowOfWar.sav (You may want to disable steam cloud sync for this game wile swapping saves.)
GOG.com -> %LOCALAPPDATA%\WB Games\Shadow of War\<Device Name>_ShadowOfWar.sav

If you have trouble with the pathing above,
i heard it can be located easily by typing 356190 in the search bar from the AppData folder.

/!\ Be careful with what you are moving around if you are on an on going game.
Do not delete or replace files before you have make back up and tested in game if everything have been done properly.

It is useful for starting a new game with mod enable, but also in the vanilla game since it automatically save and you can't roll back unless you "manually save" through backups.

So, make a game save point, load in and quit once you are free of your movement.
Backup this save.
You should now have a possibility to "restart" a new game (or from whenever the backup is made) if you wish, without having to mess around with the moding tool files.

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Installation

1. install the
   Middle-Earth Mod Loader
   
   • Requires the latest Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributables.
2. Make a backup of the bink2w64.dll file in your game's x64 folder that the mod loader will replace.
3. Place both the modloader folder and the new bink2w64.dll in the x64 game folder.
4. Install the Shadow of War Packet Loader
   
   • Place the PacketLoader folder into the plugins folder inside the x64 folder
5. Finally, place the PacketLoader folder of my mod into the plugins folder inside the x64 game folder, merging it with the other one.
   
   • Pathing should be: x64\plugins\PacketLoader\ etc

That's it, you're done.

To uninstall, simply remove all that. Don't forget to give back the bink2w64_.dll it's original name.

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Things To Avoid

Modding of this game is fairly new and so are it's tools. The bink2w64.dll from the Middle-Earth Mod Loader (as of the latest version at the time of the making of this) can crash the game if you are;

• Changing you'r UI, audio or graphic settings
• Taking picture with Photo mode
• starting a new game from scratch

I only made the texture; I took no part in the tools creation and have no idea how it work, so I can't help fix it.

But here is a very easy way around the problem:

1. Remove the problematic bink2w64.dll
2. Re-rename the original bink2w64._dll to it's normal name.
3. Launch the game and get you'r setting as you want them, start a new game if you want and leave once you are loaded in.
4. Quit the game and re-re-rename accordingly to what you did before the original .dll, and place back the no longer problematic one in it's place.

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If the mod is still not working

If even after all this foreplay you do not see changes in the game, with it installed properly, you are going to have to re-generate the signature folder.

► Re-generating the signature folder

• Remove the Signatures folder. Located in x64\plugins\PacketLoader\Internal
• open the PacketLoader.ini and set cache to = 0 (to generate).
• Launch the game. The loading time may be a little longer with the cache set to = 0 (to generate).
• Check if the mod is working
  
  1. Load in your game and visit Baranor.
  2. Another quicker way is to go as if you was going to start a new game, if you have the dlc “The Desolation of Mordor Story Expansion". But do not start it (remember, starting a new game from scratch will crash). Hover above with the mouse and look the image of it, if the image you see is not him than it is now working.
• Close the game, you should now have a new Signature folder.
• Open the PacketLoader.ini and set the cache back to to = 1 (to read).
• Done

Note that You may or may not have to re-generate the signature folder again after you do modification, i.e., I had to do it when I was doing some testing after I had swapped the .dll to change settings. You probably will need to do it if you add another mod.

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Feel free to reupload - edit - do whatever you want with it. Enjoy.

[asf]

deniggerization seems to be moving forward

[Emphyrio]

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I did not include an in game screenshot because you can not use photo mode along with mods.

wtf

[maidenhaver]

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I did not include an in game screenshot because you can not use photo mode along with mods.

wtf

They care more about what you do with the game and playing the "right way" than actually making the games.

[Tipfy]

Yes, WB Games is one of those compagny that are quite hostile toward the moding of theyr game.

However, to be fair the crash problem listed are caused not by the game or my mod but by the bink2w64.dll that come with the moding tool needed for the mod "Shadow of War Loader".
As i said it is quite new, it's first apparition on Nexus is 4 month old.

We waited since 2018 to mod this game, we can wait a little longer for the creator of the tool or someone else to provide a fixed version of it.
Lucky us, if you follow the instructions and avoid the actions that cause crashing, that are quite easy to avoid, you should be just fine.

[Oyster Sauce]

PrtScr, my son. I want to see the albino black guy.

[Tipfy]

Screenshot updated. @Oyster Sauce , @Emphyrio

FYI The PrtScr was not working initially, but i figured it out by setting the game in windowed. If it can help.

[Calumininium]

deniggerization seems to be moving forward

I hope when god of war releases on pc someone will fix angbroda and put a beautiful white redhead.

[True_Way]

deniggerization seems to be moving forward

I hope when god of war releases on pc someone will fix angbroda and put a beautiful white redhead.

Yes. I'm REALLY counting on that too.

[RayoSombrio]

I still remember how shocked I was when they announced the game and this dude showed up that randomly.

[Manny V]

I still remember how shocked I was when they announced the game and this dude showed up that randomly.

we wuz gondorians and shiet?

[Finarfin]

I know it's been awhile but is it possible to give him more "white" hair or even downright replace his head with a generic "savior" head (you know, the guys that come to your aid if you are about to be executed?)

[Oyster Sauce]

He has a brother in his DLC I couldn't be bothered to play if you're going to go that far

[Tipfy]

I know it's been awhile but is it possible to give him more "white" hair or even downright replace his head with a generic "savior" head (you know, the guys that come to your aid if you are about to be executed?)

It is possible, since it's possible to extract and re-import the models after modifications. I would have done it if i had some blender skills.
As for the hair, if i can't slap Talion's hair on him i suppose i could try and make him bald instead by removing the hairs maybe.

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He has a brother

in his DLC I couldn't be bothered to play if you're going to go that far

I took note of "Serka", have put it and the issue above about the hairs on my to-do list.
I might as well give it another shot at blending another head for both wile i'm at it, but i wouldn't hold my breath on that...

Don't expect it soon tho, i'm on another thing rn.

Edit ;
I gave it a look, i don't remember much on how to mod it and the more i look into it the lazier i get... Definetly don't expect it anytime soon.
That being said, here is Baranor and Hairs things i still have from last time, if one of you want to give it a shot.