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Topic on Talk:Dishonored 2

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I accidentally started this discussion via a discussion page header edit and now moved that whole text (effectively 3 comments) into this one comment.

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The logo movies can't be skipped or aborted, and they can not be renamed to make the game just skip past them like many games (e.g. Dishonored 1) did it. They are here:

[STEAMPATH]\steamapps\common\Dishonored2\base\video

These are the videos:

arkbeth.bk2

legal.bk2

warning.bk2

void.bk2

"void" is the shortest movie, and it does work to replace the other clips with this one. (Keep backups, of course.) But the improvement is marginal, and hearing/seeing the same clip 4 times is a downside by itself, so basically no change here is the best course. (matter of taste decision)

Maybe it is possible to alter the movie files themselves, but I had no luck so far: Cut off void.bk2 starting 0x2000, but the game did the same it did when the file was renamed: Black screen, frozen. 

I've replaces the video files with a .5 second black video, this works perfectly. here is a link
Feel free to use these files for other purposes and make them available on the main page.
EDIT: Seems like someone else had the same idea as me. disregard this post.
--Arnex02 (talk) 09:15, 11 November 2016 (UTC)

Thanks, Arnex02, I've tried the videos. They are a second each (even according to Radtools),
so there's 4 seconds of blackness, kinda the same thing we get when renaming the videos and DH2
just freezes - except it doesn't and eventually moves on. I'm saying that while a bit of blackness
sounds like the right choice, in practice it doesn't seem to be ideal. I've tried to reduce your
blackness video to just a few frames, but oddly, the game still stays in blackness for a long time
(yep, with all 4 videos replaced with one that doesn't take 1/10th of a second). Then I looked at
my "Arkane Studios" replacement variant again and realized that when the video is played for the
4th (=last) time, it lasts longer: Apparently the game takes some time, anyway (probably being active
in the background). Therefore, I think that the current "Arkane Studios" solution is best: Even the
short blockiness of the first frames is good, because then the user can see that all 4 videos are played.
--God - owner of the Universe (talk) 09:15, 12 November 2016 (UTC)

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