Harmony VS UABE

Some more details https://github.com/pardeike/Harmony/issues/424

Here's what you're looking for.

Probably a little out of your scope but the library Harmony you can write patches (detours) on methods. Using get/set instead of a field would allow you to override the property's method. Let's say you wanted to write something to always have the name uppercase. You could patch the constructor and set this.name = this.name.ToUpper() but that field is publicly assignable so you can't really enforce that. On the other hand with a property you can override the set method to say this._name = value.ToUpper().

It's kind of a subtle distinction that I think was lost between the posted article and the original article it was responding to, but I don't think the kinds of reflection capabilities that Roslyn provides is what the author intended. The specific example given in the referenced article for "Higher-order programs" specifically refers to the ability to replace function implementations at runtime without interrupting the program, and specifically calls out hot-code reloading (such as what Java provides) as a deficient form of similar functionality. This is closer to the type of functionality libraries like Harmony provide, but even that solution requires including the library and instrumenting your code ahead of time.

https://github.com/pardeike/Harmony harmony lets you patch functions at runtime, kind of like a dll injection / memory edit

Download Harmony 2 and put net472 version of the library into GordianQuest_Data\Managed

I'd recommend looking into Harmomy and seeing if you're able to use it. It makes modifying DLLs pretty convenient.

If you're lucky, the developers will have used a standard format to store their assets and you can just use an existing asset extractor to do the dirty work for you: Unreal, Unity, and Flash (.swf) are some of the most popular ones.

I don't understand a single word but Unity Assets Extractor - https://github.com/SeriousCache/UABE/releases/tag/v3.0-beta1

Maybe this: https://github.com/SeriousCache/UABE/releases/tag/v3.0-beta1 (I would download the 64-bit if you created a 64-bit Wine bottle).

Modding UAD is a bit of a hassle. You need an Asset Bundle Extractor to open the resource.assets file. This is the one I use/ was shown Then export specific files to .txt files and edit them with a program like Notepad ++.

The fonts are stored in Unity AssetBundles, which are a huge pain to edit, but I think they should support non-standard letters (you can always try putting some in a line you know vs. a line containing only standard ones, and see if anything breaks). Likewise, some of the UI text (for example, loading screen tips, and the [E] Use etc. keybinds) is stored in an additional English or Russian localization file bundled inside Pathologic_Data\resources.assets. You'll have to use a tool like UABE to find and export either "english.txt" or "russian.txt" from this asset bundle, edit that text file, and then use UABE again to replace the file within that bundle.

I think they’re Unity asset bundles, so something like this might help, but I don’t really know: https://github.com/SeriousCache/UABE