Altering Challenges

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Editing Challenge Goals

sr3_city_challenges.xtbl contains the list of challenges found in the 'Quests' category listing in your hud
and is the file that you will need to edit if you wish to alter that list in any manner.

Here is an example. This is for the 'Targets Blackholed' challenge.

<Challenge>
        <Name>blackhole kills</Name>
        <Display_String>CHALLENGE_BLACKHOLED</Display_String>
        <Contact>KINZIE</Contact>
        <Goal>250</Goal>
        <Reward>
            <Respect>500</Respect>
            <Cash>1500</Cash>
            <Unlockables></Unlockables>
            </Reward>
        <HUD>
            <HUD_Percent>
                <HUD_Percent_Value>20</HUD_Percent_Value>
                </HUD_Percent>
            <HUD_Percent_Value>0.0</HUD_Percent_Value>
            <HUD_Linear_Value>0</HUD_Linear_Value>
            </HUD>
        <Trigger>
            <Trigger_Kill>
                <Team>Any Hostile</Team>
                <Weapon>Black Hole</Weapon>
                <Weapon_Slot>Any</Weapon_Slot>
                <Damage_Type>Any</Damage_Type>
                </Trigger_Kill>
            </Trigger>
        <_Editor>
            <Category>Entries:4NewWeapons</Category>
            </_Editor>
        <Units>None</Units>
        <description>CHALLENGE_BLACKHOLES_DESCR</description>
        <image>ui_chal_blackhole_kills</image>
        <Delayed_Banner>False</Delayed_Banner>
        </Challenge>

<Name>blackhole kills</Name>
<Display_String>CHALLENGE_BLACKHOLED</Display_String>
<Contact>KINZIE</Contact>
<Goal>250</Goal>
<Reward>
<Respect>500</Respect>
<Cash>1500</Cash>
<Unlockables></Unlockables>
</Reward>

This section is the challenge descriptor:

It tells you the source of the challenge (Kinzie)
The amount of kills necessary (250)
How much respect you receive for successful completion (500)
Ans how much cash you will receive for successful completion (500)
And any items that will be unlocked upon completion (In this case none)


<Trigger>
<Trigger_Kill>
<Team>Any Hostile</Team>
<Weapon>Black Hole</Weapon>
<Weapon_Slot>Any</Weapon_Slot>
<Damage_Type>Any</Damage_Type>
</Trigger_Kill>
</Trigger>

The Trigger section contains Target Information (Any Hostile)
Weapon Information (Black Hole Gun)
Weapon Slot (Not sure about this)
Damage Type (Any)

Any Hostile means that you can target Police, National Guard, Zin, Genki, Rival Gangs, Stag or the enemies in the 'Enter The Dominatrix' DLC. Just as long as your target is marked as an enemy by the game.

Some challenges are more specific about which enemies you can use to complete their challenge. For instance
the super kick aliens challenge which says you can kick any enemy but the police
(<Team>Any Hostile But Police</Team>)

Some challenges will allow unlocking multiple rewards for example all golds in the 'Blazin') activity.
(<Reward>
<Respect>500</Respect>
<Cash>1500</Cash>
<Unlockables>
<Unlockable>W_Costume_Gold</Unlockable>
<Unlockable>W_Costume_Gold_1</Unlockable>
<Unlockable>W_Costume_Gold_2</Unlockable>
<Unlockable>W_Costume_Gold_3</Unlockable>
<Unlockable>W_Costume_Gold_4</Unlockable>
</Unlockables>
</Reward>)

Note: I was not able to add new challenges and I was not able to add a new unlockable to challenges and I don't know
for certain but I suspect that trying to remove challenges won't work properly either. I suspect that they either will not disappear from the list or removing them will screw up the game by altering the count.

The Goal, Respect and Cash amounts can all be changed with a simple text editor.