This page reproduces a section of "An Almost Complete Guide to Far Cry 2 Modding" by Boggalog, verbatim, with attribution. See the guide index for the full attribution note.
Miscellaneous edits
Timescale
defaultgameconfig.xml (\patch_unpack\engine\settings\)
Timescale is controlled by the “TimeScale” stat near the top of this file.
The default value is 6, which means that time is sped up 6x so that an in-game 24 hours takes 4 hours, and an in-game hour takes 10 minutes.
TimeScale = "6"
Disabling intro videos
Option 1: Add a launch property
Right click your Far Cry 2 shortcut and press properties, either in Steam if using that or the actual shortcut itself.
In Steam you can add “-GameProfile_SkipIntroMovies 1” as a launch option, for regular windows add it at the end of the “Target” section.
-GameProfile_SkipIntroMovies 1
Option 2: Edit the game files
defaultgameconfig.xml (\patch_unpack\engine\settings\)
We can add a line to the top section of this file that says: SkipIntroMovies="1"
Change value to 1 to enable, 0 to disable.
Sensitivity_x = "1.0"
Sensitivity_y = "1.0"
Sensitivity = "0.9"
SkipIntroMovies="1"
Invert_x = "0"
Guide - Using the ‘Black Mamba’ buddy rescue mission
This guide will cover how to swap in the Black Mamba buddy rescue mission. It will replace one of the existing world 2 buddy rescue missions. Check out a video of it here.
Step 1: Getting the world 2 scripting file
Unpack common.dat/.fat and find “master_world2.world2.lua” in \common_unpack\domino\user\. Paste this into your patch file with the same folder structure \patch_unpack\domino\user\.
Step 2: Editing in the new mission
master_world2.world2.lua (\patch_unpack\domino\user)
At the top of this file you can see a list of missions in world 2. There are two buddy rescue missions, shown with the following lua files:
Domino/User/A2BU06_OldBrewery.A2BU06_Mission.lua
Domino/User/A2BU07_DogonRing.A2BU07_Mission.lua
You can replace either one of these, Hunter has suggested replacing the Dogon Ring mission as it is more buggy.
To replace the buddy mission we are going to replace the referenced file with the following one:
Domino/User/A2BU05_Blackmamba.A2BU05_Mission.lua
If you have replaced the Dogon Ring mission then you complete section should look like this:
"Domino/User/A2BU06_OldBrewery.A2BU06_Mission.lua",
"Domino/User/A2BU05_Blackmamba.A2BU05_Mission.lua",
"Domino/User/A2LM07_RadioArmageddon.A2LM07_Mission.lua",
We now need to replace all the other references to the old file in pretty much the same way. I’m going to keep describing this as if you are replacing the Dogon Ring mission.
There is one other reference to “Domino/User/A2BU07_DogonRing.A2BU07_Mission.lua” which needs to be replaced with "Domino/User/A2BU05_Blackmamba.A2BU05_Mission.lua".
There are also five references to the mission code “A2BU07” that need to be replaced with “A2BU05”.