Repack p4k

[LZeugirdor]

This is mostly a feature request, from the description it doesn't show option for repacking the file, if it is there then you can just ignore this.
I'd love to see the option to repack the files uncompressed, I wonder if it will speed up game loading on some faster SSD's and reduce CPU usage, especially on NVME drives.

[Stryxus]

Although theoretically possible to repack it, it will not work nor make any difference in speed because you are just repacking the same thing. It will also trigger EasyAntiCheat due to the differences of files within the p4k and the p4k's attributes it self which are impractical to replicate for these very reasons.

[LZeugirdor]

It seems like a cool experiment but fruitless if the anticheat will react to it. Thank you for taking the time to explain it.

[DRAKO89DZ]

hi, i want to know how i can repack p4k file thanks

[Stryxus]

hi, i want to know how i can repack p4k file thanks

This hasnt been looked into yet since its a very niche and wont have many uses cases but will eventually. May I ask why you want the to know how?

[Stryxus]

Iv recently come across a lot of videos and general information about cheating in Star Citizen and repacking the p4k would be an avenue of potentially doing this. Id recommend @peter-dolkens close the issue as I wouldnt recommend risking the implementation directly leading back to unp4k in a potential cheating tool scenario.

[peter-dolkens]

rep4k itself wouldn't help with cheating as the files are signed. Would just be an easy way to get caught by easy anti cheat.

Could potentially be useful to rep4k unsigned, or with our own key for those who still have offline versions of the game floating around.

It's just waaaay down the list of priorities due to the extremely niche usecase and the large effort involved.