mess with progs.dat manually?

so, i backed up my progs.dat. and i've been playing around with it. bit it keeps cause the game to not load any of the maps... i've been trying to make it so the perk machines would play sound when you bought a perk. so far no luck. i have a theory, what if someone were to put a trigger then put the code or what not after the <perkmachine.mdl> like progs/quickrevive.mdlperkmachine/quickrevive.wav


Look, what i'm trying to say is... can you mess with the progs.dat manually with textedit or something without the game breaking?

If you know how a progs.dat works, have knowledge of hex editing and know what youre doing, yes. But for normal people like you and me, no. Trust me, is hard, and even more that progs.dat is heavily obfuscated.

You could try, but the only thing youll do is break the progs.dat

Good luck btw

I've gotten some stuff to work in the past through Hex Editing, etc. but tbh anything, even small stuff, you really need the Source, which isn't available for 1.1.

aw man.... thanks though.