Has anyone tried modding the older WX-78 shadow affinity back in?

[DinsdaleP]

While I'm no coder, I really wanted to use the old version of shadow affinity when it comes to WX-78, because the shadow hands collecting stuff and vex effect was just so much cooler (and the new bots are a painful visual noise), but what originally seemed like an easy task for even an inexperienced bodger like myself quickly turned into essentially smashing my head against a brick wall... so I'm kinda hoping somebody hates the new drones just as much (if the beta and general forums are anything to go by, nearly everybody does) and has some proper experience modding DST and in LUA in general.

I do have the "original" files (at least the "databundles" folder) from the previous release version, where the affinity was already in, but disabled, and I'm more than happy to share it if you're willing to give this a whirl, since I'm not sure you can even roll back versions anymore on steam, but... the update affected a lot of files.

What I've managed to gather/mess with so far:

scripts\prefabs\wx78_common.lua
- A lot have changed, shadow drones were added and the previous code removed

scripts\prefabs\wx78_classified.lua
- A few new calls to shadow drones

scripts\tuning.lua
- Changes under "wx78_allegiance_shadow" for the new brains of the bots, instead of the old harvest/debuff time and radius.

scripts\components\socket_shadow_harvester.lua
scripts\components\socket_shadow_heart.lua
- Both are completely changed from the previous version.

scripts\prefabs\shadow_harvester_trail.lua
- Doesn't exist in the current version.

scripts\recipes.lua
- New recipes for the drone added.

If anyone is interested, please don't hesitate to give me a shout, it would be great if the way better variation of shadow affinity could live again in the hands of someone a lot more experienced in modding than yours truly, and many people would greatly appreciate it, myself included, but I just don't have the skills to pull this off. (And I do hope that sharing game files is allowed around here.)

[DinsdaleP]

UPDATE: Actually managed to bring the old vex effect back, no more visual noise from all the goddamn drones, that's enough for me for now, the grabbers aren't THAT annoying.