WDL Game Files

From Nomad DB

Watch Dogs: Legion continues to use the Big File format to store its assets, using the Big File version number 13.

Inside those archives are further files in various different formats:

Extension Description
.xbt Textures
.xbg Models
.mab Animations
.skeleton Skeletons
.hkx Physics
.material.bin Materials
.bik Videos
.cseq Sequences
.sdat, .sdlr, .sdhr Terrain Sectors
.lib, .obj, .fcb Libraries
wlu_*.data.fcb World Loading Units
.dpax Facial Animations
.move.bin

The file structure of the Big File Archives looks as follows (as of 2020-10-27):

Watch Dogs Legion
+---data_win64
|   |   common.dat                       |  1.7 GB
|   |   common.fat                       |  682 KB
|   |   commonengine.dat                 |  101 KB
|   |   commonengine.fat                 |    1 KB
|   |   patch.dat                        |  1.4 GB
|   |   patch.fat                        |  630 KB
|   |   patch_english.dat                | 21.2 KB
|   |   patch_english.fat                |    6 KB
|   |   shadersobj.dat                   |  2.2 GB
|   |   shadersobj.fat                   |  3.3 MB
|   |   skuconfig.dat                    |    2 KB
|   |   sound.dat                        |  296 MB
|   |   sound.fat                        |    4 KB
|   |   sound_english.dat                | 0 Bytes
|   |   sound_english.fat                |    1 KB
|   |   videos.dat                       |   11 GB
|   |   videos.fat                       |    6 KB
|   |   videos_ultra.dat                 |  3.6 GB
|   |   videos_ultra.fat                 |    1 KB
|   |
|   \---worlds
|       \---london
|               london.dat               |  7.3 GB
|               london.fat               |    3 MB
|               london_cache.dat         |  269 MB
|               london_cache.fat         |  595 KB
|               london_english.dat       |  278 MB
|               london_english.fat       |  2.7 MB
|               london_hires.dat         |    5 GB
|               london_hires.fat         |  943 KB
|               london_preload.dat       |  740 MB
|               london_preload.fat       |  1.8 MB
|               london_sound.dat         |  5.1 GB
|               london_sound.fat         |  124 KB
|               london_sound_english.dat |  4.3 GB
|               london_sound_english.fat |  2.3 KB
|               london_ultra.dat         |  12 GB
|               london_ultra.fat         |  272 KB