How do I figure out what's changed in the HELP.LBX file?

[Tiltowait]

The excellent replacement help file, Plight, needs to be updated for v1.5. However, all the v1.5 changes were made to the stock HELP.LBX file that shipped with v1.31. How can I figure out what's changed in order to copy those changes into Plight?

I thought of a binary diff, but that's going to be megabytes and megabytes of output.

[Seravy]

The excellent replacement help file, Plight, needs to be updated for v1.5. However, all the v1.5 changes were made to the stock HELP.LBX file that shipped with v1.31. How can I figure out what's changed in order to copy those changes into Plight?

I thought of a binary diff, but that's going to be megabytes and megabytes of output.

Actually, 1.50 does not change HELP.LBX at all. Looking at the date of the file, I believe that is insecticide's help.lbx, which I included because 1.50 is an update to 1.40.

I suggest using Total Commander's
Files : Compare by Content option.

A quick look into the file reveals that are only 3 changes total :
Strategic Combat, Revolting Raiders, and Monsters Gone Wild which were replacing other game options.

So if you copy over those 3 sections, that is enough, although reading through the entire plight help text to find if they refer to any game mechanics that act differently is a good idea. (especially in diplomacy)

I've only updated help texts for Caster of Magic and 95% of that text would not be relevant in 1.50.

[Tiltowait]

Oh, that's great! Can we put Plight as the default help file in v1.5? It is SO much better than the default help. You can right click on EVERYTHING. I particularly like the hero leveling information when you click on a hero's rank badge.

What is the 5% that should change? I've been sitting on my thumbs for too long, it's time for action.

[Seravy]

Oh, that's great! Can we put Plight as the default help file in v1.5? It is SO much better than the default help. You can right click on EVERYTHING. I particularly like the hero leveling information when you click on a hero's rank badge.

What is the 5% that should change? I've been sitting on my thumbs for too long, it's time for action.

No idea. I don't know what's in Plight, it contains a lot more information, more details and better accuracy than the original game.
A lot more than CoM's help, I believe.
Honestly at some points it felt too much information even, although I only saw it before I started modding so I might not think the same now.

Chances are all AI patches aren't related to help texts, and most diplomacy ones aren't too. For diplomacy, you only need the descriptions of treaties and personalities, and you can take those texts from CoM, the diplomacy system is pretty much identical.
So you can safely ignore all DIPL and AI files after adding treaty and personality texts.

Bug fixes, well, idk if Plight texts explain the buggy or the correct behavior. If the former, you'll have a lot of work to do since over a hundred bugs were fixed.
FEAT files are much more likely to contain something that did show up somewhere in help.

I really can't say much except, open the Plight help file, read through the whole thing, and if you see anything you know got changed in 1.50, update it. The patch files all explain what they do (although there are a lot of them).

If you manage to update the text (always test every change in the game, bad help entries can cause crashes!), I will include the file, sure thing.