[Norfleet]

Originally posted by Arralen:
con:
Some folks would start working on cheats and exploits to ruin multiplayer games ...

It would seem to be the case that the data is encrypted and compressed to prevent exactly that. I've pulled open .trns and .2hses just to see if anything particularly edifying was revealed, but not only are they at least partially encrypted and compressed, as no plaintext strings such as the name was found anywhere, but they are also checksummed against modification.