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It brings back memories of when I spent six months fighting a company (one person doing the work) writing a cheat package for our game by trying to make his lif
by coldcode 3y ago
It brings back memories of when I spent six months fighting a company (one person doing the work) writing a cheat package for our game by trying to make his life hell in our binary. Both obfuscation and the opposite are amazingly fun to work on; you have to understand both ends to be effective. Eventually, I made the guy give up as it was too much work for insufficient money (the cheat cost more monthly than we charged for the game, but in reality most people did not use it). In my case, it was not Python (our game was C/C++), but the difficulty was similar. It's hard to cheat in WO* games as the server validates everything.
- V__ 3y agoI would love to read a blog post or similar about this. Sounds like a fun challenge.
- all2 3y agoWhat is a WO* game?
- 0xffff2 3y agoPresumably "World of <X>", e.g. World of Warships, World of Tanks... not sure if there are others.
- dragonwriter 3y agoWorld of (Warships*/Tanks*/Warplanes). Basically, Wargaming.net games that aren't Master of Orion. * These are each game lines with three entries each
- all2 3y agoI played so much MoO when I was a kid. I've still got the CD laying around somewhere.
- lstodd 3y agoTry 1oom+rbo or/and ROTP https://gitlab.com/ignatius_rbo/1oom.git https://gitlab.com/ignatius_rbo/1oom.git https://rayfowler.itch.io/remnants-of-the-precursors https://rayfowler.itch.io/remnants-of-the-precursors
- alisonatwork 3y agoThese are both great. The original RotP is no longer being actively developed, but there are a couple of forks on GitHub that stay in sync with one another and have continued building on the base. https://github.com/BrokenRegistry/Rotp-Fusion https://github.com/BrokenRegistry/Rotp-Fusion https://github.com/Xilmi/Rotp-Fusion https://github.com/Xilmi/Rotp-Fusion
- lstodd 3y agoWow, someone actually tried that? Thank you, never seen that. There is also the Polaris Sector.
- dist-epoch 3y agoHave you investigated homomorphic encryption?
- mrmuagi 3y agoIs that a suggestion to protect network packets or is there another use on the client?
- ronsor 3y agoI think they mean directly executing encrypted code/manipulating encrypted data without the need to decrypt first.
- dmos62 3y agoI would be thrilled if that were a viable solution.
- nylonstrung 3y agoAt least a decade away from being usable for something like this
- Cthulhu_ 3y ago> It's hard to cheat in WO* games as the server validates everything. Which would explain things like teleport not working, but what about things like aimbots, wallhacks, etc? Those are all client side.