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Postby koorb » Sat Sep 30, 2006 6:40 pm

This game is SO easy to cheat on it's silly. Some of the values need to be encrypted otherwise cheating will become very common.

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Postby Montyphy » Sat Sep 30, 2006 6:49 pm

Did you try that with another player? You'll probably find you'll get Sync errors
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Postby film11 » Sat Sep 30, 2006 6:50 pm

Maybe you might want to forward the exploit on to IV forum members e.g. Chris or Icepick. In PM of course.
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Postby Mizer » Sat Sep 30, 2006 6:51 pm

Indeed, if you try in a game with others then you should get a sync error.
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Postby koorb » Sat Sep 30, 2006 6:56 pm

Ok going to try it against other players now.
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Postby Steven » Sat Sep 30, 2006 7:12 pm

koorb wrote:Ok going to try it against other players now.

I'd be interested in hearing the result. Let me know when you've tried.
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Postby koorb » Sat Sep 30, 2006 7:21 pm

Ye if you play against other players and alter a value a message box is displayed which says that the game is not synchronised with other players, press resynchronise to fix this, or something like that. After resyncronising new values are created in memmmory from the other players games and the game runs from the new set of data.

This will actually make cheating very difficult depending on the type of data each client is entrusted with, but that is all far more than I am prepared to experiment with.
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Postby mibias » Sat Sep 30, 2006 8:01 pm

just being curious... how did you do that... i am 13 years and know nothing, but i am very interested in such things...
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Postby Steven » Sat Sep 30, 2006 8:02 pm

It can be done a few ways. Memory editing, packet editing... Whatever the case, it will be caught 99% of the time. Don't do it in an actual game. ;)
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Postby mibias » Sat Sep 30, 2006 8:11 pm

yea, but... what files should be edited, and what in thoose files should be eddited... (would be cool to have many units... single player of course... :wink: )
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Postby Steven » Sat Sep 30, 2006 8:16 pm

Nobody here would give you a step-by-step method to cheat in Defcon, single player or otherwise. Sorry.
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Postby koorb » Sat Sep 30, 2006 8:19 pm

mibias wrote:yea, but... what files should be edited, and what in thoose files should be eddited... (would be cool to have many units... single player of course... :wink: )


Since it doesn't work in Defcon I don't see any reason not to tell you.

I am using a memory editor designed to find specific values in programs called ArtMoney.
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Postby mibias » Sat Sep 30, 2006 8:24 pm

thank you... And really, if cheating in defcon worked... who would play with you then? nobody likes a cheater :wink:
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Postby koorb » Sat Sep 30, 2006 8:30 pm

mibias wrote:thank you... And really, if cheating in defcon worked... who would play with you then? nobody likes a cheater :wink:


Exsactly

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