Cheat Engine

[kyloz]

Ok so I've got this game where your health bar normally has 3 slots, like so:

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However, there is a certain game difficulty where the health bar gets limited to 1, like so:

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And if you take a single hit from an enemy, you are instantly killed and the game respawns you instantly. The problem is, I cannot find the value for this and I have tried a few methods.

The first method I tried was to scan for an unknown initial value, and then scan as it increases/decreases, but, the problem with doing that is the game will NOT let you pause the game when the health bar goes to 0, and because it respawns you so quickly, you simply have no time to scan for the value. Also, with this particular game difficulty, there are no health pickups like in the previous difficulties, so I am unable to "add" more bars to my health in this difficulty. I attempted to circumvent this by using cheat engine's speedhack, and freezing the game to 0.00 speed so I have chance to scan for the value (since even tabbing out of the game doesn't pause the process of the death/respawn). This didn't work.

The second method I tried, was to lower the game difficulty so 3 full bars are available on the health bar, and then obtain the value, and carry that value over into the harder difficulty. This also failed as the helath bar was unaffected by the carried over value.

Does anyone have any ideas on what to do here?