Cheat Engine

Necki · How do I cheat? Reputation: 0 Joined: 26 Sep 2020 Posts: 8

I'm trying to hack a game, where each time you hit your attack button the game generates 1 out of 4 attack types. Stab, swing, lunge, etc. However I want it to only be swing or stab.

Here's what I did. Scan for 0, then scanned each time the attack key was down by first pausing the game and searching for increased value. Repeat that process. Managed to narrow down to 136 values.

I found some interesting stuff. Some microsoft library called MSCTF.dll, which apparently handles input. After finding out what access that address I noticed some values changing, one value that increases each time I let the key down (KeyReleaseEvent counter?).

Funnily enough I found some other addresses, 3 of them. They change between 0, 1, 128 and 129. Another address seems to randomly follow along. I really don't know what to make of it LOL. But my guess is that somewhere some random value is calculated that determines your attack style, and that's where I want to fiddle around.

So I'm stuck. Any tips & tricks would be great.

Csimbi · Posted: Wed Oct 14, 2020 7:49 am Post subject:

Have you considered AutoHotkey?
Send a series of keypresses instead of one?

Necki · How do I cheat? Reputation: 0 Joined: 26 Sep 2020 Posts: 8

That would still not allow me to modify the code that determines what attack style I will use. Stab, lunge, swing, big swing. The client should be calculating that somewhere, I want to find that code and modify it.

atom0s · Posted: Wed Oct 14, 2020 7:42 pm Post subject:

Necki · How do I cheat? Reputation: 0 Joined: 26 Sep 2020 Posts: 8

Great, thanks man! It helps to put things in perspective by writing the C code with it. It's still hard to comprehend, I guess it would be valuable to write some C code myself and step through it with gdb to learn x86 better.

Those 4 flags you mentioned, I found them again and freezed the value. But they aren't the attack styles, they are actually the animations your character goes through. By freezing that value I essentially created an attack speed hack, LOL. It's perfect, not what I wanted.. but a very nice thing to have nonetheless.

Necki · How do I cheat? Reputation: 0 Joined: 26 Sep 2020 Posts: 8

Small update, instead of freezing the value I used the auto assemble functionality. I noticed that I can move a standard value into the memory address instead of freezing in it. But that only affects my actual animation, not the attack itself.

I'll dig a little deeper.