• jet@hackertalks.com
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    4 months ago

    I played a game with people who were cheating, it was really unfun, didn’t realize what they were doing until we got to the exit screen and we had +99,999 of each sample type on extract.

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      Did they kill your fish, or were you able to explain to the court martial?

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        Other than only keeping the samples up to my sample cap, there were no deleterious side effects.

        I fear for my fish. But Liberty requires us to be honest and true. I had a long discussion with my democracy officer. We decided the fruits of treason should not be enjoyed by traitors, so we kept it.

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        When Minecraft came out there was no creative move, so my friend and I would use a program to find the RAM for the inventory and freeze the counters at 255 and build massive castles.

        I’m guessing they can do that with their sample count somehow.

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          CheatEngine is pretty comprehensively awesome… But only the absolutely the worst kind of people use it a large multiplayer game (not your small Minecraft server obvs. That is smart)

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            CheatEngine should hopefully not work on helldivers as the game has a kernel-level anticheat…

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              kernel-level anticheat don’t fix incompetence

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              Almost certainly doesn’t… but it makes for a good concrete example of a good tool that can be used by idiots

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      Why would the server not validate the data? I guess they felt their invasive anti-cheat meant they should trust every message from the client. Pretty rough.

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    Next week rations have been supplemented with sushi. W̶̶o̶̶u̶̶l̶̶d̶̶ ̶̶y̶̶o̶̶u̶̶ ̶̶l̶̶i̶̶̶k̶e̶̶ ̶̶t̶̶o̶̶ ̶̶k̶̶n̶̶o̶̶w̶̶ ̶̶m̶̶o̶̶r̶̶e̶̶?̶

    Wait, Wong franchise.

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    Huh. I was wondering why I turned in two samples in the early afternoon and then later that evening it was already completed. I thought maybe I misread the time remaining and the overall progress too.

    Oh well, free 50 medals for me!

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    My current playstyle is to start up the game once a month and receive 10000000 free afk medals

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      I thought you had to at least be online for part of the order or you didn’t get the medals.