Cheat Engine

[sh00ter999]

I am looking at Monster Hunter World right now and I love the game, but the looting and gathering can get quite a bit much. Sure, there are tables out there to cheat infinite items, but I'd like to stay as true to the game as possible. This isn't so much about cheating for an advantage, but rather talking about different realizations of Zero Delay cheats.


I want to discuss how one would go about finding values for the time between looting an item. For instance, in case you don't know the game, there might be a pile of bones on the map, you walk up, press loot and the character then starts kneeling down and digging in the mud for approximantely three seconds until he finds the first item. Usually gathering points have three items hidden in them. So that's 3x3=9 seconds to gather three items.


I am imagining if it would be possible to either cancel / nullify the animation alltogether or to freeze the cooldown between looting iterations to 0, so that you would have to go only through one animation cycle and loot all three items at once.


I only know this sort of cheat from First Person Shooters, where the timer between bullet shots for rifles would be set to 0 or something close to it, to have rapid fire. I think that for looting, a similar style of coding might be used. I can only think of two alternatives: either you start at zero and the timer goes up as you start picking up items until you hit a threshhold to signify that you are done looting, and then it resets back to zero, or the other way around. You start at whatever the looting cooldown is, and it decreases to zero, to reset back to its cooldown value.


Either way, I am not having much luck with MHW, partly because it's such a massively taxing game. When I scan for 4 byte addresses with a value of 0 or unknown initial value, I get over one billion results and my entire shit freezes. So, I'm curious if anyone knows any other viable routes.

My go-to method for the first attempt has been to use CE's pause process function, set to a hotkey, and to first scan for 0, start looting, pause immediately and look for any increased values, but no succes so far

Any thought would be very welcome

[OldCheatEngineUser]

i made a similar cheat years ago (cant remember which game), the game had a countdown timer from 5 down to 0.

data type was float, i was able to find it by using decreased scans.

and then with ollydbg i did some tracing and went back in subroutines, i was able to achieve insta-loot /gather-up as well as modifying the amount of the loot.

anyways it wasnt easy, but doable.

tip:
the first step nearly in every cheat, is to find the value you are interested in, then with some debugging you can process further.

note:
some reverse engineering skills are required, and being able to understand the disassembly is the key.

[sh00ter999]

[OldCheatEngineUser]