Time Cheating in Video Games : Deep Dive with Godot

Time Hacks, Time Cheats, Moving your clock forward. Anything goes to get away from those pesky timers in mobile games. But can you make an offline game that the player cannot hack?
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[@Smaxx]

I think one more point that's important to remember, especially considering your note at the end about no encryption etc.: As with most systems like this, it's not about making something unpenetrable. Just making it solid enough that it requires quite some workarounds to cheat makes it somewhat cheat proof versus a generic audience. This is obviously mood, if it can be automated, but that's on yet another level after this.

[@Relivino]

Well I can clearly see now from where this material originates :) Proud to make an impact, great work!

[@gidi1899]

Suggestion: Track not only the state but the actions use the action log and states as input to a learning algo, that answers the question "which source of time to trust".

[@paulosullivan3472]

I miss this channel.

[@NekotoArts]

Hehe, now I know 5 different ways I could try to break a game's clock!

[@Ombarus]

Definitely the lesson here...

[@dandymcgee]

For solution #5, you can hack it by intercepting the system calls. I'm not sure how that works on a mobile device, you'd probably have to have a jailbroken device or something, but on a desktop computer it can be done trivially with DLL injection or various other methods.

[@Ombarus]

Yep, That's why games now require always online sadly

[@CheckovStuff]

12:29, all we know is that we know nothing

[@collinvisser7108]

Neat