A Single-Player Disabler (Requires no Variables at all)

[Tal'Rarity]

This can cause too much damage so I think I will be removing this instead...

 

[Daffa]

This is quite interesting indeed.

 

[Rheiko]

so you can't play single player with this method but you can play lan?
yeah, interesting

 

[Tal'Rarity]

Cheats are good for other things other then cheating sometimes... =P
I have been experimenting with cheats for a while now, sadly this was all I could find currently due to the hard coded system.

Please remember that you should not test this, it does work.

EDIT: I was scared to test 0, I have recently tested it five times. It refuses to register the string cmd and ignores the cheat cmd to set it to 0. However 1 works just as nicely... =)

 

[chobibo]

Will this crash the game?

 

[Tal'Rarity]

Nope =)

It does worst/better then that, its more fun.

I did try to test the victory and defeat cheat commands, but for some strange reason they don't fire/trigger even with typing them.

 

[Aeroblyctos]

Is it possible to disable just cheats but allow single-player with this kind of method?

 

[Tal'Rarity]

No, if your able to enter a cheat command and it registers then this will be the same.
I am sure it is possible to disable just cheats, but I haven't found a way to detect when they're entered so it is a bit difficult currently. I am still looking and sadly I doubt I will find it because it isn't easy to mess with hard-coded stuff.
However it does allow single-player through LAN, and WAN/servers.

 

[Almia]

Much Safer:

function CloseWarcraftIII takes nothing returns nothing
    call ExecuteFunc("CloseWarcraftIII")
endfunction
function Init takes nothing returns nothing
    if ReloadGameCachesFromDisk() then
        call CloseWarcraftIII()
    endif
endfunction

Well, nah, this closes Wc3 if the player attempts to open the map with this code in SP

 

[Arhowk]

LAN play is just as dangerous as SP because of CheatEngine...

 

[Tal'Rarity]

LAN has a custom cheatengine? Can you link me to it?

Almia that belongs in the JASS tutorials.

 

[Arhowk]

LAN has a custom cheatengine? Can you link me to it?

Almia that belongs in the JASS tutorials.

lmgtfy.com/?q=cheat+engine

allows you to modify the RAM of a process. (infinite hero level, gold, hp, etc)

 

[Chaosy]

fuck logic. That disables cheats?

here good sir take my rep

 

[Tal'Rarity]

It doesn't disable them, it makes it very hard to use them... =)

Arhowk I don't see it or understand, I also don't like that way of linking. It messed me up... =(
I meant warcraft three TFT, I would appreciate it if you re-explained it.

 

[Arhowk]

It doesn't disable them, it makes it very hard to use them... =)

Arhowk I don't see it or understand, I also don't like that way of linking. It messed me up... =(
I meant warcraft three TFT, I would appreciate it if you re-explained it.

https://www.google.com/search?q=che...&sourceid=chrome&espvd=210&es_sm=122&ie=UTF-8

 

[Tal'Rarity]

I still don't see it Arhowk..... Sure it allows you to modify stuff, but does it allow to modify stuff in LAN and multiplayer? Because Blizzard's cheats don't work in LAN. Who would use it anyways... =P They'd rather use wc3edit.net

 

[FUJI]

So the Anti Cheats System will now useless if this 1 magic and logic line is initialized?

 

[Tal'Rarity]

Read before commenting, it isn't magical. If you looked harder you'd realize it force changes your fps.

With the knowledge/code I have presented/made to you guys this would make the anti cheats system even better by far and way more useful!

 

[Dr Super Good]

This is entirely pointless. There is a variable set to the singleplayer state and all you need to do is disable any save systems if it is set.

Let children cheat if they want to. Who are you to stop them?!

 

[Arhowk]

This is entirely pointless. There is a variable set to the singleplayer state and all you need to do is disable any save systems if it is set.

Let children cheat if they want to. Who are you to stop them?!

Children who cheat,

1) Abuse the game for themselves which reduces its replay value drastically. If they didn't fall into the temptation to cheat, than they mightv'e hosted the game for others or helped others make the experience more enjoyable

2) Are more likely to find ways to abuse the game (e.g. imba save code, game breaking glitches) and use them in online play which will stop others from enjoying it

3) are likely to spread these things along to other people, people who may not have wanted them but wanted to play the game more, but can't now due to boredom.

Not only the above, the creator of the map spent his hard time and brainpower into creating a work of art, I think its perfectly reasonable for him to wish people do not abuse the game.

Also, the system is not pointless because this "cheat" (referring to call Cheat() ) is not really known in the hacking environment so alot of people will go right by it when trying to enable SP

 

[Dr Super Good]

1) Abuse the game for themselves which reduces its replay value drastically. If they didn't fall into the temptation to cheat, than they mightv'e hosted the game for others or helped others make the experience more enjoyable

Highly unlikely. When I was a child and used to cheat it was so I could test the map out fast to see if it was worth playing fairly. Many maps I did not play or hacked their save systems just because I could not cheat in single player to see the map and check if it was anygood.

2) Are more likely to find ways to abuse the game (e.g. imba save code, game breaking glitches) and use them in online play which will stop others from enjoying it

No as the save systems are disabled anyway. If they want to abuse the game they can just plug any old values into the maps save system with simple script modifications. Obviously all anti-single player stuff will be disabled then.

3) are likely to spread these things along to other people, people who may not have wanted them but wanted to play the game more, but can't now due to boredom.

No because they already cannot make cheated save codes thanks to turning off the save system.

Also, the system is not pointless because this "cheat" (referring to call Cheat() ) is not really known in the hacking environment so alot of people will go right by it when trying to enable SP

They will not be looking for it, instead their irritation for not being able to have a mess around in single player will drive them to search for the map save triggers and export those for their evil and malicious purposes.

The only time cheat codes should be considered for disabling is when they will seriously break the map (to the point the player cannot progress and might think the map is broken). In that case custom cheat codes should be added for single player so that players who want to cheat still can.

To summarize the above. Some times players just want to be able to mess around with a map. Cheats are equivalent to sandbox mode which some players may like. Denying them the ability to sandbox can upset or annoy players, even if it has good intentions and can often end up doing far more bad for the map than it does good. An example being many maps where at some point I became stuck but thanks to whosyourdaddy and iseedeadpeople in single player I was able to find what I was meant to do and then go back to playing fairly in multiplayer. If I could not have done that chances are I would either resort to less fair methods to progress forcefully or stop playing the map altogether.

 

[PurgeandFire]

@DSG: This isn't really an ethical issue though. Many people try to disable single player in their maps, and while I don't entirely agree with doing that (since I usually gauge the map that way), it is nice to have a tutorial to show the/a method.

 

[PurgeandFire]

Bump, it is a neat method. I would like to approve it, but I need a bit more of an explanation on how it works. I'm assuming the command only works in single-player, and it will change the user's FPS to 1. If so, you should mention that in the first post.

At the moment, it is more of a trigger-display/resource than a tutorial. It just needs a little bit of explanation.

P.S. Sorry for not getting to this much sooner. It is rather difficult for me to test multiplayer things like this since I can only do it on my PC.

 

[Tal'Rarity]

I changed my mind, too many people know about this and will likely make their own version of this as a tutorial. I'll see what I can do purge.

By the way how would it work in multiplayer? I don't see how unless you had access to open0source wc3 where you could disable that condition from not allowing it in Bnet.

I did mention it in the first post, It is so simple so there isn't much more I can add....

This isn't a multiplayer thing.

 

[Anvil]

This will not disable cheats in single player. You can set/reset the fps ingame.

 

[Tal'Rarity]

Not everyone knows this. Besides I am going to add something extra soon enough.

 

[Arhowk]

I changed my mind, too many people know about this and will likely make their own version of this as a tutorial. I'll see what I can do purge.

By the way how would it work in multiplayer? I don't see how unless you had access to open0source wc3 where you could disable that condition from not allowing it in Bnet.

I did mention it in the first post, It is so simple so there isn't much more I can add....

This isn't a multiplayer thing.

It's not meant to disallow sp on bnet, only sp on sp, where you can use stuff like greedisgood or poweroverwhelming.

 

[PurgeandFire]

Since this doesn't really qualify as a tutorial, I'm going to move it to the lab. IMO, that is a more appropriate place for it (now that such a forum exists).

 

[Ezekiel12]

Why has nobody mentioned that this is known for a long time?
It's nice when newer generations also "discover" something but damn, it would be so much fun if it really pushed the borders. Get this going already^^.

 

[Tal'Rarity]

Why has nobody mentioned that this is known for a long time?
It's nice when newer generations also "discover" something but damn, it would be so much fun if it really pushed the borders. Get this going already^^.

Not many people knew and I was a much different person in the past.

What do you mean by get reading wc3 memory going?

 

[Ezekiel12]

I mean to find cool things that are really new.

 

[Tal'Rarity]

Cool things that are really new? We were always able to read stuff from wc3 to disc and back, not to mention bypassing blizz's max file-size limitations with local files which they officially put in themselves which is kind of sad because we always had the capability to have 12+mb maps...

Lot's of fun stuff. =) Did you check out changing health permantly with player handicap?

 

[Zeatherann]

This is a cool native you've highlighted. It would be nice to see more documentation on it and possible uses for it. Can you change the fps of a game in-game through chat though? If so I assume it is by typeing "/maxfps(new_fps)".

 

[Tal'Rarity]

Sadly only single player. With this method though you can force cheats to detect single player.

 

[Vinz]

If you can change maxfps in game...

How will this thing work?

 

[Tal'Rarity]

Simple it becomes too laggy for anyone to play.

 

[Zeatherann]

Why is this a shame it only works for singleplayer? Isn't that the point? And it isn't too laggy, rather quite the opposite; the game waits too long to render the next frame. I wonder if keyboard input still works though.

 

[Vinz]

Simple it becomes too laggy for anyone to play.

If we could revert it back using the command anyways?

 

[Ceday]

If we could revert it back using the command anyways?

You won't notice whats happening unless you are someone who plays with show fps command enabled(what??), or someone who knows this trick(too few people).

Well, if mapmaker wants to disable singleplayer he can just use allyourbasearebelongtous anyway instead of max fps.But I assume this is harder to detect for war3map.j readers.

 

[Tal'Rarity]

You won't notice whats happening unless you are someone who plays with show fps command enabled(what??), or someone who knows this trick(too few people).

Well, if mapmaker wants to disable singleplayer he can just use allyourbasearebelongtous anyway instead of max fps.But I assume this is harder to detect for war3map.j readers.

If you could make the script un-accessible then any method would be fine.

 

[Zeatherann]

The script is never un-accessible. If it isn't in the root directory of the map archive, then it's under the Scripts/ directory. The best hidden event is to use a non-boolean variable to signify single player and set it in the map initialization then obfusticate (optimize) the map script.

 

[Ceday]

Edit: wrong.