Cheat Engine

[mohanhegde]

Hi,

I'm trying to cheat in a game called 'The Long Dark' and I'm not able to change/freeze certain values (like the current weight being carried).

I know how to use cheat engine and I've successfully found and changed other values like the 'calories' by searching for related posts in the forum. But I'm not able to change the 'weight' value.

Sometimes, I can find the exact value, change the value in Cheat engine, but when I go back to the game and come back to Cheat engine, it gets changed to what the game wants it to be, i.e. it is somehow overriding my set value.

I know I can find a trainer for this, but I want to learn how to deal with situations like this. So if anyone has made a hack/trainer for this game can point me in the right direction so that I can hack it myself, it would be really helpful.

Thanks

[Zanzer]

The problem with weight is that there is often not a set variable with the amount.
The game is constantly calculating that amount every time you lose or gain an item.
It doesn't necessarily need to update the same memory address when it changes.
It could throw out the old address and create a brand new one with the new total.

The best place to start is often with the inventory quantity. Find out what accesses that value.
You will likely see things access it when you open the inventory.
If you're lucky, you'll see a different instruction access it when you use/pickup an item.
This would be the location that retrieves its quantity and its weight, then multiplies those together.

You would start your debugging at this location.

I don't know if the game still has symbols enabled, but it looks like the function you want is Inventory:GetTotalWeightKG

[mohanhegde]