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Hey all just wanted to get a topic up discussing the game and its premise as well as hear people's attempts to cheat the game.

So i have done some basic probing of the game trying to change the credits and whats used to construct most things. The resources on the left bar are actually rather easy as they are Int32 values and can be found rather easily for the most part. Industrial Points and Metals are the two i have successfully gotten and changed. which is good as those are mainly responsible for construction. But i have found out that Credits seem almost impossible to crack. Its not a Float, its not a Double yet buying things from the trade menu you can see the credits with decimals but the game will round up or down how many credits are spent to the nearest whole number above Zero.

The game itself is rather brutal especially if you get a bad start. I have been wiped out more than once due to bad starts and AI that somehow have more military than area.... plus im still playing on the "easiest" difficulty.

I hope to hear the thoughts of others about Shadow Empire and their progress at cheating the game.

I've gotten the resources with CE pretty easily. Recruits actual value is it's number divided by 100. so 2400 would just be 24 as a byte 4 value. The other resources are all also byte 4. They are also stored right by each other in the memory. I find one and then add the addresses manually going up and down by 4 on the address to find each one without more searching.

You do need to be careful as Recruits use food and I've starved myself out by making them super high for a turn.

Credits and Fate Points are something else, can't seem to track them down. You can do action points of your troops as a byte 4. Could likely do the rest but they don't change during the turn or at least I haven't figured out how to yet.

The addresses changed with each turn and I'm not smart enough to track down the pointers.



Edit:Okay so did some more digging and not all the resources are 4 apart but some are stored together, also you can modify a unit's readiness if you go to high it crashes if you go into a battle.

[Edited by Reofecthegreat, 6/16/2020 7:28:39 PM]

disregard, i figured out what i was doing wrong.

[Edited by scottrossi, 6/17/2020 8:24:24 PM]

Using the trade menu you can find all the resources but it will move them in the memory after a few trades or for some other reason. I think it might just be timed. I know turns throw everything around.

But infinite resources make the game a fair bit easier but if you have a max storage for a resource it gets rid of all the excess before processing what is taken from you. Meaning that technically you had enough food to feed everyone but since it dumped everything over the 2k default, you are actually starving. Stuff like that.

You can then abuse your traders to get credits out the wazoo but you might need to let prices normalize over 5 or so turns.

Actionpoints are great to maximize for artillery pieces since it gets an attack for every 10 AP meaning you can shell the ever loving stuffing out of enemies but typically the starter arty is garbage and won't do much damage. I've run it through 1000 attacks on some marauders and had it kill 2 units of the 20 and just not be effective otherwise.

Have you found any thing that is good to muck around with? Wish I understood how the unrandomizer worked so I could cheese that for my arty barrages.


Figured out Readiness, each individual card has it's own so you have to search for them on their own but you then put it up it. At 10000 percent readines you are invulnerable and a killing machine.

[Edited by Reofecthegreat, 6/22/2020 9:47:25 PM]

Okay Grouped search in CoSMOS 4AP of Unit) 4Readiness of unit) 4xp of unit)

And I mean each individual unit as in the cards inside the unit.

You can find and edit troop values really easy with this. if you +8 on the Xp address you get entrenchment.

This game is driving me crazy! Does anyone know when the cheat for it will be ready?

Where can we actually buy and play it from?

Matrix Games.

www.matrixgames.com/game/shadow-empire