Cheaters 👏 cannot 👏 fuck 👏 with 👏 your 👏 game 👏 files 👏 you 👏 fucking 👏 idiots
while we’re at it, whoever thought that a rootkit can work in dark souls 3 is a fucking dumbass that should be banned from ever working any kind of network security
you try getting a rootkit to work on a wireless, peer to peer connection that is at best temperamental, over a connection that can be ended by so much as an alt+f4 at any given time...and we’ll see how far you get. the correct answer is: not very far at all, dingus.
i see too many morons parading around on reddit and steam forums and claiming that someone with cheat engine open has somehow destroyed their game local files. when i ask them how they figured that out, they never give a direct answer. they just reiterate “that it happened”.
here’s the thing: your game’s files ARE STORED LOCALLY. So is your SAVE GAME. the only way for someone to actually mess with your game is if you receive an item from them that isn’t a legitimate item and has, say, ?weaponname? or something. this edits your SAVE GAME, yes, but your SAVE GAME is stored in a completely different area than your game’s actual files.
THIS is where your save game data is located. Do you notice how there’s only a folder and a file in it? There’s literally nothing else pertaining to the game at all. graphics config is just what it sounds like, and another player can’t touch that even if they tried to.
this is the savegame file itself, in that folder nect to the graphics config file. that’s...literally all that’s in there. do you understand yet? this is all that gets changed when another player is connected to. this file, right here, because the game automatically autosaves for you. that’s the only change that happens, and the only change that CAN happen. and because this is not stored on a cloud of any kind, it can’t be directly reached by someone even if they wanted to. the game itself does not ask for you to give it administrative priority either, so the game is incapable of making any significant changes to your system unless you specifically tell your system to run it as an administrator...in which case, shame on you. shame, shame shame! DO NOT EVER DO THAT WITH A PROGRAM THAT YOU CAN CONNECT TO OTHER USERS WITH. THIS IS COMMON FUCKING SENSE.
THIS is where the game’s actual data, the stuff it uses to run and function, is stored. This (the copy of the game you run) is also stored locally (not on a server or cloud), and steam can verify this whole thing because there is a database that it can refer to as a working copy. in the very very very, nearly infinitesimally small chance of someone changing the data stored here, you can just verify your game via steam and it will automatically correct any erroneous differences between your game and what steam knows is a working copy...which renders this almost a non-issue at best.
is the point i’m trying to make driven home yet?
there is no chance that someone is capable of messing with your game’s files whatsoever here. your connection is just peer to peer, meaning it’s as direct and shitty as it gets with the limitations built into the game for the express purpose of playing the game as intended. to be able to do anything extremely malicious to your system, they would have to be your next-door neighbor...and even THEN they’d still have to figure out how to time what they want to do precisely with the latency and sending of packets between them and you. that in itself is not a steady rate at all and never is, which makes figuring out how to do such a thing an arduous task at best and at worst an exercise in futility.
so please, stop trying to fearmonger people into thinking that super l33t haxors are going around peeking at your secret furry porn folders and shit. anyone with basic knowledge and study in network security will see right through it...and those who don’t have that know-how should hopefully now be wiser.
HOWEVER. cheaters still exist. Notice how i have never discredited the actual presence of people with cheat engine? they are more common at lower levels, but if you’re closer towards 125-ish you shouldn’t see them as often...but in that case, this is what the PVP watchdog was made. it’s not foolproof, it’s not perfect, but it most certainly is better than the shit-tier anti-cheat that dark souls 3 comes with.