A real shadow war is raging around cheats in multiplayer games: The developers of professional cheat tools are always finding new vulnerabilities that game developers have to close as soon as possible.
Age of Empires 2: Definitive Edition also has such a weak point in multiplayer and even in ranked mode. Fortunately, no cheat provider found this vulnerability, it did RedRocket, a hacking team from Bonn.
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In the podcast, Micha and Maurice talk to Ruben and Fabian from RedRocket about hacking in general and how they found this specific vulnerability in AoE 2.
Because this actually allows blatant cheats that also work in AoE 2 ranked matches. Here are just a few examples.
- Own units automatically evade catapult projectiles.
- Enemy units can be remotely controlled at any time.
- A “kill button” can be added to opponents so that they can be killed with a click of the mouse.
- A game can be won immediately
You can see the possible cheats here in the video:
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Age of Empires 2: Cheats im Multiplayer-Modus
Incidentally, Micha remembered the podcast incorrectly: The lecture by Bohemia Interactive, which he talks about in the podcast, was not about cheaters in Arma 3, but in DayZ!
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