Can you explain to me what's behind the decision to use a dll file? I see a lot of stuff is rewritten but reading dll.cpp I found a lot of hooks where you change the game original code to point to your DLL code.
How is that easier or better than working with the complete leaked source code?
You just picked any game and started from there? Changing the functions to yours?
How would you debug the native code since you don't have its source code. OllyDbg? =/
I see a lot of source codes that work like this, I just can't understand why or how is that any better or easier than just opening the full stuff in Visual Studio and F5. And just code from there. No need to find where is that offset that holds this, make a typedef in my dll... I jst wanted to know the strategy
At the time the leaked code was released, I had made several fixes in the executables, such as memory leaks and exploits.
So, for me, it felt like a waste of time considering the official opening date of fPT.
And of course, if you have a server, you can't simply halt development to rewrite the entire game.
Let's take an example from Wartale; S.'s code wasn't entirely rewritten, but the major parts were. Just to know, his DirectX code was released after kPT, although the rPT DX engine had already been completed years prior. (You can see the DX named classes in the fPT source; it comes from RealmPT, which was written by S., something like 2012... So, he had time to do what he does recently. and even it, the Wartale still just adapted to work in PT original code)
As you mentioned, I have rewritten a lot of codes, and was planned to bring a new source code version in 2020+, but couldn't.
You can argue that other servers have done it easily, but if you look the code, you will see a lot of Prog and Slave code on it for sure, you will see Sheen Restart tool or Sheen Items tool in this too, so there's no evolution after the fPT / uPT code leaked in the past, just the same thing with a new design.
After Wartale team, we had Chaos and Rovug in PTEU. They was doing a great job I believe, Ofcourse Rovug still had to learn more about GameDev but they're on the way to maybe compete with Wartale in a near future. and that's it, ONLY TWO GOOD SERVERS, and we have to consider the base code of PTEU firstly comes from fPT.
With our knowledge about this game and since I know about your skills, I'm sure if you login on some random server, you can easily find bugs and/or take it down by crashing it under packet exploits, or dupe items, or act like a god in the server.
So yeah, they have done it fast, but under CTRL+C CTRL+V, without care about the game. (They actually don't need care about game security, there's no reason for it in 2024, since it's the same player base every new server which will fail after few months)
