IMPORTANT EXPLOIT

[Spartacus]

There's a very important exploit that needs to be patched right away that makes it super easy to cheat in the game. If you want endless exotics and ren, all you have to do is go to %localuserprofile%\Icarus\Saved\PlayerData<SteamID>\Profile.json and change the amounts and save.
It's game breaking. This is one of the reasons I'm against the content being stored locally for things like missions. If it's your own server, totally down with that, edit whatever you want, but not in a game with tough missions you have to grind to get that stuff. Please fix this. :)
Knowing you can do this, makes all the grinding you do now feel pointless. In any other game it would be bannable. Now any cool screenshot or progress people make will always be questioned with, did you just cheat to do it? I'm sure there are super fans and cheaters that disagree with me, but I don't care. I have to make this known just how easy it is to cheat in this game. Even if you don't do it, it will be in the back of your mind the entire time, on the mission you spent hours or days on, you could have just changed a number and in 30 seconds accomplished the same thing.

[♿IAmbrogio™]

I agree. Also I didnt fully get why they decided to make it local saves, but it is what it is. Knew you could mod the saves from when they anounced it because of other games i played in the past where people did the same. I saw some ss floating around in the discord of people having over a million exotics and ren. it's pretty much pointless doing missions at this point

[Spartacus]

I kind of wish they did both so that way everyone is happy. Give local saves, but you can't earn any rewards from those and no progress tracked, so people get some free will. Then have everything else locked down. I would love to see where I stand on a small leaderboard one day too, even more reason to play. Nothing too serious, but a fun way to progress as well and a bit of competition, yet if I don't want to be too serious, I can play the other modes. :) It's a WIN/WIN.

[-=GUARDIAN=-]

If a player decides to cheat, they are only under cutting their own enjoyment, no One Else,
Keep in mind this is not a game where u have 100s of players all playing on the same server, its Co-op on a private / local servers.

[Spartacus]

Originally posted by -=GUARDIAN=-:

If a player decides to cheat, they are only under cutting their own enjoyment, no One Else,
Keep in mind this is not a game where u have 100s of players all playing on the same server, its Co-op on a private / local servers.

It's not whether someone decides to cheat, it's the fact that it's so easy to cheat. For example, if I place a million dollars on the other side of a door and tell you it's unlocked, just go turn the handle. OR you can spend the rest of your life trying to make a million dollars yourself, you'd be a fool not to turn the handle. However, if that door was guarded somehow with locks and mines and dogs or whatever else, well you'll at least think twice. Plus, now if you choose the other path of working hard and earning it, you really feel great and know that someone else didn't just shortcut there so easily. It should at least take effort to cheat or exploit. It's impossible to fully prevent it, but it's worth preventing it as much as possible to make what you do more valuable. I value my time and it feels wasted when I know someone can get what I have in less than 30 seconds, at least make them work for it or ban exploiters.

[Flyingbox]

Cheating in a PvE game where it's invite/friends only.

Well. If a person edits this file it is their choice. I see no problem here. They paid for a game that they don't want to play. Whatever.

[Spartacus]

Why do you think they patched the ability to hit unstuck and get immediately back to your dropship? It was way too easy to exploit that. So, they fixed it. I'm fine with that. I want the devs fixing exploits like these. You don't?! Did you not approve of that patch then?

[Flyingbox]

Then don't invite these people to your save? This is a situation where people are only turning the gun on their own foot and pulling that trigger. It has no impact on you.
Cheat engine allowed the exact same thing anyway.

[Spartacus]

Originally posted by Flyingbox:

Then don't invite these people to your save? This is a situation where people are only turning the gun on their own foot and pulling that trigger. It has no impact on you.
Cheat engine allowed the exact same thing anyway.

Why do you think they patched the ability to hit unstuck and get immediately back to your dropship? It was way too easy to exploit that. So, they fixed it. I'm fine with that. I want the devs fixing exploits like these. You don't?! Did you not approve of that patch then?

[OneEye]

Originally posted by Qrazy:

I agree. Also I didnt fully get why they decided to make it local saves, but it is what it is. Knew you could mod the saves from when they anounced it because of other games i played in the past where people did the same. I saw some ss floating around in the discord of people having over a million exotics and ren. it's pretty much pointless doing missions at this point :crtstressed:

They went local because they cannot afford to keep paying for servers for a game that is dying.

[TheRanger7]

It's not "Game Breaking" or an "Exploit" if you don't use it! Play the game like it was intended, and stop modifying files! lol

[ZombieHunter]

So don't modify the file then. Problem solved.

[thecapri]

If you had not posted it i would have not known this , maybe was not the place to post that you should have sent an email to support.

[Empathise]

Originally posted by Spartacus:

There's a very important exploit that needs to be patched right away that makes it super easy to cheat in the game. If you want endless exotics and ren, all you have to do is go to %localuserprofile%\Icarus\Saved\PlayerData<SteamID>\Profile.json and change the amounts and save.
It's game breaking. This is one of the reasons I'm against the content being stored locally for things like missions. If it's your own server, totally down with that, edit whatever you want, but not in a game with tough missions you have to grind to get that stuff. Please fix this. :)
Knowing you can do this, makes all the grinding you do now feel pointless. In any other game it would be bannable. Now any cool screenshot or progress people make will always be questioned with, did you just cheat to do it? I'm sure there are super fans and cheaters that disagree with me, but I don't care. I have to make this known just how easy it is to cheat in this game. Even if you don't do it, it will be in the back of your mind the entire time, on the mission you spent hours or days on, you could have just changed a number and in 30 seconds accomplished the same thing.

There was someone who wanted to cheat the game anyway, hope they see this post.

[Spaceminnow]

I suppose they could "fix it".
I would vote against it.
I don't believe a lot of players would do it anyway.

If some players want to modify game files to water down their game experience...
go ahead... >:D "Muuuhahahaha"

[Pach]

I believe you could always do this with offline characters and saves

And you SHOULD be able to manipulate local saves either through file edits or admin commands. You are basically your own “admin” if something went wrong

We don’t have admin commands so being able to edit files is a fine alternative

It doesn’t impact anyone other than the person making the edit and anyone they happen to play with