Are there cheats?

[DeadPoolX]

When playing a sandbox game, sometimes I just like to mess around and go wild. Cheats help with this, so I was wondering if there are cheats for this game, and if so, does anyone know what they are?

Yes, I know that someone could develop a mod in the Workshop to do this, but that assumes someone knows how to do it (I certainly don't) and keeps it updated so it doesn't break the game whenever the developer updates the game itself.

[Xephael]

Originally posted by ManicMuncher:

Originally posted by Xephael:

Yes

How? i tried looking at the value and putting luck at 18 which is what it was. Didn't work. Looked at the % and tried using that. Didn't work.

Same as every other value, search should be a string, can't do the exp %, as far as I can tell that's a hidden value behind that %, search the level, change the level, re search the level, repeat until you only have a few options. (Keep in mind that you cannot load a save at any point while searching values or all the values change to new memory locations)

[ManicMuncher]

does it need to be 18.0 if the score is 18?

[Xephael]

Originally posted by ManicMuncher:

does it need to be 18.0 if the score is 18?

no, 18

[Iskar]

I tried using the debug menu but there does not seem to be an option for god mode or at least frozen health. The only thing I found is uprading the main char to max attributes and equipment, but that is not cleanly reversible. Any other way to use a simple health cheat? (I'm also stuck in the Dutch Gambit fighting the two Australians with a toothpick.)

[wurzelputz]

Originally posted by Iskar:

I tried using the debug menu but there does not seem to be an option for god mode or at least frozen health. The only thing I found is uprading the main char to max attributes and equipment, but that is not cleanly reversible. Any other way to use a simple health cheat? (I'm also stuck in the Dutch Gambit fighting the two Australians with a toothpick.)

Use Cheat engine:

You must search values STRING. Search health number, change that, search new value and voilà. Click the value left, change it to current max health and mark active.

For ship health is the same.

Remember when you restart the game(close and open) you have to do again because you cannot save table.
(credits to Alex250)

[Alex250]

Originally posted by wurzelputz:

Originally posted by Iskar:

I tried using the debug menu but there does not seem to be an option for god mode or at least frozen health. The only thing I found is uprading the main char to max attributes and equipment, but that is not cleanly reversible. Any other way to use a simple health cheat? (I'm also stuck in the Dutch Gambit fighting the two Australians with a toothpick.)

Use Cheat engine:

You must search values STRING. Search health number, change that, search new value and voilà. Click the value left, change it to current max health and mark active.

For ship health is the same.

Remember when you restart the game(close and open) you have to do again because you cannot save table.
(credits to Alex250)

Thanks! One thing I discover: when you load a save you have to search again in CHeat Engine because the values are from the former session play. But Cheat Engine finds values very quick(only 2 searchs) so it isnt very anoying

[Streifer]

any idea why the hell did they do this? they trying to be a smart ass? if ive know its like this ive refunded this game in a heartbeat... too late now...

Originally posted by Aurelius:

I have been a fan of this game since the original Sea Dogs back in 2000. I have played through and modded every release and I have also bought the mod Gentleman of Fortune off Piratesahoy!, which is awesome. Unfortunately with this game all the files are B. files not C. files like all previous releases are. That means you cant edit the files found
in the game folder files like in PROGRAMS and RESOURCES with your notepad like you can for all other Sea Dogs titles. Try and open the files and its all just encripted code gobbleygook. I'm trying to find out if downloading a text editor for B. files will work. If so I'll make a mod like I'll did for all my other games and share it for free on Piratesahoy! Hopefully the modding community on PiratesAhoy! will have mods as well. This game is not fun without mods. We need Jack Sparrow and the rest of the POTC characters that Gentleman of Fortune put in the game, the Black Pearl ship too as well as many others.

[XŦĦ§¥]

Originally posted by Streifer:

any idea why the hell did they do this? they trying to be a smart ass? if ive know its like this ive refunded this game in a heartbeat... too late now...

Sea dogs: To each his own was also encrypted for a long while, no need to jump off the ship.

[Chrissy]

Do not listen to these fools .They don't know what they are talking about . If you go changing the debugger what so ever in your game files your in game will compleatly loose its LOGBOOK no logbook no story mode .Of course this is for those who have actually bought the game

[Xephael]

Originally posted by Chrissy:

Do not listen to these fools .They don't know what they are talking about . If you go changing the debugger what so ever in your game files your in game will compleatly loose its LOGBOOK no logbook no story mode .Of course this is for those who have actually bought the game

If you read more of those messages you would know that you need to make backups of those files so you can restore them after using the debug menu, but the debug menu isn't all that useful anyway, at least until the text commands for it are discovered.

[Streifer]

just tried it but its in Russian so cant read it

Originally posted by Alekero:

Originally posted by Chrissy:

Do not listen to these fools .They don't know what they are talking about . If you go changing the debugger what so ever in your game files your in game will compleatly loose its LOGBOOK no logbook no story mode .Of course this is for those who have actually bought the game

you can easily change "logbook" to a map window (M button, mapview - file). Since in this game you in 90% of time dont need any maps xept main one...
And whats the point about "who bought the game" since its completely doesnt affect on this. Its funny how ppl who never modded the game (and i modded TEHO and old games from that series for ages) tries to "warn" somebody.

[MatiasCM]

the devs move questbook, yo can do the same thing with mapview.

[gra_thrawn]

The only cheat I'd like to know is for the ships speed on world map. Does anyone know how to increase the speed of your ship? Thank you for consideration and answer.

[zlozt]

I found a way to find P.I.R.A.T.E.S. values using Cheat Engine without the need to change values (as you do with most stuff in CE). Select value type "Grouped" and paste this text to "value" box:

s:'10' w:94 s:'5' w:95 s:'4' w:95 s:'8' w:95 s:'4' w:95 s:'6' w:95 s:'5'

How to read this: s:'10' - is a string value of 10, w:94 - skip next 94 bites.
Instruction:

• Change your search values according to your P.I.R.A.T.E.S., but switch around R and E. In this example values are as follows:
  P: 10 I: 5 R: 6 A: 8 T: 4 E: 4 S: 5
  
• Change amount of skipped bites, if needed: 95 if previous value is single-digit, 94 if double-digit. In this example I'm skipping 94 after Power, because Power value is 10, which is double-digit.
  
• Scan. If you did it right, there will only be 1 result. Edit it as you like.
  
• If original value was single-digit, you can change it only up to 9. You can't change length of a string value. Or rather, it won't change values in-game correctly.
  
• If original value was 10, you can change it up to 99, but will receive a penalty reducing it to 10, so there is no point in doing that.

Hopefully, it makes sense. English isn't my first language, so feel free to correct me.
Also, there is possibility that the order of the P.I.R.A.T.E.S. values in the memory may be different in other language versions of the game. I only tried it in russian one. So whoever tries it - please tell me if it works in english version.
Skills are stored in a similar way, but they're not that hard to search for anyway, so I didn't bother with it.

And I didn't know about debug menu before now, so this instruction may be redundant.

[Xephael]

Originally posted by zlozt:

I found a way to find P.I.R.A.T.E.S. values using Cheat Engine without the need to change values (as you do with most stuff in CE). Select value type "Grouped" and paste this text to "value" box:

s:'10' w:94 s:'5' w:95 s:'4' w:95 s:'8' w:95 s:'4' w:95 s:'6' w:95 s:'5'

How to read this: s:'10' - is a string value of 10, w:94 - skip next 94 bites.
Instruction:

• Change your search values according to your P.I.R.A.T.E.S., but switch around R and E. In this example values are as follows:
  P: 10 I: 5 R: 6 A: 8 T: 4 E: 4 S: 5
  
• Change amount of skipped bites, if needed: 95 if previous value is single-digit, 94 if double-digit. In this example I'm skipping 94 after Power, because Power value is 10, which is double-digit.
  
• Scan. If you did it right, there will only be 1 result. Edit it as you like.
  
• If original value was single-digit, you can change it only up to 9. You can't change length of a string value. Or rather, it won't change values in-game correctly.
  
• If original value was 10, you can change it up to 99, but will receive a penalty reducing it to 10, so there is no point in doing that.

Hopefully, it makes sense. English isn't my first language, so feel free to correct me.
Also, there is possibility that the order of the P.I.R.A.T.E.S. values in the memory may be different in other language versions of the game. I only tried it in russian one. So whoever tries it - please tell me if it works in english version.
Skills are stored in a similar way, but they're not that hard to search for anyway, so I didn't bother with it.

And I didn't know about debug menu before now, so this instruction may be redundant.

Thanks! It works on the english version though I got 3 results, the third result I got was the correct one.