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    Hacking Steam Games

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by rippeer, Nov 15, 2010.

  1. rippeer

    rippeer Notebook Evangelist

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    Now before I get banned I'm talking about offline cheating for fun. Nothing competitive or achievements.

    Back when I used to be into PC games there were always cheats or hacks for things like god mode. Does this sort of stuff happen for steam? I would love God mode for GTA so I could drive around uzing people and not worry about peski cops at the end of a long day.

    Or does all of steam secuirty and VAC or what have you get in the way of some good old cheating?

    It seems to me cheating is dead art form?!
     
    rippeer, Nov 15, 2010
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  2. Texanman

    Texanman Master of all things Cake

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    VAC only applies to games that Valve makes/licencees out.... other then that steam is just a download service that allows you to buy other companies games..... its up to the other companies to allow cheating in the games they make or not
     
    Texanman, Nov 15, 2010
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  3. Baka

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    Well some games still have their cheats like Dragon Age Origins and Risen ._. Most of them don't seem to have the codes though :p
     
    Baka, Nov 15, 2010
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  4. Tony_A

    Tony_A Notebook Evangelist

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    You might try looking/Google for programs called trainers.

    Basically, trainers run in the background (like FRAPS) and enable cheats like infinite health, money, ammo, etc for games that don't have them built-in.
     
    Tony_A, Nov 15, 2010
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  5. funky monk

    funky monk Notebook Deity

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    Provided it's offline and you aren't looking through the source code then valve doesn't have a problem with it.
     
    funky monk, Nov 15, 2010
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