Dev's Limit Breaking 101 Techniques

M0tah

Here’s a nice one for those who take videos.

0x0F85->0x90E9 in freelancer.exe, 0xED5B9 = remove HUD elements on objects in space - includes text, brackets, targeting reticles, and missile warnings

Vital

@M0tah:

Here’s a nice one for those who take videos.

0x0F85->0x90E9 in freelancer.exe, 0xED5B9 = remove HUD elements on objects in space - includes text, brackets, targeting reticles, and missile warnings

Awesome.

11C2C8 3500f content.dll v1.1 - retreat distance from randommission waypoint.
11CAB4 250f content.dll v1.1 - addition to the above. It is + distance for retreat and -distanvce for back in range. So in vanilla you retreat at 3750 and you are back in range within 3250 away from randommission waypoint.

Replacing this 250f with 10000f renders these distances 13500 and 6500 accordingly …3500 - 10000 = 6500 …hmmm, negative numbers??

By the way, guys, any way to make npcs use missiles in missions and countermeasures?

For now the only way seems rename misssiles to cruise disruptors(like fox did with CMs).

Vital

11C2CC 2000f content.dll v1.1 - distance from you to randommisions hostile npcs that they will engage into battle, out of this range their behaviour will be rather weired(flying circles etc.) or they will just sit there ignoring fire.

foxUnit01

Sick stuff. I’ll get them into the lists.

Syd

– 2500d in content.dll, 0x11AC68, 0x11BC68 = NPC max spawn distance in SP and MP
– 2500f in content.dll, 0xD3B06, 0xD3C36 = maximum distance that NPCs will persist in SP ~fox
– 2500f in content.dll, 0xD3C3E, 0xD3D6E = maximum distance that NPCs will persist in MP

is this Serverside or clientside?

OutCast

Everything npc-related is serverside.

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@OutCast:

Everything npc-related is serverside.

And other stuff in content dll too?

OutCast

Well, obviously there’s a lot of stuff in content.dll And what about stuff that’s in the list: as i said, everything npc-related is serverside, reputations - probably serverside only too. And two others are for single player.

Syd

@OutCast:

Everything npc-related is serverside.

cool

i´ll make some tests today (in germany its 00:10 :D)

Vital

@Vital:

Found another one.

0xBB1DA Content.dll (v1.1) - 2000f - distance from the patrol zone that patrol_path encounters begin to spawn.
Note: so far tested only with patrol zones and patrol_path behaviour encounters.
This is not the distance from the end of the patrol(suprisingly), but from the patrol zone.

Say, you have patrol that begins near New London and ends near Cambridge gate. So between these to points if you are closer to the patrol than 2000 m, patrol encounters will spawn.

This is not from the middle of the patrol.
Say, your patrol has size 75030000. in this case encounters will spawn 2375 - 2750 away from the patrol. If your patrol has size 130000, they will spawn 2000 away from it or closer.

Seems like this parameter is also valid for area zones(did some tests).

Syd

test failed

Vital

@Syd:

test failed

Could you be a bit more particular?

Syd

@Vital:

@Syd:

test failed

Could you be a bit more particular?

You know: if NPCs spawn you´ll get an short lag, it doesnt matter which details, which hardware etc.
And i thought “maybe this lag is gone when NPCs spawn on a greater distance”
But i was wrong…^^

crashbx

@M0tah:

Here’s a nice one for those who take videos.

0x0F85->0x90E9 in freelancer.exe, 0xED5B9 = remove HUD elements on objects in space - includes text, brackets, targeting reticles, and missile warnings

I tried this, but didnt work for me, only thing i noticed, that bracket of planet disapeared when i come close to it, and indicator started to circle around my screen. Any idea what i missed ?

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@crashbx:

@M0tah:
Here’s a nice one for those who take videos.
0x0F85->0x90E9 in freelancer.exe, 0xED5B9 = remove HUD elements on objects in space - includes text, brackets, targeting reticles, and missile warnings
I tried this, but didnt work for me, only thing i noticed, that bracket of planet disapeared when i come close to it, and indicator started to circle around my screen. Any idea what i missed ?

Tried too, same effect

JONG

@HeIIoween:

@crashbx:
@M0tah:
Here’s a nice one for those who take videos.
0x0F85->0x90E9 in freelancer.exe, 0xED5B9 = remove HUD elements on objects in space - includes text, brackets, targeting reticles, and missile warnings
I tried this, but didnt work for me, only thing i noticed, that bracket of planet disapeared when i come close to it, and indicator started to circle around my screen. Any idea what i missed ?
Tried too, same effect

I guess those address offset is V1.1, not at V1.0 of games.

Forsaken

Yes Jong, that is what I was going to suggest.

@Helloween and crashbx,
Are you guy using the 1.1 version of the Freelancer.exe?

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Forsaken: Yes, but strange question, because patch 1.1 only for server, whether not so?

w0dk4

There is no v1.1 of Freelancer.exe

M0tah

@crashbx:

@M0tah:
Here’s a nice one for those who take videos.
0x0F85->0x90E9 in freelancer.exe, 0xED5B9 = remove HUD elements on objects in space - includes text, brackets, targeting reticles, and missile warnings
I tried this, but didnt work for me, only thing i noticed, that bracket of planet disapeared when i come close to it, and indicator started to circle around my screen. Any idea what i missed ?

This is a side effect of the hack, so I think you did it correctly. The main purpose of it is to remove the brackets around non-targeted ships. Before this was found your only option was to adjust a multiplier that was used in both the calculation of the visibility of the brackets and some asteroid calculations, so when you decreased the multiplier to make the brackets show up at a shorter distance, asteroids would tend to “pop in.” This isn’t related to the asteroid calculations at all, so it doesn’t have that side effect. The only side effects that I’ve seen are that missile warnings are disabled and that the selected object’s bracket/text doesn’t show up.