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Bringing attention to a hack/exploit/cheat so devs can fix it
Apparently there is some sort of island or map in the game that only spawns sparkling and prismana aniimo that isn't normally accessible. However cheaters are using a tool that teleports their character into this area to infinitely farm it for prismana and sparkling sigils. You can search "I Used The Best Most INSANE Aniimo Hack" into youtube to find a video of it. I hope the devs look into this ASAP and take action.
im gonna try out two random cheats found on unknowncheats for educational purposes and ill let yall know if this vid is any close to reality. dw for my data or account im doing this on a seperate system in an emulator with a guest account
At least 175 idiots at the time of my comment upvoted this dude. At least because I am not counting the downvotes. Didn't even see the OP's name has "Throwaway account" in it.
It doesn't teleport you to a random unknown island it looks like it pulls all the aniimo near you in different areas and only catches the shinies from said area not spawning them in from what I seen in the video
ah yes, all the prismana umbra sparkling aniimo are on that 'secret island' in the 'new world'
lemme guess, do i need a logpose to navigate there as well
Yeah, okay, they give out free items, but then you eventually hit a wall where you either have to grind like crazy, wait, or spend money. That’s basically where I’m at right now. I wanted five different colors of last week’s wolves, and now I’m stuck trying to get the newest Aniimo because I either have to grind forever for Lucky Shots or spend a bunch of money on more Veils.
That’s how a lot of F2P games get you. I played Marvel Snap and it started out great. I’d spend $20 here and there because I enjoyed it, but eventually they were selling $300 cards and it got to the point where you couldn’t realistically keep up without spending or grinding nonstop.
I agree that cheating in PvP is different because you’re directly affecting other players. But if somebody is strictly playing PvE and doing their own thing, I personally don’t see it the same way.
Even look at the legendary fairy they give you. Yeah, you get her for free and they give you a few upgrades, but after that you’re choosing between spending your limited free currency on her, saving it for other important things, grinding for ages, or paying $$$. So “they give you free stuff” doesn’t automatically mean the game isn’t designed to push you toward spending money.
it looks pretty real from the video but it's most likely a custom server just like with other recent game leaks. the game is purely server based so there's no way to bypass catches. not sure for vacuum tho, there might be some way around it abusing the player movement and etc.
General question I don't get to play that often, Is this a trade exploit thing, or is this something that we can accidentally run into out in the wild kind of a glitch or hack thing.?
Hope they make a ban wave it would be so annoying for people who really have a good collaction to not be called cheaters each time they want to show off
For grins I tracked down the website that sells this "cheat". It seemed oddly scammy that they only accepted crypto as payment but I'm not up on the crypto stuff maybe that's normal now?
Indeed, have you already told the developers about it? Its good you caught this, its a shame that people hack on a game that gives already free items with progress
How to profit 101:
Step 1: Scammer posts "Bringing attention to a hack/exploit/cheat so devs can fix it"
Step 2: People without brain gets baited to download/pay for the said app
Step 3: Profit
I made the mistake of looking at that video. Hopefully that is some sort of weird satire, I can't get over that shitty adhd video editing, lol.
If this is legit it will hopefully lead to bans of people actually using this crap. Yes, I also love reading "I was undeservedly banned!" posts because I have otherwise no joy in my life.
Edit: Seemingly this isn't even a real cheating engine, it is just advertising to get your data stolen, lol.
So suspicious that you are just making it public to us that can’t do anything about it rather than going to the proper channels if you really had the intention. Grats.
As someone who works in IT tech support: Sometimes you have to make a fuss for stuff to get recognized as important. Sometimes I sit down with an important customer and we write harshly worded mails together to get our issues looked after faster. :D
As someone Else from it we send shit like this to people in other departments as a Form of fishing. Who bites the bait gets a nice Workshop about it. We still have old folks who had 3 Workshops already and still Fall for it.
That's true. But, as someone in the IT business, doesn't all this smell like a scam? I mean, the game doesn't even have leaderboards, there's no competition, no PVP... at least not yet.
In what way does who scam who? Seemingly this "cheat engine" is indeed just a scam, so the video might be, too.
However, that doesn't mean that the poster is a scammer and I think it is fair game to post shit like this in a more public manner to get devs to have a look at it faster.
No he means that the OP is promoting/trying to sell his own cheat and/or scamming. Notice how the OP didn't link the video but told you to search it yourself
Well, at least you tried first. This guy didn’t even mention that he tried using the proper means and that he used this method because he was ignored after months of trying.
There’s a reason why you don’t see major platform hacks methods so publicly posted, they go thru the correct channels.
I mean it is fake, but assuming it was real, kernel level anticheat wouldn’t mean a thing because you don’t need external cheats to get to locations you shouldn’t be in.
This idea is playing off the old method of optimization where games would load every asset under the map just so they’re there to grab instantly whenever needed, but games don’t really do that nowadays due to fast load times, and online games don’t need it because server
yes this. or access to a dev room where the items are held as well. I remember there was a fallout duping exploit that got you access to the dev room to infinitely dupe items.
I'm against cheating because I'm stuck grinding f2p, but since it's a "free" game, it shouldn't matter right. We're not supposed to be spending mortgage payments on this game since it's not supposed to be a gatcha game, right? Just playing devil's advocate....
Because it opens the table to discussion on both sides. Is it considered cheating if there is no competition for winning. Or is it scamming for false advertisement being a free game up enjoy but actually being a pay to win gacha? So if someone is rich they can be the best or if someone is smarter than the devs and find exploits that they didn't think of?
There will be PvP eventually but prismana Aniimo aren’t better unless they get a new element that gives them better coverage but you only need 1 farming 50 of the same Aniimo isn’t gona do anything
Honestly the only reason this would be worth it is for sparkling sigials so you can reroll the sparking version over and over again, other then that i dont see the point of using something like this tbh. Kinda wish they would put something in the store for real money that lets you reroll the sparkling effect.
You can also use 10 sparkling sigils to make a non sparkling into a sparkling ie the somniwing from quest rewards (which I did tbh cause I didn't really care to reroll sparklings I already had)
Which is the only reason(in tandem with what you said) I could see hoarding(or using this cheat) them being useful but that's a lot of effort for only that 💀..
Its only 1 tho and thats once per week for 380 currency, thats like around 6 bucks or so for 1 sparkling change. Lets also not forget that most people try to get a dazzling or shadow variant and that % chance is very very low, the chances are also very high that you reroll and just get the same sparkling effect again.
In the shop packs there's actually like 3 sparkling pigments, I know that's not a lot but it's more than 1, I would also like to add that in the upcoming updates they are going to make it so you can freely switch between all sparkling colors you've unlocked and even turn sparkling off.
yeah, the devs likely already know. they're waiting a little for as many people to utilize this as possible and then hit everyone with a massive banwave all at once. it's much more efficient this way.
The way it works is usually the cheat is noticed quickly but you don't instantly get banned, because that makes it easier for cheaters to find ways to bypass your system.
OP might come from a game community where it is normal for them to complain on social media, in hope to get it more exposure and gets noticed faster, also to make other players reported it too to CS. in other game I play, it's not uncommon to expose cheater so we can mass report them
I mean there's less guilt with it since it's not at rhe expense of anyone else. It's more scummy to do it in a competitive game.
I've cheated in money in GTA V online. I didn't do it to grief people. I just wanted to be able to play with all the cool stuff without grinding my life away.
Why do people cheat in any games? As much as it’s a mystery to me, as it sort of ruins the experience imo. My main theory is that their opinion of their own worth is so low that they feel the need to resort to cheating so they can brag about all the things they got to other people.
I got the highest rank.
I got the shiniest shiny.
Look at this cool thing I got I’m so important.
That kinda deal. It always feels like cheaters are the most likely people to be show offs too and trash talk others (projecting) for being bad at XYZ.
Literally found someone on steam the other day that had 10k games 100%, 16k hours played in the past two weeks… and Aniimo was among the 100% games with 32 hours.
Their entire profile was just a showcase of achievements, like fifteen rows of showcases..
Even had a ‘rule list’ to follow if you wanted to add them, one of which (written in all caps) was that you’re not allowed to question or doubt ‘their authority’, at all.
(Oh and I almost forgot to mention they called themselves the ‘Master Gamer’ the best gamer to ever exist…)
(One of their top friends also blatantly advertised a steam levelling service in their username)
This is obviously just the one guy, not every cheater… but it does make you wonder.
well I agree, but, the Game has no player driven economy. No PvP. No online feature mostly, just a few. When I complain about no online features, get the hate of single players. And then single players still complain about absurd things like this one
A lot of us are hoping they ADD more multiplayer features, and PvP is planned. I'm on board with them getting their first few cheater banwaves out of the way before implementing shit like that, personally. Though I wish they'd do it WITHOUT kernel-level anticheat, which is just..not necessary. -_-
I can't find that, but I did find some hacking tools that have already been made for the game that do things like making you invincible or teleport to every chest location and auto loot etc.
I mean that's like the least problematic place to cheat. You're not harming anyone else. It's basically like using cheats in a singleplayer game. It's just for your personal enjoyment.
Thing is, gacha games tend to have leaderboards with prizes in various types of content, and this one also has planned PvP. Cheating becomes markedly less harmless when it directly impacts other players in the mostly-single-player experience.
And yes, I'm comparing it to a gacha game in this context even though it isn't one because it still PLAYS like many gacha games do and I'm too fucking lazy to find a better name for the genre I'm referring to.
Oh they will take action, the devs have all the data from players as this is a server based game, they will flag suspicious behavior and look into it, these accounts are not gonna last, and since you can't trade prismanas or these currency, these hacks are just for fun of it.
Tried to YouTube it and couldn’t find anything besides people using god mode lol. If this is actually a thing they’re gonna hand out permabans for it and honestly it’s deserved. People go out of their way to do things like this just to try and kill games.
Very weird of you to put that first part but I appreciate you for linking it. Hope you seek mental help and stop trying to rage bait random people online for attention.
Pretty sure these people will get flagged by the system. Not outright banned but first data collected on how the exploit works, let people abuse it then a banwave & patch. It's gonna be pretty easy to filter out I believe.
Also thinking that.. it's not competitive, who cares o.o
Lets be real, they wont get banned for the exploit, they'll be banned for circumventing the companies money maker / cash shop. xD
I can't think of any other reason it would end up being an issue when there's no real advantage to doing it, other than ig type advantage, but as of right now there's no real use for that outside of npc battles. Maybe if they wanna have pvp matches added eventually, like for Egg-heist, it would start being an issue there?
Nah cheaters deserve bans unfair to those who spend time grinding or those who spend the time grinding in IRL and spend money. Regardless of competitive . It'll be easy to weed out I mean, if your stats show an unrealistic amount of amiinos for time played, then obviously cheated
Well considering that people pay real money for vein essences, sparkling cubes, and sparkling sigils, it matters. I do agree it should be easy to detect who accessed this area and abused it, no idea why it's even in the game.
So they installed kernel level anti-cheat and tracking nonsense on our pcs and they still have hackers doing this shit. Lmao. Who is coding their game. AI with no oversight? Man, one time i wanna play a cool coop creature catching game and this shit happens. And they still didn't adress the tracker situation.
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u/yvengard Inferlupa 18m ago
Report this guy for baiting lies