https://blog.lentic.de/tags/fahersto/ Recent content in Fahersto on fahersto's blog Hugo -- gohugo.io en <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CC BY-NC 4.0</a> Wed, 05 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://blog.lentic.de/posts/revisiting_age_of_empires/ Wed, 05 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://blog.lentic.de/posts/revisiting_age_of_empires/ Background The new years has just begun and it&rsquo;s been half a year since I published my findings on Age of Empires 2: Definitive Edition and even longer since these issues have been brought to the games developers and Microsofts attention. Has the issue been fixed? NO. Brush off a bad day: In Soviet Russia projectile dodges you: As always this works online and in all game modes. Will it be fixed? https://blog.lentic.de/posts/age_of_empires/ Mon, 14 Jun 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://blog.lentic.de/posts/age_of_empires/ This is a repost. The original article can be found here. This blog post describes my lockdown project of (partially) reversing the popular 2019 videogame Age of Empires 2: Definitive Edition. My efforts did not only educate me about lock-step simulation and 90s coding practices, but also lead to various multiplayer hacks. First I&rsquo;ll give a brief background on the game&rsquo;s multiplayer architecture. Then I&rsquo;ll explain how I interactively explored the game&rsquo;s internals, until I could do things that should not be possible.