How do Mortal Online Hacks Work?
When I was first looking at Mortal Online Hacks and considering using them, I wanted to do some research about MO hacks and hacking in general. There’s a lot of information and misinformation out there and as a gamer I wanted to clear things up for other Mortal Online players with an interest in hacking.
My first question was: How do these hacks work? What I learned is that hacks work by altering game memory, information that the game server sends you that can be changed. Things like player speed or player position are commonly editable in RAM so you can change them, giving you a speedhack or crude teleporter. There are also other hacks that can edit directx, and give you a wallhack. A more complicated hack might take memory locations of nearby players and display them relative to your position, which would be a radar.
What I next wanted to research was security. How dangerous is it (risk of ban) to use hacks in Mortal Online? What I found out is that game developers can have different kind of anti-cheat security. The most basic is apparently to for instance, log on the server player movements, and if a player is teleporting around the game world, to flag their account for investigation. I understand that Mortal Online apparently doesn’t do this. Another form of security (which mortal online doesn’t have) is any kind of punkbuster/warden software that runs on your PC to check for hacks or cheats. If MO decided to add this they would have to announce it publicly and update their EULA so cheaters would know about it ahead of time.
Finally I wanted to learn about viruses and trojans in hacks. Generally, the kind of people making these want to distribute their virus infected .exe as much as possible. To spread it, they upload it to file sharing and torrent sites, and post fake videos on youtube about them. You can usually tell if a hack really works by whether they have an active website/forum or charge money for their hack. The best developers don’t work for free and since they have to keep their hack updated they charge access for it.
