Hi all,
I'm new this game. I typically enjoy RTS games and TBS games (big fan of Total Annihilation, and the Dune game for PC and Sega Genesis that played more like Command and Conquer than the equally good but very different Dune game for Sega CD which was more RPGish, and Heroes of Might and Magic on the TBS side).
TL:DR - what is the memory address in the .exe for the Blight, so I can stop it the same way I did to stop the lava (using info in another thread from this site - details below)?
Long version:
After having the Lava wipe me out a few times in the first few campaign missions, I said "There has to be a way to stop this." and found this site. Specifically, this thread is where I started:
https://forum.outpost2.net/index.php?topic=4535.0It was very helpful, and from reading other threads I see that Hooman is definitely one of the SMEs around here. I installed OllyDbg, and after backing up the .exe and MUCH fumbling around with trying to get it to find the memory address/script line that Hooman posted for lava, I found it, followed his directions, and it worked. There was much rejoicing!
I'm now at the campaign where you have to have your first Rare Ore miner, and create the RPG Lynx. I was doing pretty well. I had enough microwave lynx and turrets that the random attacks from Eden were manageable (once I learned how to use the Garage to fix my vehicles), and was to where I just had to finish building enough vehicles - that required Rare Ore, which was slowing me down - to finish the mission. My total game time was a few hours in, game speed was at 6 or 7.
Then the blight rolled in. Flattened me. Now, I can see the other solutions to this: "set the game speed slower." "build more resource mining facilities" "rely on turrets more so you're not burning resources on repairing vehicles as much." all valid. An for various reasons, especially the setting the game speed slower, I'm politely rejecting those paths at this time.
I found another thread that talked about "SetVirusUL", but I couldn't find that in the .exe, maybe that's in a .dll someplace? Though it seemed the .dlls are for specific maps, and not for the core game engine / campaign.
So if anyone could let me know the Blight memory address, and if I would use the same Ret4 trick to lock it out, I would appreciate it. Thank you!
