11PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER: WRITING AUTONOMOUS BOTS

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The end goal of game hacking is to make a full-fledged automated bot capable of playing a game for hours on end. Such bots can heal, drink potions, farm monsters, loot corpses, walk around, sell loot, buy supplies, and more. Making bots this powerful requires you to combine your hooks and memory reads with concepts like control theory, state machines, and search algorithms, which are all covered in this chapter.

Throughout the lessons here, you’ll also learn about common automated hacks and how they should behave at a high level. After covering the theory and code behind automated hacks, I’ll ...

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