Intro

Welcome! And thanks for turning in for today’s blog post. This one is kind of special, because it’s considered to be the first post on my new site. Let’s take a dive into what happened over the last few years.

You may have noticed that i haven’t uploaded anything on my channel for 8 months. Around that time, respawn has made various changes to their game security approach. Long story short, here are the most notable changes summarized:

  • Additional Anticheat(s) deployed: Apex is now protected by three independant solutions. 1.) EAC, 2.) In-house solution by respawn, 3.) Theia by Zero IT Lab
  • Additional Platform restrictions enforced: Respawn has dropped the linux support for apex legends, which means you can no longer play it from a linux machine. In combination with EAC’s steady improvements on windows, this makes it way more tedious to achieve any type of cheat, and especially makes internal cheat development a PITA.
  • Usage of Software Packer with control flow analysis: This means the main executable of apex legends will never have all of its memory contents exposed in memory. So basically, it’s packed on disk and partially packed in memory. Only pages that are required and actively used by the game will be available in your RAM. It also comes with a control flow analysis layer, making safe function invocations from an internal cheat tedious without raising any flags.

It might not sound like a big deal, and there certainly is a room for cheats to exist, even with their current system. But people really underestimate how much these recent changes have set some people back. I myself have found ways around it, but my approach isn’t perfect. I believe you can’t have something that‘ s really perfect unless you’re cracked out of your mind. Talking about this specific game and its security model, of course.

Anyway, you can expect some future content both here on the blog, and also over at my youtube channel. I’m currently using a wifi hotspot to be online which greatly limits the scope of how much content i can produce. I’ll expect it to resolve within a few months.

FAQ

(?) Is your R5Reloaded cheat „rfiver“ still in development / will it return? : I’m not actively working on it anymore, but planning to release a final build soon. It won’t have any online features / authentication requirement. You will have to bring your own injector, but that’s not a big deal on R5R. It has no anticheat.

(?) Are you still cheating in retail apex? : I did return to it after a long break.

(?) Is your linux cheat for apex still a thing? : You can no longer play the game on linux. Therefore it was discontinued. You can take a look at it’s source code here. If you want to see gameplay, it can be found on my YT.

External Links

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