Company of Heroes OF 2.600

[reddragon105]

Originally Posted by chron

You dont need to reverse. You search the byte pattern patched in the previous patch. Then you search it in the new exe and replace it with the same bytes. This works since version 2.400. This is lame but it works.

Then you replace the string reliclive.quazal.net by 127.0.0.1 to disable the connection to the relic servers.

Crack done.

That's what I did, tested it and it works. Like I said, I used a hex editor to compare the v2.600 original .exe and the v2.600 cracked .exe and noted the differences. The v2.601 .exe was almost identical to the v2.600 one, so I made the same changes to it. I submitted it to GCW so there is now a v2.601 NoDVD crack on there. If it doesn't work for everyone else I imagine it will be reported and taken down.

You're right, it's lame but it works - I have no knowledge of cracking and I managed it. Basically this game has two types of validation - firstly, it looks for the disk. If there is no disk present it tries to validate your account online. If you have no connection to the internet it can't do this so it prompts you for the disk. However in the RelicCOH.ini file there is a value called 'MaxTimeoutBeforeDisconnect'. I am guessing that by changing the address of the Relic servers to a null value in the .exe it assumes that you have an active internet connection but that the Relic servers are just down. Rather than telling you to wait until the servers are back up before you can play the game it just times out and lets you play it anyway (don't know why it doesn't ask for the disk again).

Anyway, all I know is that the cracked .exe I made lets me get into the game and play CoH and ToV (which I have now bought) without the disks. It does still, however, ask for the OF disk every time it loads up, even if that's not what you want to play, so I'm still assuming that the OF disk check is in a .dll somewhere. But whoever wrote the nfo for the v2.600 crack was right, he did only need a hex editor. Obviously it would be ideal to have a cracked .exe that didn't disable the connection, but as my gaming PC has no internet unless I run an ethernet cable through the house I can't connect to the servers anyway. Maybe someone less lame at cracking than me can make a better crack, and have it skip the check for the OF disk while they're at it.
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