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Alexei realizes the NPCs aren't following scripts. He finds a Stalker named Vadim sitting by a campfire in a location that doesn't exist on any map. Vadim doesn't give a quest. He just stares at the fire and says, "They cut my legs out so the engine could run faster. I can't leave this map because there’s no transition point." The Digital Exclusion Zone

He finds a file titled SoC_Oblivion_Lost_Alpha.torrent . The download speed is impossible, pulsing like a heartbeat. When he launches the game, there is no intro movie. Just the sound of wind and a Geiger counter. The Unfinished Zone Alexei realizes the NPCs aren't following scripts

The game he enters is wrong. The textures are raw, the sky is a bruised purple, and the "Great Swamps"—a level cut from the final release—stretch forever. He just stares at the fire and says,

He sees a figure in the distance, flickering between a high-poly model and a wireframe. It’s the , but it’s not a wishing granter. It’s a literal hole in the game’s code where the "Real Zone" is leaking through. The deeper he goes into the "Oblivion Lost" files, the more his own memories start to feel like low-resolution textures. The Final Crash When he launches the game, there is no intro movie

Comments:

  1. Ivar says:

    %!s(int=2026) © %!d(string=Pure True Cascade)

    I can imagine it took quite a while to figure it out.

    I’m looking forward to play with the new .net 5/6 build of NDepend. I guess that also took quite some testing to make sure everything was right.

    I understand the reasons to pick .net reactor. The UI is indeed very understandable. There are a few things I don’t like about it but in general it’s a good choice.

    Thanks for sharing your experience.

  2. David Gerding says:

    Nice write-up and much appreciated.

  3. Very good article. I was questioning myself a lot about the use of obfuscators and have also tried out some of the mentioned, but at the company we don’t use one in the end…

    What I am asking myself is when I publish my .net file to singel file, ready to run with an fixed runtime identifer I’ll get sort of binary code.
    At first glance I cannot dissasemble and reconstruct any code from it.
    What do you think, do I still need an obfuscator for this szenario?

    1. > when I publish my .net file to singel file, ready to run with an fixed runtime identifer I’ll get sort of binary code.

      Do you mean that you are using .NET Ahead Of Time compilation (AOT)? as explained here:
      https://blog.ndepend.com/net-native-aot-explained/

      In that case the code is much less decompilable (since there is no more IL Intermediate Language code). But a motivated hacker can still decompile it and see how the code works. However Obfuscator presented here are not concerned with this scenario.

  4. OK. After some thinking and updating my ILSpy to the latest version I found out that ILpy can diassemble and show all sources of an “publish single file” application. (DnSpy can’t by the way…)
    So there IS definitifely still the need to obfuscate….

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