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A LONG update for everyone: If you haven't already heard, please be aware that 2k more than doubled the size of their game exe file with the 1.21 update, and the newly added code is a bunch of sloppily implemented "self-crash" code coupled with virus-level attack code that activates if the self-crash code fails, because they don't know how to make a proper anti-cheat. So, instead, more than half of the entire game now is malicious code that tries to crash the game on purpose, and then if you manage to keep the game running, the game exe starts using virus-level attacks on your system to try and force BSOD, data loss, and total loss of user control/input! The game also is spying on your entire system and reading all of your screens. As if that's all not bad enough, it seems like some of their malicious trash keeps running even after you turn the game off. DO NOT trust 2k! The fact that I need virus-defense tools in order to continue my work on 1.21 is very disturbing, and it means they're going to get even worse if people allow this. My personal advice for those of you that actually play this game: I hope the people that like playing this game start bringing attention to this demented move by 2k and fight back against this sort of trash. I don't play it much myself because I prefer code hunting and creating cheats, and I can just keep doing that on all the other games I work with. But for the people that truly love this WWE game, this really is an evil and disgusting move by 2k and I feel bad for those players. For those of you that really love playing these games, speak up and do it NOW! 2k needs to be sent a message BEFORE 2k24 has this same trash done to it. If 2k24 has this crap, it's going to cost a lot for each person to get any scripts from me because every single script will be a much larger task with harder updates each patch. So, for example, even my totally free custom rules script will end up being pretty expensive just because of how much effort I need to put into protecting myself from the game and also protecting my users from it. If you love these games, speak up now. Make noise in ways 2k MUST spend time dealing with. Do you have a lot of free time? Then use it to absorb their time; that's a big part of fighting back against this kind of thing. Look up the contact info of high level people in 2k and repeatedly remind them what a problem this is. Make sure they keep seeing it. Try for phone numbers to call, and yes, they have them. Don't convince yourself that a mysterious entity without a phone is in charge. Look hard enough and you'll find numbers for someone involved. Also use the support ticket system repeatedly, too (but do not rely solely on it because those aren't the high level execs answering those tickets!)... and when they give a canned answer, rinse and repeat with a new ticket. Mention it in their Discord chat, repeatedly. If they threaten to boot you from the chat, mention the problem again until they do... then join back with another username and repeat the process. Make as much noise about this as possible, repeatedly, and do it in a way that absorbs time and effort from people in 2k (hence the looking up contact info of high level execs, repeatedly contacting them every way possible, etc... their lost time is lost money in their greedy eyes)... Make it so they have to deal with this constantly/hourly/daily. Just make sure you stay within the law and don't actually do anything illegal, don't show up at their homes, etc... There are tons of legal ways to keep them busy dealing with this mess and to get the message across. For those awaiting the 1.21 MvF file: YES I have a very limited version for 1.21 that already sort of works, but has problems because of how limited it is. Talk to me 1 on 1 if you want the details about it and want to try it. Just be aware as of now it WILL NOT work for CAWs because it is a gender byte change, which will break the CAW outfits. The good news is it won't trigger the game exe to attack the computer because of how limited the cheat actually is, so it's safe in that sense, but again that's just because of how little it does. Aside from that, I am still working on a FULLY operational, total solution as my time permits but with the holidays my time is way more limited. My goal is to create a solution that will PROTECT users from all of 2k's malicious virus-like attacks first and foremost. This is new territory for me when it comes to cheat engine, because no other game I've worked on has resorted to such ridiculous virus-like attacks. I have a hard time calling this an "anti-cheat" because this would be the same as if a home security system just blows up the entire house when somebody rings the doorbell. Destruction on contact is not protection. 2k clearly doesn't know how to create any form of anti-cheat. Dealing with an anti-cheat is different than needing to protect users from malicious attacks against their entire computer, so it may be a while before I have something for the full experience because I need to be sure that it fully protects users when they use the more advanced features such as full MvF. Imagine you're playing the game, and all of a sudden your controls just stop working. ALL OF THEM. Your keyboard stops working. Mouse stops working. No input accepted. If you aren't equipped with protection against malicious attacks, you'd have NO choice but to shut the whole computer down and just hope your control is restored when you start it back up. This absolutely 100% is one of the attacks the game uses and I've had to defend against numerous times now. I know what to do if that happens, but I don't want my users having to deal with this BS. Next, imagine you're playing and... oops! Blue screen of death! Yup, the game will again be at fault... and it will be intentional. This is more of the crap I need to try and make sure I am protecting users against. And it doesn't stop there. tl;dr - It's still way safer and smarter to just go back to 1.20, because 1.20 doesn't have a massive amount of virus-style malicious code in it to spy on you and attack your computer. Even when I and/or other modders get our cheats/mods to work on 1.21, you'll still be using a bloated mess of sluggish, malicious code (the massive 1.21 game exe) that slows the game down on many peoples computers AND may end up attacking the computer at any moment if you get too "advanced" in what you're modifying.