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Cheaters? No Problem

By Doomvora

Getting tired of dealing with cheaters?

Time to backup that save mate.

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Category: Characters, Co-op, Loot, Multiplayer, Walkthroughs

Languages: English

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26 Jul, 2016 @ 12:05pm

7 Aug, 2016 @ 9:31pm

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Overview

Backing up your save

Conclusion

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Overview

Assuming you are pre-emptively looking at this before encountering a cheater i'll tell you what you need to do.

Cheaters suck, and it is hell dealing with someone that takes away what is arguably the best thing about this game (your progression), so i'll tell you how to backup your save since i do not see another guide explaining it.

Backing up your save

There are a number of things you can do but the most effective thing to do to make yourself not as succeptible to cheaters is to backup your save.

I personally do this whenever i play on any difficulty above normal and would suggest backing up your save after every mission.

Bare in mind that the game overwrites your save after every successful mission completion (when you get armor/weapons at the end), so backing up your save mid-mission is possible. As long as you back it up before the mission cleared prompt. It is highly advised to do this before you enter the mission itself.

All you need to do to backup your save is to do the following.

Go to the following path in windows.

C:\Users\PCNAME\Documents\my games\EDF4.1\SAVE_DATA\

Where PCNAME is name of your PC such as TOMSPC or something similar.

It is best to just backup the save_data folder and store it in a spot where you can replace the files if you need to.

This will prevent cheaters from giving you all your items and armor and will allow you to play with a cheater relatively stress free since you can replace your save with an older version thereby canceling out what they tried to do.

Conclusion

Backup your save after every mission (if you're too lazy to do that then do it when you get something new/a decent chunk of armor)

Something to note, if you didn't backup your save and someone asks to play inferno that is a huge red flag to backup your save immediately.

This will stop the cheaters from ruining your save and will allow them to have their fun without screwing you over, win win situation in my opinion.

Hope this helps save many of you from having to start over.

If you have something to add please do so in a respectful way, i will delete any comments that are disrespectful.

26 Comments

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Professor_Boris 6 Apr, 2024 @ 6:45am

Necro posting I know but thank you OP for this. I got the game a year ago and have avoided multiplayer due to the fear of hackers ruining my experience.

XicorVT 6 Nov, 2021 @ 7:36am

lol Cheating in a sp so what you character is still gonna be op online well me it dont bother me that much if someone is cheating in this one

gmtanco 13 Oct, 2021 @ 7:58pm

Thanks for the bat .revo, works great!

ArchTerran 20 Aug, 2021 @ 1:50pm

When a guy literally provides us with the same thing the OP is offering but made it less time consuming & people waste time bad mouthing him cause they for whatever reason think a VAC ban means this guy is out to get them. Really shows what they know.

Hell I would give the guy a medal in the comment section if I could. But yes go with just using a bat file not the exe. Nice to see people helped him improve the code as well.

Sucks the guy tried to make the process easier for us just so the ignorant/paranoids end up trash talking him & accusing him of trying to pull something when you can SEE the line of code. Don't even have to know how to program or script & can still tell all it's doing is copying your save to a backup location so if you ended up with a cheater you could easily have it copy & paste it back into the original folder undoing the cheaters dmg.

Nyan11 14 Apr, 2021 @ 2:02am

So basically you just copy your game folder?

SirGouki 16 Dec, 2019 @ 4:13pm

There is no PCNAME variable used in folders for windows. Your PCNAME is how your computer shows on a LAN or similarly shared network setting. You need to correct this to USERNAME or %USER%

Lich King 10 Feb, 2019 @ 11:18am

i have to ask why inferno? *has never played this game before and was thinking about getting it*

WeaselB 18 Nov, 2017 @ 6:57pm

As a true necromancer, I'd also like to say that Nik is right. Also, if you make Nik's suggested changes, you should also make some changes to lines 22, 30, and 31 to make sure the restore directories are created in the same location as you're telling it to save and the program loads the backup from the same location. Also Necroing because although somebody who whipped up a nice .bat/.exe for you guys, you tell him off like some angry csgo player

K 1 Sep, 2016 @ 7:15am

.revo thanks for the bat.
However I would prefer to keep the backup on the same folder instead of appdata.
So I would suggest to change like 23 to:
robocopy "%userprofile%/Documents/My Games/EDF4.1/SAVE_DATA" "%userprofile%/Documents/My Games/EDF4.1/BACKUPS" *.* /S /IS.
And delete line 23, Why move the files to app data?

K 1 Sep, 2016 @ 7:12am

@gamerjet and @Charlie Kelly.
You can see the code on github: https://github.com/raidcookie/edf-backup/blob/master/edfbackup.bat
It's just a simple .bat file, a normal shell executable for windows, and you don't need to be a programmer to read it, it's barely 50 lines of code and it's perfectly safe.
If you don't trust .revo don't use the exe, as that might reasonably have anything added with it, just copy the code from the github page and add it to "EDFbackup.bat", paste the code like normal text, and it's perfectly safe.

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