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Why is the global-metadata necessary?

Discussion in 'Editor & General Support' started by joshuacwilde, Jul 19, 2019.

  1. joshuacwilde

    joshuacwilde

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    I am currently working on a mobile game. With our previous games, we have had a lot of hacks due to easily being able to pull out the global-metadata and binary and piece those together to basically get the source code of the game (or at least the ARM instructions).

    Why is the global-metadata file necessary? It seems to only benefit the hackers.
     
    joshuacwilde, Jul 19, 2019
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  2. xandelee

    xandelee

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    You can use an obfuscator from asset store wich changes for example the Shoot() method to fla2Df234W() during the il2cpp compilation, hence that will be the name listed on global-metadata file.
    It will make the process of hacking the game a little more dificult.
     
    Last edited: Dec 14, 2019
    xandelee, Dec 14, 2019
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