Wolfenstein: Youngblood has just been released on the PC (it was meant to come out tomorrow but the game was released a day earlier on Steam). Now in case you haven’t heard yet, this latest Wolfenstein game features numerous micro-transactions. However, it appears that PC gamers can easily bypass them.
The game’s built-in store features gun upgrades, gun skins, character skins and boosters that you can buy with standard coins or gold bars. Standard coins are the in-game currency whereas Gold bars are the game’s microtransactions.
Now what’s really cool here is that the store allows gamers to get stuff either buy using Standard Coins or by using Gold Bars. We’ve searched the store and we couldn’t find any skin, booster or upgrade that required both Standard Coins and Gold Bars.
Here is an example of how the store works. As you can see, for this particular skin we can either use our Standard Coins or our Gold Bars.
What this ultimately means is that by using CheatEngine, PC gamers can increase the amount of Standard Coins to ridiculous heights in order to get everything, without having to grind and without paying at all.
Obviously, the use of CheatEngine may be considered illegal so we suggest using it solely in Offline Mode. Avoid using it while playing online as it may get you into trouble.
So, all in all, there is currently a workaround so that PC gamers can enjoy the game with all the good stuff from the get-go. It will also be interesting to see whether MachineGames and Bethesda will release any patch so that they can prevent this CheatEngine workaround.
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What a gd scam.
So basically they made Micro-Transactions completely optional and you can earn everything by playing. How dare they!! Lets cheat it anyway and pretend we are righteous!
There is no scam on the devs part here…
More likely to happen is they remove the option to pay with in game currency and punish the honest PC gamers. You doin great buddy writing trash like this.
THat’s a nice way of justify grinding…hurting your game in the process.
An hero, schlomo.
There’s nothing honest about microtransactions.
“honest PC gamers” Dude are you kidding ? people have been using Cheat engine for decades now, this is nothing new, and after all it’s their game they bought with their money.
Now on the other hand a AAA tittle basically becoming a casino is quite recent, but i guess the gaming industry putting the blame on players because of the mistakes made by the Devs are the norm so you are right at some level.
My phrase there is wrong, I meant those that don’t use trainers or CT. I absolutely use trainers in Single Player Offline games and agree do what you want with the game you paid for.
Nothing is actually locked behind a paywall here, this is literally Micro-Transactions done right (OPTIONAL). People want to spend real money, let them. They want a grind to earn the stuff, let them. They wanna unlock it by CT, go for it.
My objection is trashing on a developer who tries to do the right thing, then they decide why bother.
Leave all that crap to mobile phones…people wonder why AAA gaming is so crappy after.
i dont like the idea of MT in single player games at all that sh*t should not be there no sir not at all any dev who put such stuff needs trashing if we ignore like saying optional they will take it step further next game which is whats going on these days mostly so its better to raise voice at MT. MP games are beyond we cant save them but atleast SP should be left alone soon it wont be either dont be surprised if we need always online connection to play SP in future[ stupid UBISOFT looking at you].
Okay that’s fair but you’re missing one important point. The developers do not want you using cheat engine. They’re not giving you that option out of the kindness of their hearts, they’re refraining from blocking it due to the fact backlash would be immense.
“optional microtransactions” – this is the funniest thing I’ve read today.
You know what? Shooting at enemies in this game is completely optional too. Nobody forces you to do it!
the entire game is a grindfest, you need to grind to uinlock the main mission which is to take out some big robot, 3 of them.
Its pathetic game design made for idiots with more money than taste.
How about a game where you are actually screwed over by the game being glitchy and THEN use Cheat Engine to fix the glitch you shouldn’t have encountered in the first place?
MotoGP 17 had this exact issue. Bikes could be upgraded in three workshops (aka upgrade slots), each having a weeks remaining counter, which could have gone into negative weeks. Now, if that happens, that upgrade will never be completed, essentially rendering that upgrade slot useless. The game did it with all three slots. That’s when I had enough and hacked the game because it screwed me out of upgrades I played for.
There’s some good reasons behind using Cheat Engine: if an AAA game like this one (it is 50 euros on PC, 60 on consoles) does this, that does not bode well. Now the issue here is that Denuvo in all its glory wants to block this because it has anti-cheat too. Imagine getting banned in an offline game for trying to fix a glitch.
So by this logic Micro-transactions are just cheating but with money then. I bet the grind for skins, etc is ridiculously high and not fun at all as well, it usually is in cases where they can also be bought.
Unlocking skins, etc is a great part of single player games but shoving a lame grind instead of fun content to earn skins just ruins this and then adding a real cash price tag just devalues any effort put into grinding when you know others are just buying the skin instead.
It’s supposed to be a single player game, are you insane???? The microtractions are not “optional” unless you use cheat engine, which is exactly what this article is suggesting in the first place. Thank God that bypass exists. Thank God the article exists to help people play the single player game they purchased fairly.
Holy shyte this is good.
100% deserved when they lock stuff behind paywall.
OR, you can completely bypass this piece of sh*t game.
We have a winner!
is it that bad?
Don’t take my word for it. Check the Steam reviews….or ANY reviews really.
TNO and to a lesser degree TNC were both good enough to earn my money for this.
Those didn’t have micro-transactions.
I will be using this “work around”.
Just bypass this S**t Game. Not worth Time and money
MachineGames
Bethesda Softworks
Zenimax
Couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch of people!
find it hard to believe MachineGames had anything to do with in game transactions.
Neither TNO or TNC had them.
Yeah, Todd Howard personally programmed them into the game
Not that I suggested or implied that they did.
You fake complimented them along with the other’s who actively use in game transactions.
Your point being what, precisely?
Why do you lump MG in with those who likely were responsible?
Lazy, sweeping generality? Or do you have proof MG wanted in game mt’s?
Ah, so as suspected from the outset, you’re guilty of having assumed my motives. You placed your own personal interpretation on my words and then chose to run with it as though you were correct.
Newsflash: You were entirely wrong.
Perhaps try engaging your brain before commenting in future so to save yourself from further personal embarrassment!
I didn’t assume anything. Article’s about in game micro-transactions.
You condemned 3 different entities for a single transgression.
Now, read my only comment outside of this. If it’s not clear, my point is MG shouldn’t be condemned for the micro-transactions based on TNO and TNC (admittedly the only other MG titles I’ve played).
What do you believe I am wrong about?
Not only do you STILL not get it you’re now doubling down on your embarrassing mistake!
So tell me what I’m wrong about then, dude.
Idgaf what your motives were.
Ingame store > sjw company
Haha, lmao ??? stay delivering I see.
Everyone knows this man. You just want them to target Cheat Engine don’t you. Ubisoft already did. By making all their stuff server side for many years now. C’mon man….
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You should bypass the game completely
I think that’s the least of it’s problems.
This is why Denuvo wants to go further with anti-cheat sh_t. To make games always online and not have people cheat. F this game with its lootbox lesbians (I know they aren’t but I don’t really care), F its denuvo and F bethesda as well.
haters gonna hate
Microtransaction is the worst thing that human invented…and it will go from optional to forced in the future…
At least the game is only 30 dollars? Probably cheaper on CDkeys? Lol
CD Keys? Pirate the game or buy it, gray market is terrible. Seriously devs have come out saying they would rather steal their game than use places like CD Keys
Good! Thanks for this article. Using this program with proper moderation can help make the game more balanced and fair (which it should have been in the first place).
I would rather call it B*chenstein.