jonasbeckman wrote: ↑Sat Nov 17, 2018 4:06 pm
Early on most of the reported items are using the hash ID though so there was a bit of confusion around which value to alter but if you change the hash item for a common thing then eventually you'll start looting more of these legendary items since you now changed the entire item into something else instead of just turning the inventory item into something different.
Hm, not entirely true though.
I was able to get the Nemean lion, the Dusk and Timeless armors through HashID without major drawbacks so far. To make it better, it even unlock the exclusive perk! At launch I bought through the Helix Store the Spartan Renegade and Pegasus set, which give me a starting point for any Helix armor sets. Therefore, I proceeded as such:
1- I booted up a save and changed into my Spartan Renegade set.
2- I opened up the item swap table
3- One item at the time, I got the HashId of what I was wearring and replaced it with the equivalent for the set I was interested in (e.g. Nemean)
4- Once all five armor parts were transformed through the table, I saved and closed the game immediately
5- I closed the cheat engine table
6- Booted up my save
7- Went to my "Owned tab" in the store and I could grab another copy of my Spartan Renegade set
8- Rince and repeat
I now own both the original Spartan Renegade set AND the various set and this, only with HashIDs. The only time duplicate seemed to happen to me was when I skipped closing the game completely (point 4). The results were weird: I could one instant own both the Spartan Renegade set and the Nemean set, then the next after a fast travel or a reload I was owning two Nemean sets, prompting me to grab another copy of the Renegade set to wear... Only to have it also transformed again at the next loading. Closing the game force the game's memory to forget your manipulation while registering your actual inventory. Once I understood that I stopped having duplicates.
Simply put, using HashID is seemingly safe as long as you make tons of backup quicksave files and proceed one step at the time and you make sure to close the game to avoid it from "remembering to switch HashIDs."
