Lasting success is rare in the commercial game hacking industry, and is only achieved using a mixture of speed, tenacity, and ingenuity. Because botters are hungry for better features and constant up-time, the industry is met with fierce deadlines and scarce customer loyalty. Great bots can rise and fall in a matter of months, and some lesser ones can end up dead on arrival. Only the best of the best can survive for years.
As botting communities grow, they act as incubators that cultivate new methods to greatly improve the effectiveness of bots. These non-technical communities often imagine the implementation of these things as trivial, but that is rarely the case. Developers are in a constant race to research, develop, and deploy newly proposed functionality into their bots. The first bot to come out with a solution will reap the benefits of this hard work; alacrity is rarely beat, and only ever by clever innovation.
With success so frailly balanced atop speed, the best hackers must use their tenacity to rise to the challenge, time after time, by releasing ingenious features and prompt updates. Doing this, however, takes more than the tools and tactics that you've learned so far. Perhaps the most effective weapon you can have in your efficiency-arsenal is a comprehensive understanding of common patterns in memory structures and assembly code. This chapter will talk about these patterns, explain why they exist, and discuss ways to easily identify them. Furthermore, it will teach you how to turn them into tools that can greatly reduce the time you spend on reverse engineering.