[HC][H2SA] Real-time statistics tracker program

Things I found out by messing around with this:

• A close encounter happens as soon as a guard pulls out his gun, even if he doesn't fire at you.
• Alerts are counted when the guard is investigating a dead body and not when he's seeing it and running at it, so you can do things like placing a body to make a guard come and sedate him before he investigates it.
• When an enemy is accidentally killed by another enemy, it doesn't count as an enemy killed for you. I believe it's the same thing for innocents.

If enough people like it I'll probably do one for other Hitman games.

I used Cheat Engine to find the addresses.

Basically you need to start by looking for the variable you want.
If you want to get the number of shots fired, you fire like 3 shots in the air and scan for all the variables equal to 3.
You will get a huge list of addresses all equal to 3 and one of them is the one you want so you need to keep scanning until you find it.
You fire 2 shots more then scan for 5, you'll get less addresses, just continue doing that until you have only one address left.

Now you found the address for this variable but if you change the mission or restart the game for example you'll notice that the value of this address is no longer linked to the number of shots fired.
This is because the variables are stored in different places in the memory when you restart everything, so now the variable you're looking for is located somewhere else and you have to start from the beginning if you want to find it again.

To prevent this, you need to use pointers.
Since you're a game developer I guess you already know what a pointer is, a variable containing the address of another variable.
Some pointers have static addresses, which means that they will always be located at the same address in the memory no matter what happens in the game, if you restart it or anything.
These are the ones you need and once you found your variable, Cheat Engine allows you to do a pointer scan on this variable to found all the pointers referencing this variable.
It's kind of the same process as finding the variable because you have a huge list of pointers and you need to find one that always contains your variable.

There are other ways to find them, but this is the general idea. You have to find the static pointers referencing your variable and use them in your program to track the values.

Consider me extremely impressed and interested, that's a very useful tool! Since ratings are tied to the statistics, would it be possible to get the tracker to display the rating based on the current stats mid level? It could be useful to see exactly where the game draws the line between Silent Assassin and Professional - at least to someone like me who doesn't fully understand the rating systems in the older games. I'm also interested in possibly seeing something like this for the other games.

I have updated the program, the Silent Assassin rating is now tracked in real-time as well.

Another update, I fixed the bug where the number of shots fired was a bit glitchy during the mission and was reseting to 0 at the score screen.
Everything should be working fine now.

I bought Contracts and will look into it, I'm planning to make this tool work for Hitman 2, Contracts and Blood money.
It will probably take some time to make.

Damn fine job

I'm sure this will come in handy for a lot of people.

Damn, can you tell me what's wrong?

Yes it's probably because the pointers aren't working.

Basically, when you do a pointer scan for a specific value you can filter them and end up with a list of working pointers, but they may only work on your machine so it's best to load this list on another machine and take one that is working on this one as well. Since my old PC died last week I couldn't do it so I used a virtual machine and I thought I would be enough but it seems like it's not.

Did you test it on Hitman 2?