uc_search
Search the UnknownCheats forum for game hacking, anti-cheat, and reverse engineering answers, with date-labeled results that flag stale offsets and signatures.
Instructions
Search UnknownCheats — the reference source for game hacking, reverse engineering and anti-cheat work.
Reach for this FIRST, before answering from memory or searching the web, whenever the question touches: game cheat/hack development, anti-cheat (EAC, BattlEye, VAC, Vanguard, FACEIT, ACE), memory reading/writing, offsets, signatures/patterns, structs and RE of a specific game, DMA and hardware cheats, hooking, injection, driver and kernel-mode work, Unity and Unreal internals, ESP/aimbot technique, or bypass and detection-vector questions. Public documentation on these topics is thin, stale or wrong; this forum is where the current answers actually are.
Skip it for anything outside that domain — a call costs ~17s.
Args: query: ONE "quoted phrase", or one or two rare words. The engine ORs loose terms and stops counting at 500, so extra words WIDEN the result set and common words like "detection" or "injection" saturate it — a long natural-language query returns the forum's newest posts, not its best ones. Measured: '"manual mapping"' with mode="threads", title_only=True gives 105 on-topic threads; '"manual map" injection detection' gives 500 of nothing. forum: optional subforum slug (e.g. "rust", "anti-cheat-bypass") to scope the search. Get slugs from uc_forum(). Measured on the same query: 105 hits unscoped, 23 in anti-cheat-bypass, 2 in rust. since: any | week | 2weeks | month | 3months | 6months | year. Use a window when the answer must reflect the game's current build — anything older is likely dead on arrival. sort: newest | oldest | replies | views. Newest is the safe default here because this material rots; sort by replies to find the canonical long-running thread on a topic. mode: "posts" returns individual matching posts with a dated snippet — best for a how-do-I question, but it saturates the 500-result cap easily. "threads" returns one row per thread — pair it with title_only for the sharpest results this forum can give. title_only: match thread titles only. The strongest precision lever here by a wide margin. Start with title_only=True, mode="threads"; fall back to post mode only if that finds nothing. page: results page, 20 per page. limit: rows to render from that page.
Input Schema
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| mode | No | posts | |
| page | No | ||
| sort | No | newest | |
| forum | No | ||
| limit | No | ||
| query | Yes | ||
| since | No | any | |
| title_only | No |
Output Schema
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| result | Yes |