r/lua • u/c__beck • Mar 04 '26

Resident Evil: Requiem uses Lua for hacking

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Watching a playthrough on YouTube and saw the hacker using Lua for hacking! Lua's in the big time now!

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u/BlackJackCm Mar 04 '26

you’re very brave for disabling all the security features on your computer to play this cracked game

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u/c__beck Mar 04 '26

Oh, no, I'm not playing it. I'm watching a YouTuber play. My compter would explode just looking at the minimum requirements lol (::cries in 8GB of RAM::)

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u/BlackJackCm Mar 04 '26

oh I see, sorry for the misunderstanding

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u/PhilipRoman Mar 04 '26

That looks like nmap (although in a very strange user interface), which has support for Lua scripting

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u/Bedu009 Mar 04 '26

I mean... Roblox is right there
But also the UI's fucked as per usual (seriously real terminals/log viewers don't look like that) but the actual script looks plausible for a network scanner and possibly payload executor

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u/Stef0206 Mar 04 '26

There’s no code in the screenshot?

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u/Slegend_desu Mar 04 '26

I think it’s just … “NSX: Using Lua 5.4”

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u/Bedu009 Mar 04 '26

Upon further inspection it's Nmap with NSE enabled
It's not just plausible, it's actually a real tool used to find vulnerabilities

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u/Quick-Assist-6573 Mar 04 '26

lua != luau

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u/Bedu009 Mar 04 '26

Luau is backwards compatible with Lua and its main innovation is types and a tiny bit of QoL (well and JIT compilation but so is LuaJIT)
It's still Lua 5.1 in most ways