geamztheangrybirds727/transformers-forged-to-fight-offline-version

This repository is a reverse engineering handoff package for Transformers: Forged to Fight, a mobile combat game that Kabam shut down its servers for in early 2020. The goal is to let the game run without any connection to Kabam's servers, and the package documents everything accomplished so far along with what work remains. The offline boot works to a specific point: the game launches, reaches its real home screen, navigates through menus, loads character models, and even begins loading the scripted intro fight. All of this happens with no live server connection. The author describes this as the hard part, and it is solved. What does not work is actual gameplay. Story missions cannot load, and fights cannot complete. The reason is that Forged to Fight was designed so the app on the phone was essentially a display layer only. Almost all of the game's content (mission structures, fight rules, character stats, economy balancing, and roster data) lived entirely on Kabam's servers and was streamed to the device each session. When the servers closed, that content database was lost. The art and audio (character models, animations, environments, and UI) survived because they were bundled inside the app. What did not survive was the data describing how to assemble those assets into playable content. Rebuilding that server-side content database from scratch is the work that remains. The package achieves its offline boot through four components working together: patches to the game's native ARM binary that bypass certificate checks and force login to succeed, a fake local server written in Python that answers the game's API calls with stored JSON responses, a native runtime hook that logs what data the game requests, which was essential for building those fake responses, and a provisioning script that configures an Android emulator to route all Kabam network traffic to the local machine. The README is written explicitly as a handoff document for whoever takes on the next stage of the project. It is detailed and honest about both what works and what does not, including a Gotchas section the author says will save days of wasted effort.