Returning to Alabaster’s side we can find Dusty Giftwrap and his Snowball Showdown challenge. He wants our help in a snowball fight. We can team up with a friend, try to hack the game to cheat, or find the secret snow bomb.
Silver Medal
Nothing really to note here. I played the game normally and won.
Gold Medal
To solve the gold medal we’ll need to find and activate the MOASB (Mother of All Snowballs). As can likely be guessed we’ll be diving back into the JavaScript in the developer console to do this.
My first plan to do this involved trying to forge messages to the websocket the game uses for communication. These messages can be viewed through the Network tab with the websocket filter. Inside of here you can see all of the setup and ongoing communication between your client and the game. Unfortunately, when I began testing sending my own messages to the WebSocket the data would simply be overwritten by the next communication and occasionally the websocket would be reset and reconnecting-websocket.min.js would re-establish the connection. That file seemed like a good place to look next and scrolling to the bottom of the file I found the jackpot.
Debug code for setting up and activating our snow bomb. Further down we have the activation method.
Putting this all together, we can launch into a private lobby and run the below code in the console.
const event = { type: "moasb_start" }; // Create an event object with the required type
window.bgDebug(event); // Call bgDebug with the event
const event = new CustomEvent("moasb_start", { detail: {} });
window.dispatchEvent(event);
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