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For text based games like this I think you'd have to do something like sql injection or something similar. You have no program use CE on so that won't work and there's nothing to inject scripts into....

Then be quick. Search for 1 when you have a rocket, then search for 0 when you don't.

For no reload, I'd search for the amount of bullets in the clip and the total amount of bullet. Freezing those two would result in no reload.

Rate of fire: unknown value, change to a weapon with a...

Well, did you try?

Try AutoHotKey or AutoIt (I use AutoHotKey)
The knowledge you need is quite basic actually, because it seems as for this game you'll only be needing pixel searching (Make the program look for pixels...

I'm not familiar with the game nor how it's built, but if you're certain that you're changing the right address then the game most likely uses server side bullet values. Which in return means that...

That's not completely right.
It injects a .DLL file into the program to be able to listen to packets being sendt and recieved. That's how you look at stuffs. And then you can eighter send those...

So I was just playing BloonsTD5 this morning and I stumbled upon a way to hack it (Please try to do yourself before you complain or say "That's EASY" or anything)

This was using Cheat Engine 6.2
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