I just tested the game in offline mode.

[Sundriver89342]

It works, so denuvo or whatever is not blocking my game. But I get why it's a pain. Am I missing anything with the denuvo thing?

[MatthewHager312]

Not really.
Denuvo just keeps the pirates away.
Pirates are very salty when Denuvo is mentioned.
Salty like the saltiest seas arr.

[REM 🔋]

It will work offline only for a set amount of time. If you stay offline past that point, you will be locked out of the game unless you connect to the internet and let it call home.

[Sumea]

This is a major misunderstanding about Denuvo.
Denuvo is not always online system or anything else but very engineered piece of software code to protect the original form of the code (including denuvo in it) - It is Anti Tamper, not DRM. Major issues about denuvo come about when VM based anti DRM solutions or some other publisher's self made DRM is put into the game, to be protected by denuvo and might have these requirements such as always online or online authentication.

Denuvo itself as it is should not need this. With it's removal from Doom Eternal, no game currently available to buy has Denuvo Anti Cheat which was a more controversial recent addition. Den-AntiCheat and Den-AntiTamper are two different things.

Denuvo, even though it is only addition to DRM technologies, is still considered DRM and, it is at least part of a whole DRM protected breakfast for sure, but what it does and more importantly does not do (not by in itself) are debated and still not entirely clear to everyone.

Not even to me.

[Moonflame]

it only requires to be online on first time launch and when you change your hardware. it also has periodic authentications so whenever it decides to check for authentication, you gotta be online or you wont get to play.

[Sundriver89342]

Yeah, tamper seems like what it says, no tampering, not online drm. But if it kicks me off the game I'll let you know

[Sundriver89342]

Wait, so is anti tamper drm or not

[Sundriver89342]

I need answers, can I, or can I not play off line, without a timer

[Sundriver89342]

If not, you guys are not gamer friendly and need to rethink what you consider good for gaming

[heiro0001]

That online only thing was an issue with another sega pc release that had Denuvo (Sonic Mania) not this one.

[CheeseBoar]

Originally posted by Sundriver89342:

I need answers, can I, or can I not play off line, without a timer

There is a timer, yes; that's Denuvo's purpose. Whether you see it or not, Denuvo needs to revalidate its files, and if it can't, then you can't play your game. WB's servers went down once, and nobody could start any of their games that used Denuvo until the server was fixed.

[Sundriver89342]

Then it's not good softwRe

[Sundriver89342]

Software*

[Penix 3 <=3]

Funny enough, the game does have problems with offline mode. But not because of Denuvo but because of the online features. If you have them enabled but are offline, the game gets softlocked.

[SenMithrarin85]

denuvo needs internet access under 3 circumstances:

1) initial launch activation
2) major hardware change
3) periodic revalidation*

*this varies wildly from game to game. there is no set time for the game to work offline before the token expires. this is purely at the discretion of the publisher not denuvo themselves.

[SenMithrarin85]

Originally posted by Penix 3 <=3:

Funny enough, the game does have problems with offline mode. But not because of Denuvo but because of the online features. If you have them enabled but are offline, the game gets softlocked.

thats the steamapi's fault.