I am anti-piracy and I hate denuvo

[easydoesitEZ]

Just want to get this out there. People always assume if you're anti-denuvo that must mean you want to pirate games.

I think good devs should be rewarded and I pay for my games as such. But denuvo continues to be a cancer on gaming. There are not a lot of bullet points but they are important.

1. Denuvo often hurts performance. People who purchased the game and supported the devs and publisher are punished because denuvo makes the game run ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ than it should

2. Game preservation. I don't need to make a list of games that never had denuvo patched out and will eventually be lost to time if not for crackers. We all know.

In conclusion, I hope denuvo is removed from this game. It's a sore on the art form and gaming as a whole.

♥♥♥♥ denuvo.

[GoobleMoWizard]

I have to agree, since I use a low end GPU, a RTX 3060 8 Gig, which Denuvo hurts me plenty. I can't get a stable 60 or higher FPS in this game, like I should, but since Denuvo is in it, it's a pain. Even 4090 Users have issues. I can play this game on High just fine, but any higher and it's straight down to 30 frames.

[nwad]

Yeah, it's trash. Doesn't benefit anyone. I have a stack of games on my shelf that no longer work thanks to outdated DRM, and the only way to play them is by downloading pirated versions. What kind of sense does that make?

[Damian Sicarius]

I want to know why this game doesn't show that it has Denuvo in it on the store page like others games do?

[easydoesitEZ]

Originally posted by Damian Sicarius:

I want to know why this game doesn't show that it has Denuvo in it on the store page like others games do?

I bet more games have denuvo than you are aware of.

[GoobleMoWizard]

Originally posted by Damian Sicarius:

I want to know why this game doesn't show that it has Denuvo in it on the store page like others games do?

Only thing I can think of, is to get people to pay and then find out it has Denuvo. I dunno, but it should state that it has it. Kind of a sly trick from the devs.

[overdev]

the game in general isn't well optimzied it has streaming issues that generate FPS drops in certain spaces which is worse than Denuvo

[Damian Sicarius]

So what they are doing is little less than fraud by lying about their product and what you need to accept to play it..

[Laughing Man]

Originally posted by overdev:

the game in general isn't well optimzied it has streaming issues that generate FPS drops in certain spaces which is worse than Denuvo

To be fair to the devs the game performs quite well excluding the streaming issues and bugs with/incomplete shader caching.

The latter is relatively minor, a few shaders don't seem to be precompiled which causes very infrequent hitching on a first run through and the cache isn't rebuilt if you do something like reinstall the same version GPU drivers.

The former though? There's no way that didn't get caught in QA, it impacts every single hardware combination (albeit to varying degrees). Really makes me wonder what the cause is and why they weren't able to fix it prior to release.

In every instance I can think of the traversal stutters come at a point where you're seconds or more away from seeing any new assets, so why does it hold up frame generation? Do you really need to wait ~100ms to load assets that are going to be visible in 30 seconds when a player goes up an elevator?

I'd love an honest deep dive from the devs on why this issue occurred and how they fixed it (presuming they fix it). Although I doubt we'll get one.