Why is this single player game has an Anti cheat?

[Leathium]

Something I have noticed when I wanted to do some modding to recolor some weapons like making the punisher all black to resemble the real FN 5-7, etc I have noticed the game actually has an anti cheat... My question is why? I dont see this game has any sort of coop, or any sort of multiplayer element, I mean my first guess was MAYBE the mercenaries will have some kind of coop-ish elements? but then that was as well a solo mode, all I can imagine the reason was to release the microtransactions things.. still why though?

[DeadPhoenix]

It does not have anti-cheat. I've been using mods and trainers since day 1.

[Khanjima]

My guess would be to stop piracy

[Leathium]

Originally posted by DeadPhoenix:

It does not have anti-cheat. I've been using mods and trainers since day 1.

There is some anti-cheat and require you to "add" some file to disable the anti-cheat just so you can mod or actually cheat the game system.

[DeadPhoenix]

Originally posted by Leathium:

Originally posted by DeadPhoenix:

It does not have anti-cheat. I've been using mods and trainers since day 1.

There is some anti-cheat and require you to "add" some file to disable the anti-cheat just so you can mod or actually cheat the game system.

You only need to drop in 1 file to unlock REFramework which is required for modding and using trainers. Doesn't mean the game has anti-cheat. Its a single player game.

[Æɴɪsᴏ]

It doesn't.

[Æɴɪsᴏ]

Originally posted by Leathium:

Originally posted by DeadPhoenix:

It does not have anti-cheat. I've been using mods and trainers since day 1.

There is some anti-cheat and require you to "add" some file to disable the anti-cheat just so you can mod or actually cheat the game system.

You can mod the game from the get-go. It's a single-player game.

[Leathium]

Originally posted by DeadPhoenix:

Originally posted by Leathium:

There is some anti-cheat and require you to "add" some file to disable the anti-cheat just so you can mod or actually cheat the game system.

You only need to drop in 1 file to unlock REFramework which is required for modding and using trainers. Doesn't mean the game has anti-cheat. Its a single player game.

Well using a trainer or mods without the reframwork also mentions "Anti cheat detected, please add the xxx file to bypass it" So there is an anti cheat regardless, I don't remember any of the previous remakes needed me to drop something in to be able to mod the game files.

[DeadPhoenix]

Originally posted by Leathium:

Originally posted by DeadPhoenix:

You only need to drop in 1 file to unlock REFramework which is required for modding and using trainers. Doesn't mean the game has anti-cheat. Its a single player game.

Well using a trainer or mods without the reframwork also mentions "Anti cheat detected, please add the xxx file to bypass it" So there is an anti cheat regardless, I don't remember any of the previous remakes needed me to drop something in to be able to mod the game files.

It started with Resident Evil Village. it only takes 10 sec's to drop the file in the folder.

[Leathium]

Originally posted by DeadPhoenix:

It started with Resident Evil Village. it only takes 10 sec's to drop the file in the folder.

I know it takes even 3 sec to copy paste or drop the file, question is why the game has an anti-cheat?

[DeadPhoenix]

Originally posted by Leathium:

Originally posted by DeadPhoenix:

It started with Resident Evil Village. it only takes 10 sec's to drop the file in the folder.

I know it takes even 3 sec to copy paste or drop the file, question is why the game has an anti-cheat?

It doesn't have anti-cheat. Capcom doesn't block from playing the game while using mods or trainers.

[Raptor Jesus]

Apparently it does if you have to add a file for bypass it. Stop being obtuse.

[Leathium]

Originally posted by ♡:

It's a small world ;)

Cheating.....tut, tut, Lea. How are Capcom going to feed all their starving children if you don't buy their scummy microtransactions?

Eh you already know I mod my games, not really a new thing, but makes sense, probably that was something to push that microtransactions dlc thing for the weapon upgrades, which is also weird how they think it would be a hot seller when you can farm it in game or just cheat it out lol.

[Leathium]

Originally posted by ♡:

I hope you're still not mad......lol.

But some form of anti-cheat has been present in a lot of the Resident Evil games. Probably to 'protect' useless scoreboards no one cares about (which doesn't even work), or to prevent the adding of free microtransactions.

You can mostly bypass it by just removing file signatures from said software in a lot of instances.

Search for FileUnsigner

I was never mad lol.

But yeah seems like that's the case and the closest would be so some people bite in and buy the worthless weapon upgrades that you can just do a save file changing to have a millions of pesos. Still that feels disappointing, I was even in the hopes since they added an anti cheat regardless of how weak and bypass-able it was, that they may add some coop mode for the mercenaries, as something new wasn't in the original, or even some kind of a mode where you can just screw up with people playing as the enemies, something similar to RE6 modes where you join people sessions controlling enemies, and the anti-cheat was for that.

[The Ultimate Despair]

Okay. Anti-Cheat is an actual software that is used to prevent people from cheating. When you boot a game that has one of these, you actually have a pop-up window of that software that appears to set it up.
Elden Ring is a perfect example of it.

RE4R does not have anti-cheat softwares at all.

[Leathium]

Originally posted by The Ultimate Despair:

Okay. Anti-Cheat is an actual software that is used to prevent people from cheating. When you boot a game that has one of these, you actually have a pop-up window of that software that appears to set it up.
Elden Ring is a perfect example of it.

RE4R does not have anti-cheat softwares at all.

You won't notice it unless you attempt to mod your game.