ACE service - What is it ? - No thank you

[DeLastOne]

Why is this trying to setup that software when starting the demo ?

[Grimmsch]

It is their Anti-Cheat solution. Developed by Tencent. Use your Google-Fu.

[DeLastOne]

Originally posted by Grimmsch:

It is their Anti-Cheat solution. Developed by Tencent. Use your Google-Fu.

Cheers. it will be hard pass then...
Tencent... man... who would like to give a Chinese corporation total computer access at low level / kernel. Also I do not see the point. We are not all playing for money like a freaking pro-gamer. That is just not right and sound pretty insane...
I mean kernels were invented for a very specific reason. That what this ACE try to bypass. And I am pretty sure Tencent will not show the code of this software and no one can really know what exactly it is doing to the hardware.

Crazy

[Grimmsch]

I knew it was a bait and can understand your decision. Fair.

Personally in PvP games and especially in Extraction games I'd like to have the most invasive Anti-Cheat solution there is. I would have preferred Valorant. But ACE it is.
I think we should develop the habit to have a partition with the sole purpose of gaming and keep our data separated.

I could accept a two track approach - people without it play vs other people without it.
Everybody is happy.
I would give my ID to only play vs people who do the same.

[DeLastOne]

Originally posted by Grimmsch:

I knew it was a bait and can understand your decision. Fair.

Personally in PvP games and especially in Extraction games I'd like to have the most invasive Anti-Cheat solution there is. I would have preferred Valorant. But ACE it is.
I think we should develop the habit to have a partition with the sole purpose of gaming and keep our data separated.

I could accept a two track approach - people without it play vs other people without it.
Everybody is happy.
I would give my ID to only play vs people who do the same.

Agree with you

[hef]

That's definitely a hard pass especially when it's made by Tencent CCP overlord shills.

[Skearn]

aw man really?!
and i was looking forward to this game too!>:(

is it possible without the tencent anti-cheat or is tencent in there regardless?

[Trentscousin]

tencent is the reason Conan Exiles stopped being able to be played offline singleplayer.

The game could pay me to play it and I would not do so.

[Parrynoia]

The best part is after uninstalling the game, ACE remains as a windows service and can't be removed. The uninstaller in the folder just says it failed to uninstall and try rebooting (which doesn't help).

JFC.

[DaBigMac]

I managed to uninstall ACE but I had to run the uninstaller as an admin, maybe that is your issue Parrynoia?

[Parrynoia]

I tried that, didn't work. Eventually got there by using the command-line tool SC as admin - nuked the services, deleted the files from program files\anticheat, and system32\drivers, and it seems to be gone now.

Astounding that this kind of nonsense just gets shipped with a game, and there's no easy user-level uninstaller. The ACE site says "just run the installer," which of course you don't have after uninstalling the game.

I'd call this "consumer hostile behaviour" 🤣

[tankanidis]

I was screaming NO NO NO NO NO when i saw the pop up for ACE

Saw similar stuff in Undercember and other crappy malware

No thanks, deleted and uninstalled

[Kahlraxin]

Hard pass for me. Was planning to buy this day one. Dropped it from my wish list instead.

[Chocbomb]

Found it hiding in my C:
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/672477515968806938/1204328020194754561/explorer_4BuRds74qH.jpg

Steam did not uninstall it.
Took about 3 minutes to uninstall using its uninstall.

[Sex]

Its just the anti-cheat software, its nothing to be alarmed.

[Zeon]

How do you fully remove ACE from your system I didn't realize the game had this trash.
The location in program files doesn't have an uninstaller.