Still hope. Humble Bundle Trove

[Kaibamon]

So there might still be hope. I remember playing a DRM free version of the game a couple of years back for a long time and it was on Humble Bundle. If you had the monthly pass you get access to a trove with other DRM free games. Just checked on my my backup drives and found I still have that ver, its 1.443817157. So if anyone has HBM check if it's still there. I'll be re-playing the DRM version in the meantime <3

[Red]

Actually there are two Humble versions of the game. One is outdated as all hell (probably an early build of 2nd Encore, can only be downloaded if you bought it in a bundle), the other is from June 22, 2017 (so it was somewhere during the "2nd Encore+" period, pre-Combo Breaker 2020 and even pre-GGPOtest updates but not the latest). And neither of them have online features.

Honestly though you're likely better off manually downloading the depot (via Steam) corresponding to whatever version you want to play, plus the corresponding DLC depots. Unless that version specifically happens to be old 2E (and when I say that, I mean the 2016 version), in which case you can just use a dedicated "Beta" branch.

[dingykix]

the whole point of a boycott is not to give them any money at all, but you guys are probably shills

[Chilled Nomi]

Originally posted by dingykix:

the whole point of a boycott is not to give them any money at all, but you guys are probably shills

No one here said anything about buying the game just that they potentially have old DRM free copies of the game that are outdated (pre annie dlc) but lack the current devs terrible decisions.

[greenraven22]

This is exactly why Humble needs to bring back the DRM-free versions of games again.

[Red]

Originally posted by Chilled Nomi:

Originally posted by dingykix:

the whole point of a boycott is not to give them any money at all, but you guys are probably shills

No one here said anything about buying the game just that they potentially have old DRM free copies of the game that are outdated (pre annie dlc) but lack the current devs terrible decisions.

This. I was only talking about the different versions and available options if you already own it, I never said anything about buying the game (and I bought it ages ago so they already got my money back then, it's too late to do anything about it).

Originally posted by greenraven22:

This is exactly why Humble needs to bring back the DRM-free versions of games again.

I'd argue Steam needs to give options to easily roll back to earlier versions of games. As much as I like my games to be DRM-free, Humble builds aren't typically kept up-to-date, so having an option to play old versions directly through Steam without tedious manual actions would be welcome. And not just for this game; for example, updates can break stuff (sometimes on specific configs), yet players are stuck with the latest version unless the devs or publisher decide to release a "Beta" branch with an older build of the game.