Don't Forget, their anticheat is a rootkit.

[Master_Pain]

Seriously, uninstall that ♥♥♥♥ immediately. It has kernel level access to your PC.

Edit
It's called nprotect
Uninstall:
https://gameguardfaq.nprotect.com/eng/con_22.html

[joeredner]

That's the reason the PSN requirement was overkill.

[Khanjima]

How does one go about uninstalling it

[dustin1280]

That is actually the reason I still don't own this game, the kernel level anticheat. The PSN fiasco was just the cherry on top, though I blame sony for that....

[yayokay]

When I uninstall Helldivers 2... will be the anticheat gone too?

[[Asgard] Thor]

All the anti cheat people crawling out from their rocks because they got a whiff of someone elses victory.

[Mystic Referee]

Originally posted by SotenboriGoons:

When I uninstall Helldivers 2... will be the anticheat gone too?

Like 80% chance. There's guides on how to uninstall the rootkit in the forums.

[Jonathan J. O'Neill]

Originally posted by Master_Pain:

Seriously, uninstall that ♥♥♥♥ immediately. It has kernel level access to your PC.

So is Easy Anticheat, Battleye and Punkbuster to name a few more. You'll be hard pressed to find an anti-cheat that isn't Kernel-level.

[Mystic Referee]

Originally posted by Asgard Thor:

All the anti cheat people crawling out from their rocks because they got a whiff of someone elses victory.

I don't even blame them. But at least the Devs read us the nGuard marketing pamphlets at game launch. So we knew what we were getting into.

[dustin1280]

Originally posted by Asgard Thor:

All the anti cheat people crawling out from their rocks because they got a whiff of someone elses victory.

I don't actually fault people for buying and playing a game they enjoy and not caring about the kernel level anticheat...

However I personally won't let an application like that get installed into my PC, and the PSN fiasco just made me even more sure of my personal decision to not buy this game.

For everyone that could care less about the anticheat, I encourage them to enjoy what otherwise seems like a great game.

[HunterAP]

... For a 4 person co-op game.

[Jonathan J. O'Neill]

Originally posted by dustin1280:

Originally posted by Asgard Thor:

All the anti cheat people crawling out from their rocks because they got a whiff of someone elses victory.

I don't actually fault people for buying and playing a game they enjoy and not caring about the kernel level anticheat...

However I personally won't let an application like that get installed into my PC system, and the PSN fiasco just made me even more sure of my personal decision to not buy this game.

Looks at "Outriders" being one of your most played games.

That has Easy Anti-cheat which is a Kernel-level AC.

[Houghtonjojo1]

So does practically every anti cheat software for games. Almost all online games at this point have Kernel access. Easy Anti-cheat(unless you're on Linux), Battleye, Faceit etc. I personally think Game-guard is worthless and slows the game ever so slightly but ultimately its put up with it or stop playing.

[dustin1280]

Originally posted by Jonathan J. O'Neill:

Originally posted by dustin1280:

I don't actually fault people for buying and playing a game they enjoy and not caring about the kernel level anticheat...

However I personally won't let an application like that get installed into my PC system, and the PSN fiasco just made me even more sure of my personal decision to not buy this game.

Looks at "Outriders" being one of your most played games.

That has Easy Anti-cheat which is a Kernel-level AC.

Yeah that was on my old system when I was going to be replacing it completely anyway.
I am much more leery on my new system.

[Three Strikes]

As someone who actually deals with this stuff, and information security in general, no.

Just because it has kernel access, doesn't mean it's a rootkit. If that's the case, *none of you should have Apple devices, as those have kernel-level modifications*.

[Juice]

Originally posted by Mystic Referee:

Originally posted by SotenboriGoons:

When I uninstall Helldivers 2... will be the anticheat gone too?

Like 80% chance. There's guides on how to uninstall the rootkit in the forums.

Just buy a new System, like come on. It's like so easy duh.
Like the Support of PSN wrote to that one person to just purchase PS4/PS5 to be elligble to create a PSN account ahahahaha.