Offline Mode (no data collection)

Guide to prevent the days gone and it's third party app to access the internet and therefore prevent it from collecting data.

Windows Defender Firewall

• Open the windows firewall and navigate to the "Advanced settings".

  
  
  
  

• Create two new outbound rules ...

  
  
  
  

• ... with the following settings:

  • 1. select rule type "program"
    
    
    
  • 2. in program selection, browse to
    "YOUR-STEAM-GAMES-PATH\Days Gone\Engine\Binaries\ThirdParty\CRS\crs-uploader.exe" (1st outbound rule)
    and as part of another outbound rule
    "YOUR-STEAM-GAMES-PATH\Days Gone\BendGame\Binaries\Win64\DaysGone.exe" (2nd outbound rule)
    
    
  • 3. for Action, select "block connection"
    
    
    
  • 4. Apply rules to all profiles
    
    
    
  • 5. Give a fitting name for you to later identify the rule
    
  
  
  

• You should now have 2x new outbound rules, one for the CRS uploader and one for the DaysGone.exe.

  

Voila, welcome to DaysGone offline mode ))
( not affecting steam achievements )

[Texas Red]

@kingfish_ak I can hear the chatter of your snaggletooth through this comment.

[kingfish_ak]

if you have a steam account, and don't want your data collected, you already failed.....

[deemonmeister]

Thanx! =) If you are not paranoid, it still does not mean that they are not following you!

[Maximus]

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Steam

[Maximus]

🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪 Help
🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪Purple
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🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪beat
🟪⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛🟪Doge
🟪🟪⬛⬛⬛🟪🟪and
🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪Takeover
Steam

[BimboGooch]

Then again steam does that anyways.

[BimboGooch]

Bet you it still collects data :^), at least of your specs

[IAmLegion]

I guess it won't work for me for some reason if anyone can help that would be awesome

[Wehzy]

@Hulkster People who have a brain care. But i can see you play trash games like 76 so you clearly dont care.

[xDraga]

Is it just me or is the game just perma crashing after doing this? same goes for horizon zero dawn. Didn't experience anything like this before.