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 )

[𝒮𝒶𝓈𝓊]

Hi, I have a problem with the game who can help me?

[sosbro]

Quick question, this still works? No need to worry about bugging saves or steam achievs?

[AI-COM/RSPN]

Does this sort of thing work on other games that collect inordinate amounts of user data, such as Guardians of the Galaxy?

[moonshine]

i forgot to change to outbound so i had 2 inbound rules haha

[KnightShade]

T-Bone: "This can easily be bypassed with a webhook using steam services, on their part. :\"

True, but they know we're watching now...

[Kinetic.ar]

this absolutely reduced alot of stutter for me as well as game spiking my gpu usage to 100% at larger towns as well as dropped my gpu usage from 5% to 15% in areas...

Ada Tucker area was use about 66% of my gpu but now its only 51% and deleting the CRS third party folder.

[pruitt83]

and the cut scenes kidnapped my game the end of the game 45min of nothing but cut scenes. if i want to watch a movie I'll get a dvd

[pruitt83]

its a choppy mess

[T-Bone]

This can easily be bypassed with a webhook using steam services, on their part. :\

[Dryspace]

@MorganAngelo "Guys and Girls remember the good old days..."

Yes. Which is why I only pay bargain-bin prices for games with online DRM, which is basically all modern games that aren't sold by GOG.

There are literally so many truly great games from the last ~40 years that one hardly has time to play the latest Lowest Common Denominator Digital Arcade Ticket Counter Interactive Story Grindfest Skinner Box.