I'm guessing you mean Atomfall?
If so, from what I've seen so far, I'm not particularly interested in the game but if I ended up being interested, Denuvo wouldn't affect my purchase.
Full disclaimer, I never experienced any major performance issues related to Denuvo. I assume that if I had, my opinion would be different. I guess I always had rigs strong enough to brute force their way through the extra juice Denuvo takes.
Denuvo is not an indication of always online either. It can be but it's necessarily. There are plenty of offline games that were protected by Denuvo. With that said, it woll require authentification the first time someone starts the game and will require re-authentification every now and again due to various factors.
If so, from what I've seen so far, I'm not particularly interested in the game but if I ended up being interested, Denuvo wouldn't affect my purchase.
Full disclaimer, I never experienced any major performance issues related to Denuvo. I assume that if I had, my opinion would be different. I guess I always had rigs strong enough to brute force their way through the extra juice Denuvo takes.
Denuvo is not an indication of always online either. It can be but it's necessarily. There are plenty of offline games that were protected by Denuvo. With that said, it woll require authentification the first time someone starts the game and will require re-authentification every now and again due to various factors.
No idea. I hadn't even heard of it until you mentioned it. From what little I saw about it on the Steam page, a dev response dated a couple of months ago sounded like the devs don't even quite know yet what the game is going to be: "Question: Is it going to be open world? --> Dev response: We can't answer that yet." Not exactly encouraging sounding.
As for Denuvo, I don't care. I buy games on GOG whenever I can, because I dislike the entire "copy protection" DRM scam. But if a game is going to have it, then I don't object to Denuvo any more than any of the other alternatives. It's never caused me a problem as far as I know.
As for Denuvo, I don't care. I buy games on GOG whenever I can, because I dislike the entire "copy protection" DRM scam. But if a game is going to have it, then I don't object to Denuvo any more than any of the other alternatives. It's never caused me a problem as far as I know.
Sorry I should gave given a link to the game play vid:
Your comment about what DEV said worries me (un updated even with a now today "playable" game) as that may mean they are not going (may be changing their mind about the publisher) to release on steam?
"Atomicfall Denuvo?"
I looked Atomicfall up and stumbled on a demo of it that I'd seen before couple of years back where it was still under development. So, it's called atomicfall... Well, seems 1st person and dude only, so not interested.First time I ever heard of Denuvo. Seems a security software tackling cheating and piracy. Initially, I'm all for it, because I find that developers should get legally paid for their work, but if it also disables mods, then any game that comes equipped with it, is prematurely a no go.
The game looks interesting enough, basically a Fallout/Stalker: Shadow of Chernobyl-like experience, but with more puzzle solving, from what I see, but Denuvo is generally considered bad, overall, mainly due to a) often causing pernicious microstutter, b) often completely failing, when PC architecture changes in any significant way, and c) making modding *extremely* difficult.
Furthermore, Denuvo is reliably one of THE easiest schemes to crack, to date, meaning legit players see all the flaws, while pirates see none; classic DRM idiocy. Its only real purpose is to prevent very early piracy, which it admittedly does usually do reasonably well.
Furthermore, Denuvo is reliably one of THE easiest schemes to crack, to date, meaning legit players see all the flaws, while pirates see none; classic DRM idiocy. Its only real purpose is to prevent very early piracy, which it admittedly does usually do reasonably well.
I read a little more. Maybe I misunderstood the dev's comment, because a couple of months later in the thread, it seems pretty clear that the game is a series of interconnected maps, rather than an open world.
The setting looks interesting, but not sure about the gameplay. I thought maybe it was an indie version of Fallout 4, but apparently not.
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Denuvo gets credited with a lot of hitches and framerate problems. I've never noticed a problem with it, but my gaming PC is pretty beefy. The complaints have been going on for enough years that there's probably something to it.
I fundamentally dislike all of these anti-copying schemes. All of them impose some restriction or another on the game, and/or do something stealthy in the background on my machine. And too many of them have historically done really shady things. At least Denuvo is widespread enough that I sort of know what its doing on my system. But CDPR and Larian have conclusively destroyed the flimsy arguments that are used to justify this crappy behavior on the part of publishers.
I don't let it stop me from playing any game that I think would be fun, but it does stop me from buying titles that I'm not sure about. So I guess circling back to the original question, I don't care if they implement Denuvo. I'd rather have that than Easy or something worse. But using any of these schemes will likely keep me from buying the game, unless it gets released and most people think it's awesome. I'd probably give it a try under that circumstance, Denuvo or not.
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