A few days ago we informed you about the latest update for DOOM Eternal. The so-called Update 1, brought optimizations, new event content, bug fixes and more. However, the update also implemented another new addition, the Denuvo Anti-Cheat system.
Denuvo Anti-Cheat uses a kernel-mode driver that aims to protect BATTLEMODE. The use of the kernel-mode driver starts when the game launches and stops when the game stops for any reason. As John mentioned in his article, this isn’t as intrusive as Valorant’s anti-cheat system, but it sucks nonetheless.
Thankfully, you can uninstall this anti-cheat system at any time by going through your programs in the control panel. Though if you do, you will not be able to play the game, not even the single-player part. So unfortunately if you want to play the game you are stuck with the Denuvo Anti-Cheat.
As you might already imagined, this didn’t go so well for DOOM Eternal. The game is being review bombed on Steam, and right now the recent reviews rating is ‘mixed’, but overall it’s still ‘mostly positive’.
This will probably let Bethesda know that it’s never OK to add such drastic changes after the launch. Though maybe not, after all it is Bethesda we’re talking about.
You can watch the video below if you want to find out more.
You can also read the DOOM Eternal review here.
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“. Though if you do, you will not able to play the game, not even the single-player part.”
so the pirates win again
-got the game for free
-no level up microtransaction lootboxes cosmetic unlocks bs
-no battletrashmode
-no denuvo
Well done bethesda after firing mick gordon this was the just what was needed to mess it all up.
Pirates always have the better version.
isnt that sad?
no, what’s sad is that you still haven’t came out of the closet.
hahhaahha
Nah it’s not.
This is anti-cheat software. Why is this a bad thing and more so, why does this justify you being stealing their product?
Because this anti-cheat system has access to your system at a kernel level. Meaning that any security your PC has (ownership, access limitation, hardware access limitation, signatures, etc…) does not limit this software in any way.
Besides the sheer potentiality for abuses, it also is a potential vulnerability exploit.
Adding the fact that will lead to others doing the same, you increase the possibility of low level access by undesired sources exponentially.
That seems like a valid concern to me.
I would imagine it was just less work to lump it into the entire game than to work out how to only have it running for certain game modes.
“This is national security. Why is this a bad thing and more so, why does this justify you committing treason?”
Simpletons like you would give up your freedom, rights, privacy and security in the name of any elusive excuses made by authority, but the truth is; those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety, and will lose both.
I’m not a cheater, why would I sacrifice my kernel-level security of my own OS and performance? Also if you’re gonna argue that copying data is stealing, well, good luck with that Corporatocracy logic.
I stop acknowledging that guy period. I have reason to believe he probably is Robo-Fernando. cause everytime i read anything he says he doesn’t sound like a human at all.
i wont even bother responding to you.
You just did though…
No worries though. Someone with an IQ already pointed out the issue.
what is the issue?
I guess people don’t mind cheaters running rampant.
If 2020 has proved anything it is that people are stupid and work against their best wishes, constantly.
How dare they to stand up over bullcrap moves like this.
All multiplayers games are INFECTED with cheaters…
Even the streamers cant play games with there cheats,because it’s gone be to oblivious that they cheat too.
I miss those good old days of LANs when the cheater-PC got detroyed.
The face of the cheater watching he’s pc flying by the window,those tears !
There is ZERO need to require users to grant kernel level access in order to make an effective anti-cheat software.
Why so many games use kernel-level anti-cheat systems then, specifically Easy Anti-Cheat and BattleEye:
– Apex Legends (EAC)
– Fortnite (EAC)
– Paladins (EAC)
– Player Unknown: Battlegrounds (BE)
– Rainbow Six: Siege (BE)
– Planetside 2 (BE)
– H1Z1 (BE)
– Day-Z (BE)
– Ark Survival Evolved (BE)
– Dead by Daylight (EAC)
– For Honor (EAC)
Truth is none of those games you mentioned had dedicated singleplayer on it.
Just because other companies forcing software that compromises system security and stability doesn’t make it okay here. MVG is a careered programmer and homebrew developer, so I trust him when he says Ring 0 permissions are a lazy solution. Plus this implementation is worse because barely anyone cares about multiplayer, it was added post launch with no warning to users, and there have been reports of performance issues and even it deleting save files.
https://youtu.be/NYxLBhOgwYg?t=687
Great, so only people who want to enjoy the multiplayer need to fully compromise their machines.
The sadness that you even had to point this out.
The very comment you first responded to has a video explaining that Ring 0 is a lazy way to implement anti-cheat. Just because other games do it doesn’t make it acceptable.
All the trash games I dont play anyway.
Trying <> Playing. I ain’t lying. Bye
Yes I did. I don’t play junk unlike you.
I don’t know, bud. We have a longtime cataloged and accomplished dev in MVG, but …… then we have the word of *ahem* “Prashanna Shanmuga Sundaram” (did I pronounce that correctly?).
What a conundrum here on who to listen to.
No, only the couple of souls that care for a shove in multiplayer mode in a DOOM game. There’s no justification for this.
They should create two executable, one for SP and one for MP.
That would be the smart thing to do, yes.
10/10
I didn’t like the game wither way, I played about 3 hours before getting bored. Its not DOOM.
Why go to such length to protect its online multiplayer when most of the target audiences bought it for its single player?
Bethesda is basically line any other corporation/governments, they are bored and are constantly trying to see how much the public will let them get away with. I’ve noticed this especially with Bethesda. They are forever trying to do the same thing over and over again even if it fails, they’ll walk it back. But rest assured it will be back in the next game. This has been Bethesda track record. And it’s quite clear, out of all Games Doom should be the last thing to have this. Quake arena is still happening, why wasn’t that game the first to have this intrusionary malware. Of all Games Doom… That’s the question people should be asking, THE MOST!. .
People have speculated it’s a test case to protect their microtransactions. People have been able to use trainers like Cheat Engine to get items that were supposed to be behind paywalls in several past Bethesda games.
This isn’t a review bomb
Good. I’m one of the few people on DSOG who actually likes this game, but kernel level drivers are essentially malware that can steal all your data or f*ck up your entire PC. You’re basically giving Denuvo full access to your system, and taking them at their word that they’re not doing anything shady. I uninstalled the game when I found out they added this, and would get a refund if I was able to.
“” Thankfully, you can uninstall this anti-cheat system at any time by going through your programs in the control panel. Though if you do, you will not be able to play the game, not even the single-player part. So unfortunately if you want to play the game you are stuck with the Denuvo Anti-Cheat. “”
What, is that true ? This SUCKS pretty bad. What are the DEVs thinking ? What happened to Bethesda lately ? I use a lot of cheat codes to beat this games, but now it looks I won’t be able to use them anymore. Duh !
Though, I know how to circumvent this feature. A really BAD decision taken by Bethesda, nonetheless.
i will use one of my favodite memes https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/9e9cdd330efea7e867eea38358af53f4bb817e0d275edf8059a9a521a8ced2d1.jpg
“” Thankfully, you can uninstall this anti-cheat system at any time by going through your programs in the control panel. Though if you do, you will not be able to play the game, not even the single-player part. So unfortunately if you want to play the game you are stuck with the Denuvo Anti-Cheat. “”
What, is that true ? This SUCKS pretty bad. What are the DEVs thinking ? What happened to Bethesda lately ? I use a lot of cheat codes to beat this games, but now it looks I won’t be able to use them anymore. Duh !
Though, I know how to circumvent this feature. A really BAD decision taken by Bethesda, nonetheless.
Review bombed, huh? So you mean, they updated their reviews to reflect the game’s current status? Oh, ok.
I guess companies haven’t figured out that the “service” part of their bulls**t, with their trash updates and post-release bulls**ttery? Well, those “updates”, they work both ways.
I do get a laugh out of the attempted negative connotation tagged to this legit criticism. It’s not just an updated review, it’s a “review bomb”. Right….. the company is a victim here.
Maybe these companies should ask the very, very simple question in these situations. “Why are so many people pissed off and leaving negative reviews at the exact same time?”
hellyeah,, it’s bughesda behavior,, ruin their games..
^ this guy F*ks 🙂
You essentially have Bethesda in control of a Ring0 authenticated driver. Basically, the most incompetent a**hats in the entire industry, now have access to the deepest levels of your system.
The same morons that “leaked” the credit info of a dump truck of people during the Fallout 76 fiasco (which is another galactic blunder in its own). Ya, these guys. You have to have bonafide s**t for brains, to install this garbage. I don’t care how good the game might be.
Sadly, most idiots these days, have the willpower and conviction, of a toddler.
Good.
haven’t bought Doom Eternal for my PC and for my luck glad I didn’t.