Now here is a pleasant surprise. EA has just removed the Denuvo anti-tamper tech from Immortals of Aveum. Immortals of Aveum came out in August 2023, meaning that it took around one and a half years to remove it.
EA has removed Denuvo from some of its older titles. For instance, Tales of Kenzera: ZAU and Star Wars Jedi: Survivor are no longer plagued by it. So, its removal from Immortals of Aveum does not really come as a surprise.
Immortals of Aveum suffered from some traversal stutters. And, to be honest, I expect the Denuvo-free version to also have them. That’s how Ascendant Studios developed the game. During specific areas, the game loads instantaneously a lot of data, which is exactly what is causing the “traversal” stutters.
In short, don’t expect the game to run better now. And don’t get me wrong. I’m not saying that Denuvo cannot cause issues in some games. However, in this particular case, none of the game’s performance issues appeared to be caused by Denuvo. So, make sure to temper your expectations.
As we’ve reported, other companies have also removed Denuvo from several of their titles. In March 2023, KRAFTON removed Denuvo from The Callisto Protocol. NEOWIZ has also removed it from its Souls-like game, Lies of P. In October 2024, Gearbox has also removed it from Homeworld 3.
And that’s not all. Bethesda’s Wolfenstein Youngblood, Ghostwire: Tokyo and Doom Eternal no longer have it. Warner Bros has also removed it from Mortal Kombat 11. Then we have Bandai Namco who has removed it from Tekken 7 and NARUTO TO BORUTO: SHINOBI STRIKER.
Another company that has removed Denuvo from a lot of its PC titles is Square Enix. The Japanese team has removed it from games like The Diofield Chronicle, VALKYRIE ELYSIUM, TRIANGLE STRATEGY, LIVE A LIVE and Forspoken. Moreover, both Octopath Traveler and its sequel no longer use it. And, in May 2024, SE also removed Denuvo from Star Ocean The Second Story R.
Stay tuned for more!
John is the founder and Editor in Chief at DSOGaming. He is a PC gaming fan and highly supports the modding and indie communities. Before creating DSOGaming, John worked on numerous gaming websites. While he is a die-hard PC gamer, his gaming roots can be found on consoles. John loved – and still does – the 16-bit consoles, and considers SNES to be one of the best consoles. Still, the PC platform won him over consoles. That was mainly due to 3DFX and its iconic dedicated 3D accelerator graphics card, Voodoo 2. John has also written a higher degree thesis on the “The Evolution of PC graphics cards.”
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Right in time for the Humble Bundle release lol. It was a cool game def not worth the $70 they charged for it but I enjoyed it off Gamepass. The way you could customize the arms and find new set ups and gear. I think there is a low poly indie game of this style in Early Access now but its cool to have a higher budget version of that to return too once in a while. I feel like they should start making these kinds of single player games like $40-50 affairs it would attract a lot more players up front. The amount they have to spend to make a 7/10 game is just insane.
Not even for free
How about Denuvo being removed from Black Myth Wukong. It has been close to six months from the release date. Even the Denuvo folks have stated that after 3 months the DRM does not affect net sales anymore.
didnt that happen a while ago? Anyway ea removes denuvo from their massive failures because its a subscription service, the fact strapon age the queercuck did not have it to begin with and there were no dlc plans, means that they had zero faith in that game.
Who ?
A Garbage DRM to protect a Garbage Game !!!
Let's hope GTA 6 & Doom Dark Ages revive the Gaming industry !!!!
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If GTA 6 ocuses on more realistic aspects like RDR2 it'll be an absolute borefest. Not to mention it'll very likely be pozzed to hell and back.
"If GTA 6 ocuses on more realistic aspects like RDR2 it'll be an absolute borefest. "
RDR2 is one of the best games that ever came out. Not for the ADHD ladden modern gamers tho.
"If GTA 6 ocuses on more realistic aspects like RDR2 it'll be an absolute borefest. "
RDR2 is one of the best games that ever came out. Not for the ADHD ladden modern gamers tho.
For someone calling himself "BoringGamingTrends" i don't get what you found appealing in RDR2, most of its gameplay is dated AF
Calling the gameplay of a game "dated" is the most stupid, meaningless criticism one can possibly make. When asked for a follow though and what is the proper "replacement" then they cannot deliver.
Calling it "dated" actually strengthens my ADHD remark part of the original comment.
Modern gamers are like that. Impatient, needing constant stimuli to basically function.
RDR2 isn't like that.
Just look how the mission stupidly linear cutting any creativity or initiative from the player with a “mission failed” screen, it’s so scripted that there’s a mission where we’re supposed to burn corn fields to flush out enemies but if we try to do in free roam it doesn’t work lol, and how the honor system is terrible and broken like how can killing someone in the forest without any witness can harm your honor and make people despise you but you can tie someone and slit all his cattle in front of his eyes and get nothing with, OR just how you can be the most vile low honor psychopath but turn into an angel after cutting some wood LMAO.
We can also talk about how many dudes you kill in this game like fck, seriously we’re supposed to be surviving against a rival gang and the government but at the middle of the game, i started thinking they’re the one’s actually surviving against us, losing 50 men to 3 or 4 of us at each gunfight, making the story very laughable.
Also how all guns feel the same, how can’t we clean our weapons in the camp because we to draw weapon to do it and you CAN’T draw weapons in the camp so everytime i want to clean my weapon i have to go outside LMAO, no dude i’m not speaking out of nothing, i had my experience of this game, and for a game arrogantly pretending to be very realistic i judged it for what it is, and it’s a game that succeeded in being beautiful and detailed and visually realistic but failed at being a good game to play, i think people who watched had more fun because they dodged the weakest part of it, its gameplay
Calling it "dated" actually strengthens my ADHD remark part of the original comment.
Modern gamers are like that. Impatient, needing constant stimuli to basically function.
RDR2 isn't like that.
Nope, i'm not modern dude, i actually liked Death Stranding so the "needing constant stimuli to basically function" doesn't fit me, but nice try.
It's actually RDR2 who desperately try stimulate me and throws 50 enemies at me at each gunfight worrying about me being bored, even making the story inconsistent like how these surviving dudes killed thousands of their enemies in the end.
I'm not criticizing its slow pace, it's one its strengths it's perhaps the only aspect of the gameplay where Rockstar were bold and took risks
i think his issue is that you dont do much of anything.
Since we are on the comment section of a game called immortals of aveum, boomer shooters have better gameplay than AAA shooters in the last 20 years. If thats "Dated" i wish everyone would go back to making games like this.
I thought it perfectly served its purpose being a western focused adventure and all. Also I really like some of the storytelling.
Still being placed number 9 on the "Best games of all time" list on Metacritic, surpassing even Half-Life 2.
I am not sure it's that perfect, but it's a competent game nonetheless.
Surpassing even Half-Life 2 in Metacritics is more a matter of lower modern standards and Rockstar’s usual fan and press shilling, keep in mind that Soul Calibur, Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3 and NFL 2K1 also have the same Metacritics rating as RDR2 if not better while i don’t think they’re any better or more important objectively… You won’t surpass a revolutionary game by just throwing money at presentation and open world details and call it day
i will be honest, i prefer hl1 over hl2 for two reasons.
1. the beta story, the game had to be rushed to come out due to the hacker and they cut so much good content, the story feels like it lacks act 3, or better year act 2 was cut in half and it rushed into the end of act 3 which felt rushed since it was made with what they got. I wish someone remakes the beta story and the stuff we saw in the trailers, like the kraken and air exchange, Raising the bar redux and dark interval mods look promising.
The second thing i did not like about hl2, is that i dont like how the source engine feels, especially the movement and how generic the ai feels compared to the first game, the combat feels meh to me. I dont care that much about physics puzzles but a fun adventure.
We can speculate what we want about the beta the thing is we don’t know how it could’ve been on a complete game, as always beta or cut content of any game is fascinating by its cancelled/obscure nature, the final game is great, one of the greatest, i liked most it, its world building, the physics, the puzzles, the atmosphere…
The combat is generic ? It’s certainly not its strongest point but it’s more than OK, weapons have some punch especially helped by Havoc, the fact you can be creative with the physics also adds some depth, the AI is still better than 90% of the recent games, as for the movement ? Bro it’s Source Engine, it has one of the best movement you could have on any semi-realistic FPS, it takes inertia and momentum into account and you feel the weight of your character without lacking smoothness, HL2 is not perfect, but it set a standard in so many aspects, replaying it with some hindsight just shows how much it’s still fresh compared to many FPS games of its era and even some that came after it, try it with MMOD
” it takes inertia and momentum into account and you feel the weight of your character without lacking smoothness, ”
this is why i dont like it, because it doesnt feel smooth and i kept bumping into crap on the ground.
Understandable, but i don’t think Raising The bar Redux and Dark Interval devs are willing to fix this anyway lol
yeah its an engine thing.
I'd argue that attention to detail of this calibre is revolutionary on it's own.
RDR2 from 2018 does stuff I never saw in a video game. Prior and after it's release.
To me it's not a perfect game, nothing is really, but in the era of Cyberpunks, yeah, I will take this.
true for a 2018 game it holds up, but people dont play old games for the graphics. Also in the era of starfield cyberpunk looks good. IT KEEPS GETTING WORSE.
Cyberpunk also does a lot good things on its own if you focus on what it does good, the dialogue system, the complete freedom on how you evolve your character, complete your missions, interact with characters and play the story, it also has an extremely dense and immersive world on par if not better than RDR2, Rockstar fans will always show a video about how their game is detailed compared to others but will omit to show you how their game is weak on so many other aspects, like hey look in our game the glass breaks when you hit it but they won’t tell you about how you can’t complete a mission by playing your own way, and that’s just an example, even Watch Dogs does a lot of things better than GTA V and RDR2 but it’s almost forbidden to say this because Rockstar cultists would haunt you forever.
competent at what? graphical details and physics? Sure but it did not do anything impressive gameplay wise as for the story, there are so many modern injections there that it barely feels like a cowboy game.
That is true to an extent.
No, it was one of the most disappointing, especially to me since I considered RDR1 to be the best game of the ps3 generation. For a majority of the game all you did was:
Get on horse
Listen to conversation while going to your mission objective on horse
Go do the very linear thing for the mission
Get back on horse
Return to camp
Walk around at a snail's pace talking to others at the camp
I stopped playing the game for a whole month before returning to force myself to finish it. The awfully sluggish controls on console made it even more painful to play.
And I don't even want to get into how subversive and nonsensically "progressive" the game was either. Rockstar can go fudge themselves.
Its funny because my view about the first rdr was "it insists upon itself" and it was boring, the second was woke and more casual. So much time and effort put into boring stuff to look realistic.
New vegas was the best game on the ps3 era.
Yeah I can see where you're coming from. I played through it only once, which was like 12 years ago. If I played it again now I might feel the same way as you do.
I haven't tried New Vegas yet. You know what, I was actually looking through my backlog yesterday to figure out what to play next, so I think I'll download FO3 right now, then move on to NV right after. Thanks!
Any suggestions on mods that are lore-friendly, must-have and/or are general QoL improvements that the devs were too lazy to implement themselves?
“I haven’t tried New Vegas yet.”
are you insane? I mean it looks ancient and needs mods to improve the terrible gunplay but not playing new vegas is surreal to me.
There are too many mods to improve new vegas, everyone uses the viva new vegas for optimal play but i reccomend new vegas reloaded for better graphics and knvse weapon animations to improve the combat, especially the knvse ironsight animations, immersive recoil for recoil, there are just too many mods to go through, go look at youtube for videos with heavily modded new vegas. NukaLulu seems to have the best from what i have seen and the mods are in the description or a user txt he made that he has somewhere.
Lol no need to feel so shocked, not everybody is into these types of games. Anyway, I’ll look into it next year maybe since I started FO3 on the weekend. Not sure I can handle two WRPGs in a year, even if NV is on the shorter side.
I’ve put in about 6 hours or so into FO3 and so far so good. I’m only running a few mods for general fixes and to ensure the game doesn’t go out of whack when running at 120fps, plus one texture mod. I also forced HBAO+ through the nvidia profile inspector. I’m sure I could throw more mods at it but I’m satisfied with its current state. I know some people spend more time modding than playing, but I ain’t about that life.
why is it so great?
I would lobotomize myself just so that I could experience rdr2 again like it's the first time
GTA 6 will be woker and more MP focused than usual and Rockstar are so full of themselves they won't listen to any criticism made to RDR2, let alone the fact that Dan Houser isn't there anymore. Doom Dark Ages is already confirmed being protected by the garbage DRM you mentioned and i don't think it will add anything groundbreaking to the 2016/Eternal formula
For GTA 6 the situation is more like Fuzzy !! we don't know s###t !!!! but for Doom DA i'm quiet overhyped !!! on overall 2025 looks extremely promising ( Gears of War – Solid Snake Delta – Fable – Avowed – GOW Remastered – Daysgone 2 – FH6 – …….. etc )
I only hope the leaks for a new HL game end up being true, as for the rest wait and see, hype is a poison.
As for GTA 6 for sure we know nothing but we can assume the MP focus since GTA V did a lot of its profit with the MP and the microtransactions.
what do they leaks say? Alyx kills gordon?
Xen stuff, Gordon is 99% confirmed as the main character, physics being more than pushing things like objects reacting to heat, cold, liquid and pressure, a complexe gore and dismemberment system, vehicles, mini open-world sections, real-time weather effects and some procedural stuff, not a VR game but a classic FPS using Source 2
“complexe gore and dismemberment system
press x to doubt.
It’s in the very code that leaked, HLA has pretty good looking gore, it’s not a complexe real-time system but it’s visually detailed and gruesome
I like the fact that we don't have to jump and dodge like a f4g anymore. Eternal was trash.
I actually liked Eternal or most of it, i just found the overall design a bit cartoonish sure 2016 was a better entry but it could've been worse
Yeah it was a massive downgrade compared to 2016.
I loved 2016, some parts of that game reminds me of Prometheus and alien covenant for some reason.
I beat eternal once and never looked back.
by the second dlc the waves of enemies got so tiresome, i just wanted the game to end.
i like sci fi, i dont like medieval fantasy, i did not like the style or the cartoonish graphics or the music, the music in the new doom sounds better and i hated the combat, use this weapon to kill that enemy and you can only carry as many bullets as you can fit in your mouth because reasons. WRONG WEAPON USED, ENEMIES ARE SPONGY NOW…..you done killing repettive wave of enemies in an arena? Lets break up the pace with an optional gate sidequest, just walk in, you be killing waves of respawning enemies for a few minutes in an arena shaped room.
Doom 2016 was better.
You just reminded me how much I hated having to match weapon type to enemy type. That combined with limited ammo was a pain in the a*s.
people legit trashed the dmc reboot for doing that, but when doom eternal did it, it was awesome.
You're trash. Horrible poster.
Get triggered f4ggot
yup 100% correct on gta 6, woke and mp focused and doom is now YOU BETTER HAVE AS MANY CPU CORES AS POSSIBLE BECAUSE WE GOT AS MANY ENEMIES AS POSSIBLE ON SCREEN….damn bro, is this really the most important thing for a doom game?
Yep, some of the footage i saw reminded me of Serious Sam, we don’t need that much enemies on screen, just good placement and behavior coupled with good level design, anyway wait & see
to be fair old doom games were like that in the slaughter maps and then duke 3d reduced enemies with the build engine. Quake lowered even more, you cant have that many enemies in modern doom games because of cpu power. This is why it has such high cpu requirement.
Not necessarily as we still have games that display a lot of enemies on screen, Serious Sam Siberian Mayhem in some maps easily surpasses 100 enemies at the same time, it’s just that it’s not about the number anymore, Quake proved that having good placement and behavior with each enemy having its purpose is much better than having a messy monster fest, i personally hate some Doom 2 levels for that and still have nightmares of Plutonia
obviously that engine is designed this way.
It would be hard for Rockstar th f*ck up GTA 6 but I guess it's possible. The unprecedented success and popularity of GTA 5 pretty much guarantees that it will be a huge financial success. Hell, that game has sold 210 million copies and generated 8.5 billion dollars in revenue. Second best selling game of all time next to Minecraft. Even if GTA 6 is a turd gamers will buy it anyway and it probably won't be a turd but possibly a bit mediocre if Rockstar hasn't been making the proper effort all of these years in making a really great game.
i dont have the hardware for it and upgrading cpu and mobo and ram for one game and reinstalling windows on a nvme and getting a new graphics card and paying 80 bucks which is its rumored price in this economy….yeah maybe in 5 years.
2 Months ago i upgraded my RAM to 32 Gb DDR4 3600 Mhz !! i think my Ryzen 5700X + RX 6700 XT could handle Doom The Dark Ages but GTA 6 i really have no idea !!!
Haha, Rockstar isn't even bringing GTA to PC or even at launch. With an this in mind, you're still sucking their Deeeks? C'mon man, have some dignity. Rockstar haven't made one FUQIN game I enjoyed orc played for more than 15%. Rockstar make sh*t games, I don't understand the appeal to wanna run around an open world with "mods". No God damn objective, "it has MODS y'all". I know you have better things to do in 2025.
just keep the damn Denuvo and remove this garbage instead.
Ahahaha I legit LOL'd. Good one!
Game is actually not that bad. Ofc, if you would remove matriarchy and redesign ugly a*s women, you would get solid mid tier game
Sure, ok XD
now if only sega would remove denuvo from lost judgement
No EA, I'm not pirating this garbage, thanks!
LOL
Edit: the game just updated on Steam and it's now gone!
Hey John! Lukaself from the DenuvoGames curator group here. We checked the files and unfortunately it appears that for the moment they did not remove Denuvo on Steam, only the warning on the store page.
We tested it and launching the freshly installed game without internet still spits out the usual Denuvo error message.
Wish they would remove it out of all the latest Need for Speed games but doubt that will happen
Need for Speed games have been trash for over two decades now
heat was pretty good the rest havent been good since 2010 and 2007 before that. 2015 gets too much hate.
Bet they want us to pirate this so they can write they had more 'engagement' in the investors report as they did with Veilguard
The game itself is a stronger DRM than Denuvo, imagine paying them to protect this crap.
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LOL yeah, the fault was "single player shooter" for sure.
In the meantime DOOM will sell like hotcakes.
I wonder why is that, "former dev"?
Seeing that and looking at doom makes me laugh.
I don't even like shooters, but single player shooters are still very popular, if they are good.
Imagine a turok like doom 2016, gearbox could revive duke nukem and make it like 2016 but they are too woke for that.
Not everything has to look or be like Doom 2016 my man. Doom 2016 was being as hell. All Turok or Duke has to do is release a new game today. It doesn't have to be like boring Doom 2016. I made the mistake of playing Shadow warrior 2 before Doom 2016 and I believe that's what destroyed it for me.
Shadow warrior 2 Is Pure Mayhem, Action and Loot Tsunami. A Gem. Co-op is a blast also. Top game of last couple years.
doom 2016 is one of the best games ever and shadow warrior 2 while looks and runs good is a repettive looter shooter with randomized level design and bulletspongy enemies. Just no.
That muscular chick is actually funny. There are few jokes on her account, but still rest of cast could be WAY better
Why make a AAA singleplayer shooter? Make it AA, most boomer shooters that are popular are made for less than100k.
Also the magic shooter was a terrible idea, who wants that? The game run like crap and was super short anyway.
Man of all the old MadTV cast, why couldn't it have been like Will Sasso that ended up being in every video game instead of Debra Wilson? At least they would have been funny to play..
Debra Wilson is very funny. The problem is the games they put her in didn't call for funny. They called for, "I'm lion hear me roar".
What you get by mixing DEI + UE5 slop is this game
What's wrong with UE5? Every game I've seen with it look amazing.
Meanwhile, stalker 2 exists
Translation: we're not allowed to tell the truth in public, so we made up some crap to feed the media.
Nope. Doesn't matter.
Available in the Humble Choice February bundle as an Origin key. I raised a support ticket over the Origin key which got the following reply-
And of course it has been available on Steam since 22nd August, 2023.
I had Hope for this game, a B-teir AAA new IP( my Jam). But then the Pink hairs smothered it before it had a chance.