Last week, a couple of piracy groups have cracked numerous games using Denuvo. And, from the looks of it, the latest version of this anti-tamper tech is no longer safe. After all, Marvel’s Avengers and Mafia: Definitive Edition, two of the latest games that were using Denuvo, have been cracked.
In the past few months, a lot of publishers were able to keep their games safe from pirates (by using Denuvo). However, that won’t be the case unless Denuvo issues a brand new version of its anti-tamper tech.
Now while crackers have defeated this latest version of Denuvo, there are still some games with Denuvo that have not been cracked. F1 2020, Crysis Remastered, Star Wars: Squadrons, FIFA 21 and Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1+2 are some of them.
It will be interesting to see whether Square Enix and 2K Games will now remove Denuvo from these two games. After all, this anti-tamper tech is currently hurting only its legitimate customers. It will also be interesting to see whether Marvel’s Avengers will see any performance improvements if Square Enix decides to remove Denuvo from it.
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You forgot Death Stranding, Total War, and MK 11!
And soon Crysis Remastered.
Nope.
Sure, you keep telling yourself that.
are you low IQ or pretending?
Oh, gee, guess what just got cracked today?
You know there’s people offering denuvo activations for as low as 50 cents? Nothing will ever stop pirates from getting a game if they really want it.
yep, this has created a new economy
cracking takes months, its like the development of a new game or mod.
not months… Think about this why they not crack so often…
Not really. those who wait prosper in the end. And that’s what they do, they just wait it out.
50 cents aint free so it doesn’t count.
If some group would to it, it would be CPY cause Reloaded is kinda dead.
True, although scene as a whole has been kinda defeatist these past few years.
They were in vacation.
LOL
are those even good games?
You’re the only one that can answer to that question.
Avengers certainly isnt
mafia remake is pretty damn good ,no pozz. As for avengers i skimmed through 3 hours of gameplay in youtube, you play as kamala harris for most of the game, its really scripted and linear, kamala does as much damage in combat as thor and hulk and it has looter shooter mechanics with boxes you destroy to get parts to get better equipment, because you know, the hulk needs better equipment for high level enemies.
I played beta and then what they called a release.
Game crashed a lot , almost unplayable in multiplayer for a while but I managed to completed the story.
Kamala Harris is the senator running for VP with Biden. Kamala Khan is Miss Marvel.
Sarcasm is what you use to make fun of something. Literal is what you are when you are being exact with your information. i think the OP was using the former and it went WAAAAAAY over your head.
godamn it, i did it again.
Nope, but is nice to see that Denuvo gets cracked.
Mafia is based af
Mafia is well worth buying, I have no real issues with Denuvo, when a game is good just support the developers and buy it.
You’re that ret4rded?
Do you need a hug @disqus_cwo1ReMd2h:disqus
It seems you weren’t loved much as a child :/
Idk what you’re talking about. The game is great. Considering it’s sitting at “Very Positive” on steam and has an 8.2 rating from users on Metacritic you just come off looking like a dumbass. The game is very worth buying. Don’t listen to the guy still using leetspeak like it’s the early 2000’s. Kinda pathetic.
Because there’re filters for such words here.
Game is great only for newf**s for whom Mafia 3 was first and only Mafia game..
I’ll support them when it’s good and doesnt have Denuvo
Good for you, tough i’m not in the business of supporting developers, whatever they do.
You probably should be finding another hobby then.
Because?
I think the reasoning is obvious.
it’s too short for the price. wait for a discount, otherwise brilliant game
Waiting for FIFA 21.
Just play FIFA 18. Same s**t.
play eFootball PES 2021, CPY already did it, its a better game anyway, just need to search for that real emblem/kit patch on google.
Already bought PES 2021 via loyal bonus.
RDR2 when?
RDR2 is not with Denuvo
We don’t care 🙂
who’s we?
The guys downloading now that it is cracked.
You waited 2 years to play it. I pirate almost every game I play but I didn’t mind forking out the cash not to wait 2 years.
I had other things to play, don’t worry. This was mostly an exception, as most games don’t take this long to crack.
One of the best in the past few years. I get not buying Denuvo games but boycotting games just because they have DRM is another thing.
So you forked cash for a console? Cause PC version came out 1 year ago.
I already had a PS4 Pro. Sold it a year ago with my copy of RDR2. Worth it for that but otherwise no more consoles for me.
RDR2 is worth owning anyway, Grab it on sale!
The attention to little details in game is worth paying for.
RDR2 worth owning? sure, if you like anti-white propaganda and historical revisionism
Care to elaborate?
It was pretty tame. The most egregious parts imo were the over represented tuff-whamen and making the Native mixed race.
Today is the day. Finally!
RDR2 is cracked.
The only game truly deserving of our money will be cyberpunk
LMAO no. First, it’s Yakuza 7 that deserves money. Second, only on sale.
A fan of karaoke then?
LOL
LOL Yakuza is not karaoke.
we will see.
Finally. Thanks.
Played Mafia DEmake, wanted to drive around new city and even that part is not that appealing. Let alone everything else.
Just wait for Mafia II Lost Heaven mod full release.
Yeah. Just wait for some janky mod on aged Mafia II engine with zero missions or story. Sounds perfectly splendid.
OR.. hear me out. Play this absolute masterpiece of a remake that makes all other remasters and remakes pale in comparison. Have fun with that.
Aged M2 engine >>>>>> M3 engine.
100%. If you like your games looking like dry aged dog turd. Have it it you pathetic purist. You are so sad.
I see you don’t care for slightest about story, dialogues, vibe, gameplay but only for shiny graphics like some childish ret4rd.
Hmmm.. considering mafia definitive edition only got a graphics upgrade and the story is the same I would say your argument is completely pointless. You also seem to only care about graphics since you want Lost Heaven in the mafia 2 engine.
You are a pathetic hypocrite with no basis for any argument.
“Enhanced” story which made original one look dumber with less sense.
Nothing wrong for appreciating the graphics if the game is good. But it’s never the main point unlike you who like Mafia DEmake more solely for “better” pixels.
“only got a graphics upgrade”
That’s an absolute lie. It’s a Remake in every sense, and you should stop shilling about it, even when in your twisted mind is considered a masterpiece.
actually they cut some missions and changed few… most ppl that played mafia 1 and remember it feel like remake is shallow eyecandy casualised 2020 sayboy edition. Yes its not terrible but its more mafia 3 then mafia 1 even on classic difficulty. Game is also several hours shorter from all the cut content and super fast cars for current gen kids.
They don’t make Remakes or remasters for old timers you foolish SJW, if the kids buy they’re happy, you get it ?
So kids only want shiny graphics. Got it.
Kids don’t know what they want, that’s why they must be protected, you beautiful godly SJW
Also, even in graphics, Mafia 2 looks better than this Mafia DEmake.
i generally agree with you but mafia remakes looks a lot better then mafia 2 no matter how you look at it. Still original Mafia is by far superior to any other game from franchise
This one try hard to be a stupid.
I’m sure he is hitting pro level very soon.
Flawless Victory…
Pale in comparison? LMAO.
Yakuza Kiwami 1-2 would like a big word with you about being king of remakes (actual remakes).
Far from a masterpiece. If all they had done was update the graphics and leave everything exactly the same, yes even the janky gameplay, then maybe. They bastardized the story and tone of the original.
Well comparing a Remaster to a remake is just stupid. NEXT!
John: “i will wait until crysis remastered is cracked because i dont know if this is a new version”
also john “avengers was cracked which came out in what august? So i guess that means the new version is cracked?”
All the games that were cracked came a while ago, i dont think this is the new version john.
Mafia : DE is just being release a few weeks back.
Already own Mafia DE and enjoyed it, dont care about avengers after playing the beta. You missed Death Stranding, which I found to be too repetitive when I tried on a PS4 and lack the time to engage with such games. So only valued game among them for who cant afford or reluctant towards the thought of purchase is Mafia DE.
On another note, are you going to cover the recent news about the source code hacking claim of Watch Dogs Legion and Crytek servers being encrypted by some hacker group? Found about such happening on Reddit, would love to educate myself here if you cover the news.
what? Tell me more
https://www.kotaku.com.au/2020/10/hackers-claim-to-have-leaked-watch-dogs-legions-source-code/
This doesn’t effect me as I buy my games and have no issues hitting 60fps on my CPU so Denuvo isn’t a problem either
I’m not a fan of Denuvo per say but as far as I am concerned I don’t think about Denuvo when playing games as I pay for them and when I play I have no issues with performance or anything like that so it may as well not even be there. I don’t even know when I am playing a Denuvo game sometimes so I don’t see why all the hate?. Hell it’s not like Games for Windows Live where I have about three games in my Steam Library that will no longer load on Windows 10 because of Games for Windows Live no longer existing
not everyone has high end PC, some games after denuvo gets removed get even 30% more FPS and no longer get stuttering. Denuvo is very heavy on CPU if its badly implemented and yes if denuvo is not removed in patch you will be unable to play denuvo games in future just like GWL games…
This very website has tested games with Denuvo on and Denuvo disabled and found no meaningful difference between the two so Denuvo disabled doesn’t add 30% more frames , that is unless you have a link that proves otherwise?. If you have a PC that meets recommended spec the game should run fine. If you have a low end PC then frame rate issues are more likely to do with having a low end PC. I don’t have a high end PC, I have an i7 5820k @ 4.5ghz and a Titan X Maxwell which are both getting old now yet I enjoyed Mafia Definitive Edition maxed out at 2560x1440p 60fps with no issues and didn’t even know the game was using Denuvo. People are blowing things out of proportion., if the game doesn’t run well get a refund problem solved
You cannot prove it, especially as low end processor owner like myself you juts can feel it (many testers dont even use older processor like customer usually use)
There it’s being benchmarked with Denuvo on and disabled using an i7 2600k at stock settings. https://www.guru3d.com/news-story/seven-games-benchmarked-before-and-after-denuvo-got-removed.html What you need to remember is that i7 2600k at stock settings causes a CPU bottleneck as I upgraded my i7 2600 because minimum FPS was below 60fps so this really shows you the impact Denuvo has
Its still a 4 core processor, and the test show that there is a difference in FPS on some games. While in my dual core, any fps gain can be considered a win
Well a dual core is more likely to drop frames simply by being dual core than anything Denuvo does as it’s now below minimum spec
You’re stupid to think every PC runs the same, and you are very stupid to think we attack DENUVO because “it hurted my PC feelings”.
We attack DENUVO because it is bad for the gaming comunity as a whole, you 3x stupid egoistic cabbage!
Agree, I can also confirm that. My i3 6100 still capable of playing most non-denuvo version of game on high setting @1080p 50-60 FPS paired with GTX 1060 although many game benchmark even said its only 30-40 with that same processor/setup
The guy that b*ching about denuvo causing stuttering probably from pc beggars/pirate who still using dual core cpu… the only downside about denuvo is require to be online sometimes, but the performance issue never a major problem probably about 1 or 2% dip fps
I have never noticed a game using Denuvo running poorly or causing stuttering so as far as I am concerned I don’t think about it when playing games. If it causes more people to buy PC games then developers will put more effort into the PC version ensuring higher quality graphics settings so as far as I’m concerned Denuvo does no harm
Marvels Avengers sucks.
Wont buy or pirate.
Excellent news!
Denuvo and myself, are a very simple separation. I won’t buy a single player game, with an expiration date.
I couldn’t care less what argument anyone may have try to defend DRM, it’s just that simple to me. So long as the game requires some third party activation somewhere, it’s a no buy, and always will be.
I think it’s safe to assume, I’m not alone in that stance.
News like this indirectly encourages piracy.Why post them?
Some people like to be able to demo a game before purchasing them. Making sure you can run a game properly that is known to have issues without having to pay for the game and then have to wait for a refund can be a time saver. Obviously there are those that just want games for free but not everyone that pirates a game is like that.
I have bought games I really liked after pirating them. Most games are usually one and done forgettable tho so its not always
I’m old enough to remember spending a small fortune every month on many pc tech/game magazines sometimes just for the demo discs on the front cover!
Full of programs, trial/shareware and sometimes full games now everything has gone digital, news is on sites like these and game demo’s are basically buy the game first and try it out then refund it or go to dodgy site to trial it.
Been a few games now that I would not have even bought if I didn’t try them out first from certain other sites.
Some games I’ll buy straight away as I can see the amount of attention to detail be it gameplay/graphics/music such as RDR2, But there are many that are questionable and seem unfinished that I want to try out first.
Bring back game demo’s, Developers!
By your logic news about murder encourages murder…
Agent Smith is probably ok with hiding details from murder stories if it doesn’t fit his agenda, like the races of perpetrator and victim.
Ok maybe not piracy per se, but downloading illegal stuff yes.When someone hears about a murder news they don’t go to murder someone,on the other hand when someone hears about cracked games,yes,they will go and check it out.That’s why I said indirectly.
That’s fair, but you still would need to know where to get the cracked stuff (something that you’ll know way before reading about it in some article), and this article is not providing that info.
In the same way a murder news is not a tutorial in how to murder someone.
Don’t ever try to use logic against people with no brain.
It simply won’t work and they’ll call you stupid.
Yeah, that’s why I get the sudden urge to MURDER him. What an idiot statement he offered. Man… By the way I’m not gonna murder anyone. I love my freedom way too much. ?
To indirectly encourage piracy?Actual Pirates who browses piracy sites know that these games where cracked way before these post.
Yeah, as a regular visitor of repacks site (that use no-drm version in all of their repack) ,I can confirm its already out almost a week (4-5 days to be exact).Why I visit that repacks site? Because its have smaller size of game installation file that still compatible with the original digital version and that means smaller download size that helps me a lot because Im only using mobile internet with limited monthly quota.
Indeed, amazing that it takes pirates to take care of consumer needs. I mean mobile internet? Only pirates use that s/.
infrastructure in my country still not that great to be honest. In area where I live, no Fiber internet available,and no, Im not live in a countryside, its a suburb area, but still, fiber cant reach it so we depends on mobile internet. Im also not using mobile internet to download the repacks,its only mere 20 GB caps, Im usually using my office internet connection to download the repacks, installed it on my PC at home and then move the content of the installation folder (except for the cr*ck exe and dll) where steam usually install, download the game from steam, its instantly recognize the content of the folder and download the original exe or the rest of the file automatically (its usually less than a gig, so my mobile data will enough)
Only news that ecourages piracy is news of Epic exclusives.
Epic, make piracy great again.
if you were any more an NPC you’d use an AI character as your nickn….. oh wait….
Sure! Fluffybunnybeater :))
there is an actual personal anecdote behind my username. there is a cultural and behavioral anomaly indicated by yours..
I don’t know about 2K, but Square Enix does remove Denuvo from (some) games eventually. It’s why I have a legitimate copy of Dragon Quest Builders 2, BTW; I really wanted to play that game on the PC, but flat out refused to waste money on anything that carried the crapware that is Denuvo.
May the black ships sail once again for both Call of Duty Cold War and last but certainly not least. Cyberpunk 2077 Indeed…..
Call of Duty won’t get cracked. These games rely on online only connection’s. Same with Red Dead.
RDR never had online only feature.
I play it only in offline mode EVERY-EFING-DAY!
You are saying your computer never connects to the internet? Because the Rockstar Launcher will need to validate with Rockstar Servers every few hours that you play the game. Doesn’t matter if you only play single player. It still validates the game. If it didn’t then the game would have been cracked by now.
LOL
Wrong!
It validates one time per week, I guess. I remember opening the game and it giving me the message that I was offline, but this happens once in a week or so. There’s nothing of this real time validating you’re saying there.
I don’t know the exact time it needs to check. regardless… it checks.
While we’re discussing here, it just got cracked.
;D
No need to worry about the “checking” anymore.
the game crashes. so i wouldn’t call it fully cracked really
No it doesn’t.
I’ve been using this cracked exe since it came out.
And there’s even a V2 already, but I didn’t have problems with the prior neither.
Why the f**k should it validate a legally purchased game?
Ye Red Dead LMAO
Why would anyone bother cracking a game like cod with 5 hr campaign and is over 150 GB. Do you love that sh*t franchise that much. Waste of time, man power and god damn bandwidth.
CoD will be always online again. At least on PS4 it will be cracked.
Mafia remake wasn’t bad. I played it. Great graphics. But the car handling and character physics were a bit still. Still worth a play and then forget about it
Yeah it’s all the rage and im so frikkign happy. Lets hope this anticonsumer POS will die out!
All love to these in IMO heroes that crack this abomination!
Well it’s simple – F*CK all DRM!!
Allways said; I will never buy a game with Denuvo and never will. And I have stand by my word and will do so. Let this sh*t die!
All hail – CPY / CODEX and Empress!
Let the slaughter continue!
I like a different approach, if the game pleases me and can’t be cracked, I buy it.
Can’t let one simple program to keep me away from what I love.
Seems like CPY released it in a piece, don’t be surprise if Crysis Remastered, RDR 2, etc is next
Don’t get your hopes up on RDR 2, it uses a R* DRM, much more complicated to bypass than DENUVO itself.
Yeah tell that to EMPRESS 😉
Hell yeah!
Now I don’t have to pass through Steam to play.
Mafia 3 (a tu*d of a game) did really well without DRM, Mafia DE is a much better game, why DRM ? i don’t get these people.
No one knows how they make these decisions. Square Enix baffles us the most. Rise of the Tomb Raider (5 years old), still paying for that DRM that’s cracked As Fuq and every other hand in their line up.
Why would you bother installing DRM on a live service game? That’s like putting a paid security guard at the front gate 24/7 that you have to pay and he eats money, and then putting a padlock on the gate anyway.
Effectively is like common sense, not everyone has it. I’ve always been mind boggled about things that people do to “Make Them Feel Safe”. Now more than ever this dumb way of thinking has taken hold of this world. But all and all when the thing people do to make themselves FEEL safe backfires, that’s the part I love. Because it not only makes things worse it even put their lives in jeopardy. But that’s the mentality, “Instead of making Sh*t safe, we’re just gonna spend time making your feel safe”. That’s earth for ya!
Mafia : DE is fantastic but I would have been pissed off to pay for it, the 2-3 minute hitch/stall/crash that happens whenever it feels like it would have angered me… I doubt it’s just me too…
You mean EMPRESS? 😉