A lot of PC gamers were excited when KOEI Tecmo announced that Nioh would be coming to the PC. Nioh: Complete Edition releases on November 7th, and it won’t be using the controversial Denuvo anti-tamper tech.
In an interview with WCCFTech, Team Ninja’s Game Director Fumihiko Yasuda confirmed that the game won’t be using it. In today’s day and age that almost all the latest triple-A games, it’s really refreshing knowing that Nioh won’t be using it. Do note that this is a highly anticipated PC release, so we believe that KOEI Tecmo did the right thing here.
Fumihiko Yasuda also confirmed that the game won’t lock graphics settings. A lot of users believed that the team would be offering two locked graphics settings: Action and Movie. However, it appears that these are just two of the available presets. As such, PC gamers will be able to independently adjust the graphics settings.
We don’t know whether the recent Denuvo fails were crucial to KOEI Tecmo’s decision. A lot of companies used Denuvo in order to keep their games safe – from pirates – for at least a respectable number of days. However, cracking groups are now able to crack/hack Denuvo in a matter of hours. Therefore, and at this point, there is no reason at all for publishers to use Denuvo in their games.
But anyway, what’s important here is that Nioh: Complete Edition won’t be using Denuvo at all. Here is hoping that Team Ninja will be able to offer a decent PC version. We also hope that the game will properly support mouse+keyboard. Yes, Nioh is a console game but since it is coming to the PC, we want proper controls like those of all other third-person games.
Stay tuned for more!
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Great news all around. Even though mods could and would fix a graphics lock very easily (like it did with Dark Souls), we really shouldn’t have to mod basic features into our games. Now here’s hoping it runs well, as this engine is probably the most advance Koei Tecmo had ever used for one of their games.
I saw you on a Metokur YouTube video!
Haha, lemme guess, the Harvey video? Ya, I love Jim’s stuff, it’s always great for a laugh.
I don’t remember. Maybe. I watched his Neogaf video the other day and it was hilarious. I knew nothing of Neogaf but a 2 hour stream watching a cr@ppy site die in real-time? Pure entertainment.
made the port good and it will sell good
No 21:9… sad face
hopefully mods or flawless widescreen will do the job
Flawless widescreen still gets updated?
course it does, the challange is making it work
i figured that uninstalling and reinstalling seems to be more effective than updating the software
hell i even got Fable anniversary to work in 21:9
with it, it’s a good piece of software, when it works…
are you sure?
yep, just uninstall and reinstall if $hit doesn’t work
it’s usually hit or miss, sometimes Fable anniversary will crash at start up
sometimes it will crash at the leveling up hub at the academy
but it works for the most part, use default setting (with the default steam pathing)
honestly if there is a better solution like a different EXE i’ed go with that
but if you have no solution available, that software is your bread and butter.
No it doesn’t unfortunately, the dev is really busy with life stuff which is a shame. He has mad skills and is also a real cool/good guy.
Yeah that is the only negative part 🙁 , sucks. Hopefully someone mods it, my three screen setup is ready.
21:9 is not gaming or even watch movies -.-
Good news. I don’t think KT ever used denuvo before. The only thing to worry is if it will be a good port or not…
I guess they did it with one thier games, three kingdom or something, not the game but they added Denuvo into it’s DLC and i guess they removed it after.
It’s a Square Enix game, so…
I don’t know what Nioh is but my nipples are hard nonetheless!
So you are saying it wont be cracked in 3 hours?
Nah, just that legitimate customers won’t get screwed in the process.
focus on making a good port, Denuvo is cracked in hours nowadays so what’s is the point?
Hopefully the port is omptimized. This is closest we’re getting to a ninja gaiden game on PC. While they’re at it, bring that to PC as well 😀 (the Xbox and 360 versions with all the gore, not sigma!)
I don’t know what any of this means, but I have met a few demons before and they seem cool so I think I’ll like Neo, since I also liked the Matrix.
Love it. It sounds like something I’d love to play.
No Denuvo, so the game is cracked in seconds rather than hours or days, Yet I bet this game doesn’t come to GoG because DRM Free is somehow bad.
This is great news, I’ll probably buy it at day 1.
Also, thanks for mentioning the need for proper mouse+keyboard controls, it’s something very important for me.