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Warner Bros has removed the Denuvo anti-tamper tech from Hitman 2

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It appears that Warner Bros and IO Interactive have removed the Denuvo anti-tamper tech from Hitman 2. This information comes straight from the game’s Steam database entry, and its Steam store page does no longer list Denuvo.

Hitman 2 was released on November 13th for the PC and it was cracked almost two weeks after its official release. We don’t know why it took Warner Bros and IO Interactive so long in order to remove, it however I’m pretty sure that a number of PC gamers will be delighted.

Contrary to its predecessor, Hitman 2 only uses DX11 and has major optimization issues in numerous scenes. As such, we’ll be testing this new Denuvo-free version in order to see whether there are any performance improvements and we’ll be sure to let you know in case there is a noticeable performance boost (if there isn’t any, we will just update this article).

Have fun everyone and stay tuned for more!

43 thoughts on “Warner Bros has removed the Denuvo anti-tamper tech from Hitman 2”

  2. When is shtstainsoft gonna remove it? All their games are cracked but its really messing up the a$$creed performance.
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    Never because ubisoft are worse than the koch brothers when it comes to those things.

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    1. Yes and that is why Denuvo or No Denuvo doesn’t matter because it’s still Always-Online. Regardless, it’s still Cancer.

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  5. Well it was Cracked TWO WHOLE DAYS before release, so who exactly was Denuvo Protecting the game from? Honest Customers? Besides that game is Always-Online Trash So it doesn’t matter whether or not Denuvo is in it. If you ain’t Online you get like 20% of what you paid for. Get Bent IO Interactive, please go play in traffic. Always-Online Full Priced games, especially single Players ware straight garbage and should not be tolerated.

    They Did all the same rubbish they did for HITMAN 1, THAT DIDN”T work and expected different results. IO Interactive have a learning disability it seems. You don’t care about gamers, God Knows what they care about. It definitely ain’t money either. By the stupid decisions this developer has made over and over again. They finally got their freedom and then they jumped right in bed with WB.

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    1. IO Interactive have a learning disability it seems.

      Let me correct you here; the video game industry has a learning disability. See: Metro Exodus for the latest example of this.

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          2. Cool Man, I am glad! Ah sh|t, nothing worse than a gaming funk, well I hope you find some cool games this year to turn that around. Yeah life is always there on your shoulders and to eat up your time that is for sure.

            For my self the following titles look/are solid and may get your mojo flowing(well hopefully at least one of them) :

            – The Messenger
            – Ori and the Will of the Wisps
            – Feudal Alloy
            – Forza Horizon 4
            – Resident Evil 2 remake
            – Doom Eternal
            – Shadow of the Tomb Raider
            – Atomic Heart
            – Metro Exodus
            – Valfaris
            – PLANET Alpha
            – R-Type Dimensions EX
            – Assassin’s Creed Odyssey
            – Timespinner
            – Mortal Komabt 11
            – Mega Man 11
            – Monster Hunter World
            – Eagle Island
            – Blazing Chrome
            – Guacamelee! 2
            – RAGE 2

            Anyways take care Dude m/

    2. Its not always online. You can play the entire game offline, you just wont unlock new items or challenges.

      If you want to attack a company for anti-consumer practices you could do a lot better than IO. Just look at Activision and EA.

      I’m no fan of DRM or always-online bullsh*t but I don’t have a problem with what IO have done with the last two Hitman games.They’re independent now so I think some counter piracy measures are to be expected, since if they don’t make a decent profit they probably won’t exist for much longer.

      Sure, other independent companies do fine without it, but IO already had a large staff before they went independent. There’s a lot at risk if everyone pirates their games.

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      1. So just because EA is basically the devil incarnate in the gaming industry everyone else gets a pass on terrible business practices ? Nice fallacy there buddy. “i know i just robbed a store but there are murders out there.”

        You said it yourself the game can be played from start to finish offline, so what counter piracy measures are you talking about ? Denuvo ? Because yeah that worked out great for them.

        You’re assuming that the pirates that are playing the game would have bought the game if the game was not cracked which is a baseless assumption, proven wrong time and time again, but even if you were correct that some selective risk right there. So for somone who claims to be no fan of DRM you sure like to defend it.

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        1. You really came in swinging with that fancy ‘fallacy’ word. I think your rage is misguided.

          I’m not schilling, just being a realist. DRM produces investor confidence. Regardless of whether or not it works. They removed the DRM too, so… whats your point? That they were stupid to have ever put it in? Maybe, but I bet it got them a few more sales from people who are too impatient (or stupid) to wait for a crack or find one themselves.

          There aren’t many publishers who don’t demand some kind of DRM. That’s just the business, and has been for about 25 years. Just about every game released has it. CD Projekt Red is an anomaly.

          And no, I’m not saying DRM works or should be involved. I pirate games myself and guess what.. sometimes (a lot of the time) I don’t buy them. Once I’ve gotten bored of it, or just decide its plain not worth parting with my money for, I move on.

          You sound like you are arguing from the perspective of ‘I should be able to pirate games so I can demo them and make a purchase decision’. Which I agree with, I do it almost whenever possible. But the fact that you are angry you can only play pirated Hitman 2 and miss out on the frills of unlocks, makes me think you had no intention of ever buying the game at all.

          I think IO knew their game would be cracked and therefor, they made it so you only progress your profile and unlocks through connecting online. Smart move if you ask me. Doesn’t mean I admire anti-consumer practices, once again just being realistic because gaming is a business. If always online and DRM is what it takes to keep the Hitman franchise alive, I’m fine with it. Hitman 1&2 were their best games to date, and I bet it took a lot of money to make them.

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          1. Sure maybe they got the sales from the people who are impatient for wait for the crack, but guess what they lost mine. Because let me tell you no way in hell i’m gonna pay for a SP game that needs internet connection to acess most of it’s features, and i’m pretty sure that i’m not alone in this regard.

            Where did you get that i’m angry that i can only play the cracked version with no unlocks ? That i had no intention of buying ? Are you phsychic ? Tone down your assumptions. You say smart move that they made the progress online only, Why ? Because then pirates can’t unlock ? Do you think that they care ? Guess what i tell you who cares, buyres of the game. Playing the game while suddenly
            you lost connection to the server ? Kicked out to main menu all progress lost and all your features locked out. Now i gonna be honest i don’t know about the servers of this one but the Hitman 2016 had some major problems which you can guess who paid the price for that, just go take a look at Steam reviews.

            You are being realistic ? Like the publishers ? Making wild assumptions with no evidence to back it up ? How do you know that is the DRM that kept Hitman alive ? Again if you are going to claim something like that please do show us your sources.

      2. ”
        Its not always online. You can play the entire game offline, you just wont unlock new items or challenges.”. So… it’s always online. Unless you want to waste your time.

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        1. which… is not always online.

          Regardless, always online isn’t a big issue to me. Maybe to someone who doesn’t have great internet in Brazil or something, but how often are you disconnected from the internet really?

          The most popular games are all multiplayer, which kind of requires being always-online. Why would businesses think this is an issue for consumers?

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          2. how do you play this 20 years from now? With no online, important parts of the game are missing.

          3. Good point. There will probably be a legacy release or something by that time I’m guessing.

      3. You have a serious problem bro and you need to seek help for your state of mind because you aren’t telling us anything we don’t know. You think we want to waste our time and play a game you can’t progress in. Do you think that little of the rest of us dude? Therefore this game IS ALWAYS- ONLINE & there is 0 reason for this rubbish. There wasn’t in Hitman 1 & they refused to listen in Hitman 2. I didn’t even bother with Hitman 1 and I own the whole game when I realized that the type of rubbish I was getting myself into. Hitman 2 showed up in my games library and I wouldn’t even take a dump on this game, if it was the last toilet on earth. If rather crap myself for the world to see in Time Square, than subject myself to this type of madness.

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        1. “You have a serious problem bro and you need to seek help for your state of mind”.

          Same paragraph

          “I wouldn’t even take a dump on this game, if it was the last toilet on earth. If rather crap myself for the world to see in Time Square, than subject myself to this type of madness.”

          Nice projection pal.

          Is that a Malcolm X profile pic too?? LOL

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        2. “rather crap myself for the world to see in Time Square”

          Almost as embarrassing as publicly defending Fallout 76 or being a games ‘journalist’ nowadays. ?

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          1. Brother it took me being a gamer at 35 years of age to learn that people will defend ANYTHING THESE DAYS. It is most rampant in the gaining community/industry. let’s just say this the game community has the political community beat when it comes to defending rubbish. Because I’ve seen people defending fallout 76. fallout 76 is the Frankenstein of Video games. That game is comprised of code from every Bethesda game known to man.

      1. Yeah it’s so damn annoying. Like why do we need to know this. Ubisoft started doing that mess over a decade ago. I guess by their logic, I’m diverse AF because I’m Black and my woman is Chinese. Yeah, Diversity ? Someone should tell these virtue signaling companies that we’ve moved on bro, diversity is so 50 years ago. ???

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          1. Rofl. At least when they put those in AC 10+ years ago U-BE-SOFT was using them as disclaimers with actually sensible language, this is just blatant SJW drivel.

          2. Please don’t even vaguely compliment Ubisoy. It triggers me. I’m so offended.

            I shall now temporarily retreat to the safe space that is PC Gamer where one of their ‘journalists’ was permitted to date an Ubisoft PR employee without declaring said conflict of interest when writing about the products his girlfriend was responsible for promoting. Said ‘journalist’ was defended by the site editor who also confessed he was well aware of the situation but did nothing about it. Both individuals escaped being fired and are still employed at PC Gamer. Jesus wept.

          4. Haha! I wouldn’t visit that proverbial hive of scum and villainy if you paid me. If I ever do so again then this Adblock will be fully armed and operational.

  8. I give little to no praise of companies that use this garbage in the first place, and then remove it once it proves futile anyways.

    You want to win back good will of the customer base? Then get rid of this garbage forever. End of story.

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