Oh man, I was going to wishlist it and wait but now I’ll have to buy it on launch week.
EDIT: Sabre Interactive understands that the Emperor’s light shields the faithful, making dark machine rites like Denuvo unnecessary. Such heretical rites only agitate the machine spirits, causing discordant whispers that play into the hands of the enemies of Man. The Omnissiah smiles upon this decision.
If this game releases with good quality my friends and I are day 2 customers for sure. Seems fun as hell from the videos.
I’m still pretty gutted about there being a season pass and DLC and stuff, but… I might be a week 4 customer 👀 it does look fun!
On the upshot, that season pass and the DLC stuff is all cosmetic only. All gameplay additions will be free for all.
This seems really promising. Unfortunately, I expect they’ll still use Steam DRM, but everything I’ve heard so far is immensely promising so who know, maybe we’ll get lucky and they’ll skip even that.
Steam DRM is nothing like stuff people should be aware of. Ask any modder for confirmation.
Modder here. Denuvo has absolutely no effect on modding. Steam DRM checks the integrity of the executable and also crashes on breakpoints. That said, it’s easy to remove with Steamless. Memory hacks work fine.
Edit: However, Space Marine 2 is going to use EAC, which is a kernel-level anti-cheat which prevents any modding short of utilizing or creating private hacks that may involve rogue system drivers.
Hard disagree on denuvo. If it’s no problem for you then you must have tons of experience in re. Which puts you into some 1%-ish group. Depends on the type of mods you do of course.
Dammit, EAC may be an issue on Linux though. It’s kinda hit or miss whether a given developer will take the extra steps, particularly given the conflicting sources on just how complex it actually is. According to Valve, it’s a checkbox and dropping a file in your depot. Others claim it would require an Epic Online Services version of EAC, with all the baggage that carries, including potentially rewriting a whole chunk of your code.
Not that I would know, but you definitely can’t remove it with a single piece of software
Edit: /s
Games are comming back
They don’t need Denuvo protection because the Emperor protects.
Another concise and simple answer to Denuvo and DRM is “exterminatus”.