Diecast #303: Denuvo, Noita, Epic Sales
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Hosts: Paul, Shamus. Episode edited by Issac.
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0:29 Shamus’ House
I’ll repeat this here for those of you who don’t listen to the show: Our family is moving. As of right now, it looks like it’ll happen in early July. I’ll do what I can to keep the content mill going, but you know it goes. Hopefully we won’t wind up with a five day internet blackout like we had last time.
6:56 Noita
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32:50 Denuvo Anti-Cheat
Eurogamer has a run-down of the whole thing.
Like I said on the show, I uninstalled the Bethesda Launcher the moment I heard about a Doom Eternal update that installs anti-cheat at the kernel level. Now the question: If I previously installed the Bethesda launcher with admin privs, what are the odds that the update would need to ask for privs again before installing something like Denuvo Anti-Cheat? I know it’s POSSIBLE to set things up so that it never needs to ask for privs again, but Bethesda developers are demonstrably lazy and very likely to take the path of least resistance in any given task. And I’m 99% sure that in this case, the path of least resistance would require an additional popup asking for privileges. Since I never saw one, I’m reasonably sure that Bethesda didn’t mess with my operating system.
47:54 Mailbag: Civ 6
Hi Shamus
I was listening to your recent Diecast where you talk about buying Civilisation VI with that weird coupon from Civilisation V. I now see the Epic Game store is giving away Civilisation VI for free. Do you take this as further confirmation that the Epic Game store is out to aggravate you, personally, and damn the cost?
Best
Sam
51:46 Mailbag: EA Open Source
Hi Shamus! Hi Paul!
It’s less of the question, more of sharing the news, I suppose. So, here’s the link https://www.reddit.com/r/commandandconquer/comments/gnevp8/remaster_update_and_open_source_mod_support/ . Basically, EA is making some parts of the upcoming Command & Conquer remaster open-source. And considering that the material they showed previously (trailer, graphics, music and such), I can’t help but compare it to WC3 Reforged. I’m, admittedly, a CnC guy, and not really a fan of Blizzard RTS formula, but I’m still not sure how to feel, that Blizz is stumbling, and EA is doing… these… nice… things… after CnC4 and Rivals. I just find it so puzzling, that I’m not sure why its happening this way. May be you can explain this alternative reality?
Best regards, DeadlyDark