Here's an alternative version so you can really appreciate the majesty of this dude's belly.
That's the fusion reactor of that gator-kicking machine.
Also the docile look on the companion gator makes me want to caption him. Except I have no immediate ideas and am short on time, so I'll just pretend he's a socially anxious gator doing a 'count to 10' meditation and thinking to himself, 'Come on GatorGreg, you can do this, you deserve to be in this space as much as anyone else, like your GatorTherapist said. Just breathe.'
That autistic gator is the Arrowhead dev team just trying to keep their heads down.
PlayStation players
This is the ideal male body. You might not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like.
I've quit riot, blizzard, ea, activition, ubisoft, and now sony. There are so many incredible games to play out there and I don't need to waste my time with publishers I can't trust.
"Beloved by all" Don't be so hasty. I wish I could love games with kernel level anti cheats, but there are far better games with less risky software.
It's a really fun game though so idk I don't care (about the privacy concerns, your opinion is valid regardless)
It's not just privacy. Kernel level anti cheat software opens up a new attack vector for malicious actors, e.g. your computer is less secure. Your system also becomes less stable and is prone to crash more often. This is all dependent on the skill of the software engineers writing the kernel level anti cheat of course.
Unfortunately, most software, if not most of modern IT is a house of cards.
Honestly, they also enshitified it at launch by shipping alongside a rootkit.
I'm out of the loop. What rootkit was it shipped with/as?
The Helldiver 2 game shipped with a kernel level anticheat software, which is proven to be potentially harmful to player's computers but fairly ineffective against preventing cheating/hacking. The concept behind it is that a program that runs when your computer starts up with the highest level of privileges can see everything that the user is running which could hypothetically help the devs blacklist problematic programs that they're already aware of.
Sony has been fucking over the AAA gaming market for at least 20 years now.
Hey that's a little unfair, they've also fucked the music and movie industries.
But this one sure was a doozy.
nProtect seems to be even worse than it sounds:
no idea if they patched any of that since, but accepting non-validated DLLs is some wild level of neglect...
That's it..? That's all it takes to bypass anticheat?
yep. it's completely ridiculous.
I mean if it is a choice between using a Sony account and using nProtect. Would choose Sony account but needing both is a little overkill.
All of you playing on a pc already installed the insane rootkit of drm that it comes with, idk why any of you would complain about linking a sony account.
That drm is why I only got it on ps5, at least there its not on my pc.
It's not just about security. It's also about half of the countries in the world not being able to have a PSN account. Anyone in those countries who bought the game can no longer play the game they bought. I'm sure there are a lot of people who don't otherwise care about the DRM who are going to be locked out of their game.
You speak so high and might as if its incomprehensible that someone might enjoy this on say, a Steam Deck? Where that risk is significantly mitigated. It was entirely optional to have Sony at the start, its unacceptable that has changed.
Especially if you're one of the people complaining about the PSN data breaches... My brother in christ you're cool with having malware by definition from an insanely shady korean company on your computer.
that ps plus subscription where I'm from is too hard to swallow with the fx rate now heading to the 60:1 lvl
Wow first I am hearing of this, what a bummer.
It's Gamespy round 2 (also, what an awful name for an authentication service)
GameSpy wasn't an authentication service. It was a way to search for servers for games because the in game search usually sucked. When you launched the game from GameSpy it would simply send a command line argument with the IP address when calling the executable. Well that's how it worked initially.
Kernel level anti cheat, battle pass, micro transactions in a $40 game btw. It was shit from the beginning. Unfortunate cause the game itself is so good.
$40 is almost half what you pay for a new game nowadays, how much do you think a game should cost then?
As someone who spent 5 years making games, and 3 years in the industry, GAMES SHOULD BE FREE.
Good games come from passionate developers. Even the first major releases of Godot was built on the backs of 3 open source developers and some contributors. But when I started working for a gaming company, I saw the sleezy PMs look at players as nothing more than numbers on spreadsheets, fun features take the backseat to more monetization, and all the good content that made the game fun come from developers working overtime to make it happen.
People inherently want to make fun games. It's the hyper competitive toxic industry that's holding everyone back.
Basically, it was a good enough game for it to be worth being that one AAA game you touch every 5 years, but Sony adding more bulshit past the refund window was the straw the broke the camels back for a lot of us. The other AAA bulshit we knew about going in
I agree with most of what you say, but the term "micro transations" does not fit. It does have a shop where you can unlock equipment and cosmetic items using either ingame money or real money. However, once unlocked the equipment is free to use as much as you want.
On the other hand, "micro transactions" means that the gameplay requires repeated purchases, like health potions, or ammunition. That is not the case in HD2.
Micro transactions are anything that you can pay money for in game.
Japanese companies aren’t used to listening to their customers.
Not sure how no one saw this coming. Every multiplayer game that uses malw- kernel level anti-cheat WILL inevitably be enshittified. This one is a reminder that not even the most beloved of games are safe.
Why do you think no one saw this coming? This is a reaction to enshittification, isn’t that a good thing?
Yes, have you even played csgo? Lmao
That's not the reality of the situation at all. They all started kernel level anti cheat to stop problems that were being faced. Counterstrike is the easiest example
Counterstrike is the easiest example
Counterstrike, where the Official Anti-Cheat is VAC; An Anti-Cheat system that isn't Kernel-Level?
It literally said this would happen from day one lol
That doesn't make it a good idea
I never said it was but claiming it wasn't stated before the game released that PSN account was mandatory is a lie.
And still allowed it to be sold in regions that don't have PSN access, anyway.
Yes it definitely should've been region locked. If you're from one of the countries not supported, steam is giving refunds.
It literally didn't, Sony just yesterday removed language in the terms stating that a psn account would be optional for PC users.
Pc gamers with 15 accounts being asked to create one more.
Unless you bought the game in one of the countries where you can't sign up for a PlayStation account, then you can just go fuck yourself.
Yeah and everyone that clicks yes to "are you 18" is right?
Jesus the bleading hearts for rule following around here.
*being forced
And this is after they have already bought the game. Sony turns around and wants existing players to sign up for something that wasn’t there when they purchased the game.
How about you go buy a car and then a few months later, the manufacturer says you need to sign up for a free account to continue driving said car? You’d be cool with it? You wouldn’t think it was a dick move? Free or not, people are sick of needing accounts to use everything. It’s just another way for making money off our data and another avenue for our information getting leaked (does no one remember Sony’s track record for breaches and leaks??).
