Unreal Engine Fallen Doll: Operation Lovecraft [v0.4.9 Cracked] [Project Helius]

[Deleted member 5853070]

can u give us more info about you? have you tried to restart the game and check if it will work again? or maybe u just got lucky early and now as servers are full, no one rly can get in?

where are you from? are you supporting the patreon at the moment? if so with what tier? maybe thats connected somehow

Nope, I've not supported since last year.
I did restart my game quite a few times. Maybe try to restart steam?

It took me a good while to get in, but after a few times now I've been getting in as it pleases me.

north europe

 

[Nihil5320]

Simple. Smart gamers check the discussions forums (if able) before purchasing a product to ensure they're not getting scammed. If you see a discussion forum with hundreds of threads bitching about performance issues and failed delivery of goals, you're going to be more hesitant with your money. Without that (and I notice a few Helious boys were on deck to quickly do some shilling after the purge), they'll get a new wave of people checking the forums, seeing that it seems all clear, and then dropping their cash on a questionable product.

A product with repeated server issues before the game is even fully out yet, but I'm sure the servers will be just fine moving forwards from here. After all, they made the entire product reliant on said servers and you lose access to everything if they ever decide to pull the plug on their AWS account...

Once they release game as early access, or perhaps more accurately if they release the game as early access, they won't be able to moderate reviews. Presuming they continue on their current track I don't imagine that the reviews will be positive.

I'd comment on how likely that seems based on this update... if their authentication servers weren't buckling under the immense strain of *checks notes* 500 players...

Isn't Devuvo license cost like 10-20k USD. Glad they put patreon supporter money to good use.

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, but I suspect that may be negotiable.

Personally given that the game is online I'd have just gone with VMProtect and relied on that combined with a lot of the stuff being server side to make cracking it a pain in the ass. Denuvo seems like overkill, think this is the first time I've heard of their anti-tamper being used in an online only game let alone a limited budget indie title.

 

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[MakotoTadzumi]

Guys, can anyone tell me if it's possible to somehow remove the soap effect when you bring the camera closer to the character?

 

[IdealOath]

Well I guess some lucky regions can connect to the server, at least Japan can not.

 

[Spectral | Rev]

Well I guess some lucky regions can connect to the server, at least Japan can not.

I tried using VPN connecting to EU and NA, but still nothing

 

[MakotoTadzumi]

Well I guess some lucky regions can connect to the server, at least Japan can not.

I have always connected to Europe, but now I can't either, the server isn't responding.

 

[MaestreOfChaos]

Well well well, to absolutely nobody's surprise, the update has been a complete shite-show.

Content-wise as uninteresting as it promised to be, with the recycled Erotes stuff from the original FD. Hell, I remember being able to buy furniture in that one. Technical issues, more aggressive monetization plans, dropped Gallery and campaign, toning down to comply with censorship and desperate Denuvo measures to keep at bay people that weren't going to buy anyways confirm once more the priorities of the shady chinese modding team.

Wow the steam forum got completely nuked from the looks of things. Just in time for the fresh wave of suckers to fall for it.

These guys are RUTHLESS. I often visit the steam forums and this is the first time I see a full board wipe like this, even for games with lots of issues, complaints and updates per year. At least they had the decency to openly admit it was a damage control maneuver.

The way I see it, in the unlikely chance someone removes Denuvo, people will just check it and then move on.

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Poor guy, I'm sure milking tf out of unsuspecting suckers must take it's toll on one's soul.

 

[grunt_pepper]

I'd comment on how likely that seems based on this update... if their authentication servers weren't buckling under the immense strain of *checks notes* 500 players...

You have to wonder how viable their whole business model even is if they can barely scrape together 500 players. Doesn't seem like enough people to pay for the upkeep of the server infrastructure.

It would have been far more viable to drop the whole always-online bullshit and just flood the game with a steady stream of DLC. Can't be that hard to make more costumes.

 

[Terix3]

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, but I suspect that may be negotiable.

Personally given that the game is online I'd have just gone with VMProtect and relied on that combined with a lot of the stuff being server side to make cracking it a pain in the ass. Denuvo seems like overkill, think this is the first time I've heard of their anti-tamper being used in an online only game let alone a limited budget indie title.

That is a lot, I think that must be pricing for AAA titles, in past at least they had prices based on expected sales and Indie games had prices much cheaper. My wild guess is that they paid 100k for a year.

Looking at Denuvo protected games I notice a few that are online games like Marvel Avengers, Battlefield, MH, Anthem.

You have to wonder how viable their whole business model even is if they can barely scrape together 500 players. Doesn't seem like enough people to pay for the upkeep of the server infrastructure.

It would have been far more viable to drop the whole always-online bullshit and just flood the game with a steady stream of DLC. Can't be that hard to make more costumes.

Depends how you look at it. For a porn game that is not bad, Subverse that is arguably the most well known porn game only clocks 2k during updates and that game got some gameplay.
On the other hand for live service 500 is horrible even niche one, but I don't think people play it as life service game yet as progress is to be reset.

 

[TheLukas131]

I've been in Harem for hours?

You are lucky then, have been trying every few minutes for the past ~3 hours

 

[Deleted member 5853070]

You are lucky then, have been trying every few minutes for the past ~3 hours

Yeah. I did try for a bit before I got in.. But after that I've had no issues getting in.

Sucks that I'm lucky and everyone else it not.

 

[Zamoxino]

btw laws did you play the last ver b4 0.7.0? i saw something on discord about connecting the game to patreon account or some sht like that. tbh its my first time trying to launch the steam ver, maybe there was a step in last ver that some of us cant rly do now? >.<

 

[HardcoreCuddler]

Do you have a better source on denuvo anti-tamper scanning memory? I think you might be getting it mixed up with their anti-cheat. Denuvo is based on vmprotect and mostly relies on virtualization, obfuscation and encryption.

There's a good discussion on how it works

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, although it's spread over a few levels of the comments. Conceivably their integrity checks could involve scanning the entirety of memory, it just seems unlikely and I've never heard that before.

Not that I imagine it's doing any favours for performance in FD since I can't really picture Helius being careful about how he implements it. Will find out when I'm home and can run the game, if the servers are working by then.

not really sure tbh but the fact that the company would implement that even in an anti-cheat is a trigger for me. Wouldn't want that type of shit in my PC, same as riot's dumbass kernel-level anti-cheat...

Oh I thought they must of messed up bad implementing it or something, I think you're just a bit misinformed. It's no easy task removing Denuvo there's only a few people capable of removing it and only one person who is actively doing it and she quiet picky about which games she decides to work on. CPY is retired and SKIDROW just dropped their first Denuvo game in years. I have little hope of it getting removed anytime soon.

well that's the big names we know aren't really dealing with denuvo but that doesn't mean lesser-known people aren't doing it either

 

[DeltaP5]

Yeah. I did try for a bit before I got in.. But after that I've had no issues getting in.

Sucks that I'm lucky and everyone else it not.

Did you manage to get anything when you got in? I have 0 experiments compared to the previous version. Also I already see a lot of people unlocking the new character

 

[Deleted member 5853070]

btw laws did you play the last ver b4 0.7.0? i saw something on discord about connecting the game to patreon account or some sht like that. tbh its my first time trying to launch the steam ver, maybe there was a step in last ver that some of us cant rly do now? >.<

Yes, I did play some of that version but not that much tbh.

 

[TheLukas131]

Yeah. I did try for a bit before I got in.. But after that I've had no issues getting in.

Sucks that I'm lucky and everyone else it not.

Guess we'll wait in horny jail then

 

[Deleted member 5853070]

Did you manage to get anything when you got in? I have 0 experiments compared to the previous version. Also I already see a lot of people unlocking the new character

Check the blueprints section! You should have loads of them! I did not notice them until now and have been stupid thinking that I had to do something. You should recive them in your mailbox.

 

[Nihil5320]

That is a lot, I think that must be pricing for AAA titles, in past at least they had prices based on expected sales and Indie games had prices much cheaper. My wild guess is that they paid 100k for a year.

Looking at Denuvo protected games I notice a few that are online games like Marvel Avengers, Battlefield, MH, Anthem.

Tbf Avengers, Monster Hunter and

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do have single player elements (more so the first two). I'm surprised Battlefield uses it though, I wonder if they're using the anti-cheat?

And yeah the price linked above is almost certainly negotiable, I know Far Cry paid less as

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. It's probably the same sort of ballpark though.

You have to wonder how viable their whole business model even is if they can barely scrape together 500 players. Doesn't seem like enough people to pay for the upkeep of the server infrastructure.

It would have been far more viable to drop the whole always-online bullshit and just flood the game with a steady stream of DLC. Can't be that hard to make more costumes.

Well it's 500 in-game, which is a good gauge as to how many users are actually trying to log in or actively playing (since you need to be logged in to try and connect). A lot of players, myself included, have probably given up and closed the application.

 

[MakotoTadzumi]

I posted a screenshot with the censorship filter in the community illustration on steam, signing that this is a new censorship, let's see if it will be removed or left