*Insert Tarzan scream* Just a glance at this image has me planning my next movement and weapon choice in my head. If you feel like that open mouth is just asking for a grenade to be inserted, you would be right. Blasting grunts with a flamethrower results in armor drops in a process that doesn't even make "video game" sense. The balance between aerial and ground-based enemies really forces you to be situationally aware in three dimensions. Playing Doom Eternal, you'll see gory eviscerations like this so often they'll cease to have any real impact. Yes, that's a sword, not a gun. Yes, it's still a Doom game. These guys aren't as bad as they look, but only if you can aim correctly. The armor on this Cyber Mancubus requires a charged-up Blood Punch to remove. After that, he's a cupcake. Each of these enemies requires a different weapon and a different strategy to take out effectively. I love the look of surprise on the Mancubus' face in this shot. One of the most relentless enemies in the game.
Doom Eternal has become the latest game to use a kernel-level driver to aid in detecting cheaters in multiplayer matches.
The game's new driver and anti-cheat tool come courtesy of Denuvo parent Irdeto, a company once known for nearly unbeatable piracy protection and now known for somewhat effective but often cracked piracy protection. But the new Denuvo Anti-Cheat protection is completely separate from the company's Denuvo Anti-Tamper technology, which uses code obfuscation to hinder crackers (and which was already mooted for Doom Eternal anyway shortly after launch).
The new Denuvo Anti-Cheat tool rolls out to Doom Eternal players after "countless hours and millions of gameplay sessions" during a two-year early access program, Irdeto said in a blog post announcing its introduction. But unlike Valorant's similar Vanguard system, the Denuvo Anti-Cheat driver "doesnt have annoying tray icons or splash screens" letting players monitor its use on their system.
"This invisibility could raise some eyebrows," Irdeto concedes.
No running outside the game
To assuage any potential fears, Irdeto writes that Denuvo Anti-Cheat only runs when the game is active, and Bethesda's patch notes similarly say that "use of the kernel-mode driver starts when the game launches and stops when the game stops for any reason." That's a major difference from Valorant's Vanguard system, which requires the driver to be loaded from system startup in order to "monitor system state for integrity."
"No monitoring or data collection happens outside of multiplayer matches," Denuvo Anti-Cheat Product Owner Michail Greshishchev told Ars via email. "Denuvo does not attempt to maintain the integrity of the system. It does not block cheats, game mods, or developer tools. Denuvo Anti-Cheat only detects cheats."
Greshishchev added that the company's driver has received "certification from renown[ed] kernel security researchers, completed regular whitebox and blackbox audits, and was penetration-tested by independent cheat developers." He said Irdeto is also setting up a bug bounty program to discover any flaws they might have missed.
And because of Denuvo Anti-Cheat's design, Greshishchev says the driver is more secure than others that might have more exposuRead More – Source
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