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![]() SS3 had that cool invincible Arachnoid as DRM, so what will SS4 use as DRM? Game-crashing Reptiloid? Fake error messages when trying to click anything? Beheaded Rocketeers eloquently insulting your female parental unit? or Harpies that teleports you into a 16x16x16 room with all wall textures replaced with naked dancing Scrapjacks?
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![]() Every level suddenly takes place in Egypt.
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![]() I always thought that a funny little piece of DRM would be to max out Super Sample Anti-aliasing and locking that setting. The rest of the game is still "playable," just not with a pleasant framerate. Though, that would probably be way too easy to get around.
Another DRM method could be Kleers with homing ball & chains that will insta-kill Sam and crash the game. |
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Or maybe subtle things like voluntary screen lagging and crashing the game when you reached the final level and deleting the save file. Anything that will take more than 2 months for pirates to patch = success for developers, as proven with that Spyro game. The best DRM are the ones that remind the pirates they are dirty little pirates, so maybe an infinite wave of a certain enemy that shouts out "PIRACY IS BAD AND YOU SHOULD FEEL BAD"? |
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![]() at some point in the first level: permacrouch. no jumping or autostepping up to slightly higher elevations. activate an infinite kleer spawner. the player will likely not have anything more powerful than a single shotgun or a melee weapon at this point, and will revel in the one ride that never ends
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![]() Heres one crazy DRM protection for SS4. Whatabout when the player gets to a certain point, the game corrupts several randomly picked files with a chunk id validation error that's not in use, or maybe even corrupting a level, (with the engine allowing the files to be modified in run-time, or maybe starts up a new hidden app that will corrupt certain game files after the game has shut down)
![]() ![]() That, alongside the things you guys came up with.. And maybe when you look in one file and open it with a hex editor it could say "If you don't want this to happen and keep playing, buy Serious Sam and support Croteam!!!" Instead of the final level, what about the first boss in the game? So the game doesn't reveal much anyway and pirates can't get past a certain point. Like "If you want to continue to beat the game, please buy me!". Last edited by Buzzy; 09-18-2014 at 10:04 AM. |
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![]() All guns replaced with water pistols that do no damage.
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![]() Guns jam when enemy is within range of 5 meters
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![]() an enemy rapidly shoots rocket propelled exploding dildoes at you, and when you get hit you receive a BSOD
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![]() Deletes your system32 (or equivalent)
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![]() That's difficult to do - unless your logged out. Maybe it will create an invisible program that once you shutdown your computer it deletes system32 secretly.
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![]() Wouldn't it be better if it's not that noticeable? If the pirates know that there's a DRM, of course they'll patch it as soon as possible.
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![]() The secret file corruption may not be noticable, as SS4 would scan for random files and corrupt them secretly without the player knowing. Eventually after 2-4 plays the game might fail to start, or the level will start to fail, without it saying what the culprit file is.
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![]() Perhaps the game should start to a scene where a Beheaded Rocketeer or such sits in an electrin chair and is shocked repeatedly, screaming. The screen should slowly fade to a message saying "Help us stop the martian abuse. Please buy the game. (Obviously that will not end their torture, but who gives a crap)". And then the game would crash, possibly corrupting some of the files.
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![]() what about zero point weapons damage for Sam? None of your attacks or guns do a damage to the enemies.
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![]() What DRM SS2 had?
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![]() ArmA 2 had a similar DRM, where your guns get less and less accurate as time goes on, eventually ending up in such a state that the bullets hit all over the place, just not where you're aiming
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Lol'd.
Now I know what is the best DRM for SS4 - Croteam just should replace the game with the worst SS2 episodes. |
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![]() A picture with a demonticated simba with eyes bulging out saying buy the game
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![]() Remember Croteam's SS4 April Fool's joke?
That. |
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![]() I dunno which April joke can you show us
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![]() why not just put invisible walls around Sam's spawn point?
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![]() the player can always use the noclip cheat though to get around that, unless you cannot activate cheats on SS4 DRM. And what happens when you write 'god' is that your health goes to 1 and nothing happens. Writing 'give all' and all your weapons/ammo are gone except your fists, and you are unable to pick up any weapons. Noclip would turn off collision
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![]() Perhaps they should put Sam's spawn point high up so that he falls and dies every time. And yes, any cheat activated equals instant death.
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![]() That is absolutely stunning!!!!
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