Bethesda didn’t bear in mind to take away the Denuvo-less .EXE from the game’s bundle.
As gamers had been anxiously ready for Doom Eternal to unlock, a couple of observed one thing significantly unusual within the game’s information. The set up folder had the standard, predominant .EXE file, but additionally one other one untouched by the Denuvo DRM.
Te unmodified file, for some cause, was left within the downloaded bundle, below a folder known as “original” no much less. As I’m certain you understand by now, the entire level of Denuvo DRM is to thwart piracy at launch, however that doesn’t work if anybody may freely entry the model with out stated DRM.
Resetera discussion board members found the oopsie within the Bethesda Launcher model of the game, with the Steam model seemingly unaffected. Shortly after Doom Eternal went stay, a patch was launched to take away the unmodified .EXE file, however not earlier than pirates took notice.
This additionally seems to be one thing Bethesda has finished earlier than with Rage 2, the place it forgot to ship the DRM-enabled .EXE within the Bethesda Launcher model, as soon as once more making the job of pirates simpler.
Kirk known as Doom Eternal’s fight “cathartic”, however lamented the platforming and swimming sections in our review. For extra from different critics, try the Doom Eternal reviews round-up.
Doom Eternal is out at present on PC, PS4, Xbox One and Stadia. A Switch model is coming in 2020.
