I am playing Drove and really loving it. Most likely done with the first chapter. The Gothic inspiration is clear, but it plays entirely differently. Gonna join the Remnants as they were more playfully written.
it’s been a while since I’ve used windows, but I remember having to give administrator privileges to software installers, whether they are from legitimate vendors or from ripping groups with modified code
Some software installers still ask if I want to install for all users, which require elevated permissions, or only for me, which don’t. In that last option it will not prompt for elevated permissions as it will use one of my user’s folders which I have already all permissions for, obviously.
It’s a security measure that’s half assed. People are so used to it they just click allow but don’t actually look at the prompt anymore. Like I see a lot of people do with cookies on websites.
Thats a windows thing so it can put files in “protected” folders like program files
The unfortunate thing about the UAC prompt is that it gives the software permission to put files in protected folders, but it also gives the software root permission so it can do literally anything else without prompting the user. Except, I believe, if it tries to install unsigned kernel drivers, then the user has to click a new prompt… but you can completely compromise a machine with the permissions that users routinely give to executables that they download from the Internet.
There is nuance here. Not every crack is malicious but you have to assume they all are because some of them are. Trusting a source is irrelevant. Many security products will falsely tag cracked software as dangerous just because it’s cracked, not because it found a specific bit of nasty code, and this feeds the idea that you can’t believe when people tell you cracked software is unsafe. But there are many truly bad cracks out there. When in doubt, don’t trust it.
This is true. Even projects with good reputations get caught up in shit like the XZ back door in Linux.
If you haven’t read up on that fiasco, you really should look into it. It got way too far before being caught all because people suck and ruin things for others.
A game with a malicious crack that can escape a VM running on Windows and get to the main OS?
Sure, possible, but not by any means common.
A game with a malicious crack made for Windows that can… do anything nefarious when you’re running it on linux via WINE and Proton?
… Theoretically possible, but I’ve never heard of this actually occuring.
The same, but also inside another linux OS inside of a Bottle or Distrobox… or full VM… all running on a linux system that is significantly atomized with a read only core-os?
… At that point I am quite doubtful anyone is bothering to make a malicious crack that capable… when 99% of the existing game trainers and hacks that you can find or buy online… only work on Windows.
The crowd of people making game exploits and cheat engines… and the crowd of people making malicious game cracks… that venn diagram is almost a circle… and 99% of these people do not bother to ‘support’ linux, in anyway, at all, with anything they do.
Is using any random cracked software ever 100% safe? No.
But neither is say, using a Windows system, with 0 cracks or hacks… but with a MSFT trusted vendor’s 3rd party anti malware software… where said trusted vendor is allowed to push an unverified update to their kernel level anti-malware system… that is actually malformed, and then knocks out about 1/4 of every enterprise Windows PCs on Earth for 2 weeks.
Prosperous universe might fit the bill depending on how deep into economy sim you want to go. Beware that you have some limitations as a completely free player, that are removed (last I checked) after you’ve made at least one purchase. So think of playing “free” as an infinite demo.
this game seems very promising, I’ll check it out later today. And I don’t mind spending a coin or two to help the developers. Thanks for the recommendation!
It’s because Take Two came out with a fuck-you-in-the-ass EULA for all their games. I actually look forward to boycotting someone, there’s too much free and discounted shit everywhere
I just played again for a long while today, but only Zombies with my bud. I will say I unironically love shipment because I just don’t feel like winning is a skill thing and that takes the pressure off. I just throw out my traps and go around full ape-shit with a shotgun. Totally recognize that’s not what actually good pvp’ers would want, but it works for my casual ass ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Why do people still play that game? I quit after black ops 2? I think. Got MW2 with my ps5 played a few times and the game is just so far from the game I loved 15-20 years ago. Why do so many people complain so hard about it and keep playing? I bought the outer worlds and assassin’s Creed Ragnarok recently for less than some call of duty skins lol. Just stop playing. I’m sorry but I don’t understand the mindset of complaining about the black eyes you get when you punch yourself.
Oh, don’t get me wrong. I actually like the game, otherwise I would be playing something else. I just dislike the way the community has dragged it into a dumb direction because of the devs actively choosing to put Shipment on every game since MW2019. Most players now literally have an aneurysm if they don’t fight someone within 5 seconds of spawning.
The original shipment was awesome because it was a change of pace of the bigger, more guided maps. Same with Nuketown. However, at some point in there, literally every map just became some minor variation of those chaotic maps. The only difference between TDM and free for all was half the time shooting someone did nothing.
The old games you could actually be able to just be good, follow a plan and clear the path. Anymore, they made the maps so chaotic that you couldn’t possibly clear your way because the second you finished checking one path, you move on to the next and get shot by some asshole coming from the place you just checked.
I played a few after that at my buddy’s house, but I had quit buying them. By the time advanced warfare came out, I wouldn’t even play it there anymore. It just ceased being fun even while drunk. Then I played MW2 because it came free with the PS5 because why not? The original was one of my favorite games of all time! I played through the campaign and that was fun, but multiplayer had somehow gotten even worse! And don’t get me started on the battle Royale bullshit. You could say that maybe I just got old, but I watched the decline in real time, in the prime of my life. Hell, even as late as ghosts, I was still averaging over a 2.6 k/d. In the MW2 remake, it was closer to 1.1! Wtf?!? And I just can’t get behind a military game that adds in goofy ass skins. I’m even kinda ok with reasonable micro transactions for cool gear. Reasonable being like $.99-$2.99 like gran Turismo. I totally respect that. But $20 for a skin?!? GTFO. And making the game a joke in the process? Ugh. See? This is why I don’t play that shit anymore. It raises my blood pressure lol.
I just stopped playing PvP games in general and I’m quickly giving up on co-op with randoms. All that shit is too toxic. FFXIV has been a bastion of good community vibes, and recently, to my surprise, Night Reign, but probably only because there isn’t voice chat.
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