It's not even that they hoped nobody would notice. It's right there in the patch notes that Denuvo software would be downloaded onto your machine. What's fucked up though is that the notes state that it's required to play the multiplayer, but you can't even play singleplayer unless it's installed.
What kills me is that this was the exact complaint regarding Rage 2. The game ran like dogshit until Denuvo was removed, and this exact fucking thing is happening to Doom Eternal, except this time we know for sure that it ran perfectly fine until Denuvo was added. Rage 2 was shipped with it so no one could say for sure if their computer was underpowered or if the game was just badly optimized. Doom Eternal though? There's actual proof that Denuvo is actively destroying the performance.
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From what I've heard, Battlemode's been struggling to maintain a consistent player base. Which makes this situation more insane because Bethesda's response is to force people to install something that actively makes playing Battlemode worse.
I generally played it every week or so. It’s decently thought out but every single match ends up horribly one-sided one way or another.
They recently added stuff like npcs to 76 didn't they? They must have decided they wanted one week without news of 76 shitting the bed and used Doom to smokescreen them.
I'm not surprised. when DOOM2016's multiplayer demo came out people thought the final game was gonna suck, nobody was excited for that game until it actually came out, people were shocked by how good the campaign was compared to the mediocre multiplayer. I think the difference between expectations and what we actually got helped that game quite a bit. last time I remember such a difference between single player and multi player in a shooter was, damn I think far back as metroid prime 2. the multiplayer in that game was a waste of dev time. weird considering how good the DS game was at that.
I keep thinking about the Good Old Days when multiplayer was done in person, be it in front of one TV or a LAN party if you were feeling fancy, and you simply kicked the guy's ass for cheating.
It was trivial to cheat in Jedi Knight Dark Forces 2 on the Internet Gaming Zone (just drop a COG file in your directory), but it wasn't an issue, and in fact it was fun on cheat servers. Some people had bowcasters that turn opponents into couches, among other weird stuff. This big push to homogenize the multiplayer experience as well as adding ranking to everything has harmed MP games and their longevity, but maybe that's partially the point.
Denuvo doesn't affect consoles, only PCs. It could just be your PS4; their Internet antennas are kinda shit to begin with.
