I was planning on buying Hi-Fi Rush, but turns out it has Denuvo. Is there anywhere I can pirate it instead?
Or in terms of offline play, can I bypass Denuvo's requirement to go online every 2 weeks? I will be playing this on Steam Deck so I don't want to have to go online. How does it work? Can I set the time back so I don't need to connect?
Nope, you're shit out of luck as far as a crack goes, the only Denuvo cracker lost interest in Denuvo for now and has started selling Stable Diffusion generated pictures.
According to Denuvo's patent application, it cannot work without internet connection, because it needs to connect to their server and download a ticket, which contains some "Nominal constants" which were removed from the binary, and the binary cannot run without those bytes.
There's something called activations that some people do, they log in and get the denuvo ticket for your system downloaded, but that only works until your system either updates or you change some hardware, anything that would change the HWID that the game binary checks.
Unfortunately, it is still an uncracked game. Only way to play currently is to buy it
It's also on pc game pass, it is a great game, and it's not that long
I hope a good crack does come out so more people can enjoy this masterpiece, but if you have enough money id highly recommend buying it, maybe on console instead if you have one.
No I only have Steam Deck, that's why I don't want Denuvo, cause then I have to go online. Might end up buying it and seeing if changing the system clock helps.