The engineer has our gratitude for the crack, but left it halfway. Should have done it completely, i want to change weather options whenever i want.
Just to explain.
It's not halfway, it gets exponentially more difficult if I mess with other variables. it's like throwing a dice. to get 6 on one is 1/6 prob, but getting 6 on two is 1/6*1/6 that means 1/36
The same logic could be applied here.
I also still didn't really figure out the whole hashing process, as it doesn't use anything standardized. I needed to keep my PC running in the background for a few nights to brute-force the last part of the encryption.
At this point, I'm out of free time to do more cracking, my real job takes a huge chunk of my life, overtime, weekends etc...
Also, the good thing is license DRM doesn't change that much if at all, so no, dev doesn't really spend time on DRM instead of working on the game. I still don't understand how is it physically even possible to do that game solo even the programming part (when I messed with the code, every single thing was custom-made, no plugins, no programming assets, no shared libraries, only assets I could find were enviro assets in game files)