Unreal Engine Fallen Doll: Operation Lovecraft [v0.4.9 Cracked] [Project Helius]

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Hey so uhhh anyone know which version of Denuvo this game uses because
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...if it's V18 we may be onto something. But for some reason I doubt it's V18 and I can't even find any docs on the versions of Denuvo.
 
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HardcoreCuddler said:
Hey so uhhh anyone know which version of Denuvo this game uses because
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...if it's V18 we may be onto something. But for some reason I doubt it's V18 and I can't even find any docs on the versions of Denuvo.
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I think you can use hex editor on .exe to check mentions of denuvo but I don't know any more details.
But does it really matter which version it is? I mean empress is the only person(or maybe secretly a group) who is able or willing to crack denuvo at the moment. How are you going to persuade that nutjob to crack this game?
 
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HardcoreCuddler said:
Hey so uhhh anyone know which version of Denuvo this game uses because
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...if it's V18 we may be onto something. But for some reason I doubt it's V18 and I can't even find any docs on the versions of Denuvo.
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It'll be an older version so probably not relevant, I did have a quick check and there's no references to the version in the executable (although the string Denuvo shows up a lot) so I presume the version number is not something they go out of their way to broadcast. Probably for the obvious reasons.

I don't think it would help anyway since it comes with a bunch of randomised obfuscation, encryption etc. Even for a different build of the same title with the same Denuvo version I imagine you'd be back at square one needing Empress level skills, and gods knows how many man hours, to crack it again. Unless of course Helius made a major boo boo somewhere.

On an amusing side note I did notice whilst looking that the game saves an individual error file in \Paralogue\Saved\ErrorLog for every single error. Like it doesn't append the error to a single file or have one file per session, oh no, it creates a new file. Every. Single. Time.

Not only that but the date format is yyyymmdd, which is fine, but it cuts the leading zeroes off the month and day so you sometimes get yyyymmd or yyyymd. I don't think I've ever seen a standard library that uses that format. They must be getting the day, month and year as ints all separately and just mashing them together into a string instead of just using put_time or something which is just... dumb.

Plus it's followed by what looks like a timestamp from a monotonic clock (maybe), but its variable length so you can't even cut it off to get the actual date. Naturally the time isn't stored in the file either and it's just the error string all on a single line with zero formatting or separators:
StateCode:500ErrorCode:1002002Content:Insufficient Expedited Certificates.
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I mean at least they have logging I guess but this is the kind of stuff I'd expect from someone making their first application

Also in \Paralogue\Content\Movies there are a bunch of video files which clearly still have shutterstock watermarks on, quick Google image search and looks like most of the snazzy HUD elements in game
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. I suspect that's probably standard practice for indie devs to an extent, not sure what it says about all the artists supposedly on staff mind you, but leaving random unused stuttershock preview files in the assets? That's got licensing nightmare written all over it.

Anyway rant over. This project just looks dumber and dumber the longer you look at it.
 
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Nihil5320 said:
It'll be an older version so probably not relevant, I did have a quick check and there's no references to the version in the executable (although the string Denuvo shows up a lot) so I presume the version number is not something they go out of their way to broadcast. Probably for the obvious reasons.
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I've just remembered something, I think empress once said version numbers are just empres's own versioning instead of them being official numbers because denuvo doesn't actually have version numbers in it. I could be remembering wrong but I'm fairly sure about this. I've read about this a long time ago, it was either on reddit or on one of the game .nfo's.
 
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Nihil5320 said:
It'll be an older version so probably not relevant, I did have a quick check and there's no references to the version in the executable (although the string Denuvo shows up a lot) so I presume the version number is not something they go out of their way to broadcast. Probably for the obvious reasons.

I don't think it would help anyway since it comes with a bunch of randomised obfuscation, encryption etc. Even for a different build of the same title with the same Denuvo version I imagine you'd be back at square one needing Empress level skills, and gods knows how many man hours, to crack it again. Unless of course Helius made a major boo boo somewhere.

On an amusing side note I did notice whilst looking that the game saves an individual error file in \Paralogue\Saved\ErrorLog for every single error. Like it doesn't append the error to a single file or have one file per session, oh no, it creates a new file. Every. Single. Time.

Not only that but the date format is yyyymmdd, which is fine, but it cuts the leading zeroes off the month and day so you sometimes get yyyymmd or yyyymd. I don't think I've ever seen a standard library that uses that format. They must be getting the day, month and year as ints all separately and just mashing them together into a string instead of just using put_time or something which is just... dumb.

Plus it's followed by what looks like a timestamp from a monotonic clock (maybe), but its variable length so you can't even cut it off to get the actual date. Naturally the time isn't stored in the file either and it's just the error string all on a single line with zero formatting or separators:

I mean at least they have logging I guess but this is the kind of stuff I'd expect from someone making their first application

Also in \Paralogue\Content\Movies there are a bunch of video files which clearly still have shutterstock watermarks on, quick Google image search and looks like most of the snazzy HUD elements in game
You must be registered to see the links
. I suspect that's probably standard practice for indie devs to an extent, not sure what it says about all the artists supposedly on staff mind you, but leaving random unused stuttershock preview files in the assets? That's got licensing nightmare written all over it.

Anyway rant over. This project just looks dumber and dumber the longer you look at it.
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Dude...the logging thing is just...wtf...
It's INCREDIBLY easy to get proper logs. All the log functions are basicaly written for you, and all you have to do is specify parameters.

Modern loggers can distinguish between release and debug builds out of the box.
Date formatters can seemingly get you a unix timestamp from the most disorganised of date string formats. This is the complicated part, getting something to aid machines from something that humans understand, and they can't format a fucking date from the current time when the log is created, which is the easy thing??? That's fucking shameful for a year 1 Uni student let alone a game studio.

If they can't do that, I can't even imagine the absolute nightmare that the rest of the codebase is. No fucking wonder the "test phase" flopped so dramaticaly.

And if they'd ever be confronted about the quality of their code, they'd probably say they wrote it like that to make it harder to crack
 
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HardcoreCuddler said:
Dude...the logging thing is just...wtf...
It's INCREDIBLY easy to get proper logs. All the log functions are basicaly written for you, and all you have to do is specify parameters.

Modern loggers can distinguish between release and debug builds out of the box.
Date formatters can seemingly get you a unix timestamp from the most disorganised of date string formats. This is the complicated part, getting something to aid machines from something that humans understand, and they can't format a fucking date from the current time when the log is created, which is the easy thing??? That's fucking shameful for a year 1 Uni student let alone a game studio.

If they can't do that, I can't even imagine the absolute nightmare that the rest of the codebase is. No fucking wonder the "test phase" flopped so dramaticaly.

And if they'd ever be confronted about the quality of their code, they'd probably say they wrote it like that to make it harder to crack
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Yeah it's just really weird. What are they going to do if they ever actually need to review the logs, hope they know what they're looking for so they can search the file contents? Get a user to email them 100k files and hope it doesn't strip the housekeeping data so they can still get timestamps from the metadata?

It doesn't even give them any context for the errors, most of them just look like server responses but there's nothing to suggest what the request that spurred it was or what the original payload contents were so how the hell are you meant to figure out what caused it?

I still think the videos are worse though. Unlicensed copyrighted materials sitting in an application being shipped to end users, that's an oof and a half.
 
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HardcoreCuddler said:
Hey so uhhh anyone know which version of Denuvo this game uses because
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...if it's V18 we may be onto something. But for some reason I doubt it's V18 and I can't even find any docs on the versions of Denuvo.
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Even if the game ends up being cracked again (and that veeeeery unlikely), it won't be playable anyways.
In an older conversation, helius infered that playing a near fully functional cracked version was possible because most of the game's systems were run locally on the player's computer.

With the rebuild, they supposedly removed most of them to make it unplayable on a cracked version
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In a nutshell, unless you manage to both crack denuvo AND develop a dummy-plug that will emulate the game's original server (a lot of work developping it + analyzing/documenting the network traffic with a legit copy).
Though, developping the dummy-plug could still be doable if the current network stack they use now is similar to what's available here :
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(i guess this guy is one or the dev responsible with the networking code of the game)

Also, you can also decrypt the game's AES key and use UEViewer to export the game's models and animations. And then open them in blender to do whatever you want with them
 
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Aren't the server hamster already failing to handle login requests? They want to handle all the graphics on the server also? Or your boi Helius talking BS again?
 
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im thinking they need to make a rule on pateon or subscribestar whatever that they need to post a clear quarter year report for everything they have done, just a simple report every 3months so people can look into it would solve a big problem
and if its wrong or misleading just shut down their page

but that wont happen because them funding sites would miss money
 
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