Rise of the Tomb Raider

[Joseph Kony]

I know ím the only dude with an xbone here but still... :lol anyone played this yet? I recently decided to start playing the newest Tomb Raider reboot after beating Fallout and decided to get the newest one after beating it and it has been pleasantly surprising tbh. the gameplay is pretty fun except that you have to put it on the hardest difficulty for a challenge.

[ElNono]

I loved the previous one. Gonna have to check it out.

This shit likely has Denuvo on the PC tho.

[apalisoc_9]

Save for uncharted 2, The tomb raider reboots have been overall superior to sony uncharted. Lara is a much more interesting character than everyday Natahan.

The only reason why Uncharted is regarded as a better game in general is because of the online play. UC actually has a decent sized online gamers.

If Tom raider can figure out its online mechanics, it will be be better than uncharted and a tier below TLOU for best third person game for this generation.

To bad, you bought the greedy console, must have been a fanboy..only way a person would ever buy an xbox after that shitshow in 13.

[Reck]

Save for uncharted 2, The tomb raider reboots have been overall superior to sony uncharted. Lara is a much more interesting character than everyday Natahan.

The only reason why Uncharted is regarded as a better game in general is because of the online play. UC actually has a decent sized online gamers.

If Tom raider can figure out its online mechanics, it will be be better than uncharted and a tier below TLOU for best third person game for this generation.

To bad, you bought the greedy console, must have been a fanboy..only way a person would ever buy an xbox after that shitshow in 13.

LOL Fail.

People like Uncharted because it has an engaging story and the game mechanics are awesome and has a learning curve of about 30 minutes.

I've tried the online part of these games and they are very underwhelming.

People just like these types of shooting games inherently.

[baseline bum]

LOL this doesn't come out on Poorstation 4 until the end of 2016.

[DJR210]

This shit likely has Denuvo on the PC tho.

Some piracy group claims Denuvo is near uncrackable.. Bastards

[DJR210]

As for the OP, I liked the previous one too, but I haven't tried this one.. Although I liked the last one, I wish they'd go back to the giant vistas, huge viking statues and buddhas and shit like in Tomb Raider Underworld.. that game was fun as hell to explore.

[baseline bum]

Some piracy group claims Denuvo is near uncrackable.. Bastards

Dragon Age Inquisition had it and it was cracked. Same with MGS Phantom Pain, BF Hardline, and shitty Arkham Knight.

[Reck]

LOL this doesn't come out on Poorstation 4 until the end of 2016.

Is this even selling well? :lol

I dont get the limited exclusivity deals they make. It's pointless and loses them money (game company) this way.

I could understand if it was an exclusive only Xbox game but the fact this game will make its way to chinkstation defeats the point.

[baseline bum]

Is this even selling well? :lol

I dont get the limited exclusivity deals they make. It's pointless and loses them money (game company) this way.

I could understand if it was an exclusive only Xbox game but the fact this game will make its way to chinkstation defeats the point.

Of course it's not selling well, it's only on the piece of shit XBone until the PC launch next Thursday. :lol

[DJR210]

Dragon Age Inquisition had it and it was cracked. Same with MGS Phantom Pain, BF Hardline, and shitty Arkham Knight.

My bad, should have clarified from Just Cause 3 on..

https://torrentfreak.com/no-more-pirate-games-in-two-years-group-warns-160106/

[Xevious]

Save for uncharted 2, The tomb raider reboots have been overall superior to sony uncharted. Lara is a much more interesting character than everyday Natahan.

The only reason why Uncharted is regarded as a better game in general is because of the online play. UC actually has a decent sized online gamers.

If Tom raider can figure out its online mechanics, it will be be better than uncharted and a tier below TLOU for best third person game for this generation.

To bad, you bought the greedy console, must have been a fanboy..only way a person would ever buy an xbox after that shitshow in 13.
I admittedly have not played a Tomb Raider game since the original was released years ago, but I was blown away by the Uncharted series (just played them a couple months ago actually). And I never played the multiplayer. The characters were likeable, the storylines were engaging, and the gameplay was fun. As far as linear games are concerned, it doesn't get much better. Some of the action sequences were just ridiculously good (the train, the tank, the cargo plane to name a few).

[Joseph Kony]

LOL this doesn't come out on Poorstation 4 until the end of 2016.

yeah that shit is pretty lame, I'd rather have gotten it for the PS4 but it looks better than I thought it would actually

[ElNono]

Dragon Age Inquisition had it and it was cracked. Same with MGS Phantom Pain, BF Hardline, and shitty Arkham Knight.

There's a new version in these newer games. CPY are the only guys doing it with scene rules (no loaders), by unwrapping the original exe, but that took a year (FIFA 15) and that's the old version.

Chinks are using a loader and injecting, but that has it's own issues, tbh...

[ElNono]

I got it for the XLOL 360, might play it there...

[baseline bum]

I got it for the XLOL 360, might play it there...

Is there an SNES port too?

[ElNono]

Is there an SNES port too?

crofl... I've actually started looking at this while stuck here with the blizzard, just out of curiosity (have no plans to unretire), and I don't know what the holdup is. Hooking works just fine:

Launching Denuevo.exe "D:\Games\Just Cause 3 - XL Edition\JustCause3.exe"
Hooked to D:\Games\Just Cause 3 - XL Edition\JustCause3.exe
LoadLibrary hooked
LoadLibrary("kernel32.dll")
LoadLibrary("kernel32.dll")
LoadLibrary("ntdll.dll")
LoadLibrary("kernel32.dll")
LoadLibrary("kernel32.dll")
LoadLibrary("steam_api64.dll")
LoadLibrary unhooked
Unhooked

[DJR210]

:cry

Might have to purchase games

:lol consoles, will still get it for 75% off :tu Steam

[baseline bum]

:cry

Might have to purchase games

:lol consoles, will still get it for 75% off :tu Steam

Part of me wonders if they're waiting to release the Just Cause 3 crack until after Tomb Raider has released.

[ElNono]

:lol don't mind paying... I actually get legit free games here and there due to the work I'm doing ATM...

I'm more interested in the technical challenge and the claim :cry there won't be any more cracked games in 2 years :cry

[baseline bum]

Damn Just Cause 3 finally got cracked

http://www.nosteam.ro/index.php?topic=7529.0 (http://www.funny-games.biz/naruto-and-sasuke.html)

[ElNono]

Damn Just Cause 3 finally got cracked

http://www.nosteam.ro/index.php?topic=7529.0 (http://www.funny-games.biz/naruto-and-sasuke.html)

:lol

[baseline bum]

LOL the $650 AMD Fury X barely beating the $315 Nvidia GTX 970 at 1080p.

Get in here DJR210, Cry Havoc

http://cdn.wccftech.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Rise-of-the-tomb-raider_PC-Performance_PCGamesHardware_2-635x680.jpg

[DJR210]

Damn Just Cause 3 finally got cracked

http://www.nosteam.ro/index.php?topic=7529.0 (http://www.funny-games.biz/naruto-and-sasuke.html)

https://www.beacontn.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/victory.jpg

[Cry Havoc]

LOL the $650 AMD Fury X barely beating the $315 Nvidia GTX 970 at 1080p.

Get in here DJR210, Cry Havoc

http://cdn.wccftech.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Rise-of-the-tomb-raider_PC-Performance_PCGamesHardware_2-635x680.jpg

One benchmark.

The Fury X is built for 1440p/4k.

Doesn't even list what game it's for?

[baseline bum]

One benchmark.

The Fury X is built for 1440p/4k.

Doesn't even list what game it's for?

It's Rise of the Tomb Raider, benchmark from PCGamesHardware.de. At 1440p maxed the Fury X is in between the 970 an 980.

http://i.imgur.com/pmXW4cG.png

[baseline bum]

The Fury X is built for 1440p/4k.


IDK, Fury X doesn't look too hot here in 4k. All that stutter in CrossFire in comparison to 980 Ti SLI.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLnU4rCGYik

[DJR210]

Idk.. because of all the money I saved vs a 980 Ti, I don't see the stutter tbh

[baseline bum]

Idk.. because of all the money I saved vs a 980 Ti, I don't see the stutter tbh

With all the money you saved from Reloaded you should have SLI 980 Ti tbh

[Death In June]

It drops to 15 to 20 fps maxed out in the more open areas on my sli 780s. Kind of a bummer

[baseline bum]

It drops to 15 to 20 fps maxed out in the more open areas on my sli 780s. Kind of a bummer

Does it even use the second card at all? That's one thing I'll give AMD credit for, their GPUs are always better in the long run. They don't abandon optimizing for them like Nvidia does once the GPU is a generation behind.

[Death In June]

Does it even use the second card at all? That's one thing I'll give AMD credit for, their GPUs are always better in the long run. They don't abandon optimizing for them like Nvidia does once the GPU is a generation behind.There's an unofficial fix out there that gets more out of SLI. It's using about 80% of each card now. I can run everything maxed out at around 45 to 60 fps, except for level of detail, which is set to high. Before it was only using about 50% of each card.

[baseline bum]

There's an unofficial fix out there that gets more out of SLI. It's using about 80% of each card now. I can run everything maxed out at around 45 to 60 fps, except for level of detail, which is set to high. Before it was only using about 50% of each card.

Are you running 1440p or 1080p? Holy fuck if SLI 780 can't hack 1080p on this game. Does hair physics kill performance? DJR210 was telling me his 680 got raped by TressFX in Tomb Raider 2013, but on my 970 it doesn't make a lot of difference to my framerate whether I have it on or off in TR2013. Supposedly Maxwell is way better with tessellation than Kepler. I wonder if the same thing is happening in the new one.

[DJR210]

Yeah fuck TressFX.. Brought me down to 50-55 with AA turned down. Maybe now with a G-Sync monitor though itvwouldnt bug me.

[Joseph Kony]

I feel like these threads about games always eventually turn into you nerds stroking your PC master race wieners :lol

[baseline bum]

:cry NOOOOO :cry
:cry DJR210 :cry
:cry ElNono :cry

https://torrentfreak.com/pirate-group-suspends-new-cracks-to-measure-impact-on-sales-160206/
PIRATE GROUP SUSPENDS NEW CRACKS TO MEASURE IMPACT ON SALES
BY ANDY ON FEBRUARY 6, 2016

The China-based cracking group that recently bemoaned Denuvo's anti-piracy system as all but unbreakable has delivered a second surprise announcement. 3DM says it will stop working on single-player games cracks for at least a year so it can assess whether genuine sales will be affected.

Released on December 1, 2015, pirates were eager to get their hands on the game for free. However, JC3 is protected by the latest iteration of Denuvo, an anti-tamper technology developed by Denuvo Software Solutions GmbH. Denuvo is not DRM per se, but acts as a secondary encryption system protecting underlying DRM products.

All eyes had been on notorious Chinese game cracking group/forum 3DM to come up with the goods but last month the group delivered a killer blow to its fans.

According to the leader of the group, the very public ‘Bird Sister’ (also known as Phoenix), the game was proving extremely difficult to crack. In fact, Bird Sister said that current anti-piracy technology is becoming so good that in two years there might not be pirated games anymore.

One month on from those words and Just Cause 3 still hasn’t been cracked and today brings even more bad news for those hoping to obtain the best gaming titles for free. Taking to her personal blog once more, Bird Sister has just announced an immediate end to the cracking activities of 3DM.

“We just had an internal meeting. Starting at the Chinese New Year, 3DM will not crack any single-player games,” Bird Sister says.

For those wondering, the Chinese New Year is next Monday, February 8.

“Cracks by overseas warez groups will still get posted on the [3DM] forum, and we will actively deal with these,” the group’s leader adds.

It is not entirely clear what “actively deal with” means, but the suggestion is that these cracks will not be allowed on the 3DM BBS/forum.

What is perhaps most interesting, however, is the group’s apparent reasoning for ceasing their cracking activities. Denuvo was previously cited as a headache for the group but this time around that technology isn’t mentioned.

Instead, 3DM essentially indicates they’re taking part in an experiment to see how the lack of cracks affects the legitimate market.

“We’ll take a look at the situation in a year’s time to see if genuine sales have grown,” Bird Sister says.

There can be little doubt that the effective withdrawal of 3DM from the piracy market will be received as a huge blow to the group’s fans internationally who have come to rely on it for their pirate fix. There is a modicum of good news for the Chinese though, since 3DM will still work on translating and localizing games for its internal market.

The announcement comes on the heels of yesterday’s earnings report from Square Enix, the company behind Just Cause 3 and fellow Denuvo-protected (and also yet to be cracked) title Rise of the Tomb Raider.

Square Enix of America and Europe CEO Phil Rogers said both games had enjoyed “solid starts” but stopped short of revealing sales stats.

[ElNono]

lol gooks... that Bird Sister looks like she smokes more pot that DJR, tbh...

[baseline bum]

lol gooks... that Bird Sister looks like she smokes more pot that DJR, tbh...

At least Naruto Ultimate Ninja Storm 4 just got cracked.

695591027013480448

[baseline bum]

LOL now 3DM seems insulted people say they can't crack Denuvo, and say they will have one soon. :lol



https://torrentfreak.com/hang-on-3dm-now-suggest-theyve-cracked-denuvo-160211/

HANG ON…..3DM NOW SUGGEST THEY’VE CRACKED DENUVO
BY ANDY ON FEBRUARY 11, 2016 C: 29
BREAKING
With the video games market excited at the prospect of 3DM taking a year-long break, the Chinese cracking group has just thrown a wrench in the works. According to 3DM's leader, speculation that her team can't beat Denuvo has proven too much and they now appear determined to publish a solution, albeit in unorthodox fashion.

Hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions of video games players around the world obtain their fix from pirate sources. It’s been that way for more than 30 years, only the numbers have grown over time.

However, in the ‘old days’ people could do most of their copying at home, with a couple of cassette decks or software to shift data between 5.25″ floppy disks. But times have changed and although piracy still exists, people now largely rely on a tiny number of so-called ‘cracking’ experts to break copy protection for them.

One of those groups is Chinese outfit 3DM who in recent years have delighted pirate gamers with free copies of some of the world’s greatest titles. Technology companies have always done their best to thwart groups like 3DM and earlier this year came the most promising news to date.

Out of the blue, 3DM announced that the latest iteration of the infamous Denuvo anti-tamper technology had proven so resistant that in a couple of years PC games piracy might become non-existent.

Then, just a couple of weeks later, 3DM put the icing on the cake when they announced that in order to let the official games market breathe, they would be taking a year off from cracking games.

With games producers everywhere super excited at the prospect of a market free from the nuisance of 3DM, optimism of a boosted-revenue future was high. However, while it seems 3DM can deliver surprise gifts with one hand, apparently they can just as easily take them away with the other.

According to a new announcement by the group’s almost rock-star-famous leader, 3DM have decided they are not quite done. Apparently, growing speculation that the group aren’t up to the job of cracking Denuvo has provided them with new inspiration to prove the masses wrong.

“3DM will soon announce that we have a solution to the latest Denuvo encryption used on games including ‘FIFA 16’, ‘Just Cause 3’, and ‘Tomb Raider: The Rise’,” 3DM leader Bird Sister just announced.

Bird Sister
https://torrentfreak.com/images/birdsister.jpg

“We [made this announcement] because a lot of players believe we have abandoned cracking due to technical problems, but we will prove it is not the case,” Bird Sister continues.

“We have not yet been stumped [by protection measures].”

Although this announcement flies in the face of some of 3DM’s earlier comments, the news will be received with disappointment by games developers and publishers, not to mention the team at Denuvo. 3DM had been leading the charge on Denuvo-protected titles so a break could’ve given valuable breathing space.

But that said, the proof of the pudding is in the eating and until pirates have tasted the joys of a fully cracked Just Cause 3, their appetites will remain in full force. In other words they’ll believe this game has been cracked when they actually play it at home – thus far there is no sign of a release.

Interestingly, should cracked copies eventually arrive at the hands of 3DM, the group won’t be taking the credit. A somewhat counter-productive comment by Bird Sister indicates that 3DM will not take the usual path on release since they don’t want to attract too much attention.

“Of course, this will not be a high-profile or official 3DM release,” she concludes.

[ElNono]

^ this is what happens when that Naruto faggotry invades your head, tbh.,..

[baseline bum]

^ this is what happens when that Naruto faggotry invades your head, tbh.,..

Do chink bitches watch Naruto? I thought it was only japs and stinky pakis.

[DJR210]

lol gooks... that Bird Sister looks like she smokes more pot that DJR, tbh...

:lol nobody smokes more than me..nobody

I'm a pot chimney

[baseline bum]

I loved the previous one. Gonna have to check it out.

This shit likely has Denuvo on the PC tho.

Bird Sister was streaming an allegedly bypassed ROTR today and claiming 3dm is scared of getting sued so they might not release it to the public. She is supposed to stream a playthrough of Just Cause 3 tomorrow as they supposedly bypassed Denuvo in it too.

[ElNono]

Bird Sister was streaming an allegedly bypassed ROTR today and claiming 3dm is scared of getting sued so they might not release it to the public. She is supposed to stream a playthrough of Just Cause 3 tomorrow as they supposedly bypassed Denuvo in it too.

There's been a couple of workarounds if you've been checking crackstatus on reddit. There's even rumors about total bypass for ROTR too.

I'm too busy with work right now, but I'd like to eventually play some of them, not really in a hurry right now.

[baseline bum]

There's been a couple of workarounds if you've been checking crackstatus on reddit. There's even rumors about total bypass for ROTR too.

I'm too busy with work right now, but I'd like to eventually play some of them, not really in a hurry right now.

Bronco's crack seems like bullshit. Denuvo scoffed that nigga for not releasing the crack public. Then mkdev seems to have quit Doom after only getting past the menu, just like he did with ROTR and FC Primal. :lol

3dm has actually at least been successful in the past. Bird Sister was saying they might release in a couple of weeks on ROTR but then also said 3dm is scared of getting sued and might not release.

[apalisoc_9]

They ever going to release this shit in ps4

[ElNono]

Bronco's crack seems like bullshit. Denuvo scoffed that nigga for not releasing the crack public. Then mkdev seems to have quit Doom after only getting past the menu, just like he did with ROTR and FC Primal. :lol

3dm has actually at least been successful in the past. Bird Sister was saying they might release in a couple of weeks on ROTR but then also said 3dm is scared of getting sued and might not release.

I just want my RLD niglets to show up and drop the hammer... the cracking scene has really gone to shit since the glory days of Razor 1911, etc, tbh. Between birdshit and emo boys it's all a circus now.

[baseline bum]

I just want my RLD niglets to show up and drop the hammer... the cracking scene has really gone to shit since the glory days of Razor 1911, etc, tbh. Between birdshit and emo boys it's all a circus now.

Didn't Razor 1911 die?

[ElNono]

Didn't Razor 1911 die?

:lol I could write you a SAGirl-long post about them.

The original crew from the C=64 and Amiga days (Sector9, Doctor No, Ringo Starr, etc), mostly all from Norway, those guys pretty much retired after they moved to the PC scene. I think The Punisher took over, but I don't remember anymore.

Lost contact with those guys a long time ago. I don't think any of those guys were part of the group by the time there was a big bust by the FBI like a decade ago.