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Simply, if you have a proper version of the game it comes with its limitations. A hacked version could be modified to have those limitations changed or removed.

Just like chip tuning a car. But if anythingh goes wrong the waranty will not cover it.

Also pirating software is a crime and you should be a good citizen and report any such activity.

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He's right, though, certainly to an extent.

Go try it yourself: Enable offline mode in Steam, then pull the network cable, then try to play SE truly offline.

Had this some months ago where morons in a digger chopped the internet for the entire town for several days, at least for "non-essential" private lines. Fun, I tells ya.

Anyway.

One, you're now playing with a dummy Steam ID (1234567891011 instead of, say, 7656119802569**** (oooh, big secret)). Which, two, makes all your usually subscribed mods and savegames be not immediately present even though you still should have your regular Steam ID from Steam's offline mode. Which, three, causes an idiotically unnecessary manual faffing with copying and registering mods (that are downloaded already) and saves and whatnot to make them available for some semblance of actual offline play. But even so, four, SE still throws a hissy fit every ten, twenty seconds or so because it still tries to load those retarded news in the menu screen, FREEZING THE ENTIRE CLIENT FOR SEVERAL SECONDS, still wants to communicate (probably) with Steam for the Unknown Signal rewards, and fuck-knows what else for, and five, causes your saving after quitting to menu go into a never-ending loop. (Saving itself finishes, it's just the spinner that doesn't go away and requires to kill SE through the task manager.) And that's just what I can list off the top of my head.

This isn't an MMO where online play is so integral that even wanting to have offline play would be silly. No. Online in SE is a nice addition, something for additional functions (and even then they only barely work), but definitely nothing indispensably necessary to essential, game-defining functions like placing blocks or breaking voxels. There is no reason why SE should make true offline play be so utterly ridiculously difficult to impossible to enjoy.

It's just yet another instance in and of SE where Keen, as usual, disappoints with their usual "eh, that'll do" approach to things. This company really, really makes it difficult to not be scathingly cynical about their product. And I'm not talking about the fellas that code and test what's there but about those who are fine with this being out the door in this state.

This is what you slap your logo on, guys. This is what you allow to be on your business card. This is what has your names in the credits.

He's right, though, certainly to an extent.

Go try it yourself: Enable offline mode in Steam, then pull the network cable, then try to play SE truly offline.

Had this some months ago where morons in a digger chopped the internet for the entire town for several days, at least for "non-essential" private lines. Fun, I tells ya.

Anyway.

One, you're now playing with a dummy Steam ID (1234567891011 instead of, say, 7656119802569**** (oooh, big secret)). Which, two, makes all your usually subscribed mods and savegames be not immediately present even though you still should have your regular Steam ID from Steam's offline mode. Which, three, causes an idiotically unnecessary manual faffing with copying and registering mods (that are downloaded already) and saves and whatnot to make them available for some semblance of actual offline play. But even so, four, SE still throws a hissy fit every ten, twenty seconds or so because it still tries to load those retarded news in the menu screen, FREEZING THE ENTIRE CLIENT FOR SEVERAL SECONDS, still wants to communicate (probably) with Steam for the Unknown Signal rewards, and fuck-knows what else for, and five, causes your saving after quitting to menu go into a never-ending loop. (Saving itself finishes, it's just the spinner that doesn't go away and requires to kill SE through the task manager.) And that's just what I can list off the top of my head.

This isn't an MMO where online play is so integral that even wanting to have offline play would be silly. No. Online in SE is a nice addition, something for additional functions (and even then they only barely work), but definitely nothing indispensably necessary to essential, game-defining functions like placing blocks or breaking voxels. There is no reason why SE should make true offline play be so utterly ridiculously difficult to impossible to enjoy.

It's just yet another instance in and of SE where Keen, as usual, disappoints with their usual "eh, that'll do" approach to things. This company really, really makes it difficult to not be scathingly cynical about their product. And I'm not talking about the fellas that code and test what's there but about those who are fine with this being out the door in this state.

This is what you slap your logo on, guys. This is what you allow to be on your business card. This is what has your names in the credits.

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I didnt say he wasn't right tho.

Games had the ability to be played via LAN since the 1990's. It is anly reasonable to assume that you and your friends can pack a couple computers in a room, wire them together and play. No need for internet acess.

But the only constant in dealing with Keen is that they never fail to dissapoint, so why should this be any diffrent.

Lets hope we get somethingh usefull in here

Reimagined Combat

Quality of Life changes

An Arsenal of (Free) new weapons

Free & Premium content

Soon

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Sorry, didn't mean to sound like I was implying you said so.

But yes. Sad reflection of a thing when you can, even have to, rely on it being unreliable.

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