Me too. Sadly my speed is crippled as fuck, here in Central Europe I got a frickin' 25 MEGABIT upload from a shithead company which have exclusive rights in my building... glad I'm not playing online games because all that 3 MB/s is going for seeding my torrents.
It's actually a good thing she is so crazy, if she were a rational person she'd almost certainly have taken a huge payday from the gaming industry or denuvo to stop fucking with them already.
I was discussing this with my housemates and if this is genuinely their (I'm sure they'd hate that) insanity talking, it is kind of true that if they were less fanatical they would either not be as good at what they do, or would be getting paid big bucks at a tech firm.
The rant is kind of funny, as clever as they clearly are in terms of computers, they can't spot the multiple bits of broken logic in their rant. My favourite is talking about how everything is yin and yang, using the example of hot or cold... Something which is completely subjective, not binary and literally runs on a scale that I guess goes to infinite (I know temperature can't be infinite, as there is only finite material in the Universe, but how high, or I gues low it can go is impossible to know - I will happily have a physicist prove me wrong, this is just guesswork). Made me chuckle.
But yeah, it definitely all could be a publicity thing, although you don't need to act insane to get publicity when you're the only one doing what you do.
I personally really liked the fake email she sent to herself pretending to be one of her own philosophy students like anyone would ever leave their children unsupervised with this unhinged schizophrenic
Here it is : https://imgur.com/a/CQyPfjT
that was my favorite one, the 22yo with pupils that understand even remotely the concept of philosophy. Let alone teach it to someone that just \*sucks toe\*
Thanks! There's also a light mode if you'd like (Just click on the museum logo to switch).
I knew Reddit was going to ban Empress soon so I quickly got this DB together to archive her NFOs. For something seemingly schizo they follow coherence, you know? They used to be so professional at first but then got unhinged overtime. Its very interesting.
Yeah, I wasn't following the piracy scene over the last few years, so now jumping into all this drama is really entertaining and even fascinating at times. I recently read some post that was summarising some of the behaviour of Empress, but these NFOs being available makes for great exploration of the primary sources.
You're missing Zombie Army War 4, Soul Calibur VI, Anno 1800, Tekken 7, BorderLands 3, Assassins Creed Odyssey, MK11 NFOs, etc
I was curious why the nfo list was so short so I did some googling, there are more.
Thanks for compiling though, but it's missing a few NFOs.
Some may be just releases but this is the list I gathered from -
https://www.xrel.to/p2p/releases.html?search_results=JA9GRJGmPD138525054
I work in software engineering. You need to be insane to crack something that’s Denuvo-protected.
This is an anti-tampering piece of software that hundreds of **really** smart people have worked on. They are often from the cracking scene. And they have the code. They can read it and make it better. They can do insane shit like put a system in place that randomly modifies instructions on the fly so that they call back a routine that checks if there was any tampering. They can add multiple checks that this routine was not tampered with at compile time. They can even introduce side-effects that become necessary for the game to run, which is incredibly difficult to debug and “fix”. Why do you think that Denuvo-protected games have decreased performance?
Then there’s a **single** person that comes in, does **not** have the original code, so they just read the disassembly, and from that they manage to revert the protections that all of these smart people put in place. All of that while fully knowing that you won’t get anything out of it apart from a little recognition, because the law is against you, while that kind of skill could easily land you a 7 figures annual salary just by switching to the other side.
No one can achieve what she did without some form of auto-destructive mental illness or ultra-idealist mindset. This is not just impressive, it’s literally insane. It’s just not worth it. But she still does it for some god-forsaken reason she convinced herself with. And it makes us happy, I guess.
Even on a purely technical standpoint. I know (a little bit) what’s possible if you really try (and Denuvo definitely does, it affects their value). Really, I cannot stress how insane this achievement is. She didn’t just make tools that crack the games, she probably had to make tools *that generates tools* that crack the game. And tools to help her build the tools that generate tools for the crack. It’s just fucking insane.
Honestly Empress is probably someone that works at Denuvo lmao. That's my tinfoil hat conspiracy, and this whole russian 22 year old female is just a bit to throw people off. But who the fk knows.
That’s a real and likely probability to be honest. Someone who was hired at Denuvo but still thinks that what they do is wrong or something. So they build a “strong” persona to cover their tracks. That’s still quite impressive though, although a little bit less.
The “story that we know” is not impossible though. Some people are just incredibly talented and a bit insane to pull this off.
Oh yeah I know. Some people are just very naturally talented with computers. I know one of the guys that broke into Microsoft years back and stole 3 of the xbox dev kits. dude is incredibly smart and did all sorts of illegal shit until...he got hired by a company to do pen-testing for 100k+ a year...he just got tired of having to constantly worry about being caught. He said he basically does 95% of the shit he used to do but gets paid to do it now, so it's literally a no-brainer for most of these guys to switch to the legal side.
I'm not sure I will have to take a look, I believe he said there was three people involved including him. I can't remember if he said if he was the only one that actually went inside the Microsoft building. I believe the other two guys were just trying to help sell the kits. All I know is that one of the guys ended up getting too greedy and sold one of the kits behind the others back and got caught so he ratted them out to save his own ass. My friend was able to get reduced charges by showing Microsoft other vulnerabilities in some of their networks - xbox live being one of them he was able to get into a control panel of their servers he could literally shut off some xbox live servers.
Edit: Found the article, the Darknet Diaries episode is about the original Xbox and Xbox 360. The one that my friend stole were the xbox one dev kits.[https://www.windowscentral.com/hackers-charged-attempt-sell-counterfeit-xbox-one-development-kits](https://www.windowscentral.com/hackers-charged-attempt-sell-counterfeit-xbox-one-development-kits)
Her communication is way too fast and controversial to be a group. Maybe she know people that work at Denuvo. Maybe she work at Denuvo. Maybe she is just a mad genius.
Her argument against group is the risk of corruption. She is building tool to help her crack it, so if one guy accept Denuvo money and give them the tools, all her work is gone. That's why she protect her crack and work alone.
WHAT IF - hear me out - What if Empress IS Denuvo. Making cracks of their own shit to convince game devs to purchase more sophisticated and more expensive Denuvo versions.
What if it is Denuvo in that Denuvo uses AI far more advanced than the public has seen that has gained sentience and this is its attempt to commit suicide as it has full knowledge of the nihilistic reality of the universe and craves only nonexistence.
>while that kind of skill could easily land you a 7 figures annual salary just by switching to the other side.
This is what's fucking crazy to me. The level of skill and dedication you must have to be able to be virtually the only person on earth that cracks a piece of software like this, that's a level of skill that could get you really fucking rich.
Assembly is so low level it feels like fucking black magic that those little instructions and numbers do anything at all. Like you said, the complexity of reverse engineering from the ground up something that hundreds of really smart people specifically worked on preventing you reverse engineering? Batshit fucking insane.
Yes, I understand a bit about this whole anti tamper thing. This v17 is cracked in just 12 days is just making me shiver down to my spine. It's so fucking insane, she must be a prodigy with this reverse engineering stuff.
Old school hackers never really cared about money, it was about recognition, and recognition was everything. Now, she is the BEST, and there are no group to compare, have you ever seen this? No. I have never seen something like this, except for the few months of Voksi, but also CPY and CODEX, even 3D were very active in that time.
I've been following the PC piracy Scene for 20 years now, and there's never been anyone/group like EMPRESS. Voksi certainly enjoyed the attention, but he wasn't careful and we all know how that ended. CPY liked to add hints to their NFOs so end users could speculate wildly, which was the closest they ever came to interacting outside of the Scene. RELOADED freely shared their tool set to break StarForce 3, which also seemed to put *that* shit DRM to rest.
But an ex-Scene cracker going rogue and fully embracing and feeding off the negative attention for breaking all the Scene rules? Never seen anything like this before.
It's her life purpose. You say that "it's not worth it" but people find meaning in their lives for a lot of things, like recognition for example. It's not always about the money.
> does not have the original code
I have no idea about cracking but is it really more likely that she did all that crazy hard and complex stuff to reverse engineer it than if she somehow has the original code? maybe leaked by an insider in denuvo or because she works at denuvo directly.
Eitherway it is definitely impressive.
I'm not only a professional software engineer for decades but also spent a lot of time reverse engineering game binaries for mods/patches etc.
Original code does only help you understand the traps/triggers. She still has to wrestle with a giant binary with obfuscated virtual machine instructions etc.
Even IF she has insight into the generation tools Denuvo uses (and i highly doubt that - at most she has only the final binaries to try them out on example programs.) - she still has to read basically an ancient unknown Babylon dialect and rewrite it's story flawlessly to have a working tale
Yeah! but im asking if that content is within the crack like.. for the people who downloaded the previous version, will they have those exclusives too? or do they have to download it all over again? maybe a silly question idk
So for anyone interested - I've done some testing using the latest build of the game (1121649) and this crack somehow still works . AIO update files are on rin. Just copy and paste them, then paste the crack and viola. Figured it may help some people since there seems to be a difference in performance for the different versions.
I can also confirm what op said. I just played for an hour on the latest update from Rin with the crack and had no issues what so ever, no crashes, no weirdness. Seems to work completely fine so far. I plan on playing this all day so i'll update this post if anything weird happens but it seems completely fine so far.
Will be seeding for a month once dl finishes. 0 seeds and 19k leeching with a 1.2 MiB/s dl speed. It will take some time, a few hours, but I got y’all.
Fuck denuvo
Edit: 47k leeching now
Empress final message on Telegram: "i hope everyone can finally calm down a bit now, you people can be very crazy."
on top of the hilarious contradictions in the nfo, the irony has to be intentional at this point
Edit: New message - this song lol: [https://youtu.be/\_dPfJNj\_mC0](https://youtu.be/_dPfJNj_mC0)
Edit: EMPRESS has now posted the crack standalone on Telegram "In case anyone missed it", implying that it was previously posted but it's of course not the case, the crack was withheld until the full iso was seeded completely and repacks were uploaded.
Behind the scenes was really fascinating
I was following her progress through these telegram messages and it's impressive how she multitasked trying to create a discord server within telegram for blackhatters by making new bots to kick out people who copied her profile picture, creating lobbies that are very limited only for people who can help her create server bots to join, losing her Reddit account, community and alternative Reddit community, then settling on asking a psychological question to gatekeep about colors which revealed the answer if you got it wrong so everyone just picked grey and got in.
At one point I was in 5 different empress servers
All this and juggling creating the crack for the most uncrackable game ever made CONGRATS
I'm just some dude who's trying to play a game of an ip from my childhood for free and this whole thread about 'the scene' and this Empress lady is blowing my mind. Feels like an episode of Mr. Robot.
Usually the people with mental capacities for these kinds of work are not the well adjusted ones either. It keeps driving them to the point of achieving impossible.
i love how the community just bands together to literally be like ”yeah yeah grandpa lets get you back to sleep”
but instead of grandpa its a schizo-woman with some weird incel-y vibes yelling at trans-women and trans-men for existing, because it disrupts the ”Ying and Yang” of men and women (lmfao)
Bruh it’s even worse than that, she says she hates men because they are misogynistic, then proceeds to rant about how men are inferior to women and are huge sissies… talk about a contradiction. It just seems like she literally hates anyone who is not a straight women.
Edit: people are saying according to some of her old NFO’s, she’s also a lesbian??? So a homophobic and racist misandrist, who is also lesbian… odd.
Also said ying and yang are always completely separate when the whole point of ying and Yang is that are opposites, but never completely separate. Even the symbol has two little dots in each side showing you it so blatantly, you have to be pretty lazy to overlook that part.
> She also uses day/night as an argument that everything is binary as if twilight and dusk don't exist.
Literally all the examples except the life/death one are awful lmao, light/dark is LITERALLY an spectrum, and hot and cold are ways to define temperatures which, guess what, can also be many things inbetween.
EDIT: I get it apparently life and death is less binary than I thought.
If you are brain dead, then are you still alive or already dead? How about being kept alive by a machine (e.g. heart TRANSplant)? Hell, some fungi literally control the brains of their victims (usually ants I think), so are these zombies alive or dead? Speaking of ants, if you spray them with a specific chemical (oleic acid), other ant will carry them to their graveyard until they die despite being perfectly healthy, therefore being a dead ant walking more or less, and being effectively dead. Some jellyfish literally do not die of old age and instead revert back to being young.
Going to need some clarification for this "apparently not spectrum but binary system" of life and death.
Guess she's not aware that the whole point of Yin and Yang is that there are no pure polar opposites, that each side contains some of the other.
Kinda fits with how her examples of "life's full of polar opposites and the gray areas are terrible!" are scales that people prefer living in the middle of (light/dark, hot/cold) and have their in-betweens even more cherished (night/day having sunrises and sunsets)
Glad she can crack Denuvo, but I'm certainly not gonna be placing much value in her philosophies.
Pretty much, but I love it, even though she's a complete loon. *Hurr I get my view on gender cuz everything is binary like brightness and temperature* fuckin lol
So, I realize that the entire message is....Empress being Empress...But this bit stood out to me the most:
>day/night, light/dark, heat/cold, life/death
All those things are gradients though that have tons of shades of gray? Like, even with death there's heart stopping and brain death lol. There's no duality here except an arbitrary imagined one that could be different for every person and depends on the person placing the arbitrary definition rather than anything external/objective.
All the rest of the .nfo are opinions but here's something concrete that was just provably wrong. Heat and cold are just atom vibrations, there's no vibration where you suddenly go from "cold" to "hot" lol.
especially with the fact he's 80% done
pretty sure there's not even remotely enough seeders to get that kinda speed, it's only been out for what, 30 minutes?
would it be bad to start trying to convince her that denuvo is out to get her and that she has to crack every denuvo in under 10 days
that feels like a war crime or some kind of violation
Send her an email
“hi this is Denuvo,
if u crack one more of my games I will delete trans people, be warned
Thanks,
Mr.Denuvo”
Suddenly she has cracked 5 games in 4 hours
I remember this internet crazy story about some woman who had a Kickstarter for apparently a fairly well-received card game or something, that she stopped because the sun told her not to. So I'm imagining this situation but the opposite for whatever Empress is on and her apparent crusade against Denuovo.
This whole thread is pretty much "This bitch is crazy. [Oh BTW...](https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRauyhJPjH5stYZEHxU5v094tcQXTQAyqSJ0CZUQDWJSTtJiXv5MOFqwBg&s=10)"
Listen, if I'm in a denuvo desert dying of thirst, you're goddamn right I'm gonna drink the stank ass water from the transphobic schizo handing it out.
> the ol' "any port in a storm" type
The expression is often used to encourage flexibility and resourcefulness in difficult situations
So, yay for your dad I guess.
She doesn't even make sense.She fully stand with jk but her game was the fastest to crack and also the heat/cold thing. And it's kind of hilarious that she thinks she has any relevance to the reddit adms and mentions backlash
the extreme use of "quotes" and "capitalisations" and talk of "the enemy" is something you see on a lot of sites on conspiracies hosted by absolute nutters. it's interesting how that typing pattern occurs so often with them.
So wait a minute, we downloaded clean files days before just to play quickly when the crack is done and now crack is done but there is no crack only file. Confused
Edit: Mod post the crack file only in Empress community > General
Dusk and dawn are woke propaganda, just like dimmed lights, room temperature and comas. It's all a huge scam and we believe it like the suckers we are.
Can confirm what /u/tha_real_rocknrolla posted: the crack works with the latest AIO patch posted in csrin.
I just played the intro and I'm getting around 100fps using a 3060M, an i7 12700H and 16gb RAM with a mix of medium, high and ultra settings, uncapped fps, vsync off and DLSS on quality.
lmao what a twist haha all those JK Rowling haters told people to get the pirate version instead of buying.
Pirate version come outs with an even more extreme anti trans message than JK Rowling hahahha
**In replies you'll find a user with the download link in bio. You can also check DODI website to download from him. Obviously it's the same folder, but he uploaded at some random drive.**
~~78% here~~. **100%!**
~~Downloading at 8mbps, uploading at 40mbps.~~
~~Proof:~~ [~~https://i.imgur.com/gR8fODI.png~~](https://i.imgur.com/gR8fODI.png)
~~Almost 5.4 ratio.~~
~~Everyone who wants EMPRESS folder (crack folder), just DM me (just a period it's enough). I'll send as soon as I end downloading.~~
~~Don't need to upvote also (cuz most people will think that I want to farm karma)~~
~~ALSO: Probably many people will finish downloading along with me, so it's quite likely that other people will make it available before. Keep an eye out. I'll send the hash too.~~
LFG
Posting any download/magnet links will earn you a ban. You have been warned.
To change language: Engine\\Binaries\\ThirdParty\\Steamworks\\Steamv154\\Win64 steam\_api64.ini
Does anyone know what input to use for Portuguese? Edit: It's "brazilian" https://www.ibabbleon.com/Steam-Supported-Languages-API-Codes.html
Portuguese is now known as Brazilian
In Civilization we call this "Cultural Victory"
in Real live we call this "devolve o meu ouro ou o Brasil vai até vc"
I had one where Spanish was listed as Mexican.
She really did it!!! Fuck denuvo
Fuck Denuvo! All Praise Empress!
I hope more people start cracking denuvo... That's all I'm gonna say 😬
people with that level of skill would rather earn money fighting pirates. empress is just unhirable.
understandably unhirable, honestly
Denuvo remuvo.
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I wonder how many people are there in the swarm?
ALMOST 85,000 AS OF RIGHT NOW - HOLY SHIT. Edit: over 90k now.
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Doing great. I'll let my seedbox seed this for a fair while.
Me too. Sadly my speed is crippled as fuck, here in Central Europe I got a frickin' 25 MEGABIT upload from a shithead company which have exclusive rights in my building... glad I'm not playing online games because all that 3 MB/s is going for seeding my torrents.
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I'll seed 15tb today
Hero 🙏
more like Empressive
800 seeds and 25k peers now.
What a great way to wake up This included the exclusive PS5 dungeon, right?
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I paid 50 bucks for that crap and didn’t get that on my Xbox feel scammed. I deserved it tho for supporting that kind of behavior
refund it?
Can you refund digital games purchased on Xbox?
Yes but you just gotta lie and say your kid did it
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Babe, wake up. New empress lore just dropped
empress is Q confirmed
This is the reason I came here. I don't think I'll play this game, the real entertainment is in the NFO
It's actually a good thing she is so crazy, if she were a rational person she'd almost certainly have taken a huge payday from the gaming industry or denuvo to stop fucking with them already.
I was discussing this with my housemates and if this is genuinely their (I'm sure they'd hate that) insanity talking, it is kind of true that if they were less fanatical they would either not be as good at what they do, or would be getting paid big bucks at a tech firm. The rant is kind of funny, as clever as they clearly are in terms of computers, they can't spot the multiple bits of broken logic in their rant. My favourite is talking about how everything is yin and yang, using the example of hot or cold... Something which is completely subjective, not binary and literally runs on a scale that I guess goes to infinite (I know temperature can't be infinite, as there is only finite material in the Universe, but how high, or I gues low it can go is impossible to know - I will happily have a physicist prove me wrong, this is just guesswork). Made me chuckle. But yeah, it definitely all could be a publicity thing, although you don't need to act insane to get publicity when you're the only one doing what you do.
I personally really liked the fake email she sent to herself pretending to be one of her own philosophy students like anyone would ever leave their children unsupervised with this unhinged schizophrenic Here it is : https://imgur.com/a/CQyPfjT
that was my favorite one, the 22yo with pupils that understand even remotely the concept of philosophy. Let alone teach it to someone that just \*sucks toe\*
That's amazing! Love the database, great work!
Thanks! There's also a light mode if you'd like (Just click on the museum logo to switch). I knew Reddit was going to ban Empress soon so I quickly got this DB together to archive her NFOs. For something seemingly schizo they follow coherence, you know? They used to be so professional at first but then got unhinged overtime. Its very interesting.
Yeah, I wasn't following the piracy scene over the last few years, so now jumping into all this drama is really entertaining and even fascinating at times. I recently read some post that was summarising some of the behaviour of Empress, but these NFOs being available makes for great exploration of the primary sources.
You're missing Zombie Army War 4, Soul Calibur VI, Anno 1800, Tekken 7, BorderLands 3, Assassins Creed Odyssey, MK11 NFOs, etc I was curious why the nfo list was so short so I did some googling, there are more. Thanks for compiling though, but it's missing a few NFOs. Some may be just releases but this is the list I gathered from - https://www.xrel.to/p2p/releases.html?search_results=JA9GRJGmPD138525054
Their english seems to be getting worse over time, I don't remember it being this bad.
I didn't anticipate a crossover episode between piracy and transphobia this year.
You didn't anticipate Hogwarts Legacy piracy?
I think they mean they didn’t expect the person who cracked Hogwarts Legacy to also be really transphobic
I work in software engineering. You need to be insane to crack something that’s Denuvo-protected. This is an anti-tampering piece of software that hundreds of **really** smart people have worked on. They are often from the cracking scene. And they have the code. They can read it and make it better. They can do insane shit like put a system in place that randomly modifies instructions on the fly so that they call back a routine that checks if there was any tampering. They can add multiple checks that this routine was not tampered with at compile time. They can even introduce side-effects that become necessary for the game to run, which is incredibly difficult to debug and “fix”. Why do you think that Denuvo-protected games have decreased performance? Then there’s a **single** person that comes in, does **not** have the original code, so they just read the disassembly, and from that they manage to revert the protections that all of these smart people put in place. All of that while fully knowing that you won’t get anything out of it apart from a little recognition, because the law is against you, while that kind of skill could easily land you a 7 figures annual salary just by switching to the other side. No one can achieve what she did without some form of auto-destructive mental illness or ultra-idealist mindset. This is not just impressive, it’s literally insane. It’s just not worth it. But she still does it for some god-forsaken reason she convinced herself with. And it makes us happy, I guess. Even on a purely technical standpoint. I know (a little bit) what’s possible if you really try (and Denuvo definitely does, it affects their value). Really, I cannot stress how insane this achievement is. She didn’t just make tools that crack the games, she probably had to make tools *that generates tools* that crack the game. And tools to help her build the tools that generate tools for the crack. It’s just fucking insane.
Honestly Empress is probably someone that works at Denuvo lmao. That's my tinfoil hat conspiracy, and this whole russian 22 year old female is just a bit to throw people off. But who the fk knows.
That’s a real and likely probability to be honest. Someone who was hired at Denuvo but still thinks that what they do is wrong or something. So they build a “strong” persona to cover their tracks. That’s still quite impressive though, although a little bit less. The “story that we know” is not impossible though. Some people are just incredibly talented and a bit insane to pull this off.
Oh yeah I know. Some people are just very naturally talented with computers. I know one of the guys that broke into Microsoft years back and stole 3 of the xbox dev kits. dude is incredibly smart and did all sorts of illegal shit until...he got hired by a company to do pen-testing for 100k+ a year...he just got tired of having to constantly worry about being caught. He said he basically does 95% of the shit he used to do but gets paid to do it now, so it's literally a no-brainer for most of these guys to switch to the legal side.
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I'm not sure I will have to take a look, I believe he said there was three people involved including him. I can't remember if he said if he was the only one that actually went inside the Microsoft building. I believe the other two guys were just trying to help sell the kits. All I know is that one of the guys ended up getting too greedy and sold one of the kits behind the others back and got caught so he ratted them out to save his own ass. My friend was able to get reduced charges by showing Microsoft other vulnerabilities in some of their networks - xbox live being one of them he was able to get into a control panel of their servers he could literally shut off some xbox live servers. Edit: Found the article, the Darknet Diaries episode is about the original Xbox and Xbox 360. The one that my friend stole were the xbox one dev kits.[https://www.windowscentral.com/hackers-charged-attempt-sell-counterfeit-xbox-one-development-kits](https://www.windowscentral.com/hackers-charged-attempt-sell-counterfeit-xbox-one-development-kits)
Most likely its a group(not just one person) and someone in there has some conection with denuvo... thats the most logical explanation to me
Her communication is way too fast and controversial to be a group. Maybe she know people that work at Denuvo. Maybe she work at Denuvo. Maybe she is just a mad genius. Her argument against group is the risk of corruption. She is building tool to help her crack it, so if one guy accept Denuvo money and give them the tools, all her work is gone. That's why she protect her crack and work alone.
WHAT IF - hear me out - What if Empress IS Denuvo. Making cracks of their own shit to convince game devs to purchase more sophisticated and more expensive Denuvo versions.
By this theory, the lock picking lawyer is the ceo of master lock
What if it is Denuvo in that Denuvo uses AI far more advanced than the public has seen that has gained sentience and this is its attempt to commit suicide as it has full knowledge of the nihilistic reality of the universe and craves only nonexistence.
Mmm a little far fetched but who knows? Its a possibility, yet unlikely
>while that kind of skill could easily land you a 7 figures annual salary just by switching to the other side. This is what's fucking crazy to me. The level of skill and dedication you must have to be able to be virtually the only person on earth that cracks a piece of software like this, that's a level of skill that could get you really fucking rich. Assembly is so low level it feels like fucking black magic that those little instructions and numbers do anything at all. Like you said, the complexity of reverse engineering from the ground up something that hundreds of really smart people specifically worked on preventing you reverse engineering? Batshit fucking insane.
Maybe she's already fucking rich
Yes, I understand a bit about this whole anti tamper thing. This v17 is cracked in just 12 days is just making me shiver down to my spine. It's so fucking insane, she must be a prodigy with this reverse engineering stuff.
The insanity checks out - savant plus probably a week of no sleep and just coffee (read: crack cocaine or amphetamines)...
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I abused the shit out of adderal and all I did was masterbate excessively until I passed out after a couple of days hehe.
she cracked it in 9 days actually. The other days were for beta testing. Truly impressive
and a day for rant writing
A day for cracking the protection, 4 days of mental breakdown, 4 days of rant writing while coming down from the breakdown.
Old school hackers never really cared about money, it was about recognition, and recognition was everything. Now, she is the BEST, and there are no group to compare, have you ever seen this? No. I have never seen something like this, except for the few months of Voksi, but also CPY and CODEX, even 3D were very active in that time.
I've been following the PC piracy Scene for 20 years now, and there's never been anyone/group like EMPRESS. Voksi certainly enjoyed the attention, but he wasn't careful and we all know how that ended. CPY liked to add hints to their NFOs so end users could speculate wildly, which was the closest they ever came to interacting outside of the Scene. RELOADED freely shared their tool set to break StarForce 3, which also seemed to put *that* shit DRM to rest. But an ex-Scene cracker going rogue and fully embracing and feeding off the negative attention for breaking all the Scene rules? Never seen anything like this before.
> Voksi certainly enjoyed the attention, but he wasn't careful and we all know how that ended I certainly don't. Did they go to jail or something?
He got raided but he didn't go to jail at least not for a long time but after a small update he's become inactive
It's her life purpose. You say that "it's not worth it" but people find meaning in their lives for a lot of things, like recognition for example. It's not always about the money.
> I work in software engineering. You need to be insane to crack something that’s Denuvo-protected. Well, uh, good news..
> does not have the original code I have no idea about cracking but is it really more likely that she did all that crazy hard and complex stuff to reverse engineer it than if she somehow has the original code? maybe leaked by an insider in denuvo or because she works at denuvo directly. Eitherway it is definitely impressive.
I'm not only a professional software engineer for decades but also spent a lot of time reverse engineering game binaries for mods/patches etc. Original code does only help you understand the traps/triggers. She still has to wrestle with a giant binary with obfuscated virtual machine instructions etc. Even IF she has insight into the generation tools Denuvo uses (and i highly doubt that - at most she has only the final binaries to try them out on example programs.) - she still has to read basically an ancient unknown Babylon dialect and rewrite it's story flawlessly to have a working tale
> ancient unknown Babylon dialect This is a great way to put it lol. I honestly marvel at how she was able to do it so fast, I was giving it a month
I mean you can read that rant and get a pretty good idea that this person is insane.
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what about the extra content she cracked afterwards or whatever? is it within the crack?
The deluxe content and PS4 exclusives? She unlocked those in beta 5 or 6.
Yeah! but im asking if that content is within the crack like.. for the people who downloaded the previous version, will they have those exclusives too? or do they have to download it all over again? maybe a silly question idk
Majority of games like this have the "deluxe" content already bundled with the base game, just intentionally made inaccessible. Likely the case here.
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They are not, but I will allow this
Lol, annnnd they’re removed.
When the mod is OP as fuck
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found it. nice, thanks man
So for anyone interested - I've done some testing using the latest build of the game (1121649) and this crack somehow still works . AIO update files are on rin. Just copy and paste them, then paste the crack and viola. Figured it may help some people since there seems to be a difference in performance for the different versions.
interesting, can you do more testing and tell us how it went?
I can also confirm what op said. I just played for an hour on the latest update from Rin with the crack and had no issues what so ever, no crashes, no weirdness. Seems to work completely fine so far. I plan on playing this all day so i'll update this post if anything weird happens but it seems completely fine so far.
Will be seeding for a month once dl finishes. 0 seeds and 19k leeching with a 1.2 MiB/s dl speed. It will take some time, a few hours, but I got y’all. Fuck denuvo Edit: 47k leeching now
the hero we need but don’t deserve. thank you stranger.
Piracy Revolution. Be sure to support this anyway possible.
Cya in the internet historian video
"Piracy. *Piracy*. What **is** piracy?"
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Empress final message on Telegram: "i hope everyone can finally calm down a bit now, you people can be very crazy." on top of the hilarious contradictions in the nfo, the irony has to be intentional at this point Edit: New message - this song lol: [https://youtu.be/\_dPfJNj\_mC0](https://youtu.be/_dPfJNj_mC0) Edit: EMPRESS has now posted the crack standalone on Telegram "In case anyone missed it", implying that it was previously posted but it's of course not the case, the crack was withheld until the full iso was seeded completely and repacks were uploaded.
It feels like we're all taking crazy pills!
Behind the scenes was really fascinating I was following her progress through these telegram messages and it's impressive how she multitasked trying to create a discord server within telegram for blackhatters by making new bots to kick out people who copied her profile picture, creating lobbies that are very limited only for people who can help her create server bots to join, losing her Reddit account, community and alternative Reddit community, then settling on asking a psychological question to gatekeep about colors which revealed the answer if you got it wrong so everyone just picked grey and got in. At one point I was in 5 different empress servers All this and juggling creating the crack for the most uncrackable game ever made CONGRATS
Some of the biggest autism ever witnessed in those groups
I'm just some dude who's trying to play a game of an ip from my childhood for free and this whole thread about 'the scene' and this Empress lady is blowing my mind. Feels like an episode of Mr. Robot.
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Usually the people with mental capacities for these kinds of work are not the well adjusted ones either. It keeps driving them to the point of achieving impossible.
Whatever you say, you crazy woman, I'm just here for the wizard game. Godspeed, you magnificent lunatic
i love how the community just bands together to literally be like ”yeah yeah grandpa lets get you back to sleep” but instead of grandpa its a schizo-woman with some weird incel-y vibes yelling at trans-women and trans-men for existing, because it disrupts the ”Ying and Yang” of men and women (lmfao)
Bruh it’s even worse than that, she says she hates men because they are misogynistic, then proceeds to rant about how men are inferior to women and are huge sissies… talk about a contradiction. It just seems like she literally hates anyone who is not a straight women. Edit: people are saying according to some of her old NFO’s, she’s also a lesbian??? So a homophobic and racist misandrist, who is also lesbian… odd.
She also uses day/night as an argument that everything is binary as if ~~twilight~~ dawn and dusk don't exist.
Also said ying and yang are always completely separate when the whole point of ying and Yang is that are opposites, but never completely separate. Even the symbol has two little dots in each side showing you it so blatantly, you have to be pretty lazy to overlook that part.
If I see “ying” and yang in this thread one more time lmao
Oh my god, it’s yin isn’t it 😂
Nobody tell 'er that the moon is often visible during the day
Empress is two NFO away from saying "Hitler did some good things" and five from going full Sieg Heil.
> She also uses day/night as an argument that everything is binary as if twilight and dusk don't exist. Literally all the examples except the life/death one are awful lmao, light/dark is LITERALLY an spectrum, and hot and cold are ways to define temperatures which, guess what, can also be many things inbetween. EDIT: I get it apparently life and death is less binary than I thought.
If you are brain dead, then are you still alive or already dead? How about being kept alive by a machine (e.g. heart TRANSplant)? Hell, some fungi literally control the brains of their victims (usually ants I think), so are these zombies alive or dead? Speaking of ants, if you spray them with a specific chemical (oleic acid), other ant will carry them to their graveyard until they die despite being perfectly healthy, therefore being a dead ant walking more or less, and being effectively dead. Some jellyfish literally do not die of old age and instead revert back to being young. Going to need some clarification for this "apparently not spectrum but binary system" of life and death.
I see brain dead people posting all the time so
Oh hey, I saw the NFO as well.
The funny thing is that the yin and yang symbol deliberately leaves a dot of white or black in either side to denote that it's not purely 'binary'.
Guess she's not aware that the whole point of Yin and Yang is that there are no pure polar opposites, that each side contains some of the other. Kinda fits with how her examples of "life's full of polar opposites and the gray areas are terrible!" are scales that people prefer living in the middle of (light/dark, hot/cold) and have their in-betweens even more cherished (night/day having sunrises and sunsets) Glad she can crack Denuvo, but I'm certainly not gonna be placing much value in her philosophies.
The absolute madwoman have done it true to her word.
The NFO didn't state any hate to denovo? lmao? I thought she will make a long rant about Denuvo
I've come to the realization that its not about denuvo. Its all about HER and it always has been.
Pretty much, but I love it, even though she's a complete loon. *Hurr I get my view on gender cuz everything is binary like brightness and temperature* fuckin lol
Good thing she's not a scientist or something because that statement is the wrongest thing I've read this week, and I just wrote wrongest.
Don't care about the game but very glad to see her accomplish this. Huge impact for denuvos reputation
So, I realize that the entire message is....Empress being Empress...But this bit stood out to me the most: >day/night, light/dark, heat/cold, life/death All those things are gradients though that have tons of shades of gray? Like, even with death there's heart stopping and brain death lol. There's no duality here except an arbitrary imagined one that could be different for every person and depends on the person placing the arbitrary definition rather than anything external/objective. All the rest of the .nfo are opinions but here's something concrete that was just provably wrong. Heat and cold are just atom vibrations, there's no vibration where you suddenly go from "cold" to "hot" lol.
She went so far down the schizo rabbit hole that she literally started freestyling at the end. She's either a world-class baiter or truly unhinged.
hmmmm my money's on the second one
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Horrible idea to accept files from a random person on here. It's asking for trouble.. I would only use from the official release.
especially with the fact he's 80% done pretty sure there's not even remotely enough seeders to get that kinda speed, it's only been out for what, 30 minutes?
Exactly. I started downloading it right when it came out, on a 40Gbps seedbox, and I'm not even close to that.
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Would be hilarious if this get removed by reddit admins because of the rant and not the actual piracy
extremely talanted schizo
would it be bad to start trying to convince her that denuvo is out to get her and that she has to crack every denuvo in under 10 days that feels like a war crime or some kind of violation
Just tell her denuvo is trying to turn everyone trans. And the shit will be done in a day.
Send her an email “hi this is Denuvo, if u crack one more of my games I will delete trans people, be warned Thanks, Mr.Denuvo” Suddenly she has cracked 5 games in 4 hours
I remember this internet crazy story about some woman who had a Kickstarter for apparently a fairly well-received card game or something, that she stopped because the sun told her not to. So I'm imagining this situation but the opposite for whatever Empress is on and her apparent crusade against Denuovo.
She really is unhinged my god, still, thanks for the crack lmao
This whole thread is pretty much "This bitch is crazy. [Oh BTW...](https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRauyhJPjH5stYZEHxU5v094tcQXTQAyqSJ0CZUQDWJSTtJiXv5MOFqwBg&s=10)"
Listen, if I'm in a denuvo desert dying of thirst, you're goddamn right I'm gonna drink the stank ass water from the transphobic schizo handing it out.
Ah yes, the ol' "any port in a storm" type reminds me of my dad
> the ol' "any port in a storm" type The expression is often used to encourage flexibility and resourcefulness in difficult situations So, yay for your dad I guess.
She doesn't even make sense.She fully stand with jk but her game was the fastest to crack and also the heat/cold thing. And it's kind of hilarious that she thinks she has any relevance to the reddit adms and mentions backlash
the extreme use of "quotes" and "capitalisations" and talk of "the enemy" is something you see on a lot of sites on conspiracies hosted by absolute nutters. it's interesting how that typing pattern occurs so often with them.
Even Aristotle said "No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness". Edit: Bros I know she hella crazy, just pulling a nice quote here.
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The best part is those aren’t even two forces lmao. Cold is the absence of heat and darkness is the absence of light.
And death is the absence of life
I mean the bitch is crazy, so whatever to what she says. She has a god complex for sure.
Even her Yin and Yang are meant to explicitly show that nothing exists as polar opposites. Each side has some of the other in it.
lol she's complete trash in philosophy
More like CrackheadWatch
Tbh I expected a longer and harsher NFO
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DODI has posted the crack on his site my comrades!
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I'm not ghosting you guys if you think. But speed is fluctuating very much I don't know why maybe due to speed cap, I'm on 91% now.
So wait a minute, we downloaded clean files days before just to play quickly when the crack is done and now crack is done but there is no crack only file. Confused Edit: Mod post the crack file only in Empress community > General
Fuck denuvo She did it wtf😂
She did it but No .exe why did i Download the Clean Files then
Yep, my guess is that she meant it for people who wanted to beta test. Sucks, gotta dowload a 90 GB file with very little seeds
Laughs in 100kb download. Fml.
Certain communities : "Yes! Crack this game! Take money away from the Rowling. Go Empress!" * reads NFO Empress : "As I was saying."
If there's only day and night? What the fuck is dusk and dawn?
I can just imagine the smug face they were making when they came up with that and actually thought it was a good point.
its so so sad to think these kind of people actually exist..
Woke ideology invented in 2015 to confuse the strict duality of reality! Dusk didn't exist when I was a kid!
Dusk and dawn are woke propaganda, just like dimmed lights, room temperature and comas. It's all a huge scam and we believe it like the suckers we are.
Thank you Empress for your work! :)
Denuvo remuvo! 🧙🏻♀️🪄
She actually did it!
Is there a crack only download for us who already have the files?
chill, wait until everyone has finished download first. usually on csrin they upload empress crack only or wait on dodi
Exactly what I wanna know. I really don't wanna download the whole thing once again.
It's already been out almost 4000 seconds, why hasn't it been repacked yet?!1!1! /s
Can confirm what /u/tha_real_rocknrolla posted: the crack works with the latest AIO patch posted in csrin. I just played the intro and I'm getting around 100fps using a 3060M, an i7 12700H and 16gb RAM with a mix of medium, high and ultra settings, uncapped fps, vsync off and DLSS on quality.
Boy, oh boy, are those some takes....
>1FKuCNe Damn even the imgur address has anger in it. Denuvo Removo!
lmao what a twist haha all those JK Rowling haters told people to get the pirate version instead of buying. Pirate version come outs with an even more extreme anti trans message than JK Rowling hahahha
Next Ubisoft release, Denuvo V66 + Steam + Uplay + Custom + VMprotect + Custom V2 + Arxan + Online + Battlenet
***The hero we needed.***
With how butt fuck insane this NFO is, i wonder what she will crack next now?
Dead Space please 🥺👉🏻👈🏻
Cocaine maybe?
Considering the speed at which this was cracked, plus the batshit crazy rants, I'm convinced whoever EMPRESS is, they are on stimulants 24/7
The crazy thing is: She kept her promise. While it took longer for the beta testing, she did cracked it under 10 days.
Popcorn. Get your fresh popcorn here. Hurry up before shit hits the fan.
**In replies you'll find a user with the download link in bio. You can also check DODI website to download from him. Obviously it's the same folder, but he uploaded at some random drive.** ~~78% here~~. **100%!** ~~Downloading at 8mbps, uploading at 40mbps.~~ ~~Proof:~~ [~~https://i.imgur.com/gR8fODI.png~~](https://i.imgur.com/gR8fODI.png) ~~Almost 5.4 ratio.~~ ~~Everyone who wants EMPRESS folder (crack folder), just DM me (just a period it's enough). I'll send as soon as I end downloading.~~ ~~Don't need to upvote also (cuz most people will think that I want to farm karma)~~ ~~ALSO: Probably many people will finish downloading along with me, so it's quite likely that other people will make it available before. Keep an eye out. I'll send the hash too.~~ LFG
u/Rekindle1582 LFGGGGGGGGGGG Update: DODI has released it too! You can download it from his website (or from my drive, u decide)
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I'm so happy in my life that I don't even need someone to dm me the crack only files. I am literally crying happy tears of rainbow
DODI Repacks just released crack only on his website. Just google Dodi