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RESIDENT EVIL MODDER SAYS CAPCOM DRM ALLEGATIONS ARE “NONSENSE”

Claims that Capcom has caused performance issues by adding Enigma DRM to
Resident Evil Revelations are "nonsense," popular RE modder says.



Ed Smith

Published: 1 month ago

Resident Evil 

A recent Resident Evil Revelations update has been alleged to contain DRM
(digital rights management) software that is causing performance problems and
blocking the use of mods in the survival horror game. While RE creator Capcom
has previously said that it considers the use of unofficial mods similar or
equivalent to cheating, and has also issued a statement regarding the latest
Resident Evil Revelations update, one prominent modder for the zombie series
says that recent claims regarding DRM are “nonsense.” It follows after the Steam
store page for RE Revelations has been review bombed by players, dropping the
game’s rating, based on recent feedback, to ‘overwhelmingly negative.’



Following an update for Resident Evil Revelations, players on the Steam forums
for the horror game made several posts referring to Enigma, a DRM software that
was alleged to have been added to the RE spin-off, claiming that it had caused
frame rate drops and crashes.



A video presentation from Capcom’s research and development department
previously speculated that games could be better protected against piracy and
cheating by using a combination of in-house and third-party DRM solutions. The
developer said that the Wednesday, January 10 update had been reverted owing to
an “issue,” and would be restored after the issue was resolved.



Resident Evil Revelations has since been review bombed on Steam, receiving 451
negative player responses in the past five days. Now, one predominant Resident
Evil modder, who has created tools and mods for Resident Evil 2, RE8, and a
variety of other Resident Evil and Capcom games, says that the recent claims
regarding DRM are “nonsense.”



“We have no reason to believe Enigma was behind the problems with the
Revelations patch and the vast majority of mods still work completely fine with
the games that have Enigma Protection,” ‘FluffyQuack,’ creator of ArcTool and
RETool, two modding platforms that enable users to create material for Capcom
games, says. “Capcom has been adding Enigma to their games for a long while now.
Resident Evil 5 got it last year. [The] Street Fighter 6 beta had it two years
ago. Ghost Trick has it. And many other games have it.

“I have not seen people report worse performance issues in those games or major
glitches as a result of Enigma. We don’t have a reason yet to believe that
Enigma was the cause of the crashes or performance issues in the new Revelations
patch.

“Capcom has shown some anti-mod behavior the past years, for instance, with the
various layers of protections added to RE Engine games,” FluffyQuack continues.
“I don’t think this is specifically to target mods, but rather an overall
attempt to combat piracy and cheating (and modding as an extension).”





FluffyQuack says that Enigma only affects the use of mods in a “very specific
way,” and that Capcom has not “done anything substantial” to prevent modding in
its games so far. PCGamesN has contacted Capcom regarding Enigma and the recent
Resident Evil Revelations patch, and will update this story with any comment or
statement.

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Ed Smith Previously of Edge, Vice, Polygon, and the BBC, Ed is symbiotically
connected to the gaming news matrix, covering everything from Cities Skylines 2
road tools, to Half-Life mods, and classic boomer shooters. Between
Counter-Strike 2, Starfield, and Resident Evil - as well as everything and
anything related to GTA 6 - he has a close eye on the heady world of videogames,
and can often be found lamenting the tragedy that IO Interactive’s Freedom
Fighters never got a sequel. He was once in the top ten for speedrunning the
original Resident Evil 2 and has a weird knowledge of how RNG works in Doom.







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