The DRM requirement kept from buying SH5. Got my copy off of AMAZON brand-new for less than $5.00. Loading up and playing.

Uplay
 

Hi all

What is being said in these othere Posts I have been able to do since I bought the game which was Xmas Past .

Pondering
 

Salut all

I am just wondering by not going via the Internet to play SH5 could someone tell me what is the advantage of this and just playing on computer which I have been able to do since Xmas. ??

Question:
I see no mention of saving/loading games offline - I'd imagine that this is possible, is it ??
:)

All your saves are stored on your computer in the folders contained in \Documents\SH5 :up:

Ah Great !!

Time to install, my legit NON-STEAM version :) :)

Installed.. now I'm stuck at the UPlay "£$%£$% screen and can get no further.

Does one have to go through those "£%R% tutorial missions before you get to the offline mode - I'm about to un-install !!!

I'm pretty sure I said it before, but i'll say it again.

The title of this thread is misleading. Ubi did NOT remove the DRM. Uplay IS the DRM. The DRM is not removed until:
1.) You no longer have to install Uplay
2.) The game no longer has to pass a check by Uplay.

All Ubisoft has done, is add an OFFLINE MODE IN UPLAY. Vanjast wanted to install his legit non steam version? Guess what, Uplay now acts just like steam because it has an offline mode, where as before it didn't act like steam and demanded a constant internet connection.

In short, now it acts like steam. (which personally I'm ok with)
If your expecting DRM free like SH3 and SH4? Umm, no.

So, instead of being able to play without being connected to the net, I have to play without being connected to the net?

The complaint was always about having to be connected to play, not what it was called, so what's the difference?

The difference is if you have to have a gateway application installed or not in order to run the game. SH5 has a gateway app, its called Uplay. Even with an offline mode, you have to login to verify your credentials at least once. If for whatever reason your credentials are lost or reset on your machine, you'll have to logn to re establish your credentials again.

Sh3 and Sh4 have no gateway application. No login is requried at all, no credentials need to be stored.

This is why the title is misleading. There IS a DRM in SH5. All that was changed, was the addition of an offline mode that should have been there to begin with.

hmmm, I have "enable cloud save synchronization" disabled, but when I start the game it still says "please wait while save games are synchronized from server" and pauses for 20 or 30 seconds every time I start up the game. This is really annoying because savegames take forever to load in the first place, I'd rather just be able to load the savegame as soon as the game is done loading. Is there something extra I need to do in order to disable savegame syncing?

Same here..
Tried everything without success.

The saved games are being synced from the ubilauncher afaik . Just have a few saves and delete all the rest .

Yeah, me too.
Only way is to be patient for loading part.