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Silent Hunter
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With the 1.008 patch, they'll be automatically added to the game. Their website store will then have them up for purchase. The patch is due out sometime next month.
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Those two are THE iconic aircraft I was waiting for.
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So you don't pay for them if you have the game and you get the patch? WTF would you pay for them then? Or do you have to add the patch then buy them?
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Silent Hunter
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You get them with the patch, but they're only available for the AI. Then you can go to their website and purchase them, which then unlocks the plane so you can use it at your own leisure.
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Navy Seal
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Which means some enterprising chap will unlock them for free.
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Lucky Jack
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Yeh, maybe so.
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yep, and there was an old mod (the mod that adds courntys) that opens part of the native expansion it seems...
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That's quite impossible. The account you use for the game also ties into the website. You buy the planes from there, the staff manually authenticates your purchase on the website, and they unlock them for you and allow you to fly- which then notes in their main website files that you've got access to such-and-such planes. They have to manually authenticate and unlock it, that's the keypoint here; otherwise, the file permissions are not unlocked so you cannot access the plane. If you tried modifying the core game's files to unlock them, their authentication process would detect it, send the data back to their site, and then lock you out of your account. Or the patching process would simply kick in and automatically delete the file and patch you back to the most recent version released.
The only hypothetical way you could "unlock" them is if you hacked their website and files somehow then manually unlocked the aircraft for yourself. But Neoqb's detection system would note an illegal access attempt long before you got anywhere near. They'd probably just ban your IP and account and report you to someone higher up. This is why you do not see any working versions of it available from torrent and warez sites. Because although you can download the basegame files, you cannot do anything else with it. You have no authentication keycode that you email to them so they can activate your game, no account on their website, nothing. |
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Silent Hunter
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Looks wonderful. Hadn't played it for awhile but I started it up today and noticed they've added the Sopwith Dolphin! Quite a surprise really. I'm very tempted to buy it!
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Well I say nothing is impossible. Especially with a friendly Russian hacker.
It is only a matter of time till someone works their way round the copy protection system. |
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And like I said already, even that kind of CP can be cracked. The activation key is stored somewhere in your PC or atleast the command that tells your game it's activated. So are the commands that tell your game to validate itself via the website. All those can be changed/fooled. ![]() |
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But you have to confirm the CD key by sending the email to Neoqb, then they have their staff check it and sort through a key list. If it's invalid or not on there, they won't confirm it for you. Plus you have no account to run it anyway, stemming directly from their website. The files now are not stored on the computer or in the registry, just the graphics, sounds, missions, etc., all the things that make it a game. The validation stuff and CD keys are all done online manually. That's the problem for pirates, and that's the beauty of the new system.
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Hmm 3DS MAX did a similar thing. You had to get an authorisation code from the developer to unlock it bnut before that you had to e-mail in a validation code....
hmmm now that was hacked.... Anyway enough of hacking, we'll get in to trouble. Looks good must admit, but still won't buy the game. |
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