Death Stranding's PC release date was revealed earlier today, and with that announcement also came confirmation that the game would use Denuvo DRM tech on PC

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Death Stranding To Use Denuvo Anti-Tamper DRM On PC

A couple of hours ago, 505 Games revealed that Death Stranding will be coming to the PC on June 2nd. However, it appears that this game will be using the Denuvo anti-tamper tech. This was revealed via the game’s official Steam store page. Death Stranding is the second high profile game that will be using the most likely latest version of Denuvo. The other game that will be using it is Resident Evil 3 Remake. Denuvo isn’t uncommon on PC, and while we don’t like the technology (as it prevents timely benchmarking), we won’t see it as the game killer which many claim it to be.

Denuvo’s anti-tamper tech has been around a lot of controversies in the past. It’s been said that the presence of Denuvo affects performance in-game. While developers and Denuvo denied such claims, facts showed a different story. Nonetheless, this is the 2nd AAA game to get Denuvo anti-tamper tech this year.

When Death Stranding’s Steam listing was updated earlier today, users of the Steam Forums were shocked to discover that the game “incorporates [the] 3rd-party DRM: Denovo” with a “1 machine activation limit”. This listing, understandably, caused fans of the game to take their dissatisfaction to Death Stranding’s section of Steam’s forums, asking 505 Games (the publisher of Death Stranding’s PC version) and Kojima Productions for a detailed explanation.

505 Games quickly responded to these concerns by editing the Steam listing of Death Stranding to remove the “1 machine activation limit” and state that the “1 machine activation limit was a store listing error and has now been corrected.” This statement has been made on Twitter and Death Stranding’s Steam Forum.

We expect Death Stranding to feature Denuvo’s standard activation limit, which allows a specific number of hardware changes within a given timeframe. Exceeding these limits will lock players out of their copy of a game for 24 hours, though it is worth noting that consumers are unlikely ever to be impacted by this limitation. We frequently hit this limit when benchmarking PC games, but only after 6 or more so GPU changes (it varies from game to game).

As 505 Games has already stated, Death Stranding will release simultaneously on both Epic Games Store and Steam. At least that’s good news, right?

Anyway, the PC version will support high frame rates and ultra-wide monitors. Moreover, it will come with a photomode and content from Valve’s iconic franchise, Half-Life.

Death Stranding’s PC version is currently available for pre-order.