GTA IV - Hidden Anti-Piracy Measures - Feat. SpooferJahk
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- Опубліковано 29 чер 2024
- Did you know that the drunk or shaking camera is not the only hidden anti-piracy measure in Grand Theft Auto IV? In reality, Rockstar Games implemented much more of these sneaky measures and today I will be showing them off to you!
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0:00 Introduction
0:24 Backstory
2:05 Drunk camera
3:05 Damaged engine and auto acceleration
4:40 Making ghost car
6:11 Some missions are broken too
6:44 Broken mission "Clean Getaway"
8:07 Broken mission "Uncle Vlad"
8:43 Broken computers
9:21 Broken police laptops
9:50 Broken mission "No.1"
10:35 Broken mission "Three Leaf Clover"
11:16 Broken mission "Hating the Haters"
12:28 Broken mission "A Dish Served Cold"
13:25 Final words
14:29 End screen
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There was a trap in Late Checkout too, you'd never lose the cops and the mission would never end.
Do you want to gta sa anti piracy measures
They probably spent more time and resources on these Anti-Piracy measures than actually porting the game to PC.
🤣🤣
thanks gabe
thanks gaben
No joke
@Darth Vader uff my laptop can at least hit about 35fps which is playable, but still bad for a 12 year old game
The shaking camera is just making the adventures of an eastern european man more realistic.
Meh
Shaking camera is regular average day for Russian gamer
ALEXEY WHERE IS MY VODKA BLYAT! - niko in the pirated copy
Drifty Man Drift *rakija
Arabic Kiyratvic yes but the game always mentioned him as an eastern European 🕋
I remember when I was a child, some friend came with a so called 'PS2 version', which of course ended up being GTA:SA with Niko Bellic and some other GTA IV mods. It was truly hilarious.
Diego Kausel Dang now I wanna play it
I was in Pakistan few years ago, and missed GTA IV in Pakistan. My cousin only had a Ps2, so i went out to a gaming shop to buy some games. I found a copy of GTA IV. It ended up being GTA Dubai, based in San Andreas, with just Arab letters all over the city.
@@DanzaMuncini Pakistan has a ton of em. Unfortunately, the GTA IV and GTA V ones especially didn't work for me
Bruh I got San Andreas Spider-Man on ps2 (I was told that it was a normal Spider-Man game btw)
holy shit I want to play these games now
Rockstar really missed the opportunity to make the Police Computers state the player was due prison time for piracy damn
U def need to work for rockstar the gamez would be fresh and finished if we had more ideas like this. Im not being sarcastic either hard on net to tell sometimes. I like your comment.
10 star wanted level
69 star wanted level. Also op you’re creative don’t waste it
I totally expected that vs it just being broken.. I like to think that they wanted to do this but couldn't for some reason
That would be awesome lol. Kinda like the people pirating your games when you play Game Dev Tycoon with a cracked version.
When even the Copy Protection refuses to break immersion...
**cracks game**
**e-mails devs reporting bugs as drunk camera**
xddddddddd
lmao
lots of people did this on the forums :D
@@njones420 lmao
Absolute madlad
Here in Balkans we used to play the game while drunk so the camera was steady :D
@D54Rgt wait why do you have a swastika
@@Jax-go9es its a japanesr peace sign
TheSonicFan2474 because it's the symbol of divinity and spirituality in India
@@Jax-go9es because they are "EdGy"
@@Blama_ yeah i cant argue with that
The stronger the crack, the tougher people will try to crack it.
I remember cracking Crysis 2 or 3, and you could play the entire game no problem, until the final boss. It was invincible.
Also in Crysis Warhead, your gun would randomly start shooting chickens instead of bullets, it was hilarious. At first I didn't know what the hell's going on haha
I also had a similar experience with cracked Serious Sam 3. There was a red scorpion you have to fight but as soon as it spawns you automatically aim at the sun and you can't lower your aim when that happens. It was fixed in later cracks
Well, no one has cracked Red Dead Redemption 2, so...
People Love smoking it
@@rafaelcosio266 doesn't mean people aren't trying lol
Pirates when they bypass one blocked mission just to end up with another one:
*Ah shit, here we go again*
People who bought the game legit but something happened and they have to suffer anti cheat measures : *Ah shit, here we go again*
@@SteveOnlin yeah
for GTA V they just gave up i think
Who wouldnt? Look at all the work they did to stop the pirates and it took them 3 days to bypass it all
people generally buys the legit version more than cracked cause of online mode
@@SafirAksel true
*cough* delayed launch *choking* 20 gbs of malware
@@philipottey7723 malware isn't even something to worry about if you _kinda_ know what you're doing and where you're downloading from, and delayed launch is not that bad, really. i'd say online mode is the only downside and even then lots of game cracks have functioning online mode
"goodbye, *bowling* "
truly the final enemy of GTA 4
The drunk camera is literally just every day in Serbia
K
Like Serbians can afford alcohol.
@@patrickk.9355 XD
@@patrickk.9355 Yes, we can afford alcohol
@@orly6435 After you sell all of your goats, you can.
GTA 4 was too ahead of it's time no wonder it got pirated a lot....
I don't really see how the game was ahead of it's time, I mean the physics were alright and graphics pretty damn good at the time for sure but that's it (I didn't say it was a bad game btw)
@@Igneeka The sound design,the open world ambiance. The "realism" aspect ,they nailed it ,and the satire is relevant even today
@@squidstone8399 I mean yeah all of that was really good don't get me wrong and the game holds up relatively well but I wouldn't say it was ahead of its time, rather unique
@@Igneeka then what does "ahead of its time" even mean to you? Lol?
Igneeka Ah Miles, we meet again.
And here I was, wondering why the PC version had problems. They were so focused on trolling pirates they forgot nealy everything else lol
who cares about PC
PC players?
@@AverageAlien apparently not Rockstar
Bro sorry for the late answer , or question to be fair , but was it really that bad ? I played the whole story like 3-4 time on ps3 and one time on pc , i mean like played it trough , I can’t remember it being so bad on pc ? But then again I were like 13 years old 😂 please explain bro
@@viktorbratan9985 well, bad optimization it's one of the thing
You forgot to mention that this pirated version *forces* you to get the saddest ending
Um, can you tell me more about it? 👀
@@NationalPepper i mean, if the revenge ending is blocked this only leaves the deal ending and we all know what happens there
Its clear rockstar did that on purpose
This is explained in detail at 12:50
@@two_number_nines Yes, but they did not mention how this leaves only the Deal ending wich is definetly something rockstar did on Purpose
12:32
"The last trap was left in the close to final mission, BUT ONLY IF you decided to choose revenge and deal with your old enemy. This is the "A Dish Served Cold" mission, if you didn't get it, and sadly for the pirate, the whole mission is a total waste of time.
12:56
"As soon as you approach this marker, a hint, which tells you what to do will DISAPPEAR and the game WON'T REVEAL YOUR NEXT STEPS."
They were too busy implementing as much anti-piracy features as possible that they forgot to optimize the port.
no one even plays PC
@@AverageAlien Found the console peasant.
@@AverageAlien Hahhahaa. Nobody ? Hahhaa.
@@AverageAlien nobody who's poor at least
@@AverageAlien console peasant
Its sad that Rockstar put more efford to protect their game then into making good working and playable port on PC.
Fucking 15-25 fps with drops on low and off setting for everything when I’m supposed to be running medium low settings with 25+ fps. Rockstar rockstar rockstar...
@@wanilimbe i am legit playing it thru the whole quarantine and it always runs at least 60 FPS on ultra. do you have it thru the R* launcher or steam?
Eric Trujillo Yes I have the through there. I did a few fps boosters and now runs 20-40 fps
@@wanilimbe which, r* or steam?
Same here. Including night shadow mode. Game runs perfect but it could've been better optimized though. With my system, I should've been getting 80+ FPS
We need a speedrun of the cracked version of the game.
Adam Demeter it likely is impossible, I mean imagine trying to finish the bank heist mission if your car only has 10% health. Not to mention all the missions that you lose if you destroy a person’s car
It could be possible, rule would be complete as much as you can then instantly load up a save with that certain mission completed. You would need a lot of files tho
@@lcdl731 GTA 4 Improperly Cracked% speedrun
What about spreed-running pirated versions of Vice City and EfLC?
@@bluehole6019 the bank heist mission only involves a car at the beginning and the end
Those Rockstar logo emojis are legendary.
It's cringy tbh
I hate it
Pote Pcy you’re cringey
MrMario ❤️❤️
@@menofmayhemmm no u
Pirates after seeing the drunken camera and broken cars: “Are you done yet?”
Rockstar: “ I haven't even started”
I bought the game on steam and the camera was wobbling like crazy so I returned the game thinking the pc port was that bad. So the anti piracy did hurt their sales too
Good. Maybe they can fix the anti-piracy measures for the people who actually bought it
Really?
i remember the PC version of GTA 4 bugging out on me and actually activating the anti-piracy measures on a legal (not cracked, paid) version of the game
it happens if you use GTAIV.exe. Use LaunchGTAIV.exe instead. I have both the steam and disc version and it's the case for both of them unless you do that.
@@ori.g4mi Really?
that happened to me because i was launching the game through opening GTAIV.exe,you should open LaunchGTAIV.exe instead
@@potato_x69 Yeah I think that's why they stopped doing this in their games after GTA 4
That was a another disadvantage of GTA 4's PC port
now I know why I couldnt complete the clean getaway 6 years ago...
u dirty pirate
@@Vase94 Yaar :D
i dont believe that you even reached this far in game
I pirated and those things happened only once
10:48 luis: god dammit niko why did you use a pirated copy now i cant start my story line
12:44 I love how you put the Ultimate Enemy as Bowling! 😂
*Big Man has left the Meme Grounds*
Lower prices + less obnoxious DRM = lower piracy rates
I pirated GTA 4 purely to get rid of the windows live requirement
Maybe rockstar should take note of that
@@Unknown_Genius well the version I have doesn't need that cancerous bullshit
Also GOG and their profits is a good example of how lower prices and lack of DRM can result in increased sales when compared to the likes of Origin and Uplay
I purchased the game legitimately on 360 and literally had to use the xliveless.dll file when I re-purchased the game on steam just to get it to work because GFWL was broken on Windows 8 at that time.
I would buy from Origin if they accepted payment methods other than PayPal and Credit cards. Both methods are not popular in my country. Nobody uses credit card here because you need to pay certain amounts to the bank every month. Debit cards ended up being more popular here because of their wide domestic uses. So, people here just pirate EA games.
amen to that, i took it a step further and didnt even buy it at all on pc
@@Unknown_Genius How does GOG find out if their own versions are reuploaded? Do they have something like a digital signature or a watermark for each copy of a game?
I remember when the game first came out for PC, people were complaining in mass on forums about the drunk tilting "bug"; stating they've updated there drivers and such; Rockstar seeming not to give that much of a damn.
I like it when pirates reports the anti-piracy methods as glitches on legit forums and gets called out for it, shit's hilarious lmao.
i still remember someone reporting the "bug" on the forums and people calling them out for pirating it except that they prove that it's legit dvd copy version so even legit users weren't saved
@@kuro9410_ilust yes
Laughs in pre installed
They should have focused on making a better pc port than anti piracy measures
Nah
R* don't really like PC players because they steal and mod their games. It literally says in the end-user license agreement that we are not permitted to modity the content. Ever since the hot coffee scandal R* don't prioritise PC because PC modders almost got R* shut down by Karens. Although R* did say they wont take legal action against modders they still ask people to not mess with their games.
@@margotalmanzar5210 damn the hot cofee mod got them a lot of loss just because people were just too horny😂
@@margotalmanzar5210 tbf the mods are one of the reasons why people still play the game for several hours
@@margotalmanzar5210 we will stop acting like pirates if companies stop acting like robbers
Funny how they were worried about anti-piracy measures and not how their game is gonna be a piece of crap when it comes to performance and compatibility.
Not as bad as the Fallout ports...I miss the days when there wasn't
shark cards, and when dlcs were not a requirement to beat a game
@frank grimes That is not true man. My PC can run GTA 5 very good and i can't get more 20 FPS on GTA 4
totaly a bad port, the texture pop in was awfull!. and the fluctuation in framerate, memory leaks etc.
Well at least it runs like shit on both console and PC so no one is left behind
@@egykilenckilenchet I remember running it on AMD Athlon duo core processor that was mid tier in around 2005 paired with a 1gb Nvidia card and 2gb of ram and it ran well on medium-low settings, maybe you didn't know how to tweak settings back the lmao
The drunk cutscenes would look hilarious for some cutscenes
There is another hidden anti-piracy mission, it's the "Hostile Negotiation" mission, where if you arrive on the warehouse, you can grab weapons that are supposed to be inside that mission, but you can't access the mission at all despite the yellow mark on the map is still in there.
lol I bought GTA IV on steam, but the copy protection wouldn't let me play it
How so?
@@vaso5931 the DRM doesn't allow you to install the game on any system newer than Windows 7.
@@shadowslayer205 but you can play it with win10...
@@-joo3033 Yeah, by jumping through a ton of hoops and installing some third party stuff to bypass the copy protection.
@@shadowslayer205 It was installed to win7... Then i updated to win10... Then i used "Run with older software versions"
1st time hearing the word "cracker" used in a way that doesn't refer to food or a racial slur.
Hey can we still play gta 4 without the effect and stiff?
I mean stuff
@@plesty Yes'nt
Plot twist: Christmas crackers
@@plesty Yes, Razor 1911 completely removed all anti piracy
i downloaded myself a cracked version of this game in either 2010 or 2011, didn't experience a single one of these issues. played the entire story and installed mods no problem. crazy how someone managed to get around every anti-piracy measure listed here
because he's an idiot who thinks its funny as if a cracking group couldn't get around these measures in max a week
All this time invested in coding these anti-piracy measures, yet keeping my save game intact proved to be too difficult, heh?
- a paying customer
Portrait of a Killer is probably possible to complete because you can just go to the place where the target is without using the police computer. Just FYI.
Where's your profile pic from? I like the artstyle
@@CarlM kimi no na wa
@@PutraRhm oh I've heard of that one before. Thank you!
All we had to do is buying the damn game CJ!
luiz games br comment of the month 3 months ago
All you had to do was post a simple meme with correct grammar CJ.
I use crack version when gta iv come out and i didn't had that issue at all.
@@uh9066 You have a version that was fixed by RAZOR.
only LOBO crack has it, or improperly crack will happen, this also happen in GTA 4 Episode from Liberty City.
@@megakarlach2 so liberty city stories too got this trouble huh? Glad never got that anti piracy thing
9:34 It's actually possible to complete Portrait Of A Killer without using the police computer, the target actually spawns immediately after the mission starts (using the police computer simply marks the gang members on the map) so if you know the gang's location off by heart you can actually drive straight there using any vehicle and as soon as you make your presence known the objective updates like usual telling you to take down all the gang members, the only thing you miss out on by completing the mission like this is that Niko won't call the contact to tell him that he's found the place when you get close to the gang's hideout.
Lol you thanked Zolika, he was one of the guys involved in cracking the game, there is a file in the pirated version named after him 😂 but yes i agree, thank you Zolika, not all of us can afford games!!
That earthquake camera
Every Vadim M video has something I never knew about lol.
"Deal With Our Ultimate Enemy"
*Shows Bowling Instead*
Roman : We Need To Talk, Cousin..
Ooh, this seems much more high effort than the usual Gta IV anti piracy vids.
Between the terrible PC port, games for Windows live, and being developed by Rockstar, it's hard for me to have a problem with people pirating this game
@frank grimes r/iamverybadass
@frank grimes damn we got a badass over here. Quick, run!
@frank grimes You aren't impressing anyone.
@frank grimes Woah ok Frank chill
i agree with the first 2 the 3rd one is... debatable but I won't debate it. Agreed
The drunk camera is still available even when you buy it through steam. It's a freakin bug
execute launchGTAIV.exe, if you execute gtaIV.exe, it's gonna happen the anti-piracy
I think the only people that suffered from these "Anti-piracy Performance-killing measures" are the people that actually bought the game and got a bug or so.
@@impoppy9145 We should stop supporting companies with anti piracy measures, People will pirate your game no matter what you put on it, but people will stop buying your games if you're too busy with the anti piracy measures
TDS seventy-five Nope, there are companies like Denuvo kicking pirate motherfuckers. Anti Piracy is absolutely mandatory.
@@impoppy9145 Yes.
12:47: Bowling, the ultimate enemy 😂
i remember playing as a little kid and the crackfix came out like a day or two after the drunk camera was reported. was shocked when it started happening to my pirated copy. never seen anything like it back then. I remember they cracked the game a couple of days before the actual release.
Maybe one of the best trolls in game and pirate industry.
Good job Rockstar!
Yeah a troll that not a lot of people saw since it was properly cracked within a couple of months. So more of a fail and wasted effort.
@@gm92845 Yeah but that took months. Not days nor hours. So instead of just buying the game and getting it early they had to wait ages just to play it right. In that time most people probably just bought it. So I think Rockstar Games won, besides there's a reason why PC doesn't have Red Dead Redemption 2 and had to wait a year for a GTAV PC release.
@@josephdocherty7919 R* sucks now brah. GTA V & RDR2 were overhyped
@@therealpizzagirl I think both games performed well up to expectations. But if you were talking about online, I completely agree with you.
@@wuzzierash578 Both games were disappointing in the story mode & the online play. The only thing R* nailed with both games are the production values (obviously)
i like how you censored the last mission's dialogue with bowling xD
The funny thing is that I have a legit DVD of the game and I still got the drunk camera from time to time. In the end Rockstar released a patch for it lol. Very ironic.
I love these videos. Great job an please keep them coming!
14:20 I remember i had some pirated copies of GTA Vice city for the PS2 back in the day. Some pirated copies i had back in the day worked like the original game. Some pirated copy i bought much later however had missing radio stations, intro and cutscene audio.
Nowadays, pirated games on consoles are long gone over here and i did actually buy Vice City for Steam, PS4 as well as a legit physical copy for the ps2 through ebay. I'm from Bahrain btw
ToyGTone console games since ps3/Xbox 360 have no anti piracy protection.
Pirated games on console are still there. I got my friend around 10 games for his ps4 pro
Yeah no there are still pirated games on consoles. This is one of the main ways you can play games in my country since 60$ for a game is wayyy too expensive.
Just one minute detail when it comes to the anti-piracy measures; once you're finished at that one mission. The icons for your next mission/s will be missing on your map (most common is on Bernie Crane's first mission.) which will result you to find it manually on your map thru guides or thru the internet. If you finally find that mission you wanted to go and finished it, then the icon for your next and other missions will appear from there.
12:23 missed opportunity to say ”a Walk the park”
Thanks for disabling that drunk camera for the rest of the game, it was hard to watch and that could totally make me sick haha :D
2:40 shooting as an NPC from GTA series would like this
5:36
Nico: Wait here
Roman: LUNATIC BASTARD NICOOOOOO
al fin esta tu vídeo traducido al español! en hora buena. ahora de disfrutar de tu contenido.
saludos desde México.
It's kinda like the "immobilizer" of GTA IV.
If your key is different, it won't let you start the car.
It's interesting that some devs put the effort to do stuff like this... even when there's overwhelming evidence that piracy has no correlation to sales.
Thank goodness i bought the disc version, i am almost this close to encounter these anti piracy measure
I love the "Please give me your savegame!" face.
your videos WITH voice overs are 100000x better!
It's a bit shameful to say, but I've actually encountered most of these at one point or another :D Except for the No.1 and Three Leaf Clover ones, I remember running into pretty much every single one. Oh well, I've bought the game now.
12:47 Goodbye, Bowling.
Yes now tell us about GTA V Anti-Piracy measures oh lol I can't wait to hear ⚡
Every GTA mission name from any game could easily be an episode of Kojac
I remember cracking my game to get rid of GFWL after purchasing it legally. That's just how shit GFWL was.
Great video but it's funny when you said "hellocopter"
8:53 I’m using a legitimate steam version of this game and it does something like this just without the press e to interact. Shows how broken this pc port is.
7:11 thats some mr.bean shit
I Think Rockstar Did An Excellent Job Here! Better That Vice City? Well They Are Both Even, As In Both Anti-Piracy Releases You Cannot Complete the Game. (Story And 100%) Also Well Done On The Bowling Gag! (12:45) I Had To Rewind The Video 3 Times To Get It!!
Holy capital letters Batman!
Why Are You Typing Like This?
Spoofer and swegra my favorites voices
Mine too. Sometimes I watch these videos only to listen to their voices ^^
*swegta
🤯 Very cool. The developers must have had fun with this pirate addition.
Imagine speed running this version. That would be funny
I do remember the cheat tools for this game being fairly extensive and capable of basically skipping around all these features
I found an easter egg at 12:48 "I should have put you out of your misery a long time ago. Goodbye, "BOWLING". "
That was edited in to prevent spoilers.
The shaking screen is hilarious
the "rockstar ok hand " image makes me want to collapse into a black hole every time i see it
R👌
R👌
0:42 thought he was about to start rapping
the best anti customer protection in gta4 was that even legitimate PC versions had a game breaking bug where no matter how fast you pressed the space bar(default controls) you couldn't climb onto the helicopter in one mission.
That’s frames and now Xbox one X and Series X/S are glitched there to because they go 60 fps
your editing style is absolutely amazing wow. great video!!
5:23
*Airbreak Enabled*
*Airbreak Disabled*
That's actually the GTA4 Simple Native Trainer. You can use the Airbreak function to raise, lower or flip the car.
zolika trainer also have that too.
GTA IV Speedrun - Cracked%
no just stop right there
does the run end after you get the car in clean getaway?
@@zolika1351 I don't even know if such a run exists lol I was just throwing out ideas. Would be interesting to see tho.
Might work if it's not a glitchless% run. I'd definitely be interested in watching that!
"Sonny Jim"
With all of these effects, I would actually like to play like this and see how far chaos can continue before going out of insanity.
Never heard "Cracker" be used like this 😂
13:07
Doing Cayo Perico preps in a nutshell
Speedrun of this crazy drunk version of gta4
You should do more videos about R★ titles like this :3
I watched this on mushrooms 2 years ago and this changed my life. Thank you
8:26 gtaV online type beat
Welp, my game is improperly cracked....
Oh wait. I'm drunk, I shot my car too much and my W key is jammed in.
I love Rockstar’s sense of humour when it comes to people deciding they were too good to pay for years of work.
That was the time I started to troubleshoot for any problem I had with my game. I was 12 and everytime I "fixed" my problem with any game I felt really satisfied.
Gta IV, still relavant today...
I have Gta IV on cd (for real) but Iv never installed it since I didnt have a cd thing on my pc.
So I have downloaded many cracked versions and often experienced those (and easily downloading fixes) but I remember that the drunk camera/accelleration dissapeared, and only started again when I pressed H (horn).
But those mission problems I have never experienced.
Does V have anti-piracy?
Nah its been cracked rockstar was just smart when it first came our u had to sign into ur social club
yes, it was crashing a lot after few missions
Yea, I think that Rockstar made sure that you won't be able to play GTA online in cracked versions.
Nah they stopped doing this after IV because it was effecting on the legit games too instead they made the Social Club official for forever if you want to play the game you have to sign the Social Club first I think they gonna use this method on RDR2 again
@@xyzhash crashing doesn't have anything to do with crack protection Lol
If developers added screamers and shit, I would never dare to play another cracked game unless I got proof that it worked properly.
You mean jumpscares? That's a great idea, but I suspect in today's world Rockstar would get sued by people with heart problems (maybe someone gets a heart attack and dies, etc.)
Otherwise I'm sure many other game studios would've implemented stuff like this in their games.
It happened on the original fnaf
Pirates are always drunk!. It makes perfect sense.