From a User Review of the game on STEAM:
Involved files - SHA1 hashes
Launcher
Google Analytics from Launcher
Launcher Hostnames
Epic Games Spyware
Denuvo Anti-Tamper
Rebellion encrypted stuff
Conclusion
Source: Zombie Army 4 STEAM User Review
Not sure how to parse this info exactly but iam sure more informed people can take a better look at this. Just thought that this needed to be shed light upon.
Update: Apparently the game uses Epic Online Services for its multiplayer which is why its sending data to Epic Games. So probably false alarm.
Beside of NO privacy policy, NO information or additional options for customers, there is a lot in Zombie Army 4: Dead War from Rebellion which should actually be passed on directly to competent data protection authorities.
Related forum discussion was anonymously removed without warning or hint
An external review without censorship and more details can be reached over my main group announcement in Steam. Thanks for understanding.
Here is an overview for what customers can expect with this product and and also a small overview in excerpts, where the product phones, or what data it sends
Steam Community :: :: Zombie Army 4: Dead War Spyware from Rebellion Developments Ltd
Steam Community: Steam Artwork. Review related Sceenshot - Epic Games Telemetry tied to forced online mode, Affiliate, Scrollbar, Google Adsense, Doubleclick and Analytics, Eventtracking, Social Network Tracking/Cookies and Denuvo
steamcommunity.com
Involved files - SHA1 hashes
- za4_dx12.exe - 21003a7cf7216cabcb923bc8998b61a1a2c89b3d
- za4_vulkan.exe - 271a834614848bc8811b4e2d2c4931b758b2ba1a
- za4.exe - b88ab89b955e0f49992b841208cb210b8e6cc81f
Launcher
Is completly unnecessary. It's just there for advertising and Affiliate and Scrollbartracking and users who click on social network icons will be delivered to Facebook Trackingpixel, twitter Ads, youtube Stats, Google Analytics and Doubleclick and much more.
Google Analytics from Launcher
Rebellion Forums
forum.rebellion.co.uk
Rebellion Forums
forum.rebellion.co.uk
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Launcher Hostnames
Remote Address launcher-content.rebellion.co.uk/138.68.117.110:443
content2.webdev.rebellion.co.uk
Epic Games Spyware
And my favourite, Epic Games Spyware, Datarouter Telemetry, Websocket Traffic/Heartbeat phoning home every 30 seconds and forced Onlinemode tied to telemetry and Analytics. Same counts for as example for Satisfactory from another company.
Which is also nice to see, is the correlation ID
It's an worldwide unique tracking identifier
api.epicgames.dev
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2021 19:11:07 GMT
Content-Type: application/json
Connection: keep-alive
access-control-allow-origin: *
x-epic-correlation-id: 9f621581-e589-48c3-b2e7-de28d1702459
server: eos-gateway
Content-Length: 2
{}
{
"Events" : [
{
"ApiName" : "EOS_P2P_ReceivePacket",
"ComponentName" : "P2PClient",
"DateOffset" : "+00:00:56.953",
"DeploymentId" : "68d2628827de4ad597c9a15c3a06ae29",
"DurationSeconds" : 60,00000000000000,
"EventName" : "UsageMetric",
"FailureCount" : 0,
"InvalidUsageCount" : 0,
"ProductId" : "949e8d3f1abe4e358fd608eb99d2abb9",
"ProductName" : "ZA4",
"ProductVersion" : "2021.02.15.1005644",
"SandboxId" : "dfd2530e80e4425d801913b0879be444",
"SuccessCount" : 7198,
"ThrottledCount" : 0,
"UserAgent" : "EOS-SDK/1.8.0-14316386 (Windows/6.2.9200.1.256.64bit) ZA4/2021.02.15.1005644"
}
]
}
wss:/api.epicgames.dev/notifications/v1/68d2628827de4ad597c9a15c3a06ae29/connect
Text Thu Feb 18 20:07:09 CET 2021 Thu Feb 18 20:07:09 CET 2021 CONNECTED
version:1.2-Epic
heart-beat:30000,30000
Text Thu Feb 18 20:07:10 CET 2021 Thu Feb 18 20:07:10 CET 2021 RECEIPT
receipt-id:sub-1
Text Thu Feb 18 20:07:39 CET 2021 Thu Feb 18 20:07:39 CET 2021
Text Thu Feb 18 20:08:09 CET 2021 Thu Feb 18 20:08:09 CET 2021
Text Thu Feb 18 20:08:39 CET 2021 Thu Feb 18 20:08:39 CET 2021
Text Thu Feb 18 20:09:10 CET 2021 Thu Feb 18 20:09:10 CET 2021
Text Thu Feb 18 20:09:40 CET 2021 Thu Feb 18 20:09:40 CET 2021
Text Thu Feb 18 20:10:40 CET 2021 Thu Feb 18 20:10:40 CET 2021
Denuvo Anti-Tamper
Denuvo which is mentioned on the Storepage when starting the game from Launcher:
54.72.220.34, 52.17.173.247, 52.208.190.137, 52.49.218.253 , 52.18.94.153, 54.194.195.183, 52.49.61.71
srv01.codefusion.technology
cf-revalidation-1750743123.eu-west-1.elb.amazonaws.com
srv02.codefusion.technology
srv03.codefusion.technology
support.codefusion.technology
Rebellion encrypted stuff
Similar address is active in Strange Brigade from the same company
nephelus.rebellion.net
nephelus.do.rebellion.net - 139.59.199.85
athena.rebellion.net/api - 46.101.64.59
Conclusion
Disable or Block? Congratulations. You have a worthless product. Even the single player campaign won't work.
Again, Developers and Publisher do not care about current laws, or even Customers. They honestly give a **** on them/us. They even have the nerve to steal data and simply take it. No Opt-In/No Opt-Out. No additional option.
We as customers therefore pay twice (as always?). Not to talk about the ridiculous DLC policy for this product.
Rebellion should improve in this regard as soon as possible or they should pay us for every kilobyte which is send.
And i bet there will be few mini patches without real content soon, to refresh Denuvo Anti-Tamper.
Related data (prepared for hosts security) is already published on https://gameindustry.eu/search/index.php?suchbegriff=Zombie+Army+4:+Dead+War&suche
and there will be an external review as well.
Source: Zombie Army 4 STEAM User Review
Not sure how to parse this info exactly but iam sure more informed people can take a better look at this. Just thought that this needed to be shed light upon.
Update: Apparently the game uses Epic Online Services for its multiplayer which is why its sending data to Epic Games. So probably false alarm.
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