Uplink

[pzPat]

I just got the humble bundle for android to play uplink on my tablet. I have been waiting for this for a long time! Loved this game on PC years ago wanted to revisit it. After a while I was playing on my tablet, working great... but then it told me I had an illegal copy and it won't let me play anymore. What's the fix for this?

[Apportable]

Hi there,

I'm a representative of the company that ported Uplink for Android. We're working on this issue and will have a fix out soon. There's just some anti-piracy legacy code left in the app that wasn't scrubbed for the Humble Bundle launch. Thanks for your patience.

Christina
The Apportable Team

[pzPat]

Well, since I am talking about bugs I noticed that if I have a lot of connections avaiable on the map and start linking them on the 1st or second link the game crashes.

[pzPat]

Ok, I figured it out. It happens when I fast forward anytime too much. Please hurry with a hotfix! I want to play

[Apportable]

Hi again,

We completed the fix for this issue and it should be live on the Humble Bundle site now. Please download the update and let us know if it doesn't resolve the problem. Thanks for your patience!

Christina
The Apportable Team

[mattpedigo]

[Apportable]

It appears that save files which were being modified when an anti-piracy lock-out occurred then become disabled even with the new version. So, with version 1.0.3 you can play the game forever without being locked out, but only if you start a new game. We're investigating this issue right now to see whether this can be changed.

Christina
The Apportable Team

[mattpedigo]

[Stonebot]

Christina,

I've been in contact with you a bit via E-mail a bit and I'm having a problem even creating a new account with the new update. This is after my initial account was locked out off. The app crashes while trying to connect to the new gateway created after typing in your account info.

Ethan

[Stonebot]

So I was able to get it to create a new account after redownloading the apk and installing it. Unfortunately, after playing for a bit, it locked out my account again saying illegal copy. It happened while I sped up time in the mission list. This was the cause both times.

[Apportable]

@Stonebot - Thanks for reporting this. We'll look into it right away.

Edit: Could you type the exact text of the anti-piracy message you received?

[Apportable]

So, our theory right now is that people who are on 1.0.3 and find their agents "locked out of the game" are actually just dying/being neutralized in an in-game way. A good way to check for this is to try to log in using a dead/locked agent and look at the obituary, i.e. the explanation line right under the agent's name. If it says something like "worked for such and such company," then you died of "natural causes." If it says something about an illegal copy of Uplink, then that happened because of the anti-piracy software. Another good way to check is to look at your final score - if it's above 0, then you died of "natural causes."

It's confusing because accounts that get "killed" as part of the game receive a message which sounds like they were caught hacking, which is how you would actually "lose" a game that's built around being a successful hacker. Unfortunately, it can be confusing in a real-life sense if you think that it's anti-piracy code.

Anyway, if anyone who's still experiencing this issue could screenshot their obituary screen or let us know what the text under the name says, that would be super helpful. Thanks!

Christina
The Apportable Team

[Stonebot]

Hey Christina, it said it was a illegal copy and to purchase the full version of uplink, final score of 0. However something weird just happened. It allowed me to connect to the account that had the anti piracy message and then about a minute later it said I was caught hacking by a corporation...

[Stonebot]

So I just tried to creates new account and now it's crashing before it can fully create the account. Seems to be a repeat of what happened with me earlier. If the account is disabled via the anti piracy message it crashes before a new account van be fully created.

[Stonebot]

Here is a screen shot of the screen it always locks up on. It's pretty random for which item it freezes on



EDIT: it continues to do this even after redownloading and installing over. Had to delete and then install at this point.