EA Anti-Cheat arrives for Battlefield 1 breaking it on Steam Deck / Linux : pcgaming

[+] helenslunch@feddit.nl 81 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

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[–] rozodru@lemmy.world 42 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Honestly Valve needs to have a policy for this. If a game that once worked on Steamdeck and now no longer works after publisher intervention then refunds need to be issued. I have BF2042, BFV and BF1 and 1 was the LAST one I could still play on Linux. Now I have 3 digital paperweights that I can't play anymore. I want my money back.

[–] forgotaboutlaye@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Worth trying to refund. I read they refunded owners of GTAV when a similar situation happened.

[–] knightly@pawb.social 0 points 2 weeks ago

I tried, unfortunately my purchase was a 4-pack deal and Steam couldn't refund mine separately from the other three licenses. shrug

[+] paraphrand@lemmy.world -6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

“Solves nothing” is a stretch. These companies don’t still apply anti-cheat because it does nothing.

[–] conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It doesn't just do nothing. They know for sure it does nothing, is not theoretically capable of doing more than nothing to prevent cheating, and that it is a giant security hole.

They just don't care, because it lets them install a rootkit on your computer.

[–] paraphrand@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Oh, so it does nothing, and it’s a conspiracy to rootkit your computer so they can do other things(?). I see.

[–] conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 weeks ago

It does nothing to prevent cheating because cheating does not require access to your computer.

The fact that they're rootkits is not a conspiracy. It's not a secret that they have kernel access.

[–] Mnemnosyne@sh.itjust.works 13 points 2 weeks ago

Maybe Valve needs to stop pushing updates for things they certified working until they certify the update won't break them.

Never understood why Steam forces updates, but this would be a very good reason for them to do a 180 on it and let customers choose the version they want instead of forcing an update to the latest.

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Bf4 next?

Remember folks... If you got it on steam, you can try to get s refund 🐸

[–] Sickday@kbin.earth 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Would this replace the existing PunkBuster?

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

no idea... good point, i bet it would require more work. was BF4 last PB game?

[–] Sickday@kbin.earth 1 points 2 weeks ago

was BF4 last PB game?

I think that was Battlefield Hardline, but I could be wrong.

[–] hddsx@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Is EAAC similar to EAC where we’ll need a specifically compiled glibc?

[–] Defaced@lemmy.world 13 points 2 weeks ago

Nope, it's completely proprietary, there's no flag to flip for proton. It's just borked on the deck now.

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

it is then.

[+] missingno@fedia.io -10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

This is why I don't see Proton as a substitute for proper support. Because if they don't actually support the platform, they could break it at any time and say you're outta luck.

[–] tee9000@lemmy.world 20 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Ive only heard of it not working due to anti cheat. Is there any other common support killer?

[–] conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works 33 points 2 weeks ago

Nope.

Games pretty much work unless the publisher explicitly chooses to break them.

That doesn't mean everything is always perfect, but games don't generally just randomly break on proton. It's almost all anticheat.

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