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EA Anti-Cheat arrives for Battlefield 1 breaking it on Steam Deck / Linux (www.gamingonlinux.com)

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[+] [email protected] 79 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 2 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

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

[+] [email protected] -6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] conciselyverbose 8 points 2 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months 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 2 points 2 months 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 13 points 2 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Bf4 next?

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Would this replace the existing PunkBuster?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

was BF4 last PB game?

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

it is then.