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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 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

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[–] rozodru 42 points 1 month 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 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month 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 -6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month 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 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month 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.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month 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 1 month ago (1 children)

Bf4 next?

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Would this replace the existing PunkBuster?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

was BF4 last PB game?

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

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

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

[–] Defaced 13 points 1 month 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 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

it is then.