It's here. EA Anti-Cheat has now been rolled out into Battlefield 1, breaking another multiplayer game on Steam Deck and Desktop Linux.
    • rozodru@lemmy.world
      42·
      2 months ago

      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.

      • knightly the Sneptaur@pawb.social
        11·
        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

    • paraphrand@lemmy.world
      410·
      2 months ago

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

      • conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works
        8·
        2 months ago

        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·
          2 months ago

          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·
            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@sh.itjust.works
    13·
    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.

  • hddsx@lemmy.ca
    7·
    2 months ago

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

    • Defaced@lemmy.world
      13·
      2 months ago

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

  • missingno@fedia.io
    1121·
    2 months ago

    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·
      2 months ago

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

      • conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works
        341·
        2 months 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.