EA Anti-Cheat arrives for Battlefield 1 breaking it on Steam Deck / Linux
EA Anti-Cheat arrives for Battlefield 1 breaking it on Steam Deck / Linux
It's here. EA Anti-Cheat has now been rolled out into Battlefield 1, breaking another multiplayer game on Steam Deck and Desktop Linux.
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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.
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Worth trying to refund. I read they refunded owners of GTAV when a similar situation happened.
I tried, unfortunately my purchase was a 4-pack deal and Steam couldn't refund mine separately from the other three licenses. shrug
“Solves nothing” is a stretch. These companies don’t still apply anti-cheat because it does nothing.
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.
Is EAAC similar to EAC where we’ll need a specifically compiled glibc?
Nope, it's completely proprietary, there's no flag to flip for proton. It's just borked on the deck now.
it is then.
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.
Ive only heard of it not working due to anti cheat. Is there any other common support killer?
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.