I just found out there's an alternative for the EA app called 'maxima' (similar to Legendary for Epic Games). It would be great if this could be implemented in Heroic Games Launcher
maxima
At this rate, no EA game would be playable on Linux. They are adding kernel anticheat and blocking Linux players to most multiplayer EA titles, even old ones. They are literally robbing us money.
But thanks for the tool recommendation.
Yes. And no one should play EA games, because that supports such behaviour. They're all shit anyway.
Fingers crossed m$ takes that option away as they're threatening they might after the crowdstrike debacle.
Even if it doesn't happen, all is not lost. Apex Legends for example, does in fact work in proton, meaning Respawn debilarately enabled proton support in their EAC config.
Battlefield meanwhile, is a complete shit-show I hear.
I do not trust EA, for example, Leagure of Legends (from Riot) always worked on Linux until some day they decided to implement Vanguard and screw all the Linux player base, so the same thing will happen with Apex Legends.
Check this: https://lemmy.world/post/21488600
Do not trust the devil.
Microsoft is gonna close off access to their NT kernel, eventually. When that happenes all anticheat will have to be in userspace. I'd imagine at that point all of those games become Linux compatible.
My guess is that Microsoft will provide their own kernel level anticheat to game developers, using a secure API which will be impossible to emulate with Wine etc.
FatMan Un-Repacks my beloved
The repository link on their website gives a 404 error on GitHub..
https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/s/yNiqKWQZxO
"Hey there. I'm the Community Manager for Armchair Developers. While we continue to establish a baseline for Maxima's functionality and presentability the repo will remain private. The road is long and we are just at the beginning of it. We will have more to share about Maxima next year."
Is it really open source if it depends on proprietary service?
There's some value in having open-source clients to proprietary services. Of course ideally one would avoid using them, but since many are stuck with games they already purchased and the launcher was bolted on later in an update, it makes sense.
At the very least it probably doesn't implement a lot of the telemetry, and it doesn't require you to figure out how to make the launcher work under Proton, only the game.
Less proprietary is better than nothing.
@pastermil @mrMADAFAKA It's the opposite: because there is a proprietary service we need an open source access to it.
