• SyperStronkHero@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    It’s a great game but there IS a catch that wasn’t mentioned.

    The devs plan on implementing one of the more intrusive Anti-Cheats (Face It Anti Cheat) which doesn’t work on Linux which also stops all Steam Deck users from playing. It also forces you to disable virtualization on windows. I can’t recall the last time I had to go into bios to disable an option to turn off important windows features.

    According to their stream, it’s non-negotiable and will be added regardless of what the community wants. But they did mention that community servers would be able to pick which Anti Cheat they wanted to use?

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      But they did mention that community servers would be able to pick which Anti Cheat they wanted to use?

      As I understand, there are three tiers to this:

      • Official servers will use FaceIt exclusively.
      • Servers rented from official partners will have the choice of FaceIt or EAC.
      • Community-run servers will only be able to use EAC, and won’t be hooked into the global progression system.

      One of the many problems with FaceIt is that the server-side component is not allowed to be freely distributed, which is why community-run servers won’t have the option to use it.

      Personally, there is no way I am buying this unless if they reverse their plans to use FaceIt.

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      1 year ago

      From what I read, it also requires Secure Boot to be enabled. I played the game for 90 minutes before reading about the anti-cheat change, fortunately I didn’t hit 2 hours and took a refund.

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      1 year ago

      As someone that uses virtual machines frequently, I look at my like 16 hours in the game. Fuck. I hope they don’t do that, this is the Battlefield I’ve been wanting for years. ;-;