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[–] Grangle1@lemm.ee 18 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It's always the anti-cheat.

[–] CalcProgrammer1@lemmy.ml 17 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Anticheat is a plague on the gaming industry.

[–] CommanderCloon@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

games without anticheat have it really bad tho

[–] CalcProgrammer1@lemmy.ml 7 points 10 months ago

Personally, I think anticheat should be optional. At lower ranks, cheaters and smurfs are often indistinguishable, but smurfing is commonplace and usually unpunished. I don't really care if I'm getting stomped by a sweaty tryhard on an alt account or by an aimbot, it sucks just the same. The solution is to move those players up the ranks until the cheaters and the tryhards are in the top ranks. Then you get the people who actually stand to truly benefit from cheat detection, and they tend to be the ones who would want anticheat even at the expense of privacy and system integrity so let them optionally enable it.

Us casuals at lower ranks should not NEED to run anticheat to play games at a casual level. It's a freaking game, nothing is at stake. I'm not competing in tournaments. I care more about my system being free of kernel rootkits than whether some guy who keeps headshotting me from a mile away is a real player or an aimbot. Matchmaking should be able to deal with the discrepancy regardless.

[–] noodlejetski@lemm.ee 13 points 10 months ago

come on EA, I wanna hate myself in the Bronze lobbies again

[–] onelikeandidie@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

EasyAntiCheat is the biggest problem on Linux, I have to boot to my windows install just to play The Finals and Hell Let Loose... It's such a shame cuz I think the developers can enable a setting to let it run on Linux but then that would mean they would actually have to support players who are playing on Linux and that's too much work for big corpos

[–] MrPear@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

Are you sure about Hell Let Loose not working on Linux on your system? The ProtonDB page has many reports if HLL working fine since about a month.

[–] corrupts_absolutely@sh.itjust.works 6 points 10 months ago (2 children)

somehow this whole time i didnt know that apex offers native linux support, thats really cool

[–] sirsquid@lemmy.ml 10 points 10 months ago

It doesn't have Native Linux support, it runs in Proton.

[–] Dexx1s@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago

It was EAC, for the most part. Once EAC worked with Linux, Apex was one of the first to enable it. That is/was the case for a good bit of games

[–] madmonki@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

it got fixed 4 hours ago

[–] Lipriv30@lemmy.ml 1 points 9 months ago

Is this game really worth it to play?