Apex Legends is taking away its support for the Steam Deck and Linux
Apex Legends is taking away its support for the Steam Deck and Linux
One of the few battle royales that did support the Deck.
In our efforts to combat cheating in Apex, we’ve identified Linux OS as being a path for a variety of impactful exploits and cheats. As a result, we’ve decided to block Linux OS access to the game.
Translation: Software development is hard and we would rather spend our time maximizing in-game transactions.
28Looks like they use Easy Anti Cheat services which run at the kernel level on windows but not on Linux, that leaves a huge loophole available for Linux which I actually believe will increase cheating dramatically.
As for the software development, that’s on EAC to fix. And in fairness it doesn’t make sense for them financially to do so. Cheating already costs these companies a ton of money to fix as is.
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That’s ok, I took away my support for Apex Legends many seasons ago!
Their anti cheat has always been a joke anyway.
15Well, time for some review bombing?
17I don't own the game but I would if I did. I don't have a windows machine to Idle it on that wouldn't be bogged down by this game so idling it to rack up a few hours to leave a review isn't exactly feasible.
1Can't you just buy it, write a review, return it?
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Yes
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What the fuck does kernel level cheat detection do when you can just have a robot arm move the mouse based on what a camera sees when it's pointed at the screen.
8Or Monitors which use AI to spot players, something which could be considered cheating but can't be detected other than being "too good" something that'll have a shit ton of false positives and can be defeated by losing occasionally.
1Ease of access.
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Luckily all my friends and I stopped playing this a while ago, there are so many better options nowadays.
4To be fair, they’ve given a relatively technical and honest explanation as to why they’ve made this decision.
-3Sure how many people play on Linux vs windows? How many cheaters are on windows vs Linux? A assure you the windows number is way higher then Linux on both.
4No they really haven't. They've given no numbers to quantify the problem.
This reads like "we don't know if they are cheating, it's hard to tell, and it's getting harder to tell, so we're just done."
This reeks of a decision based on a feeling about the direction of cheating vs a significant move to reduce cheating.
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