Call of Duty and Battlefield 6 will both require Secure Boot on Windows
Call of Duty and Battlefield 6 will both require Secure Boot on Windows
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Call of Duty and Battlefield 6 will both require Secure Boot on Windows
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I mean I haven't played one of their games in a few generations now, but like, this defo isn't helping the chances
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Their AC doesn't work on Linux, so my odds of plying it went to 0 when I found that out. Fuck them anyway. They haven't made a game worth playing in probably decades. There are better cheaper games not ran by greedy corpos.
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Game is just watered down af anyway to appeal to the call of duty crowd as much as possible. BF lost its identity, so you aren't missing anything.
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Yeah the Beta wouldnt even open on Linux. Easy uninstall, thanks goodbye.
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The Coming Civil War over General Purpose Computing. Don't accept their game of "just the tip"
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So, not required on Linux then I guess.
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Or they'll just copy Respawn
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No need to require something for an OS they don't plan to support at all anyways, I suppose. :(
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I don't know what that is but you lost me at "Windows".
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Come join the community I made recently specifically for battlefield like games made by indie developers such as the superb ww2 battlefield-like Easy Red 2 !
Fuck EA
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Get on Counterstrike, lads,
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Well shit, I was looking forward to bf6
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I mean, this is fine. Secure Boot is on everything motherboard from the last 12 years, there are very few reasons not to have it enabled and those reasons are usually edge case scenarios.
Would absolutely take this over a kernel level driver.
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I don't see how secure boot is relevant to a video game.
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Secure boot requires OS kernel to be digitally signed so that’s just another way to prevent tampering. It’s not like those or any other games will be doing anything other than checking if it’s on because there’s not that much else it can be used for. Secure boot is annoying as hell if you use anything other than Windows though.
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Motherboard TPM has been pwnd so many times. I don't want to enable attack surface and I have other means of verifying my boot
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Fuck cheaters. I support this. I have no issues with the potential vulnerability concerns to reduce cheating. I can't even remember the last time kernel level anti-cheats resulted in data exploitation.
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How do you like your boot seasoned?
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As a Bf3 and Bf4 player, I can count the number of cheaters I encountered on one hand. I won't buy Bf6 because they implement this shit instead of giving us self hostable community servers.
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Root kernel access isn't enough for them? Jesus fuck are they greedy.
It's ego and they actually think they can win against cheat makers. But like it or not, there will always be cheats, for the same reason there will always be cracked copies of their games.
If it runs, it can be cracked. -An old 0day saying
PS - Just let us have our own dedicated servers again. Then we can just banhammer a bitch, instead of relying on a stupid lobby vote system and a report button.
If you could have your own server, you could keep playing the game after they decide it's time for you to pay $90 for the next one.
Not going to happen because they want shitty skill based matchmaking and lobbies filled with bots!
This
There actually isn't for any of their newer games due to the always online requirement.
This isn't about greed, it's about the game being riddled with hackers to the point people are leaving.
Yet no other game requires secure boot and plenty of them don't require kernel level access either. Many of those games have no such cheating problem.
It's a cop-out because they aren't good at their jobs and instead want to gobble up more and more access to your computer instead.
They could easily identify the worst hackers just based on the game play data without needing to actually confirm that they have cheats installed.
Snapping between spread out people to get a half dozen head shots in a quarter second? Hacking.
Locking on to someone behind a wall? Hacking.
Hacks that nullify recoil? They should be able to tell by unrealistically precise counter movements.
Sure, games can occasionally have network issues that result in these kinds of things but if someone does it regularly then it isn't a networking thing.
Moderators that actually go trough reports helps quite a lot you know.