THE FINALS now appears to work on Steam Deck and Desktop Linux
THE FINALS now appears to work on Steam Deck and Desktop Linux
Well this quite a surprise. THE FINALS is one of the most popular new online FPS games that uses Easy Anti-Cheat from Epic Online Services, and as of a recent update — it works on Steam Deck and Desktop Linux.
This game is so fun. It’s one of the only games I play that couldn’t be played on Linux. Very glad they’re fixing this.
30It's great. My only complaint is that the character models are not to my taste at all. But theyre fine targets so it's a minute issue.
3The way they run in that opening scene makes me laugh.
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No official announcements means you could get banned for trying it. Don't do it.
15Respawn/EA have never announced Linux support for Apex Legends, as far as I can tell, and it's been working most of the time for the past two years, except for the few times when they've botched an update (and which they fixed it afterwards).
The Finals used to kick me before I've got to the main screen, claiming the lack of anticheat as a reason. now the launch shows EAC window loading and lets me fully through, so it seems quite obvious to me that they've enabled the support on their end.
35Apex Legends was one of the big things that they were using as an example to show off the Steam Deck and is one of the main games listed on their "Steam Deck Verified" pages. I assume this means that Valve and Respawn/EA were talking to each other about it at least.
I would like to see Steam to require games to not ban Linux users for using Linux (or at least disclose that they are doing it) as a requirement for being listed on their store, but that's probably not going to happen.
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It's F2P, just don't buy any cosmetics and make a new account if it gets banned.
24That's pretty normal tho.
I also do not care. That would just mean going back to not playing it. Boohoo.
If they can't help banning people for playing on Linux, that's honestly a bigger problem for the devs than me, imo.
7Don't play it because they might ban you then you won't be able to play it?
3I've tried it and wasn't banned. Before the update, EAC would quit right after launch with a message
2Just today on another thread someone said they were banned. I would've saved the comment if I thought it was worthwhile. It was on a meme post about getting games to run on Linux.
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Literally the only game I'm playing rn. It's so fucking good
15Interesting. I've been getting hounded to play this game by friends. I might check it out.
12I keep seeing TV ads where the key only show the actual game title for like 0.1seconds.
4The destruction is epic but I'm really not a fan of the only 2 game modes. Just give me classic TDM or something...
3Had it installed for a while. Even sent the devs a friendly email that I'm interested but waiting on them to enable support to let me play.
It looks good. Now I can find out myself.
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12Try to play a competitive online game without anti-cheat and see if it is still fun.
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The embark account thing is kinda annoying when you already have steam but literally all you have to do is confirm your email. And the anti cheat is required because without it there would be even more hackers than the already is. Try to find a good game that is popular, multiplayer, with no anti cheat and no need for one because nobody cheats.
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The steam community was quite active. Who knows, maybe the devs considered it worthwhile seeing the activity there.
9lots of people asked for it in their Discord group, too.
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I can enjoy this game for like 10 mins and I need a break. I follow the markers and then I'm in the middle of nowhere just to follow markers and do it again.
7I get Bad Company 2 vibes from this. Might give it a shot.
5Intentional, the game is made by Battlefield alums. This also means that playing the objective influences your score more directly than kill count does.
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Apex has been crashing on me (bug with corrupted game files/ .pak files not updating properly) for the last year. It's intermittent and happens more after some releases than others.
I was going back into windows to play but I decided f it. It's not worth the trouble of switching I'd just go through my library of games that actually work on linux.
I'm really excited to hear that the finals is now a possibility. It looks really fun but I lazily refused to switch to windows to try it for the same reason above.
5@sirsquid This game looks damn good graphically!
2It also imo runs really well for how good it looks. I'm really impressed because it ran horribly in the closed beta, they did an impressive job optimizing it.
1It's also really chaotic and fun
1@Evotech glad to hear it, what kind of shooter is it? Tactical or more run & gun?
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Doesn't seem to run correctly for me on my PC or Deck - after reaching the main menu it hangs and then I receive a generic "The application has hung and will now close" error with Proton Experimental. GE Proton results in an unauthorized modification error at launch.
But, I'm glad to see progress is being made regardless! Just not sure why it doesn't work for me lol.
1They use AI generated voice acting
-3Idc if it's an unpopular opinion, complaining about ai voices in games is one of the stupidest things I've ever in my life heard people get upset about.
You DONT want game characters to be able to intelligently respond to events in game and the things you do? What??
This conversation should be purely concentrated around how they compensate the actors for using their voice as an AI training tool.
6I don't even mind the voices. It's really not bad at all.
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