Well, here we go again. Apex Legends just launched the Ignite Update, and with it sadly it seems they messed up Easy Anti-Cheat for Steam Deck / Linux.
I've been sent numerous reports on this from players being kicked, and testing it myself on both Steam Deck and desktop Linux - it will kick you out after matchmaking just before you actually get into a game. All you'll see is the below shot and your only choice is to quit the game.
Pictured - Apex Legends on Steam Deck, broken.
Looking on SteamDB for the update file changes, it seems they removed the needed "easyanticheat_x64.so" file for Linux. This has happened before, and only recently we also had people caught up in a ban-wave that was reversed as well.
So now once again, we play the waiting game until someone at Respawn / EA notice the reports and fix it. Unless it was intentional, we have no idea at this point. The patch notes only mentioned one small anti-cheat update, which was to notify players during a game if a player is removed for cheating.
Currently Apex Legends is Steam Deck Verified.
The trailer for the update is below:
Direct Link
mr_MADAFAKA Oct 31, 2023
Edit:
https://trello.com/c/Nl67WWPb/430-eac-error-on-steam-deck-linux
Last edited by mr_MADAFAKA on 31 October 2023 at 9:21 pm UTC
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Conduit would've said the same!
This is always going to be cat and mouse, with anti-cheat/anti-tampering/anti-piracy shitware. The very nature of it is going to keep it fragile. We're talking about Linux, but things like this malfunction on Windows too, because they are throwing unexpected hooks and routines into the mix and if something on the system isn't exactly right for their trial and error programming, it's going to fail.
Here we go again i guess... made a backup of the .so file before game update, just in case
Clearly they don't give a crap...
benstor214 Oct 31, 2023
QuoteCurrently Apex Legends is Steam Deck Verified.Why?
Quoting: XpanderLooks like fix is in progress. So it was a mistakeThe good news is they care enough to fix it
https://trello.com/b/ZVrHV38P/apex-tracker
The bad news is they don't care enough to test before releasing
Ergo: this is going to happen again
Last edited by Marlock on 31 October 2023 at 9:52 pm UTC
seems to work played 3/4 games, will update if i get banned.
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