Apex Legends Ignite Update broke anti-cheat on Steam Deck / Linux

By Liam Dawe - 31 October 2023 at 6:29 pm UTC | Views: 45,674

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:

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Tags: Steam Deck, Steam Play, Anti-Cheat, Battle Royale, Electronic Arts, FPS

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Xpander Nov 2, 2023

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So its almost 2 days now, they had a small update yesterday but i dont see the .so file still.
People playing with the old .so file just fine. How come its so hard for them to just fix that issue...

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LiamVB Nov 2, 2023

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It's honestly embarrassing that they haven't fixed it yet, people have identified the missing file and have reported being able to play the game with them fixing the issue themselves.
How is it taking them 2 days to do this?

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Grogan Nov 2, 2023

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Commercial development is a bit different than how we do things too though. It's possible people couldn't so much as change a comment without jumped up approval and procedure etc.

In most of our environment, you could submit a pull request to fix something and if they like it, it would be in.

Last edited by Grogan on 2 November 2023 at 3:50 pm UTC

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