EA anticheat arrives for Battlefield V in April, will break it on Linux / Steam Deck

So EA are breaking Steam Deck support for their back catalogue of games one by one?
Why would EA suddenly decide to add Anti Cheat to their back catalogue of old games?

I smell a big rat with that kind of behaviour.

I guess Microsoft, Sony or Nintendo has a hand in this. I guess one of them has new hardware on the way, A new handheld maybe.

I will put tinfoil away now.

Quoting: finaldestI guess Microsoft, Sony or Nintendo has a hand in this. I guess one of them has new hardware on the way, A new handheld maybe.

I will put tinfoil away now.

Nintendo does, but it wouldn't be that - EA already doesn't support their hardware properly as it is.

Maybe EA just doesn't like handhelds.

Quoting: finaldestSo EA are breaking Steam Deck support for their back catalogue of games one by one?
Why would EA suddenly decide to add Anti Cheat to their back catalogue of old games?

I smell a big rat with that kind of behaviour.

I guess Microsoft, Sony or Nintendo has a hand in this. I guess one of them has new hardware on the way, A new handheld maybe.

I will put tinfoil away now.

Between those three, I'm picking Microsoft because of the recent rumors about them making a handheld and Nintendo can't do crap about EA because they're too busy finding other means to screw customers without resorting to kernel anti-cheat.

I guess EA took my $3.99 for this game during that sale of theirs on Steam and now, I can't play this on Steam Deck once they add this crappy anti-cheat. I just have to hope that this doesn't affect the single player portion of the game but I doubt it.

On top of that, the EA launcher is one of the worse ones out there for the Steam Deck and it tends to break so many times over that Valve has to fix it on their Proton updates.


Last edited by ToddL on 28 March 2024 at 2:10 am UTC

Proton 9.0 can repair EA anticheat?
These Microsoft puppets

Thankfully I dont own much MP games from them, not buying anymore till I see support

Anti-cheat will, of course, always be necessary as long as people continue to be c**ts. I'm sure people who play Battlefield V are having a horrible experience of it.

Is creating a good server-side anticheat solution even possible?

Bought SW Squadrons after whole decades not buying a single EA game, now I wonder if I'll be able to play it in the near future... Should have known better, I guess

Quoting: Bogomips

Quoting: soulsource

Quoting: BogomipsAnd then making the program itself hard to decompile and analyze at runtime.

The other way 'round. Making the server side secure enough, that even if the whole game were open sourced cheating would be a non-issue.

I agree that security by obfuscation does not work but in a game it depends what we describe as secure enough.

Most of the time the server send a lot of data to the client then wait for the feedback so the cheating happen on the client side that send back a perfect hit (if we talk about FPS) then the server update the other clients.

So what should be secure? If the client data is changed directly in memory, the data itself would be ok but not the result.

We could avoid to send other players' position to the client until they are really visible (could be a huge load on the server and need a fast synchronous connection, the client cannot interpolate anything).

We could cypher and randomize the memory allocation on the client.

Or we can use AI server side to check super human behavior but sometime a lucky reflex can hit in the same area than a bot (but not in the long run indeed).

I think a lot of different tools/methods could be used together but computer resources consumption should also be kept low to be effective. The subject is vast.

Yeah, I was describing my ideal-case scenario, and it's certainly not an easy to solve problem.
If the client gets the information, the player can cheat. If the client does not get the information and has a lag spike, the player might get an unfair disadvantage as they don't see/hear a potential target in time to react...

The client would also need an approximate position in order to hear the targets, and they could still visualize that with a cheat tool to see through walls...

It's a shame and an EAsshole move.
But as i'm boycotting EA for many years already, it fortunately doesn't really affect me. One could say "that's what you get for supporting an insufferable asshole company" ^^

Quoting: ecdjWeird question maybe, but does this also affect the single player story mode?

i don't think so