That's all folks. EA anticheat has now been added into Battlefield V, so it's the end of being able to play it on Steam Deck and other Linux systems.
This joins the likes of Plants vs. Zombies Garden Warfare 2: Deluxe Edition, EA SPORTS FC 24, EA SPORTS FIFA 23, Battlefield 2042 and Madden NFL 24 that all have EA's own homegrown anti-cheat that make them simply unplayable on systems running Linux.
Now if you try to run it, you'll be greeted with an error. A shame to see a game that's multiple years old get broken like this and no doubt EA will continue to use their own EA anticheat in future online games. Battlefield 1 is still okay, and Apex Legends is also still running but perhaps it's only a matter of time before EA force it onto those too?
Hopefully at some point Valve can find a way to work with EA on this, to get it somehow working with Proton like we've seen support for Easy Anti-Cheat, BattleEye, GameGuard and others.
What are some alternatives you can recommend for readers now looking to go elsewhere?
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
Turkeysteaks Apr 4
As for alternatives, the closest battlefield alternative is BattleBit Remastered. Good fun game.
I also absolutely adore Red Orchestra 2, though it's a bit more tactical and hardcore than battlefield is (also a lot older than BFV).
Mohandevir Apr 4
. Weil, I guess it's time to do the same thing on Battlefield 1 before they decide to pull the trigger on this crappy anti-cheat for this one.Last edited by ToddL on 4 April 2024 at 2:25 pm UTC
Quoting: XpanderThe "sad" reality is that even those super deep kernel level anticheats don't help these days. Sooner or later something new is needed. There are so many hardware level AI based cheats around already that are basically undetectable by everything.. THere are even some Gaming Monitors that trying to come out with a AI assisted tech like seeing enemy characters as colored blobs or so on... Drawing aproximate locations by listening the game sounds etc... its gonna be nasty future for multiplayer games sadly.
The worse part of all of this is the fact that people have to cheat on these multiplayer games in the first place. It would've been nice if everyone played these multiplayer games without using cheats/mods so that these companies don't have to resort to using crappy anticheat programs that block Steam Deck/Linux users.
Quoting: ToddLThe worse part of all of this is the fact that people have to cheat on these multiplayer games in the first place. It would've been nice if everyone played these multiplayer games without using cheats/mods so that these companies don't have to resort to using crappy anticheat programs that block Steam Deck/Linux users.
thats the sad reality about humanity.
Also cheat program developers earn loads of money doing this...
but yeah i don't understand people who buy those cheats.... This is why we can't have nice things i guess. 1 from 100 or 1000 is ruining everything for everyone else.
benstor214 Apr 4
Quoting: benstor214Am I shadowbanned?If you're not seeing your shadow, have you checked whether you're a groundhog?
benstor214 Apr 4
Quoting: pbSingle player doesn't work either?
Yeah, you can't launch the game at all. It gives you a "Wine is not supported!" error.
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