Just in case you were curious - no you will not be able to play Battlefield 6 on any Linux powered system including SteamOS.
  • Tattorack@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Hmm… Here I am trying to think when the last time was when I gave EA money for anything…

    I guess the Mass Effect Remastered collection. I got that through Humble Monthly, but I’m pretty sure Humble gave EA money for that. So I gave money to EA through Humble… That was quite a long time ago, though.

  • chocrates@piefed.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I was hoping that steam deck would get some love. Those games are a pain but I have friends who play it.

    I have a windows VM but ea cheat doesn’t lile vms either

    • rozodru@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Tin foil hat time but I said last year on Mastodon that the reason EA was killing games like Apex and Battlefield for Linux was that soon Microsoft was going to announce their own handheld and EA has close ties with MS due to EA Play on Gamepass for example. Sure enough less than a year later Microsoft announces their Xbox Handheld with Asus and guess which games will work on that.

      Basically it’ll be “you want to play Madden and Battlefield on a handheld? well don’t buy the SteamDeck, get this Xbox Handheld instead!”

  • Yggstyle@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Dang I was really hoping to get a real feel for Microtransactions 6: vibe coded edition.

    Quick question: what exactly happens when Microsoft flips the switch on rootkits like they are planning to do? EA gonna just pack it up? (I can dream)

    • azertyfun@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I haven’t looked at technical proposals or anything, but I’ll bet that they will propose the equivalent to the Google Play Integrity.

      Your anticheat software won’t work unless you are booting Windows from supported hardware with a working TPM2 module and an unmodified kernel signed by Microsoft.

  • MuttMutt@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Haven’t played anything in the battlefield series since bf2. Not surprised on this however, they gotta protect their profits. If someone was to create an anti-cheat for use on Linux it would make them a fortune.

  • Ulrich@feddit.orgEnglish
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    1 year ago

    As if you needed more reasons not to buy games from EA…

    Also the game being developed on Godot and being a footnote in the article is a travesty…

    • Cethin@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      1 year ago

      The game is in a proprietary engine. They used Godot to make a level editor. Presumably they have some script to convert from what you make in Godot to convert to a form that works on their engine. I’m assuming this is so they don’t expose components of their engine to people, but they can still ship a robust level editor.

  • dink@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I don’t have any Windows PCs anymore, and I’m not buying a $200 Windows Pro license just to buy a $70 game with questionable recent history.

    Potential customer lost.

    PS: I think the fact that they’ve made this decision also provides insight to the game itself.

  • blobchoice@feddit.ukEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I know others are like “oh well, anyway” but I remembered playing and enjoying bf3. I’ve avoided the other titles because of military FPS shooter fatigue.

    Now though I’m almost desperate to have something that isn’t souls like, but EA has to be EA. It’s a shame, because I would’ve been up for paying the stupid amounts of money they normally charge to experience BF6.

    I do have a PS5, but I don’t have the monthly subscription (paying for online multiplayer is a mugs game), so I just simply won’t buy BF6.

    • SpacetimeMachine@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 year ago

      They’re going back to battlefield 4 for this one. Honestly I haven’t been this excited for a pvp game in years, possibly since Titanfall 2. The gameplay they’ve been showing off looks incredibly fun.

  • notannpc@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    It’ll probably be unplayable on most systems for the first 6 months if the last few battlefield releases are anything to go by 😂

  • Destide@feddit.ukEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Tpm, secure boot. I was starting to be interested in the return to bf3-4 I’ll stick to Arma and squad.

      • rozodru@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        1 year ago

        it’s funny cause just the other week I found out you can still play 3 and 4 on Linux so I was like “oh perfect! I do miss me some battlefield” I load up steam and see BF1, BFV, BF2042 but I could have sworn I also owned 3 and 4 and I do…on Origin.