are reportedly an effective way of dealing with cheaters
The last game using it was bot-overrun on release day. What was it’s name?
Some game a friend wanted to play also requires these and she complained that she had to reboot into the BIOS to enable these every time she wanted to play. We told her that the battery on her mainboard might have run out of juice.
…but yeah, we’re techies. There must be so many people who this also happens to, who will not learn of the solution. She did say, she did not expect there to be a solution, she just assumed you have to do that every time.
A TPM… Wasn’t that the requirement that killed a huge amount of momentum for Windows 11?
„Might not be a popular move“ is such a funny understatement. Kinda like saying the game will cost $100 but some gamers ”might“ not be able to afford that.
It’s nice, now we don’t need to buy the game. BTW, is anyone here good at RTS games, I need tips.
While Linux does have something called Secure Boot, that’s not what game devs are tapping into. They want Windows. There are ways to get around it with virtual machines or streaming, but essentially, there’s no casual route to playing these games without Windows.
Throwing in on winslop right now is an absolutely bonkers decision. About as stupid as laying people off thinking that AI will “make up the difference.”
It’s not exactly like I’m going to play this anyway. But I wouldn’t switch back to windows even for a game I liked, if they did scumbag shit like this.
Winbloat has the absolutely insecure “secure boot”, meanwhile a properly secure Linux machine with libreboot (or any Android device) has something that sounds similar called verified boot. The difference is one of them is absolutely not secure and spoiler alert its the microslop one.
Ideally a modern Linux system should be able to implement FDE and a verified boot setup but sadly for software or hardware reasons that might not be possible for most setups
I wasn’t super interested in this game to begin with, but I would have at least tried it.
Not happening now.
Because installing a rootkit wasn’t enough. This is the next level, because people were fine with kernel level rootkit anti-cheat. Give them a millimetre, they take a kilometre.
They want to turn our computers into phones, we of course will be welcome to pay enough to pretend that we own them, but really they’d rather we just rent them and treat them as disposable, because that’s more profitable and we won’t really own them anymore, the software providers do, and Microsoft plans to be chief amongst them. They will make it more convenient to use Microsoft Store until almost everyone does. Then they will make it hard NOT to use Microsoft Store. Then they will make it impossible. Meanwhile, Microsoft will monitor and decide everything that is allowed in the store. They will make the rules, they will tell you what you can and cannot do, just like Google and Apple do for phones. This is their goal, and Linux is the only way to escape it. Flee now, or be trapped inside Microsoft’s walled garden of absolute control forever.
They won’t stop until you are never allowed to own or control any technology ever again without their permission. This is not something you can avoid by just passively resisting and being smart enough to avoid their traps. They know you can find your way around it for now, and you will be able to for a long time. But first they’re going to capture the 90% who don’t. Then it will become the 99%, then the 99.9%. Your hacks will get harder and more convoluted. Eventually you’ll have to make the choice to flee or to submit. And they’re hoping you’ll be so defeated and exhausted by that point that you’ll choose the latter, because it’s so much easier.
The worst aspect is the TPM and how it’s being used by Microsoft. Now if you do something that changes the Windows partition for any reason, even a valid dual boot setup, you need to go to the Microsoft account settings and unlock your own computer in your hands from their servers. Luckily I exclusively use free software, so it doesn’t apply to me.
“…ree to play…” So already ad/lootcrate supported crapware.
No real problem I can see with this 🤣
my desktop, functional as it is, lets me play modern games, but it’s old enough to not have tpm so I couldn’t be able to play the game on it.
My steam deck with linux is not even on the table with these requirements.
I was going to be upset but then I saw it’s a f2p hero shooter of sorts? I suppose it will be ai slopware with extremely predatory practices and an absolute cesspool userbase. I’ll be fine without it.
Is it really not possible to implement server anti cheat?
btw VAC does not count as it is not effective at preventing cheaters from cheating.
Game-makers apparently never got the memo: never trust the client. Server-side is where it is at.
All this onerous client-side shit is just pushing away customers.
They’d rather have control than customers. This is not about making the game “cheat free”, this is about conditioning the gaming public and normalizing this behavior. Even if they lose money doing it, it’s an investment in their future plans.
There it goes… one of the few new games I was interested into… this will surely not work on Linux (or Steam Deck) then.
I think you are one of the few people interested in this game.
Yes, I know I am in the minority. Hero Shooters and anything going in this direction are my favorite online multiplayer games. And we don’t have too many to choose from, at least stuff that is also playable on Linux. Therefore I am always open to any new game that goes into this direction and want to see if its for me.
Paladins is pretty fun
And we don’t have too many to choose from, at least stuff that is also playable on Linux.
???
I checked the top 25 Hero Shooters on Steam against ProtonDB and there are 3 that you can’t play on Linux.)
Wait what? Those are totally randomly picked games, that do not meet the criteria of being Hero Shooter. And you even eliminated one that has at least hero shooter elements to it, Apex Legends. I do not think that Gears 5, Titanfall 2 or Quake counts as Hero Shooters, at least not what I am envisioning. Also Call of Duty??? Really?
Edit: Maybe I should be more specific, as the term Hero Shooter seems to be understood too broadly. What I understand under this term is Team Fortress 2, Overwatch and Marvel Rivals. Deadlock is an hybrid and that is okay too. I also like Apex Legends, even if its main gameplay loop is not. With these constraints, I don’t have many to choose from, that also play on Linux.
Wait what? Those are totally randomly picked games, that do not meet the criteria of being Hero Shooter.
I didn’t make that list, that is the top Steam games that have the ‘Hero Shooter’ tag.
What I understand under this term is Team Fortress 2, Overwatch and Marvel Rivals. Deadlock is an hybrid and that is okay too.
Every one of those work on Linux, I’m literally in comp queue in Rivals right now.
The vast majority of games work on Linux, even the games that ‘don’t work’ will run just fine if the developers decide to stop actively blocking Linux client. Apex Legends is a prime example, it had a Platinum rating on ProtonDB (the highest rating) right up until they decided to blacklist Linux clients so you couldn’t connect to games.
The tags explains it a lot. I do not agree with the users or developers giving this tag to those “random” games. Most of these are not Hero Shooters in my book.
Every one of those work on Linux, I’m literally in comp queue in Rivals right now.
Me too. I type while waiting for matches. These games were just mentioned as an example what I understand as Hero Shooter. And we don’t have many to choose from. I didn’t say they don’t work, i played each of them for hundreds and thousands of hours.
Hero Shooter is starting to become like ‘rogue-like’ where it doesn’t mean much.
Deeprock Galactic also works great, if you’re into PvE shooters
