One of the best new multiplayer games of 2023 has no microtransactions.
  • ultrasquid@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    I considered it, but am now avoiding it because they’re going to add a Linux-incompatible anticheat.

  • SyperStronkHero@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    It’s a great game but there IS a catch that wasn’t mentioned.

    The devs plan on implementing one of the more intrusive Anti-Cheats (Face It Anti Cheat) which doesn’t work on Linux which also stops all Steam Deck users from playing. It also forces you to disable virtualization on windows. I can’t recall the last time I had to go into bios to disable an option to turn off important windows features.

    According to their stream, it’s non-negotiable and will be added regardless of what the community wants. But they did mention that community servers would be able to pick which Anti Cheat they wanted to use?

    • HER0@beehaw.org
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      1 year ago

      But they did mention that community servers would be able to pick which Anti Cheat they wanted to use?

      As I understand, there are three tiers to this:

      • Official servers will use FaceIt exclusively.
      • Servers rented from official partners will have the choice of FaceIt or EAC.
      • Community-run servers will only be able to use EAC, and won’t be hooked into the global progression system.

      One of the many problems with FaceIt is that the server-side component is not allowed to be freely distributed, which is why community-run servers won’t have the option to use it.

      Personally, there is no way I am buying this unless if they reverse their plans to use FaceIt.

    • Jamie@jamie.moe
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      1 year ago

      From what I read, it also requires Secure Boot to be enabled. I played the game for 90 minutes before reading about the anti-cheat change, fortunately I didn’t hit 2 hours and took a refund.

    • RandomStickman@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      If you are in to singleplayer bot matches Ravenfield is pretty cool. The game’s workshop is vast, so you can go from a WWI shooter to 40K and everything in between.

      It’s natively Linux so that’s neat as well

      • lumpeh@lemmy.ml
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        1 year ago

        I’d also like to mention Easy Red 2 for this too. WW2 only (for now) but its all about playing with the bots and does run decent on a Deck.