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?
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.
I will also not be buying this unless they don’t use FACEIT
Your avatar is totally alphanumeric. I have a pink guitar named Machibuse.
I’m sorry what does this mean 😅
It means “ambusher” but it is the Japanese name of Pinky the ghost.
As someone that uses virtual machines frequently, I look at my like 16 hours in the game. Fuck. I hope they don’t do that, this is the Battlefield I’ve been wanting for years. ;-;
Well, fuck. My hopes were raised and then dashed in the span of minutes.
Well, shit. I hope I have under two hours so I can refund it.
Disable virtualization? Hah right. Yeah, that’s a no go.
They’ve backed down from faceit for now because of community concern.
They haven’t backed down at all. They’re still committed to implementing FaceIt according to the devs in their discord. The only reason it’s not implemented now is because of privacy concerns so they’re trying to rework it a bit.
I considered it, but am now avoiding it because they’re going to add a Linux-incompatible anticheat.
I love to see indie games pop off. I hate to see Linux-hostile anti-cheats. C’est a la vie.
Dafaq you are talking about? I see people have no problem running the game with and older version of proton.
Looks interesting; one of the things keeping me away from some FPS games is the sheer amount of micro transactions. I’d spend 15 and get something good and fair for everyone who plays instead of being asked to put in another purchase every few minutes!
I’ve been playing this game a lot the past few days. it’s just plain fun. A nice refreshing FPS in the era of BRs and battle passes.
It’s a great game! Runs super smoothly and it’s got a lot of great QoL features. $15 is a steal
Exactly the same sentiment here! It has no business being as good as it is!
How does it run on Linux?
Fine for now. They’re eventually going to use FACEIT anticheat which doesn’t work on linux
Dude could really use a pass by a native speaker. A lot of that sentence structure is pretty rough.
But yeah, that’s enough to keep me from buying it. I won’t use Windows again.
That’s unfortunate
I think I heard they’ll have community servers which will use Easy Anti cheat. So I think Linux will work with those servers.
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
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.
They’re adding modding soon, so maybe it could become a semi-realistic ravenfield?
The game itself is a workmanlike Battlefield with a few oddball choices. I hope they never “fix” the vaulting behaviour that lets you break a 20-storey fall and make massive jumps across rooftops.
But I’ve specifically been having a lot of fun with the proximity chat. Remarkably robust, has an opt-in “broadcast your mic for a few seconds when you die” feature, and somehow isn’t a sluice of slurs / edgy crap / etc (at least in my experience).
The anticheat news is really depressing though. Cheaters are out there and will come to this game, and EAC at least has a reputation of being quite weak. We’re not allowed to have nice things.
I’ve been having a lot of fun with it. Even if I only get a few weeks or months until they add FACEIT, it’s worth the $15.
FACEIT really is a bummer
The catch is that you can’t yet run your own servers or LAN, from what I’ve seen.
In the servers browser I’ve noticed some community ones but there are only a few and mostly in different regions. Hopefully they will open it up for more players to host soon.
I’ve been playing a ton of combat master.
F2p with no bs, I love it, and it has a proper Linux client, it even runs natively on Wayland for me.
It says it has LAN, but I couldn’t find the option anywhere. Do you know how to do that by any chance?
I’m under the impression that it automatically runs as a lan if everyone in the custom game is on the same network.
I could be wrong.
Hmm…not sure I like them defining that as LAN if you need an internet connection to find the other players in the first place.
you need an internet connection to add them as friends in-game, but once they’re added as friends in game it should work.
LevelCap has a great video about how 3 guys made a better battlefield game then EA/DICE. I had fun the one night I’ve gotten to play so far but I was kind of drunk so I didn’t do very well. I’m a Battlefield player of many years and it’s the most fun I’ve had playing since 4.
I put this one my wishlist but had held off due to it being in early access. But I am reconsidering now!
Buy it! It’s so fun and for 15 bucks it’s a deal
Get it. Got about 20h in it and am just starting to get a feel for all the maps and guns. Still early so no meta and everyone’s pretty chill.
Personally 123v123 is a bit too hectic so I stick to 32v32 (which also has rush and other game modes not in 64v or 123v)
I’ve had some good fun with this with friends the last few days but the latest patch, which dropped yesterday, was supposed to improve hit registration. Unfortunately it seems to have done the opposite for a lot of users, with a great new message claiming ‘packetloss’ as the reason 5 out of 7 shots didn’t register. This coming from a modern computer on a gigabit network with >30 ping to the server.
We also had some weird issues with bandaging and healing people just not registering, but still spending resources, and a lot of people just gave up trying to heal altogether.Anyone who says they value gameplay over graphics needs to get this game if they like the Battlefield genre
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Calling an FPS dumbed down brain cancer is a crazy take. You may have better grand scale situational awareness than fast reflexes, which would make you better at other types of games, but that doesn’t make FPS games bad.
This comment just feels stupid again. Like the person writing it. Pretentious, aren’t we?
I’m past the refund period. I wish I knew this sooner.
The refund period isn’t a hard set in stone thing. Send support a request and it’s likely to be granted. When tlou came out plenty of people with way more than 2 hours got refunds.
I’m mostly concerned about not being able to play it on Steamdeck anymore. I can still play it on PC. But doesn’t seem like a good choice to have that anti cheat. Thanks, gotta think about it.
