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[–] ordnance_qf_17_pounder@reddthat.com 196 points 1 day ago (6 children)
[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 10 points 22 hours ago

EA

Yeah, don't need to read further. I just avoid their crap on reflex.

[–] KazuchijouNo@lemy.lol 60 points 1 day ago (2 children)

At least you're warned about the bullshit requirements for a particular game.

Reminds me of what fdroid and aurora-store do, warning the users of potential "disgusting" features. That's respect for its users

[–] archemist@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I like that fdroid is "this doesn't meet what our users expect from our service, here's why, and here it is anyway if you want cancer"

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 10 points 22 hours ago

And most of the time, it's pretty palatable cancer too. It turns out most don't bother uploading to FDroid if their app is truly bad.

[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago

Pretty common in flatpak managers as well

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 72 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] PieMePlenty@lemmy.world 24 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Tense Penile Member 2.0. Some refer to it as a rock hard dick.

[–] caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 3 points 22 hours ago

I read that in Matt Barry's voice and so should you

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] KoalaUnknown@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

According to EA

Requiring Secure Boot provides us with features that we can leverage against cheats that attempt to infiltrate during the Windows boot process. It also lets the Battlefield Positive Play team use its own features and related dependent security features like TPM to combat other forms of cheating, the most relevant of which include:

  • Kernel-Level Cheats and Rootkits
  • Memory Manipulation and Injection
  • Spoofing and Hardware ID Manipulation
  • Virtual Machines and Emulation
  • Tampering with Anti-Cheat Systems

It feels very anti-linux, and I don’t like it, but with a good number of hours in BF6 so far, I have yet to run into an obvious cheater so maybe it works.

[–] despoticruin@lemmy.zip 10 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

The problem isn't even software running on the host machine anymore. Cheaters have long since moved to using a different machine running ocr software and handling input, then it just sends mouse and keyboard inputs based on what it sees. It's all of the advantage of esp hacks and aimbots of yore, all while being 100% undetectable as all the game sees is generic peripherals and no code other than legit code running on the main machine.

Yeah, losing the ability to run games in a VM adds a bit of complexity to the setup, but you can still plug a capture card into a raspberry pi and let it do the aiming/firing and just look like an l33t gam3r in the stats.

None of this even touches on DMA hacks that read host memory over a bus like PCIe, but that's getting into some complexity far and above the average cheating kid. Unfortunately plugging in a couple cables and flashing an SD card is pretty trivial for someone wanting to get more headshots.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 27 points 1 day ago (1 children)

We always knew that battlefield would be like that. It's an EA product after all.

I'm genuinely amazed it doesn't have day one microtransactions, maybe that's going later.

[–] KoalaUnknown@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

There will be a season one battle pass with skins, but the guns, maps, etc. will be free.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 1 points 1 day ago

Do you think Dice have something on an EA CEO, or maybe they think this won't do well after 2048 or whatever it was called.

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

They even game me a refund after I bought KOTOR 1 without realising it was an EA game, saying I wanted to get a refund because I was boycotting EA.

I did comply with the less than an hour playtime for refunds, so they might have given it regardless, but it's nice to know they accept refunds labelled as boycotts.

[–] KoalaUnknown@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

It used to be even worse. In 2042, you had to install the EA app.