I get it, but you’d be surprised how friendly people can be there. Especially solo, it’s like a 90+% chance people just work together.
I didn’t mention it to recommend it though, only to point out that it probably isn’t their AC that is (creating the illusion of) preventing cheaters.
If you like it, I’d like to recommend Squad. It’s more based in reality (though not “realistic”). It’s much slower. You can’t sprint around and kill people. It’s also focused on team play. It’s the spawn of the Project Reality mod from Battlefield 2, so it’s got the same DNA.
They frequently have free weekends. That’s the worst time to play, as free players kill a lot of the team play. For the chance to try for free though, it’s good. Just know it’s the worst experience you’ll have while playing. It only goes up from there.
Cheating in ARC Raiders also seems very rare —and it’s ahead of BF6 now in players.
There’s two issues. Cheating in general is pretty uncommon, though it has an enlarged impact on players in games with high skill, lower player count, high information. Counter Strike, for example, it’s easy to tell when something feels off, so it’s easier to detect cheating. The upset it causes people also has a re-enforcment factor that makes it feel more common.
Meanwhile in BF, with tons of players all around, sprinting full speed, and low information, it’s hard to know if someone is cheating. Was it luck or skill, or did they have ESP and saw you through the wall? The chaos hides cheats. However, I saw day 1 that cheats were active and working in game. They’re there, but they’re a lot more invisible.
For example, I play Squad. In Squad you build FOBs where players respawn. There’s a type of cheating (doesn’t require hacks) called “ghosting” where you have a player on the other team who gives information about where FOBs are, for example, so you can destroy them. It’s almost impossible to detect. Any ghosting that happens could just as easily be luck/skill, and more often than not is. You could assume there’s no cheating happening. It is rare there, but it isn’t zero. There’s no Kernel level anti-cheat (for Linux at least).
I’m guessing that their decision ultimately comes down to money - they probably figure that other methods would be more expensive to achieve the same result, and that the lost revenue from people who are turned off by the anti cheat is less than that cost.
Yes, it’s executuves making a short-term purely financial decision. It’s also probably not even the wrong one with those factors in mind. However, it does long-term damage to your reputation. The devs who build for Linux get praised for supporting customer choice. The ones who push kernel level AC get roasted for it. Sure, it’s doing fine now, but will they have lower revenue in 5-10 years because of it?
Regardless, I personally think it’s bad, and as such refuse to support them. I also choose to spend time and effort pointing out the issues to people so they can decide it’s a bad choice in the future.
Ah, yes. A meat everyone can relate to. Very useful.
Maybe I’m just weird, but I don’t get this. I think all animal mistreatment is bad, and I try to reduce how much meat I eat, but I still eat it. I’ve never understood the attachment people have to horses where they won’t eat it. Most people have probably never seen a horse in person, let alone ridden one. I have, and it wouldn’t bother me. I’d eat dog too for that matter, and I have had a pet dog and love dogs. As long as they aren’t mistreated (which they will be if farmed on a large scale, but that’s another issue) then why does it bother you? As far as I’m aware, it’s really only an English and American thing, and particularly American.
In addition, I’m assuming you eat cow/chicken/etc? How does their mistreatment not make you avoid eating them? Shouldn’t that be more important than what type of meat it is?
Yeah, I have a group of three who I have been playing with for years. It really hasn’t been an issue for us though. We’ve been doing The Finals for a while now, and we did Hunt for a while before that. We’ve hopped between several different games, and it’s not a problem. We just aren’t really drawn towards EA or Riot though, which are the only western games that don’t work, for the most part.
I’ve had enough Battlefield in my past that I don’t care for it anymore. I also play Squad, so that easily takes its place. Basically, the companies with executives forcing kernel level anti-cheat on them aren’t allowed to make interesting games anyway, so it doesn’t bother me.
I would give them the benefit of the doubt regarding their intentions.
The developers are rarely the ones making the choice. I do give them the benefit of the doubt, but it’s been shown it doesn’t actually prevent cheating and you’re refusing to let your customers choose how they play. They get the benefit of the doubt that they’re honestly trying to prevent cheaters, but not that it’s a purely benevolent decision towards customers. It’s a trade off, and the option they’re taking is bad for consumers and isn’t effective anyway.
I don’t know what the Helldivers devs did, but you don’t think it’s scummy that BF6 requires malware, like Windows and kerbel level anti-cheat?
The vast majority of games work fine on Linux. Try not switching sometime. You don’t even need to reinstall them. Linux can read your Windows partition fine, do you just need to point whatever launcher to the same spot.
What games? The vast majority work fine.
The companies that don’t let you choose your platform don’t respect you. They won’t support Linux until they’re forced to. As long as you let them bully you they’ll continue to not support user freedom. There are far too many games to play that I can’t play them all, so I don’t really care that a tiny handful of games aren’t playable. They aren’t worth playing until they learn to respect customers.
They won’t support Linux unless they have to. As long as people decide to play along with them then they’ll continue to not support it. If you give up this game then eventually Linux will be supported.
In my opinion, every game worth playing supports Linux. There are way too many games that I don’t have time to play them, so I’ll play the ones that respect their customer’s choices. I’ll ignore the ones that require us to install malware —whether that’s kernel level anti-cheat or Windows.
Oh my god, you keep going. Nothing makes me think they’re trustworthy. I don’t know why you keep saying this. I’m pointing out that this effect is not an indication of them sending your data off the device. Are they sending data off the device? Almost certainly. This effect is not an indication of that. It doesn’t require anything more than just displaying the text does. Both of them require processing the data in the message to figure out what to show.
Your comment that started all of this:
so… is ios reading all your messages now or what
You’re message implies you think it’s being sent off to Apple for processing because of this effect. You further prove this is what you meant later.
If course, the comment is technically correct. It is reading your messages. It has to to even display the text, so obviously it is. It always has been and always will, and the same goes for every other phone that has ever existed or will ever exist. It’s a requirement for you to interact with it.
This does not mean it’s being sent to Apple. It gives us no insight into whether that’s happening either. It is neither necessary nor sufficient for that. All that we can understand from this feature is that your system is reading your messages, which again is a requirement for them to display them at all.
This is not defending Apple. It’s arguing against stupid takes. It has nothing to do with Apple. I hate them and will point out when they’re doing anything I even slightly don’t like. This isn’t evidence of anything (except being a dumb feature that I don’t even want).
Lol. I don’t. However, you’re acting like just displaying something is an indication of them sending the data off. You do know the text message itself is not just displayed on the screen, right? It takes in some bytes of data and processes it, and them uses that to select characters to print to the screen. It has to process the messages no matter what. This little effect isn’t anything more dangerous than the characters being rendered to the screen. Both of them are just processing the data in a message to choose what to display.
I am absolutely not an Apple Stan. I hate Apple. I’m on Linux for a reason, and my phone is running Android (which I also hate, but whatever). You’re reasoning was just bad.
Sure, as you do with any software. A computer is always looking at your data and input. That’s how it works. Unless you audit it yourself, you have to take someone else’s word it isn’t doing something it isn’t supposed to.
I’m not buying that it’s free unless it’s FOSS almost ever. Maybe it’s just a “create an account so we can collect data on you” deal, but that still isn’t free.
I don’t think it says that a company can’t put restrictions on you. It says The government can’t restrict how it’s used —notably supported by AI groups so they can’t regulate that. A company can still prevent you from doing whatever the hell they want if they have the power to.