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
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.
Weird choice considering its competitors (Overwatch/Marvel Rivals) both have Linux support.
„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.
There it goes… one of the few new games I was interested into… this will surely not work on Linux (or Steam Deck) then.
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.
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?
Effective because way fewer people playing means fewer cheaters as a result!
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.
