I’ve been running it on Linux for a few years now. The performance is better than Windows.
The anti cheat feature might not matter to you, but at higher ranks it ruins the game to run into bots at every corner.
I just need them to do the “Authenticating” bit much faster. 3 seconds was already way too long to be joining a match, but now with the authentication step it can sometimes be upward of 15 second, which is an eternity in RL play.
Tetsuo@jlai.lu 5 days ago
Yeah the “authentication” can be super long. Sometimes you are connected to the server and get to see your future team getting wrecked 2v3 while you are authenticating.
Not a big deal since it’s mostly an issue in casual but annoying nonetheless.
I’ll be honest I expected them to fully block linux via the EasyAnticheat but they didn’t. So for now it remains functional but on UE6 and new code they might try to dump the linux support.
Bananskal@nord.pub 4 days ago
That would be such a bad move now that Linux is starting to take off as a serious gaming platform. Also the hate for big tech is growing so it’ll only escalate from here.
Tetsuo@jlai.lu 4 days ago
I’m cynical… I lost access to Battlefield 6 when I moved to linux.
And on BF6 they purposefully block linux pretexting it makes cheating too easy.
Arc Raiders, or Rocket League let me play without issue. So despite the growth of linux gaming there is still businesses that will fully block that avenue…
Bananskal@nord.pub 3 days ago
Sounds to me like they blame their anti-cheat system for their own ineptitude.
Rocket League still being playable after all these years and they just added Easy Anti-Cheat that still works on Linux via Proton, I would be very surprised to see if the UE6 version wouldn’t be playable. I feel confident there.
But you never know. 😬