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20hzservers ,

There a free cheats for apex on Linux that are undetected by their shitty anti cheat. These Linux still eventually get caught manually so the anti cheat team just sees a lot of Linux users cheat and innocent players get caught in the crossfire b/c of their incompetence.

soloner ,

Tbh I know this isn’t helpful, but I recommend take the L and find better games to play. Errantly perma banning users shows a lack of consumer consideration and does not deserve further energy to fix. They fucked up, take your business elsewhere.

Again, I know it’s not helpful but I think worth considering. Companies some decades ago used to be user experience as the top goal, but that has gone to the sidelines for many companies, and I don’t think it’s good to normalize. Hence, boycott when it happens.

helios OP ,
@helios@social.ggbox.fr avatar

I’m sorry to say it is extremely popular (for some good reasons imo) and my friends are playing it. Besides, not a lot of competitive games even support linux to begin with. I was grateful that Apex did until now.

tabular ,
@tabular@lemmy.world avatar

Did you pay for this game?

helios OP ,
@helios@social.ggbox.fr avatar

No it is free to play. Besides, since I don’t care much about skins and whatnot, I’ve never spent a dime on the game.

yggstyle ,

They probably just flagged you for not being in the normal environment. For all their bravado their detection is dogshit. I’ve had issues with them just flagging something over a VM and… flagging a batch file closing their launcher. I wish I was joking.

GustavoM ,
@GustavoM@lemmy.world avatar

Nah, they are doing you a favor.

SolarPunker , (edited )

<< If this Linux guy is so smart to use that OS…it shouldn’t play this shitty game. >> -EA staff, actually doing something good for the planet

jordanlund ,
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Why do they care what OS people use? Is it the anti-cheat software that needs Windows?

degen ,

In the past I don’t think it was possible to even play on Linux because of the anti-cheat, but I think Proton worked out a way to emulate it. Maybe something to do with that if it’s not technically “official” support? It’s extra stupid if the emulated anti-cheat is working fine.

MentalEdge , (edited )
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No. EAC and Battleye developed ways to explicitly support proton, which has to be explicitly enabled by the developer for the game to run.

Proton didn’t change, the popular AC options did. They’ve had proton support pretty much since the steamdeck launched, and it works great as long as the developer of a game bothers checking the checkbox for it.

EAC works on linux just fine, and the fact that Apex runs, means Respawn deliberately allows it.

degen ,

Even worse!

Grangle1 , (edited )

Yes, it’s invasive kernel-level anti-cheat common in competitive multiplayer games now, because cheaters will mod their system that much for the sake of getting around the anti-cheat. Annoying from all sides.

That, and despite many devs being Linux fans, there does seem to be a (false) perception that Linux is the OS of choice for cheaters.

EDIT: Just remember, can’t play a game on Linux? It’s ALWAYS either the DRM or anti-cheat. Either way, corporate BS that hinders honest paying customers more than the people it’s trying to stop.

bsides ,

This comment is full of win.

ulkesh ,
@ulkesh@lemmy.world avatar

Exactly. It’s insane how moronic EA or other publishers are that think “oh they’re on Linux they must be hacking/cheating our game.”

I would wager they have never touched Linux in their life.

NuXCOM_90Percent ,

Not sure on ApeLegs but they have increasingly been disabling linux “support” for the Battlefields because of their anti-cheat.

I don’t know how popular ApeLegs actually is. But for a lot of live games? Those are making MASSIVE bank and anything that can hurt the economy can kill the game. So a lot of studios actively just disable/block linux support because the added effort of making sure everything works in Proton is too big of a risk. Because nothing would increase Linux marketshare quite like free vdollars in Fortnite.

It really fucking sucks. But I find that many studios (like Digital Extremes) are really good about making it clear that even though they don’t officially support Linux, they are very much fans of Proton (and Warframe has had a lot of bugfixes specifically FOR Proton support). Whereas EA has spent the past few months systematically disabling Linux “support” for every game they develop.

noodlejetski , (edited )

I don’t know how popular ApeLegs actually is

13th 7th most played game on Steam in the past 24 hours, and 13th at the moment steamdb.info/charts/

Zeke ,

They don't. I've been playing Apex on Linux for years now. Apex is doing ban waves for cheaters. OP likely did something that looked like or was cheating.

TrousersMcPants ,

What he did was play on linux. You can have kernel level support for anti cheat on Linux so they look at that and see it as “suspicious” then ban.

sharkfucker420 ,
@sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml avatar

I got banned last year. It was for the best tbh

sp6 , (edited )

Looks like you’re not the only one:

reddit.com/…/psa_using_proton_experimental_or_at_…

reddit.com/…/apex_legends_proton_epic_bug_that_do…

They’ve falsely banned linux players before, once in March 2023 and again in August 2023.

I got hit in the Aug 2023 ban, and had my permaban overturned after 1-2 weeks. Expect to have your appeal rejected, we had to make enough of a fuss about it to get a community manager to reach out to the development team to get people unbanned:

reddit.com/…/linux_users_getting_falsely_banned_a…

answers.ea.com/t5/Technical-Issues/…/50

I haven’t played in 9-10 months since the false positive put a really bad taste in my mouth, so I don’t have any datapoints to add for the current state of things, but I wish you the best of luck getting unbanned.

helios OP ,
@helios@social.ggbox.fr avatar

I see. Thanks. I’ll just wait and see then.

stargazingpenguin ,

If I remember right, about a year ago they were banning a lot of Linux players. It might be happening again.

stargazingpenguin ,

Found some links:

Bans in March 2023

More bans Aug. 2023

Some bans reversed

helios OP ,
@helios@social.ggbox.fr avatar

Interesting, thanks.

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