That's all folks. EA anticheat has now been added into Battlefield V, so it's the end of being able to play it on Steam Deck and other Linux systems.
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    4•9 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    EA anticheat has now been added into Battlefield V, so it’s the end of being able to play it on Steam Deck and other Linux systems.

    This joins the likes of Plants vs. Zombies Garden Warfare 2: Deluxe Edition, EA SPORTS FC 24, EA SPORTS FIFA 23, Battlefield 2042 and Madden NFL 24 that all have EA’s own homegrown anti-cheat that make them simply unplayable on systems running Linux.

    Now if you try to run it, you’ll be greeted with an error.

    A shame to see a game that’s multiple years old get broken like this and no doubt EA will continue to use their own EA anticheat in future online games.

    Battlefield 1 is still okay, and Apex Legends is also still running but perhaps it’s only a matter of time before EA force it onto those too?

    Hopefully at some point Valve can find a way to work with EA on this, to get it somehow working with Proton like we’ve seen support for Easy Anti-Cheat, BattleEye, GameGuard and others.

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