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[-] steal_your_face@lemmy.ml 28 points 9 months ago

This game is so fun. It’s one of the only games I play that couldn’t be played on Linux. Very glad they’re fixing this.

[-] Lesrid@lemm.ee 4 points 9 months ago

It's great. My only complaint is that the character models are not to my taste at all. But theyre fine targets so it's a minute issue.

[-] Blaiz0r@lemmy.ml 2 points 9 months ago

The way they run in that opening scene makes me laugh.

[-] helenslunch@feddit.nl 23 points 9 months ago
  • Free-to-play
  • Requires anti-cheat
  • Requires "Embark" account

No thanks.

[-] Lemmchen@feddit.de 24 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Try to play a competitive online game without anti-cheat and see if it is still fun.

[-] helenslunch@feddit.nl 2 points 9 months ago

Don't know, don't care.

[-] EvokerKing@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago

The embark account thing is kinda annoying when you already have steam but literally all you have to do is confirm your email. And the anti cheat is required because without it there would be even more hackers than the already is. Try to find a good game that is popular, multiplayer, with no anti cheat and no need for one because nobody cheats.

[-] helenslunch@feddit.nl 2 points 9 months ago

Not saying anti-cheat ain't important for multiplayer games. Just not interested in creating security vulnerabilities on my system.

[-] EvokerKing@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

Then you aren't interested in multiplayer gaming.

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[-] Contend6248@feddit.de 7 points 9 months ago

F2P isn't a problem if you care rats ass about skins or if it isn't P2W

[-] helenslunch@feddit.nl 4 points 9 months ago

I don't care. That's the problem. They try to shove them down my throat every 3 fucking minutes.

[-] Lemmchen@feddit.de 9 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

What the hell are you even talking about? The game is super unobtrusive about their in game store.
What it does show you, is what you unlock for free.

[-] helenslunch@feddit.nl 3 points 9 months ago

What the hell are you even talking about?

Every free to play game I have ever played

[-] jackpot@lemmy.ml 2 points 9 months ago

have you ever heard of enshittification my sweet summers child

[-] Fizz@lemmy.nz 5 points 9 months ago

Its not that bad.

[-] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 3 points 9 months ago

That's like saying ads are also fine if you don't care about them. The design of F2P model games is to create an environment to encourage spending, it's insidious and more deceptive than you'd think.

[-] Contend6248@feddit.de 3 points 9 months ago

Yeah it's a shitty model, but i played countless hours spending not a dime in various games

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[-] simple@lemm.ee 19 points 9 months ago

No official announcements means you could get banned for trying it. Don't do it.

[-] noodlejetski@lemm.ee 34 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Respawn/EA have never announced Linux support for Apex Legends, as far as I can tell, and it's been working most of the time for the past two years, except for the few times when they've botched an update (and which they fixed it afterwards).

The Finals used to kick me before I've got to the main screen, claiming the lack of anticheat as a reason. now the launch shows EAC window loading and lets me fully through, so it seems quite obvious to me that they've enabled the support on their end.

[-] savvywolf@pawb.social 8 points 9 months ago

Apex Legends was one of the big things that they were using as an example to show off the Steam Deck and is one of the main games listed on their "Steam Deck Verified" pages. I assume this means that Valve and Respawn/EA were talking to each other about it at least.

I would like to see Steam to require games to not ban Linux users for using Linux (or at least disclose that they are doing it) as a requirement for being listed on their store, but that's probably not going to happen.

[-] funkajunk@lemm.ee 24 points 9 months ago

It's F2P, just don't buy any cosmetics and make a new account if it gets banned.

[-] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 7 points 9 months ago

That's pretty normal tho.

I also do not care. That would just mean going back to not playing it. Boohoo.

If they can't help banning people for playing on Linux, that's honestly a bigger problem for the devs than me, imo.

[-] Fizz@lemmy.nz 4 points 9 months ago

Don't play it because they might ban you then you won't be able to play it?

[-] Artyom@lemm.ee 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I've tried it and wasn't banned. Before the update, EAC would quit right after launch with a message

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[-] Psychodelic@lemmy.world 13 points 9 months ago

Literally the only game I'm playing rn. It's so fucking good

[-] Fizz@lemmy.nz 12 points 9 months ago

Interesting. I've been getting hounded to play this game by friends. I might check it out.

[-] Amaltheamannen@lemmy.ml 4 points 9 months ago

I keep seeing TV ads where the key only show the actual game title for like 0.1seconds.

[-] Perfide@reddthat.com 4 points 9 months ago

The destruction is epic but I'm really not a fan of the only 2 game modes. Just give me classic TDM or something...

[-] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 3 points 9 months ago

Had it installed for a while. Even sent the devs a friendly email that I'm interested but waiting on them to enable support to let me play.

It looks good. Now I can find out myself.

[-] onlinepersona@programming.dev 9 points 9 months ago

The steam community was quite active. Who knows, maybe the devs considered it worthwhile seeing the activity there.

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[-] noodlejetski@lemm.ee 3 points 9 months ago

lots of people asked for it in their Discord group, too.

[-] MTG8175@lemmy.ml 7 points 9 months ago

I can enjoy this game for like 10 mins and I need a break. I follow the markers and then I'm in the middle of nowhere just to follow markers and do it again.

[-] cybersandwich@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago

Apex has been crashing on me (bug with corrupted game files/ .pak files not updating properly) for the last year. It's intermittent and happens more after some releases than others.

I was going back into windows to play but I decided f it. It's not worth the trouble of switching I'd just go through my library of games that actually work on linux.

I'm really excited to hear that the finals is now a possibility. It looks really fun but I lazily refused to switch to windows to try it for the same reason above.

[-] 0x0@social.rocketsfall.net 5 points 9 months ago

I get Bad Company 2 vibes from this. Might give it a shot.

[-] Lesrid@lemm.ee 4 points 9 months ago

Intentional, the game is made by Battlefield alums. This also means that playing the objective influences your score more directly than kill count does.

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[-] saintshenanigans@programming.dev 8 points 9 months ago

Idc if it's an unpopular opinion, complaining about ai voices in games is one of the stupidest things I've ever in my life heard people get upset about.

You DONT want game characters to be able to intelligently respond to events in game and the things you do? What??

This conversation should be purely concentrated around how they compensate the actors for using their voice as an AI training tool.

[-] bentel@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

I don't even mind the voices. It's really not bad at all.

[-] mac_alice@mastodon.social 2 points 9 months ago

@sirsquid This game looks damn good graphically!

[-] Evotech@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

It's also really chaotic and fun

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[-] russjr08@bitforged.space 1 points 9 months ago

Doesn't seem to run correctly for me on my PC or Deck - after reaching the main menu it hangs and then I receive a generic "The application has hung and will now close" error with Proton Experimental. GE Proton results in an unauthorized modification error at launch.

But, I'm glad to see progress is being made regardless! Just not sure why it doesn't work for me lol.

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