THE FINALS now appears to work on Steam Deck and Desktop Linux - eviltoast
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    10 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.

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      10 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.

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    10 months ago

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

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      10 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.

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        10 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.

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      10 months ago

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

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      10 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.

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      10 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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        10 months ago

        Just today on another thread someone said they were banned. I would’ve saved the comment if I thought it was worthwhile. It was on a meme post about getting games to run on Linux.

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      10 months ago

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

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    10 months ago

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

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      10 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.

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      10 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…

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    10 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.

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      10 months ago

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

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      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.

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        10 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.

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          10 months ago

          Pretty disingenuous to attribute this to every f2p game.

          Some developers don’t have money and wouldn’t be able to convince people to pay for their game right away.

          People buying those skins are also exactly whats funding those games to keep going and developing, league of legends would have run out of money YEARS ago if it dropped on a standard $60 model.

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            10 months ago

            You do know that you can perform a subscription or donation based service, right? Free to play games with microtransaction models are designed to manipulate the player into gambling, they are glorified online casinos.

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          10 months ago

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

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      10 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.

  • Russ@bitforged.space
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    10 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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      10 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.