Know your enemy
this post was submitted on 17 Oct 2025
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At least you're warned about the bullshit requirements for a particular game.
Reminds me of what fdroid and aurora-store do, warning the users of potential "disgusting" features. That's respect for its users
I like that fdroid is "this doesn't meet what our users expect from our service, here's why, and here it is anyway if you want cancer"
And most of the time, it's pretty palatable cancer too. It turns out most don't bother uploading to FDroid if their app is truly bad.
Requires TPM 2.0? Wtf??
Tense Penile Member 2.0. Some refer to it as a rock hard dick.
Why does a game need a tpm
According to EA
Requiring Secure Boot provides us with features that we can leverage against cheats that attempt to infiltrate during the Windows boot process. It also lets the Battlefield Positive Play team use its own features and related dependent security features like TPM to combat other forms of cheating, the most relevant of which include:
- Kernel-Level Cheats and Rootkits
- Memory Manipulation and Injection
- Spoofing and Hardware ID Manipulation
- Virtual Machines and Emulation
- Tampering with Anti-Cheat Systems
It feels very anti-linux, and I don’t like it, but with a good number of hours in BF6 so far, I have yet to run into an obvious cheater so maybe it works.
The problem isn't even software running on the host machine anymore. Cheaters have long since moved to using a different machine running ocr software and handling input, then it just sends mouse and keyboard inputs based on what it sees. It's all of the advantage of esp hacks and aimbots of yore, all while being 100% undetectable as all the game sees is generic peripherals and no code other than legit code running on the main machine.
Yeah, losing the ability to run games in a VM adds a bit of complexity to the setup, but you can still plug a capture card into a raspberry pi and let it do the aiming/firing and just look like an l33t gam3r in the stats.
None of this even touches on DMA hacks that read host memory over a bus like PCIe, but that's getting into some complexity far and above the average cheating kid. Unfortunately plugging in a couple cables and flashing an SD card is pretty trivial for someone wanting to get more headshots.
That sounds like the anti-cheat is working then. The entire point is increasing the barrier of entry to cheating.
It didn't though, those types of hacks have been around forever. It's how people cheat on consoles without risking bans for modded lobbies and trainers.
I want to be clear, the cheats are just as easy as they have always been to use, particularly if you throw money at them. These kernel modules and invasive anti-cheat mechanisms are far more effective at exfiltrating data and destroying privacy than they are at preventing aimbots.
We always knew that battlefield would be like that. It's an EA product after all.
I'm genuinely amazed it doesn't have day one microtransactions, maybe that's going later.
There will be a season one battle pass with skins, but the guns, maps, etc. will be free.
Anon discovers what it’s like to own a piece of media
It's getting rare to own anything. Everything is just a temporary license or subscription or even if you own the thing it's dongled to the vendor and when the vendor is in a bad mood or goes bankrupt your thing can't be used any more...
I'm far too old to play the "everything is rented" game. I refuse to participate and I'm stunned anyone else does.
OTOH, I brought up how Trump/Project-2025 is dismantling NOAA on neighborhood.com, rather crucial to us on the Gulf Coast, and had this (heavily paraphrased) discussion with Karen:
"I PAY for my weather app! Don't care if you can't!"
"Uh, where do you think that app gets it's data?"
"Not arguing with an idiot!"
And that was the day I learned that people pay monthly fees for free data. (I heartily recommend Weawow. Free, does everything I want except tide tables.)
I also learned that Project 2025 is a conspiracy theory and I'm an idiot for believing in it. Live and learn!
I’ve been asked what a dvd is by a teenager. When I amended and said Blu-ray, they still had no clue. It’s only going to get worse.
I own ~670 games on GOG and lease 292 on Steam.
I’ve played maybe five of my GOG games to completion. I’m a gamer, dammit!
GOG is awesome!
It sounds like gog is pretty great, with their DRM free software.
I'm generally indifferent towards steam but I'm under the impression that they've contributed a lot to the recent developments in Linux gaming compatibility, and this has removed a pretty big hurdle for people who want to move away from windows, and I just think that's swell.
They could try to offer a proper Linux Galaxy client, though. Especially since CP2077 locks some minor things behind being launched from Galaxy.
I love having to individually download all 50 parts to a game and write my own install script (the GOG experience on Linux).
You- you what????? Why. Lutris. Just use lutris, holy shit.
Lutris downloads files from GoG using their API, which has heavily throttled download speeds. It was going to take 19 hours for CP2077 to download using Lutris.
Downloading the 50 pieces individually from GoG through the browser took under and hour, but was quite annoying.
If you don't play any large games, you might not have noticed, but Lutris and GoG do not work very well together.
I always download the offline installers and install them via the generic "install from executable" option. I've actually never used the features for downloading games from online game services on Lutris. The whole reason I buy from GOG is I can download the offline installer and never have to deal with anyone else's servers after that point. It works excellently.
How common is that? I have maybe 5 games from GOG and none of them are like this.
Lutris communicates with GoG through their API, which is heavily throttled for downloading games. CP2077 was going to take almost an entire day to install using Lutris alone.
Going to the website and downloading the pieces myself was much faster, but then of course I needed to manage the rest of the install.
Small games are fine since you won't feel as much pain on the download step.