Easy anti-cheat has a new feature that enables support for Proton and Wine. It is very simple to enable this feature and that will allow the game to be played on Linux and it will enable compatibility for the Steam Deck. It is a lot easier and profitable than maintaining an entire port for the Steam Deck. Many people might be excited to see a demo of Apex Legends working on the deck before it launches and it will enable Linux users like me to get rid of Windows.Are there any plans to enable Proton support in EAC for Apex Legends season 11?

Yeah. EA and Respawn have remained largely silent on this. The Verge reached out too and is still waiting for a response. Hopefully, the devs are considering it at least for sometime in the future.

@DecisiveDove As far as I know at this time this is not something that is supported nor will it be anytime soon. A CM may come in to correct me if im wrong but I do recall there being no mentions of it being supported.

Logically they have to keep the anticheat up to date. So this feature should come eventually.Besides, having a top10 Steam game not working on Steam Deck is weird.

But the Proton EAC thing must manually be enabled by the developer. They can update to the latest version and still have the thing disabled.

@DecisiveDove wrote:They can update to the latest version and still have the thing disabled.What it would say?"We think that the anticheat developers don't know what they're doing so we won't enable it""We think that the Steam Deck is bad so no need to support it""We think that the Steam Deck is good, but we wait and see, we won't move a finger to check the checkbox to help""We think that Apex Legends isn't suitable for the handheld, so not worth to check the checkbox (at the same time we've got a version for Switch and we've actually developed a handheld version "Apex Legends Mobile" for two entirely different OSes using a different game engine)"

When will Proton support for EAC be enabled in Apex Legends?

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E9ine_AC
Hero+
4 years ago
@DecisiveDove As far as I know at this time this is not something that is supported nor will it be anytime soon. A CM may come in to correct me if im wrong but I do recall there being no mentions of it being supported.
DecisiveDove
4 years ago
Yeah. EA and Respawn have remained largely silent on this. The Verge reached out too and is still waiting for a response. Hopefully, the devs are considering it at least for sometime in the future.
devel_origin
4 years ago
Logically they have to keep the anticheat up to date. So this feature should come eventually.
Besides, having a top10 Steam game not working on Steam Deck is weird.
DecisiveDove
4 years ago
But the Proton EAC thing must manually be enabled by the developer. They can update to the latest version and still have the thing disabled.
devel_origin
4 years ago
@DecisiveDove wrote:
They can update to the latest version and still have the thing disabled.
What it would say?
"We think that the anticheat developers don't know what they're doing so we won't enable it"
"We think that the Steam Deck is bad so no need to support it"
"We think that the Steam Deck is good, but we wait and see, we won't move a finger to check the checkbox to help"
"We think that Apex Legends isn't suitable for the handheld, so not worth to check the checkbox (at the same time we've got a version for Switch and we've actually developed a handheld version "Apex Legends Mobile" for two entirely different OSes using a different game engine)"
DecisiveDove
4 years ago
@devel_origin You are right. I think they will enable it at some point. If they do not enable it before the Steam Deck launch, it is likely they will enable it sometime later next year. Although unlikely, if they go out of there way to make sure the Proton support only works with the Steam Deck and not with desktop Linux, I will refuse to play Apex altogether.
jamate2142
4 years ago
EA/Respawn will not lift a finger if it isn't lucrative enough, to add on what @devel_origin mentioned. They'd have to opt-in to add native Linux support for EAC. Although Apex loads fine (menu) using proton they'll have to maintain separate Linux versions of the EAC. AFAIA, unless the deck actually sells, they will not bother.
devel_origin
4 years ago
@jamate2142 wrote:
Although Apex loads fine (menu) using proton they'll have to maintain separate Linux versions of the EAC.
EAC is maintained by the EAC developers, Proton working with games is maintained by Valve/CodeWeavers. EA/Respawn has just to check a checkbox.
DecisiveDove
4 years ago
@jamate2142 If the Proton EAC support is enabled, the Windows version of EAC will work with Proton so they will not have to maintain 2 separate versions.
DecisiveDove
4 years ago
EA does not have the best reputation when it comes to supporting Linux however, so I doubt they will enable it only to let Linux users play. However, the Steam Deck might ensure that they cannot ignore Linux when they start losing money because of it.